Marina Alekseyevna Ladynina was a Soviet stage and film actress, best remembered for her leading roles in her husband Ivan Pyryev's films. People's Artist of the USSR. Laureate of five Stalin Prizes.

Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoylov was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He was the father of Tatiana Samoilova, best known