Nutsa Chkheidze Explained

Nutsa Chkheidze
Birth Date:30 September 1881
Birth Place:Kutaisi, Russian Empire
Death Place:Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Nationality:Georgian
Occupation:actress

Nina "Nutsa" Platonovna Chkheidze (Georgian: ინო (ნუცა) პლატონის ასული ჩხეიძე; Russian: Нина "Нуца" Платоновна Чхеидзе; 30 September, 1881 – 14 August, 1963) was a Georgian-born Soviet actress.[1]

She was born in Kutaisi. Her mother and sisters were both actresses. She was the pupil of Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili. Chkheidze was the first tragic actress in Georgia at just 13 years old when she first came out on stage. In 1894, she took on the role of a little girl called Emma in a performance of "Offender's Family" staged in Kutaisi Theatre and directed by Kote Meskhi.

In 1925, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Georgian SSR. She died in Tbilisi and was buried in the Didube Pantheon.[1]

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  1. News: Нуца (Нина) Чхеидзе. 5 June 2017. kino-teatr.ru. ru.