Actor

Maria Orska

March 16, 1893 · Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]

Maria Orska, born Effi Rachel Blindermann, was a Russian/German stage and screen actress. Just before World War I she moved to Wien, Hamburg and Berlin in 1915. She spoke fluently German, French, Italian, Russian and Polish. In Berlin, she worked with Rudolf Bernauer in the Hebbel Theater, Max Reinhardt and was famous for her parts in theater plays by Strindberg, Wedekind and Pirandello. Maria Orska's film debut was in "Dämon und Mensch" (1915) produced by Jules Greenbaum.

an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.

Often works with

E
Ernst Ludwig
2 titles together
Adamants letztes Rennen, Dämon und Mensch

Full filmography · 4

Die Bestie im Menschen
cast
1921
Die schwarze Loo
as Gypsy dancer Loo
1917
Adamants letztes Rennen
as Eva/ Christine Wendeborg
1916
Dämon und Mensch
as Lina
1915