{{Short description|Soviet actress (1905–2000)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{infobox actor | honorific_suffix = |image= Angelina Stepanova.jpg |birth_date={{Birth date|1905|11|23|df=y}} |birth_place=Nikolayevsk, Primorskaya Oblast, Russian Empire |death_date={{Death date and age|2000|5|17|1905|11|23|df=y}} |death_place=Moscow, Russia |resting_place = Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow | occupation = actress | years_active = 1924—1988 | title = People's Artist of the USSR {{small|(1960)}} | awards = USSR State Prize {{small|(1977)}} | known_for = | spouse = Alexander Fadeyev |name=}} '''Angelina Iosifovna Stepanova''' ({{lang-rus|links=no|Ангели́на Ио́сифовна Степа́нова||ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ɪˈosʲɪfəvnə sʲtʲɪˈpanəvə}}; 23 November 1905 – 17 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, teacher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Culture/Teatr/_221.php|title=Theatrical encyclopedia of drama, opera and ballet|accessdate=2013-01-05|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427183404/http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Culture/Teatr/_221.php|archivedate=27 April 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> She was winner of the Stalin Prize of I class (1952) and USSR State Prize (1977).<ref>[http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=11415 Ангелина Степанова. Герои страны]</ref> People's Artist of the USSR (1960).<ref>[https://ria.ru/20101101/290577173.html Международная Премия Станиславского] // RIA Novosti</ref>
==Biography== Stepanova was born on 23 November 1905 in Nikolayevsk (now Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai) in the family of an insurance agent and a dentist. Studying in a Moscow gymnasium, she was fond of ballet. Since 1921 she studied at the theater school at the Vakhtangov Theatre, which she graduated in 1924, from the same year she worked at the Moscow Art Theatre. She later became a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Stepanova started her film career in 1932.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.izbrannoe.com/news/lyudi/takikh-ne-byvaet-aktrisa-angelina-stepanova/ |title=Таких не бывает. Актриса Ангелина Степанова |access-date=5 April 2019 |archive-date=23 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023194038/http://www.izbrannoe.com/news/lyudi/takikh-ne-byvaet-aktrisa-angelina-stepanova/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Death== She died on 17 May 2000 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
==Selected filmography== * ''The House of the Dead'' (1932) as female student * ''The Unforgettable Year 1919'' (1951) as Olga Butkevich * ''Goodbye, Boys'' (1964) as Nadezhda Belova, Volodya's mother * ''War and Peace'' (1965–1967) as Anna Pavlovna Scherer<ref>[https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/w/sov/4107/works/ Angelina Stepanova] at the kino-teatr.ru</ref> * ''Day by Day'' (1972) as Sokolova * ''The Flight of Mr. McKinley'' (1975) as Mrs. Ann Shamway * ''They Fought for Their Country'' (1975) as old cossack woman * ''Twenty Days Without War'' (1976) as Zinaida Antonovna * ''A Declaration of Love'' (1977) as Zinochka in old age
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|0826786}} * [http://www.memorial.krsk.ru/memuar/Yerdman.htm Эрдман. Переписка сo Степановой] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419033955/http://www.memorial.krsk.ru/memuar/Yerdman.htm |date=19 April 2009 }} * Vitaly Vulf. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190306145146/http://v-vulf.ru/officiel/officiel-43-1.htm Ангелина Степанова. Большая роль.] {{Magnolia Award for Best Actress}} {{Authority control}}
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