Valentina Chemberg

Valentina Chemberg was a Russian character actress with the company at the Theatre of Komissarzhevskoi in St. Petersburg. She was born Valentina Ilyinichna Chemberg om 23 January 1917, in Russia. From 1935 to 1939 she studied acting at Leningrad School of Acting, graduating in 1939 as actress. From 1939 to 1946 she was member of Minsk Russian Drama company. Valentina Chemberg had a stellar career as a stage actress. From 1947 to 1990 she was a permanent member of the troupe and the leading actor at the Theatre of Komissarzhevskoi in St. Petersburg. There her stage partners were such actors as Alisa Freyndlikh, Galina Korotkevich, Ivan Krasko, Vladimir Chestnokov, Ivan Dmitriev, Tamara Abrosimova, Natalya Chetverikova, Tatiana Samarina, Sergey Boyarskiy, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Yefim Kamenetsky, Mikhail Khrabrov, Stanislav Landgraf, Georgiy Korolchuk, Vladimir Osobik, Boris Sokolov, Pyotr Shelokhonov, and other notable Russian actors. There, Valentina Chemberg made memorable appearances in various classic and contemporary plays under such directors, as Leonid Vivyen, Aleksandr Belinsky, Zinovi Korogodsky, Igor Vladimirov and Ruben Agamirzyan. Valentina Chemberg was designated People's Actress of the Russian Federation. She died in 1990, and was laid to rest in the Novo-Volkovskoe cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.