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Rutanya Alda (born Rūta Skrastiņa; October 13, 1942) is a Latvian-American actress. She began her career in the late 1960s, and went on to have supporting parts in The Deer Hunter (1978), Rocky II (1979), and Mommie Dearest (1981).
Rutanya Alda. Actress: The Deer Hunter. Rutanya Alda was born on 13 October 1942 in Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union. She is an actress and writer, known for The Deer Hunter (1978), Mommie Dearest (1981) and Amityville II: The Possession (1982). She was previously married to Richard Bright.
- October 13, 1942
Written by Tony Northrup. Becoming an actress didn’t come easy for Rutanya Ald a. She didn’t come from the suburbs of middle America, and head to Hollywood to live out her big screen dreams. Instead she came from a very harsh and brutal enviornment, surrounded by war and despair.
Jul 19, 2018 · Hello, Rutanya! Thanks so much for taking the time to answer some questions for our readers here at Voices From the Balcony! We’re honored to have you here with us for Women in Horror Month! 1. How long have you been acting, both in general and specifically within the horror genre?
Rutanya Alda is an actress with more than 50 years of experience in film, television, and theater. She has performed in over 100 screen roles and many plays throughout her career, among which are the Academy Award winning Deer Hunter, Racing with the Moon as Sean Penn's mother, Brian De Palma's Greetings and Hi, Mom! with Robert De Niro, Elia ...
Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Rutanya Alda is the 4,355th most popular actor (up from 5,705th in 2019) , the 136th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 156th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Latvian Actor .
Drawing on her youthful exposure to a fairy tale play put on while she was living in a displaced persons camp after World War II, Latvian-born actress Rutanya Alda took the escapist dream of acting to the American stage and screen, building a lengthy career of supporting parts.
