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Aleksandra Toidze

Aleksandra Toidze

Acting
11 Mar 1907
† 30 May 1985
Tbilisi, Georgia

Biography

Aleksandra "Shura" Toidze (11 March 1907 – 30 May 1985) was a Georgian stage and film actress. A longtime actress of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi, she was named a People's Artist of the Georgian SSR in 1950. Toidze appeared in films from the mid-1920s, making her breakthrough in the title role of Dina Dza-Dzu (1926). From 1937 to 1964 she was an actress of the Rustaveli Theatre, where she played more than fifty roles, among them Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, Cordelia in King Lear, and...

Also Known As

Aleqsandra Toidze, Александра Тоидзе, А. Тоидзе, ალექსანდრა (შურა) მოსეს ასული თოიძე, შურა თოიძე

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