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,
Tatyana 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.
