Elena Ponsova

Biography

Elena Dmitrievna Ponsova is Soviet actress and teacher. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957). She made her debut on stage in 1925. She graduated from the Theater School named after B.V. Shchukin (1928), since 1934 she taught there. Throughout life, Ponsova was the actress of MADT named after E. B. Vakhtangov. In 1936 she made her film debut, in addition to a number of characteristic roles, she worked a lot on sounding animated films. Acted in films. The most notable roles in the animation: Fox Alice (The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1959), Fairy Watchman (The Key, 1961), The Witch, Crow and Old Woman (Wild Swans, 1962), The Mouse (Thumbelina, 1964) . In marriage with the artist Viktor Stanitsyn, was born her daughter Olga Stanitsyna-Geze, subsequently the leading actress of the Stanislavskiy Drama Theater.