Ada Ignatievna Voytsik (; 1 August 19052 September 1982) was a Soviet actress and recipient of the title of RSFSR Honored Artist (1935).
Biography Ada Ignatievna Voytsik was born on 1 August 1905 in Moscow.
In 1923 Ada graduated from secondary school and entered the acting department of the State College of Cinematography (today known as VGIK), where she graduated in 1927.
She started acting in cinema in the year 1925. In 1934 Ada Voytsik joined the staff of the Mosfilm film studio.
She married director Ivan Pyryev and they had a son, Erik Pyryev (1931-1970), who also subsequently became a director.
In 1941 together with the studio she was evacuated to Alma-Ata.
On her return to Moscow in 1943, Ada became an actress at the National Film Actors' Theatre, where she worked until her retirement in 1961.
In the last years of her life, Ada Voytsik did not appear in films.
Ada Voytsik lived through the death of her son and husband. She died in Moscow on 2 September 1982 at the age of 77, and was buried in the Khovanskoye Cemetery, in Moscow.
Selected filmography Kak Mitya Tyurin zanimalsya fizkulturoy (1926) Rasplata (1926) as Lisa The Forty-First (1927) as Maryutka Raznostoronniy treugolnik (1927) as Wifey Bulat-Batır (1928) as Asma Svoi i chuzhiye (1928) as Shura The House on Trubnaya (1928) as Fenya The Doll With Millions (1928) as Maria Ivanova The Happy Canary (1929) as Brio's wife Ukhod za bolnym (1929) as Nurse Nenavist (1930) as Stefa Konveer smerti (1933) as Luisa Partiynyy bilet (1936) as Anna Kulikova The Oppenheim Family (1939) as Liselotte Lavendal Oppenheim The Murderers are Coming (1942) as Marta Dream (1943) as Vanda Once There Was a Girl (1944) as Nastenka's Mother Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958) as Elena Glinskaya Attack from the Sea (1952) as Queen Carolina Syn (1955) Puti i sudby (1956) as Maria Vasilyevna Delo N. 306 (1956) as Yelizaveta Nekrasova Raznye sudby (1956) as Mariya Morozova Moya doch (1956) as Lidiya Arkadyevna Prizvaniye (1957) as Maria Pavlovna Rozhdyonnye burey (1958) as Yadviga Rayevskaya Ivan the Terrible Part II (1958) as Elena Glinskaya Soldatskoye serdtse (1959) as Anna Kryshko Sampo (1959) as Mother of Lemminkäinen Lyuboy tsenoy (1959) as Shura's mother Kolybelnaya (1960) as Yekaterina Borisovna Nine Days in One Year (1962) as Maria Tikhonovna Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya (1963, TV Mini-Series) All the King's Men (1971, TV Mini-Series) (final appearance)
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