Izolda Vasilyevna Izvitskaya (, 21 June 1932 – 1 March 1971) was a Soviet actress.
Isolda Izvitskaya was born in the small town of Dzerzhinsk, Russia. Her father was a chemist, her mother a teacher. Upon leaving high school she enrolled at VGIK (the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography). She was given small parts in several movies while still a student. In 1955 Izvitskaya was chosen for the lead in The Forty-First, a film based on a short story by Boris Lavrenyov. The film was very successful all over the country and in 1957 it was shown at the Cannes Film Festival where it was very well received. A new café in Paris was named after her.
At home Izvitskaya was made a member of the Association for Cultural Relations with Latin American countries; this gave her the opportunity to travel outside of the USSR.
Izvitskaya starred in several more movies; however, none of them achieved the success of The Forty-First. She made several more attempts to work in films but parts were getting smaller and scarcer, and she became depressed. In 1971 her husband, the actor Eduard Bredun, left her. She had a nervous breakdown and locked herself in her apartment in Moscow. She was found dead in her home, which was empty of any food. Her husband insisted that the obituary state "poisoning with an unknown substance" as the cause of death but according to the BBC Russian Service she died of starvation.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1954 Bogatyr Goes to Marteau Nastenka 1955 Troubled Youth Ketrin 1955 Good Morning Masha Komarova 1956 The First Echelon Anna Zalogina 1956 The Forty-First Soldier Maria Filatovna 1957 The Poet Olga, communist agent 1957 A Unique Spring Anna Burova 1957 The Communist episode1958 To the Black Sea Irina Kruchinina 1958 Another Flight Ksenia1959 Fathers and Sons Fenichka 1960 A Man Changes Skin Maria Polozova 1961 Peace to Him Who Enters Klava 1962 Chain Reaction Nadya Vorobyova 1962 Armageddon 1966 On Thin Ice Oksana 1967 Avdotya Pavlovna Nyura, Avdotya's girlfriend 1969 Every Night at Eleven Zhenya (final film role)
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