Lila Kedrova

Personal Info

Birthday

October 9, 1909

Day of Death

2000-02-16

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)

Also Known As

Лила Кедрова

Elisabeth Kedroff

Lila Kedrova

Biography

Lila Kedrova (October 9, 1918 – February 16, 2000) was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lila Kedrova, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Blood Tide

Zorba the Greek

The Tenant

Torn Curtain

Some Girls

Cool Million

Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Penelope

Filmography

1993
Next Time the Fire
as Mother
1991
A Star for Two
as Simone
1988
Some Girls
as Granny
1984
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
as Lady of Lyonesse
1982
Blood Tide
as Sister Anna
1980
Tell Me a Riddle
as Eva
1979
Womanlight
as Sonia Tovalski
The Sewers of Paradise
as Charlotte
The Skirt Chaser
as Olga
1978
The Paradise of Riches
as Camille Chevallier
1977
Widows' Nest
as Mother
Stop Calling Me Baby!
as Countess de Tocqueville
1976
The Tenant
as Madame Gaderian
Trotsky is Dead
as Natasha
1975
The Night Child
as Contessa Cappelli
Footprints on the Moon
as Mrs. Heim
Eliza's Horoscope
as Lila
1974
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
as Contessa Mafalda
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
as Madame Grenier
1972
Escape to the Sun
as Sarah Kaplan
Rak
as David's mother
A Time for Loving
as Madame Olga
1970
The Kremlin Letter
as Madam Sophie
1968
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
as Yolanda's Mother
1967
Le canard en fer blanc
as Rosa
1966
Maigret at the Pigalle
as Rose
Penelope
as Princess Sadaba
Torn Curtain
as Countess Kuchinska
1965
A High Wind in Jamaica
as Rosa
1964
Zorba the Greek
as Madame Hortense
Death of a Killer
as La mère de Massa
1963
Gypsy Law
as Kirvi
1959
My Pal the Gypsy
as 'La Choute'
1958
A Woman Like Satan
as Manuela
The Lovers of Montparnasse
as Anna Zborowsky
1957
This Pretty World
as Léa
Until the Last One
as Marcella Bastia
1956
Main Street
as Pepita
People of No Importance
as Mme. Vacopoulos
1955
School for Love
as Mme. Dimate - mère de Sophie
Razzia
as Léa, la toxicomane
The Ragpickers of Emmaus
as Bastien's wife (uncredited)
1954
Les impures
as Mme Denis, la concierge
1953
No Way Back
as Ljuba
1938
Ultimatum
as Irina