Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
6/3/1879
Place of Birth
Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Crimea, Ukraine]
Also Known As
Alla NazimoffNazimovaMarem-Ides (Adelaida Yakovlevna) Leventon
Alla Nazimova
Biography
Alla Nazimova (Russian and Ukrainian: Алла Назимова; 3 June [O.S. 22 May] 1879 – 13 July 1945) was an American film and theatre actress, a screenwriter, and film producer. She is perhaps best known as simply Nazimova, but also went under the name Alia Nasimoff. She emigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire. In 1927, Nazimova became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
She was signed up by the American producer Henry Miller and made her Broadway debut in New York City, in 1906 to critical and popular success. She quickly became extremely popular (a theatre was named after h...
Known For
Camille
as Marguerite Gautier
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Revelation
as Joline
Escape
as Emmy Ritter
The Brat
as The Brat
Salomé
as Salomé
In Our Time
as Zofia Orwid (as Nazimova)
Since You Went Away
as Zofia Koslowska
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
My Son
as Ana Silva
Stronger Than Death
as Sigrid Fersen
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
The Red Lantern
as Mahlee & Blanche Sackville
Madame Peacock
as Jane Goring / Gloria Cromwell
Madonna of the Streets
as Mary Carlson / Mary Ainsleigh
Behind Natacha Rambova's Shadow
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Eye for Eye
as Hassouna
Billions
as Princess Triloff
War Brides
as Joan
Blood and Sand
as Senora Augustias