Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and educator (born 1876)

Maria Ouspenskaya

Russian actress (1876–1949)

Maria Alekseyevna Ouspenskaya was a Russian actress and acting teacher. She achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an older woman in Hollywood films. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dodsworth (1936)…