Lyudmila Kasatkina

Lyudmila Kasatkina studied at Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. Distinctions recorded are Order of Lenin, Order of the Badge of Honour, People's Artist of the USSR and Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class.

• Name — Lyudmila Kasatkina • Native Name — Людмила Касаткина • Birth Name — Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina • Born — 15 May 1925 • Birthplace — Smolensk Governorate, RSFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 22 February 2012 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Occupation — Actress • Spouse — Sergey Kolosov

Kasatkina was born in a village near Vyazemsky Uyezd, Smolensk Oblast, and attended a ballet school. After breaking her leg at age 14, she gave up her dream of dancing and joined the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. Kasatkina joined the troupe of the Red Army Theatre in 1947 and worked there for the rest of her life. Her breakthrough film role was a tiger tamer in Tamer of Tigers (1955) where she was body/stunt doubled by Margarita Nazarova, a professionally trained tiger handler. She appeared in such film adaptations as The Taming of the Shrew (1961) and The Darling (1966, after Chekhov). Kasatkina was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975 and was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" 2 class in 2010. She died in Moscow eleven days after the death of her husband, Sergey Kolosov. The couple were buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

• Tamer of Tigers (Укротительница тигров, 1955) as Lena Vorontsova • Honeymoon (Медовый месяц, 1956) as Lyuda Odintsova • Adventures of Mowgli (Маугли, 1967–71) as Bagheera (voice) • Big School-Break (Большая перемена, 1972) as The School Director • Remember Your Name (Помни имя своё, 1974) as Zinaida Grigorievna Vorobyova • The Circus Princess (Принцесса цирка, 1982) as Madame Caroline • Mother Mary (Мать Мария, 1982) as Maria Skobtsova • Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (Яды, или Всемирная история отравлений, 2001) as Eugenia Ivanovna Kholodkova