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Filmmaker · Estonia

Leida Laius

Died in 1996

Leida Laius was born on 26 March 1923 in Khorochevo, in the Yamburg district, in Russia, finished secondary school in Vyshny Volochyok in 1941 and served as a volunteer in the Red Army during the war. After various administrative jobs, she graduated in 1950 from the Tallinn theatre institute, acted at the Drama Theatre from 1951 to 1955, joined the Tallinnfilm studio in 1960 and graduated in 1962 from the Moscow film institute. Named People's Artist of the Estonian SSR in 1986, she died in Tallinn on 6 April 1996.

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