Malvina Shvidler

Malvina Zinoviivna Shvidler (19 August 1919, Odesa – 15 July 2011, Kyiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1972), People's Artist of Ukraine (1996). Winner of the Kyiv Pectoral Award for outstanding contribution to theatrical art (1999). Member of the National Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine. Early life and education Malvina Shvidler was born on 19 August 1919 in Odesa in a family of a brick factory owner. In 1934, after graduating from a labor school, she took part in the competition for the preparatory course for the Russian department of the Odessa Theater School. In 1939, Shvidler graduated from Odesa Theater School and played in Odesa Theater of Miniatures. The same year she married the director of the Lviv variety art Boris Zhelkov. Career From 1939 to 1941 she was an actress of the Lviv Philharmonic Society. During the World War II, in 1941–1944, Shvidler served in the Tashkent Academic Russian Drama Theater named after Maxim Gorky. Since 1945 she was an actress at the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama.