Herta Elviste (12 June 1923 â€" 29 October 2015), was an Estonian
stage, film and television actress and assistant theatre director
whose career spanned nearly seventy years.Herta Elviste was born Herta
Marianne Brandt to Aleksander Brandt and Aglaida Brandt (née
Madisson) in the small borough of Pärnu-Jaagupi in Pärnu County. She
was the youngest of three siblings; the oldest, a sister named Leida,
and a brother named Meinhard who died in 1918. The family would later
change their surname to the more Estonian sounding Elviste.She
attended schools in Pärnu-Jaagupi and from 1939 until 1942 she
studied ballet at the Elsa Putnin Pärnu ballet studio.Herta Elviste
began her stage career as an actress with an engagement at the Endla
Theatre in Pärnu in 1940 at age seventeen until 1950, and again, from
1952 until 1958. Memorable roles of the period have been in
productions of works by such authors and playwrights as: Carlo
Goldoni, Leo Tolstoy, Hella Wuolijoki, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Hansen
Tammsaare and D. L. Coburn.
stage, film and television actress and assistant theatre director
whose career spanned nearly seventy years.Herta Elviste was born Herta
Marianne Brandt to Aleksander Brandt and Aglaida Brandt (née
Madisson) in the small borough of Pärnu-Jaagupi in Pärnu County. She
was the youngest of three siblings; the oldest, a sister named Leida,
and a brother named Meinhard who died in 1918. The family would later
change their surname to the more Estonian sounding Elviste.She
attended schools in Pärnu-Jaagupi and from 1939 until 1942 she
studied ballet at the Elsa Putnin Pärnu ballet studio.Herta Elviste
began her stage career as an actress with an engagement at the Endla
Theatre in Pärnu in 1940 at age seventeen until 1950, and again, from
1952 until 1958. Memorable roles of the period have been in
productions of works by such authors and playwrights as: Carlo
Goldoni, Leo Tolstoy, Hella Wuolijoki, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Hansen
Tammsaare and D. L. Coburn.
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