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Ada Mykolaivna Rohovtseva (Ukrainian: Ада Миколаївна Роговцева; born 16 July 1937) is a Soviet and Ukrainian stage and film actress. She has appeared in over 30 films and television shows since 1957. Professor at the National University of Culture. She won the award for Best Actress at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in Hail, Mary!.
People's Artist of the USSR (1978) and Hero of Ukraine (2007).
Biography
Rohovtseva was born in Hlukhiv. Her father, Mykola Ivanovych Rohovtsev, had two higher educations, graduated from the industrial and agricultural institutions, and worked in the NKVD during the war. Mother, Hanna Mytrofanivna Zaikovska, was an agronom.
She is a member of the Committee on the National Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko since 1992.
She participated in the Orange Revolution in 2004, and strongly condemned both the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Filmography
Pavel Korchagin (1956) as Christina
Forest Song (1961) as Meadow Rusalka
Hail, Mary! (1970) as Maria Tkachyova
Taming of the Fire (1972) as Natalya Bashkirtseva
Eternal Call (1973-1983) as Anna Kaftanova
The Gadfly (1980) as Julie Burton
Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (2006) as Yevdokiya Matveyevna Makhno, Nestor Makhno's mother
Caucasia (2007) as Maria
Admiral (2008) as elderly Anna Timiryova
Taras Bulba (2009) as Taras Bulba's wife
Brothel Lights (2011) as Yefrosinya Petrovna, Lyuba's mother
Viddana (2020) as Princess
Early Swallows (2020) as Nadia Ivanivna Kozhukh
Awards and honors
Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960)
People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1967)
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
People's Artist of the USSR (1978)
Shevchenko National Prize (1981)
Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" (1982)
Order of Merit, 3rd class (1997)
Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class (2002)
Hero of Ukraine (2007)
Order of Friendship (2007)
Order of Merit, 1st class (2009)
Jubilee Medal "25 Years of Independence of Ukraine" (2016)
Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2017)
Order of the Badge of Honour
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
References
External links
Ada Rohovtseva at IMDb
