Zemfira Tsakhilova

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Zemfira Avramovna Tsakhilova, born on April 24, 1943, in Alagir, North Ossetia-Alania, is a Soviet and Russian actress and teacher. She graduated in 1966 from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. While studying, she acted at the Vakhtangov Theater and later worked at the Mossovet Theater. In the late 1960s she joined the Ossetian village group with Vadim Beroev and Tatyana Bestayeva and then moved to cinema in the 1970s, appearing in more than 30 films by 1982. She often played beautiful women from southern and eastern peoples, including Moldavian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Tajik, Romanian, Ossetian, as well as French characters and a part in the Captain Nemo miniseries. In 1993 she founded the Katyusha Center for the Development of Aesthetics and Beauty for children aged 4–17. She is married to Georgy Tsagolov, a doctor of economic sciences and entrepreneur, and they have three children. She also serves on the Board of the Central House of Artists and is an honored artist of North Ossetia-Alania.