Dudukhana Tserodze
Dudukhana Tserodze | |
|---|---|
დუდუხანა წეროძე | |
 Dudukhana Tserodze | |
| Born | 8 November 1918 |
| Died | 8 May 2000 (aged 81) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1934–1984 |
Dudukhana Platonovna Tserodze (Georgian: დუდუხანა წეროძე; 8 November 1918 – 8 May 2000) was a Georgian film and stage actress. She is best remembered for the title role in Magdana's Donkey (1955), and was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1965.[1][2]
Career
Tserodze studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire and in 1938 graduated from the film school attached to the Georgian state film studio.[1] From 1949 she was an actress at the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi, and from 1955 she worked at the Georgian Film Studio, appearing in some thirty films over a career of half a century.[1]
Her best-known role was Magdana in Magdana's Donkey (1955), directed by Tengiz Abuladze and Revaz Chkheidze, which won the prize for best fiction short film at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[1] Her other films include The Last Masquerade (1934), Our Courtyard (1956), I See the Sun (1965), Sergei Parajanov and Dodo Abashidze's The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984), and Kukaracha (1982).[1]
Awards and honours
- Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1958)
- People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1965)
- Order of Honour (1997)
Death
Tserodze died on 8 May 2000.[1]
References
Further reading
- Kino: Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia. 1987 (in Russian).