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Ada Ignatievna Voytsik (Russian: Ада Игнатьевна Войцик; 1 August 1905 – 2 September 1982) was a Soviet actress. In 1935 she received the title RSFSR Honored Artist.
Biography
Ada Ignatievna Voytsik was born on 1 August 1905 in Moscow.
In 1923 Ada graduated from secondary school and entered the acting department of the State College of Cinematography (today known as VGIK), where she graduated in 1927.
She started acting in cinema in the year 1925. In 1934 Ada Voytsik joined the staff of the Mosfilm film studio.
She married director Ivan Pyryev and they had a son, Erik Pyryev (1931-1970), who also subsequently became a director.
In 1941 together with the studio she was evacuated to Alma-Ata.
On her return to Moscow in 1943, Ada became an actress at the National Film Actors' Theatre, where she worked until her retirement in 1961.
In the last years of her life, Ada Voytsik did not appear in films.
Ada Voytsik lived through the death of her son and Ivan Pyryev. She died in Moscow on 2 September 1982 at the age of 77, and was buried in the Khovanskoye Cemetery.
Selected filmography
Kak Mitya Tyurin zanimalsya fizkulturoy (1926)
Rasplata (1926) as Lisa
The Forty-First (1927) as Maryutka
Raznostoronniy treugolnik (1927) as Wifey
Bulat-Batır (1928) as Asma
Svoi i chuzhiye (1928) as Shura
The House on Trubnaya (1928) as Fenya
The Doll With Millions (1928) as Maria Ivanova
The Happy Canary (1929) as Brio's wife
Ukhod za bolnym (1929) as Nurse
Nenavist (1930) as Stefa
Konveer smerti (1933) as Luisa
Partiynyy bilet (1936) as Anna Kulikova
The Oppenheim Family (1939) as Liselotte Lavendal Oppenheim
The Murderers are Coming (1942) as Marta
Dream (1943) as Vanda
Once There Was a Girl (1944) as Nastenka's Mother
Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958) as Elena Glinskaya
Attack from the Sea (1952) as Queen Carolina
Syn (1955)
Puti i sudby (1956) as Maria Vasilyevna
Delo N. 306 (1956) as Yelizaveta Nekrasova
Raznye sudby (1956) as Mariya Morozova
Moya doch (1956) as Lidiya Arkadyevna
Prizvaniye (1957) as Maria Pavlovna
Rozhdyonnye burey (1958) as Yadviga Rayevskaya
Ivan the Terrible Part II (1958) as Elena Glinskaya
Soldatskoye serdtse (1959) as Anna Kryshko
Sampo (1959) as Mother of Lemminkäinen
Lyuboy tsenoy (1959) as Shura's mother
Kolybelnaya (1960) as Yekaterina Borisovna
Nine Days in One Year (1962) as Maria Tikhonovna
Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya (1963, TV Mini-Series)
All the King's Men (1971, TV Mini-Series) (final appearance)
References
External links
Ada Voytsik at IMDb
