Natalia Uzhviy

Natalia Uzhviy
Наталія Ужвій

Born	(1898-09-08)8 September 1898 Liuboml, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	(1986-06-29)29 June 1986 or 22 June 1986(1986-06-22) (aged 87) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Resting place	Baikove Cemetery^[1]
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (from 1945)^[2]
Awards	State Stalin Prize Order of Lenin Hero of Socialist Labour People's Artist of the USSR and others

Natalia Mykhailivna Uzhviy (Ukrainian: Наталія Михайлівна Ужвій; 8 September [O.S. 27 August] 1898 – 22 or 29 July 1986) was a Ukrainian actress.

Biography

Natalia Uzhviy was born on 8 September 1898 in Liuboml^[3] and was the oldest of 7 children.^[1]

In 1922–1925, she studied at the Drama Studio at the First State Drama Theater of the Ukrainian SSR named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv and performed at its stage.^[4] In 1925–1926, she worked at the Odesa State Ukrainian Drama Theater.^[5] In Odesa, she played her first role in the cinema as Hala Dombrovskaya in the film "P.K.P.".

Works

Theater

Filmography

P.K.P. (1926) – Galya Dombrovskaya^[1]
Taras Tryasylo [uk] (1927) – Marina
Prometheus (1936) – Nastasya Markovna
Ya lyublyu (1936) – Gorpina
Nazar Stodolya [uk; ru] (1937) – Stekha
Karmelyuk [uk; ru] – Olyana
The Vyborg Side (1939) – Yevdokia Ivanovna Kozlova^[2]
Mayskaya noch [uk; ru] (1940) – Sister-in-law
Partizany v stepyakh Ukrainy [uk; ru] (1943) – Pelageya Chasnyk
Rainbow (1944) – Olena Kostyuk^[2]
Taras Shevchenko (1945) – Yarina Shevchenko
Ukradene shchastia [uk] (1952) – Anna Zadorozhniya
Kalinovaya roshcha (1953) – Natalya Kovshik
Zemlya [uk; ru] (1954) – Maria Fyodorchuk
Trista let tomu... (1956) – Varvara
Plamya gneva [uk; ru] (1956)
Bez vesti propavshiy [uk; ru] (1956) – Marfa
Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961) – Nadyezhda Petrovna
Poj pesnyu, poet [uk; ru] (1973)

Awards

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1948, 1951, ?)^[6]
Order of the Badge of Honour (1940)^[6]
People's Artist of the USSR (1944)^[2]^[3]
Order of Lenin (1944, 1960, 1968, 1973)^[6]^[2]
State Stalin Prize (1946, 1949, 1951)^[2]^[3]^[6]
Hero of Socialist Labour (1973)^[2]^[6]
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1978)^[6]
Shevchenko State Prize of Ukrainian SSR (1984)^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ГЕРЕГОВА Світлана Володимирівна. УЖВІЙ НАТАЛІЯ МИХАЙЛІВНА. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Institute of History of Ukraine. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Natalia Uzhvii Ivanovna". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979.
^ ^a ^b ^c УЖВІЙ Наталія Михайлівна. Shevchenko Encyclopedia (in Ukrainian). 2015. pp. 361–362.
^ "Ужвій Наталія Михайлівна (1898-1986). Українська актриса театру та кіно. Фонд № 1147, опис № 1" (PDF). Центральний державний архів-музей літератури і мистецтва України.
^ Діячі науки і культури України : нариси життя та діяльності. Київ: Книги - ХХІ. 2007. p. 421. ISBN 978-966-8653-95-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ужвий Наталия Михайловна. warheroes.ru (in Russian).