Background
CHKHEIDZE, Nina was born on October 12, 1881. Daughter of an actor.
CHKHEIDZE, Nina was born on October 12, 1881. Daughter of an actor.
1894 stage debut at age 13 as Emma in Giacometti’s ”Louisiana Morte Civile”. Was trained in V. South. AleksiMeskhishvili and K. Meskhi’s heroic-romantic method. Had a powerful voice and excellent stage presence.
1896-1922 acted at Kutaisi Theater. 1922-1925 and 1938-1948 at State Drama Theater, Tbilisi (later Rustaveli Theater). Roles: Zeynab, Gayane and Rukayya in Sumbatov-Yuzhin’s Izmena (Treason).
Kctevan in Eristavi’s ’’Homeland”. Marine in Gunia’s ’’Brother and Sister". Natasha and Lyubov’ in Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths) and Posledniye (The Last Men).
Kruchinina and Polina in Bez viny vinovatyye (Guilty Without Guilt) and Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post). Ophelia and Desdemona in ’’Hamlet” and ’’Othello”. Louise and Amalia in Schiller’s "Räuber” and "Kabale und Liebe”.
Marguerite Gautier in Dumas-fils’ ”Louisiana Dame aux Camélias”. Magda in Sudermann’s ’’Heimat". Jocasta in Sophocles’ ’’Oedipus Rex”.
Mekhru in Kaladze’s Khatidzhe: the Mother in Shanshiashvili’s Georgiy Saakadze. Tat’yana in Razlom (The Beak-Up), et cetera Also acted in the films “Dariko”, ’’Arsen", et cetera
Pubi. Vospominaniya (Reminiscences) (1950, 1956).