Natalya Medvedeva (actress)

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Natalya Pavlovna Medvedeva (18 December 1915 – 12 August 2007) was a Soviet stage and film actress. She was born in Petrograd, Russia. Her mother was an actress and her father, Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev, was a literary scholar who led the St. Petersburg Writers’ Union; he was executed in 1938 and later rehabilitated in 1957. Medvedeva studied acting at the Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy from 1939 to 1943. She was married, and when her husband was sent to Sverdlovsk, she followed him and acted at the Sverdlovsk Drama Theater in 1943–1944. The family moved to Moscow in 1944, where she worked in drama theaters and began appearing in films and TV series from 1952. She retired in 1979 to raise her daughter Galina.