Natalia Uzhviy

Natalia Mykhailivna Uzhviy (Наталія Михайлівна Ужвій; 8 September 1898 –  22 or 29 July 1986) was a Ukrainian actress.

Biography
Natalia Uzhviy was born on 8 September 1898 in Liuboml and was the oldest of 7 children.

In 1922–1925, she studied at the Drama Studio at the First State Drama Theater of the Ukrainian SSR named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv and performed on its stage. In 1925–1926, she worked at the Odesa State Ukrainian Drama Theater. In Odesa, she played her first role in the cinema as Hala Dombrovskaya in the film "P.K.P.".

Filmography
• P.K.P. (1926) –  Galya Dombrovskaya

• Taras Tryasylo (1927)  –  Marina

• Prometheus (1936)  –  Nastasya Markovna

• Ya lyublyu (1936)  –  Gorpina

• Nazar Stodolya (1936 film) (1937)  –  Stekha

• Karmelyuk (1938 film)  –  Olyana

• The Vyborg Side (1939)  –  Yevdokia Ivanovna Kozlova

• Mayskaya noch (1940)  –  Sister-in-law

• Partizany v stepyakh Ukrainy (1943)  –  Pelageya Chasnyk

• Rainbow (1944)  –  Olena Kostyuk

• Taras Shevchenko (1945)  –  Yarina Shevchenko

• Ukradene shchastia (1952)  –  Anna Zadorozhniya

• Kalinovaya roshcha (1953)  –  Natalya Kovshik

• Zemlya (1954 film) (1954)  –  Maria Fyodorchuk

• Trista let tomu... (1956) –  Varvara

• Plamya gneva (1956)

• Bez vesti propavshiy (1956)  –  Marfa

• Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)  –  Nadyezhda Petrovna

• Poj pesnyu, poet (1973)

Awards

 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1948, 1951, ?)
 * Order of the Badge of Honour (1940)
 * People's Artist of the USSR (1944)
 * Order of Lenin (1944, 1960, 1968, 1973)
 * State Stalin Prize (1946, 1949, 1951)
 * Hero of Socialist Labour (1973)
 * Order of Friendship of Peoples (1978)
 * Shevchenko State Prize of Ukrainian SSR (1984)