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Lila Kedrova

1918 - 2000

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Yelizaveta Nikolaevna Kedrova (Russian: Елизавета Николаевна Кедрова; 9 October 1909 – 16 February 2000), known as Lila Kedrova, was a Russian-French actress of the screen and stage. For her portrayal of Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek (1964), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She later won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical stage version of the film in 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lila Kedrova is the 741st most popular actor (up from 765th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Russia (up from 421st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Actor.

Lila Kedrova is most famous for her role as the Gypsy fortune teller in the film "Fiddler on the Roof."

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lila Kedrova ranks 741 out of 13,578. Before her are Tom Berenger, Rita Moreno, Sônia Braga, Andie MacDowell, Ashok Kumar, and Natasha Richardson. After her are Rachel Weisz, Catherine O'Hara, Adrien Brody, Boris Karloff, Eric Roberts, and Alfred Molina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Lila Kedrova ranks 57. Before her are Yasuhiro Nakasone, François Tombalbaye, Hans Scholl, Pavlik Morozov, Robert Walker, and André Bazin. After her are João Figueiredo, Anna Mani, Günther Rall, Patricio Aylwin, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and Yigal Allon. Among people deceased in 2000, Lila Kedrova ranks 41. Before her are Hirokazu Ninomiya, John Gielgud, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Empress Kōjun, Takashi Kano, and Petar Mladenov. After her are Steve Reeves, Tommaso Buscetta, Akira Nozawa, Anatoly Sobchak, John Harsanyi, and Merton Miller.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lila Kedrova ranks 360 out of 3,761. Before her are Lovis Corinth (1858), Yevdokiya Lopukhina (1669), Leonid Govorov (1897), Karl Bryullov (1799), Alexander Litvinenko (1962), and Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876). After her are Anton Arensky (1861), Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), and Jani Beg (1300).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Lila Kedrova ranks 4. Before her are Yul Brynner (1920), Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), and Michael Chekhov (1891). After her are Sacha Guitry (1885), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Olga Knipper (1868), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), George Sanders (1906), and Lyubov Orlova (1902).

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