Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union. Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the Soviet Union. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war. In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarjevsky Theatre in Leningrad. Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of BDT in which she works to this day. Although Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1975) and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992) and Queen Anne's Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later (1993). On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's apartment in St. Petersburg was visited by Vladimir Putin, who awarded her with state decoration of the Russian Federation. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.

Filmography

• 2022Strict Regime Parents — мать
• 2020BDT Digital: Excitement
• 2017Thawed Carp — Людмила Борисовна (соседка Елены)
• 2016The Bolshoi — Beletskaya
• 2014Martha's Line — Марья Петрова
• The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini — Queen Anne of Austria
• 2009A Room and a Half — Mother
• 2009The Return of Musketeers or the Treasure of Cardinal Mazarini
• 2007California Suite — Ханна Уоррен/ Диана Николс/ Милли Майклз
• 2007Oscar and the Lady in Pink
• 2006Aleksandr Volodin. Gloomy Marathon
• 2005On Upper Maslovka Street — Анна Борисовна
• 2005Quartet
• 1994Hunting
• 1994Katya Ismailova — Irina Dmitrievna
• 1994The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later — Queen Anna
• 1993Musketeers 20 Years Later
• Musketeers Twenty Years Later — Queen Anna of Austria
• To Remember — Narrator
• 1989Last of the Red Hot Lovers
• 1988Serafima Glyukina's Weekdays and Weekends — Serafima Glukina
• 1987Чехарда — Маргарита Васильевна Кудрявцева, аккомпаниатор и второй дирижёр
• 1986Forgive Me
• 1986The Secret of the Snow Queen — Snow Queen
• 1985A Simple Death — Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina
• 1984Ruthless Romance — Ogudalova
• 1984Success — Zinaida Nikolayevna Arsenyeva
• 1984Вместе с Дунаевским
• 1983A Canary Cage — Olesya's Mother
• 1982Fifth Decade
• 1982Two Voices
• 1981A Dangerous Age — Lilia Ivanovna Rodimtseva
• 1981Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin — Vyrubova
• 1981Sergey Ivanovich Retires
• 1981Thanks for Non-flying Weather
• 1980An Old-Fashioned Comedy — Lidiya Vasilyevna
• 1980Separated
• 1980Three Years — Polina Razsudin
• D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers — Queen Anne of Austria
• 1979Stalker — Stalker's Wife
• 1977Office Romance — Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина, Playback Singer
• 1976Always With Me
• 1976Blue Puppy — Blue Puppy (voice)
• 1976The Princess and the Pea — Queen
• 1975Anna and Commander — Anna
• 1975Extraordinary Sunday
• 1975Kovalyova From the Provinces — Ковалёва
• 1975Memorial Train
• The Straw Hat
• 1974The Executive
• 1974The Straw Hat — баронесса де Шампиньи
• 1973Melodies of the Vera Quarter
• 1973The Taming of the Shrew
• My Life
• 1970Family Happiness
• 1970The Secret of the Iron Door — Mother
• 1970Yesterday, Today and Always — жена подсудимого
• 1969Great Cold
• 1969Вальс
• 1968City and Song
• 1968To Love — Anya, tram conductor
• 1967Adventures of a Dentist
• 196612 Chairs — Эллочка-Людоедочка
• 1966First Visitor — Tanya
• 1964Fro
• 1961Striped Trip — episode
• 1960The Story about Newlyweds — Galya
• 1958The City Turns the Lights On — Pichikova
• 1957Immortal Song
• 1956Talents and Admirers

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2020Alisa: Excitement — Self
• 2019Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God — Self
• 2014Voices — herself
• 2009The Music of Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Triumph of a Funny Girl. Alisa Freindlich — Self
• 1988To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love... — Self
• 1979Alisa Freyndlikh — Self