Ada Rohovtseva | |
Birth Name: | Ada Mykolaivna Rohovtseva |
Birth Date: | 16 July 1937 |
Birth Place: | Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Occupation: | Actress, theater pedagogue |
Yearsactive: | 1956–present |
Spouse: | Kostiantyn Stepankov |
Awards: | Shevchenko National Prize (1981) Hero of Ukraine (2007)[1] Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize (2017)[2] |
Alma Mater: | Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University |
Ada Mykolaivna Rohovtseva (; born 16 July 1937) is a Soviet and Ukrainian stage and film actress. She has appeared in over 30 films and television shows since 1957. Professor at the National University of Culture. She won the award for Best Actress at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in Hail, Mary!.[3]
People's Artist of the USSR (1978) and Hero of Ukraine (2007).
Rohovtseva was born in Hlukhiv. Her father, Mykola Ivanovych Rohovtsev, had two higher educations, graduated from the industrial and agricultural institutions, and worked in the NKVD during the war. Mother, Hanna Mytrofanivna Zaikovska, was an agronom.[4]
She is a member of the Committee on the National Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko since 1992.[5]
She participated in the Orange Revolution in 2004, and strongly condemned both the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.