Leila Abashidze

She is one of the most popular Georgian and Soviet actresses.

• Name — Leila Abashidze ლეილა აბაშიძე • Birth Name — Leila Mikhailovna Abashidze • Born — 1 August 1929 • Birthplace — Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union • Died — 8 April 2018 • Place of death — Tbilisi, Georgia • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1941–2018

In 1951, Abashidze graduated from Rustaveli Theatrical Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia. She worked in the film studio "Georgian film" since 1940 and was a member of the cinematographer's union since 1958. Abashidze made her screen debut as a child alongside Nato Vachnadze in Kajana (1941), but it was the hit romantic comedy The Dragonfly (1954) which made her popular throughout the Soviet Union and Europe. Then she appeared in another popular comedy The Scrapper (1956). After all that, she was associated with comedies, but this stereotype was destroyed after she starred in the critically acclaimed historical drama Maia Tskneteli (1959). She has had one of her biggest commercial successes with the drama Meeting Past (1966), for which, in 1968, she was awarded on Leningrad Film Festival as a Best Actress. Also she achieved wider fame after her appearance in the tragic drama Khevisberi Gocha (1964) and in one of the most popular romantic comedies Meeting in Mountains (1966). She was the writer of Anticipation (1970), Silence of Towers (1978). She was the director, writer and leading actress of Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi (1980).

On April 8, 2018, Abashidze's health conditions got worse and she was sent to the hospital after suffering a stroke: she was pronounced dead on arrival, the cause of death was ruled as an ischemic stroke of the brain.

• Kajana (1941) • Golden Path (1945) • Cradle of Poet (1947) • Keto and Kote (1948) • Spring in Sakeni (1951) • They Came from Mountains (1954) • The Dragonfly (1954) • Our Courtyard (1956) • The Scrapper (1956) • Where is Your Happiness Mzia? (1959) • Maia Tskneteli (1959) • I Shall Dance (1963) • Khevisberi Gocha (1964) • Wreck (1965) • Meeting Past (1966) • Meeting in Mountains (1966) • Anticipation (1969) • The Right Hand of the Grand Master (Episode One) (1969) • The Right Hand of the Grand Master (Episode Two) (1970) • Walking in Tbilisi (1976) • Cinema (1977) • Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi (1980) • Commotion (1986) • Zvaraki (1990)

Leila Abashidze was recorded at birth as ლეილა აბაშიძე. The authorities additionally record the heading ليلى أباشيدزه. Her recorded languages were Georgian and Russian.

Leila Abashidze is recorded as having received Order of the Red Banner of Labour and People's artist of the Georgian SSR. Leila Abashidze is recorded as film director, actress, screenwriter and film producer.