Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova or Tchechowa (Russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова, (14 April 1897, Aleksandropol (now Gyumri, Armenia) – 9 March 1980, Berlin) was a Russian actress who made a stunning career in the cinema of the Third Reich. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).
Born Olga Knipper, she was the daughter of Konstantin Knipper, an imperial minister and the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper (Anton Ch...
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Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova or Tchechowa (Russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова, (14 April 1897, Aleksandropol (now Gyumri, Armenia) – 9 March 1980, Berlin) was a Russian actress who made a stunning career in the cinema of the Third Reich. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).
Born Olga Knipper, she was the daughter of Konstantin Knipper, an imperial minister and the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper (Anton Chekhov's wife), both of whom were Lutherans of ethnic German descent. She went to school in Tsarskoye Selo but, after watching Eleonora Duse act, joined a studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. There she met the great actor Mikhail Chekhov (Anton's nephew) in 1915 and married him the same year. (Thus, the niece of Anton Chekhov's wife became the wife of Anton Chekhov's nephew.) Their daughter, also named Olga, was born in 1916.
Two years after the October Revolution, Chekhova divorced her husband but kept his name. She managed to get a passport from...
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