Anna Lisyanskaya

Anna Lisyanskaya was born in 1917 in Mykolaiv

Anna Lisyanskaya was born on 1 November 1917 in Mykolaiv to a theatrical family. Her father headed the Mykolaiv Jewish Theater, and her mother and aunt acted there. She first appeared on the stage of the Mykolaiv Young Spectator's Theatre as a child.

From 1932 to 1936 she studied at the theater studio of the Kyiv Young Spectator's Theatre. In 1935 she worked at the State Theater of Musical Comedy of the Ukrainian SSR.

She acted in Mykolaiv from 1936 to 1938 and then joined the Kyiv Molodyy Theater, where she played Juliet. She made her film debut in 1941 in Years of Youth. From 1949 she acted at the Pushkin Drama Theater in Leningrad, and from 1967 at the Leningrad Musical Comedy Theater.

In her later work she returned to Jewish characters, including roles in The Decline and in Get Thee Out in 1991. She became seriously ill in 1993 and moved to Israel to live with relatives. She died on 2 December 1999 in Arad.