Stefaniya Stanyuta

Stefanija Staniuta
Stefanija Staniuta
	Postage stamp for the centenary of the birth of the actress
Born	Stefania Michajłaŭna Staniuta; 30 April 1905; Minsk, Russian Empire
Died	6 November 2000 (aged 95); Minsk, Belarus
Occupation	actress
Years active	1919–2000
Spouse(s)	Alexander Kruchynski
Children	1
Awards	People's Artist of the USSR (1988)

Stefanija Michajłaŭna Staniuta (Belarusian: Стэфанія Міхайлаўна Станюта; 30 April 1905 – 6 November 2000) was a Belarus–Soviet theater and movie actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1988).[1]

Stefaniya was born on April 30, 1905 in Minsk in the family of the famous Belarusian artist Mikhail Stanyuta.[2] As a child, she happened to attend the official meeting of Tsar Nicholas II with the Belarusian people.

She studied at the parish school, then at the Minsk Women's Government Gymnasium.[3] In 1926 she graduated from the Belarusan Drama Studio under the Moscow Art Theater (class Valаncin Smyshlajaŭ and Safija Gijacyntava).[2]

Since 1932 and until the end of his life Stefanija Staniuta worked at the Janka Kupala National Academic Theatre in Minsk. In total she played about 200 roles, including in movies from 1958 onward.

Selected filmography

1958 – Red Leaves as episode
1964 – Letters to the Living as episode
1966 – I'm Going to Look For as episode
1969 – I, Francysk Skaryna as Abbess
1974 – Adventures in a City that does not Exist as Aunt Polly
1976 – The Troubled Month of Veresen as Serafima
1977 – About the Little Red Riding Hood as 1st evil old woman
1983 – Farewell as Darja
1983 – White Dew as Kisialikha
1985 – Mama, I'm Alive as Domna Fialipaŭna, a teacher in a partisan detachment
1985 – Do Not Marry, Girls as Granny
1991 – Tsar Ivan the Terrible as Onufryjeŭna
1995 – The Game of Imagination as Granny in a hat
2001 – Holiday Romance as episode

References

Biography of the actress
Стефания Станюта. Чтобы помнили
"Дата в истории: 112 гадоў таму ў Мінску запачаткаваная жаночая ўрадавая ґімназія". Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.

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[1] Biography of the actress

[autogenerated2-2] Стефания Станюта. Чтобы помнили

[3] "Дата в истории: 112 гадоў таму ў Мінску запачаткаваная жаночая ўрадавая ґімназія". Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2013.