Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova, in Germany Olga Tschechowa (née
Knipper, Russian: Ольга ÐšÐ¾Ð½Ñ Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð°
Чехова; 14 April 1897 â€" 9 March 1980) was a Russian-German
actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's
Mary (1931).Olga Konstantinovna Knipper was born on 14 April 1897
(although some sources give 26 April or 13 April), the daughter of
Konstantin Knipper (1868â€"1929), a railway engineer, and Luise
Knipper (née Rid, 1874â€"1940). Olga was the niece and namesake of
Olga Knipper (Anton Chekhov's wife), both Lutherans of ethnic German
ancestry. She went to school in Tsarskoye Selo but, after watching
Eleonora Duse, joined the Moscow Art Theatre's studio. There she met
the Russian-Jewish actor Mikhail Chekhov (Anton's nephew) in 1914 and
married him the same year, taking his surname as her own. Their
daughter, also named Olga, was born in 1916. She became an actress
under the name of Ada Tschechowa.During the year of the 1917 October
Revolution, Chekhova divorced her husband but kept his name. In the
first year of the revolution, she joined a cabaret-theatre group
called Sorokonozhka (The Little Centipede), as the troupe consisted of
twenty members and only forty feet. Chekhova also was given a part in
a silent movie, Anya Kraeva. The following year, in 1918, she was
given roles in Cagliostro and in The Last Adventure of Arsène Lupin.
Although she was a part of the social circle around the Moscow Art
Theatre, she never played a role there, despite her later claims to
having her first theatre role in The Cherry Orchard.
Knipper, Russian: Ольга ÐšÐ¾Ð½Ñ Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð°
Чехова; 14 April 1897 â€" 9 March 1980) was a Russian-German
actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's
Mary (1931).Olga Konstantinovna Knipper was born on 14 April 1897
(although some sources give 26 April or 13 April), the daughter of
Konstantin Knipper (1868â€"1929), a railway engineer, and Luise
Knipper (née Rid, 1874â€"1940). Olga was the niece and namesake of
Olga Knipper (Anton Chekhov's wife), both Lutherans of ethnic German
ancestry. She went to school in Tsarskoye Selo but, after watching
Eleonora Duse, joined the Moscow Art Theatre's studio. There she met
the Russian-Jewish actor Mikhail Chekhov (Anton's nephew) in 1914 and
married him the same year, taking his surname as her own. Their
daughter, also named Olga, was born in 1916. She became an actress
under the name of Ada Tschechowa.During the year of the 1917 October
Revolution, Chekhova divorced her husband but kept his name. In the
first year of the revolution, she joined a cabaret-theatre group
called Sorokonozhka (The Little Centipede), as the troupe consisted of
twenty members and only forty feet. Chekhova also was given a part in
a silent movie, Anya Kraeva. The following year, in 1918, she was
given roles in Cagliostro and in The Last Adventure of Arsène Lupin.
Although she was a part of the social circle around the Moscow Art
Theatre, she never played a role there, despite her later claims to
having her first theatre role in The Cherry Orchard.
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