Vera Ignatieva

Vera Ignatieva-Kirova (Вера Игнатиева, 15 April 1875 – 13 December 1972) was a Bulgarian stage and film actress. She was also the spouse of Geno Kirov.

Biography
Vera Ignatieva was born on 15 April 1875, in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. She graduated in the pedagogic high-school in Plovdiv. She later became a teacher in Pazardzhik. From 1895 until 1898 she studied dramatic art in the conservatory in Vienna. In 1898, she returned to Bulgaria and made her acting debut in Salza i Smyah as the role of Maria Zhana.

Vera Ignatieva specialized in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Moscow. She played in the Tear and Laughter Salza i Smyah troupe at the National Theater in Sofia from 1904 to 1923.

She is known as one of the first Bulgarian female actresses with a formal professional education.

She died on 13 December 1972 in Sofia.

Major Theater Roles

 * Lyuba in Ludetina by Victor Krilov
 * Dorina in Tartuffe by Molière
 * Luisa in Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller
 * Rosina in The Barber of Seville by Pierre Beaumarchais

Major Film roles

 * Pod Igoto (1952)
 * Parva Tochka (1956)