Maria Tenazi

• Name — Maria Tenazi • Native Name — Մարիա Թադևոսյան • Other Names — Maria Tadevosyan, Maria Alexander Tadjosyan, Mariya Tadevosyan • Birth Name — Mariya Aleksandrovna Tadevosyan • Born — May 1, 1903 • Birthplace — Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) • Died — May 1, 1930 • Place of death — Kobuleti, Adjara, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Georgia) • Education — N. Petrashevskaya Trade School • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1924–1930

Mariya Aleksandrovna Tadevosyan was born on May 1, 1903, in Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan). She attended the N. Petrashevskaya Trade School in Tbilisi, where she studied painting. Russian film director Vladimir Barsky was traveling and looking for scenic landscapes for Iron Hard Labor, a film about the fight of Georgian laborers for their rights before Russian Revolution in 1917. He was traveling between the small town of Alaverdi and Tbilisi, and on his journey he noticed Tenazi working at a copper foundry. In 1924, director Barsky hired her to act in Iron Hard Labor, her first film, which starred Mikheil Chiaureli and Akaki Khorava. In 1925, Tenazi was given the starring role in the Barsky film The Secret of the Lighthouse. Her final film was Shelter of Clouds, she became sick while filming. She died of tuberculosis on her birthday, May 1, 1930, in Kobuleti, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Georgia), at the age of 27.

• 1924 – Iron Hard Labor • 1924 – The Railway • 1925 – The Secret of the Lighthouse, as Aishe, the daughter • 1926 – Zare • 1926 – The Ninth Wave • 1927 – In the Quagmire as Marusya • 1927 – Shelter of Clouds