Ivars Kalninš
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Ivars Kalniņš is a Latvia
n film and television actor. He graduated in 1974 from the Theatre Department of the Latvian Conservatory Ya. Vitol. He had already started acting however in 1972 at the Artistic Academic Theatre of J. Rainis
. Kalniņš has performed in both Latvian language
and Russian language
films and television shows.
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
n film and television actor. He graduated in 1974 from the Theatre Department of the Latvian Conservatory Ya. Vitol. He had already started acting however in 1972 at the Artistic Academic Theatre of J. Rainis
Rainis
Rainis was the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts and Indulis un Ārija , and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust...
. Kalniņš has performed in both Latvian language
Latvian language
Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
and Russian language
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
films and television shows.