Nikolay Kedrov, Jr.

Lila Kedrova
Kedrova in 1965.
Born	9 October 1909 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died	16 February 2000 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1938–1994
Spouse(s)	Richard Howard (1968-2000; her death) Pierre Valde (1948-?)

Lila Kedrova (full name in Russian Елизавета (Лиля) Николаевна Кедрова) (9 October 1909- 16 February 2000) was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek (1964), and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film.

Kedrova claimed to have been born in 1918 in Petrograd, Russia, still she gave her age as 24 in a passenger list for New York City in February 1935 when touring with her theatre group, which implies a year of birth circa 1910 while her grave plaque states 1909. Accordingly her brother's age was also given as 34 in a 1938 passenger list indicating a possible birth year 1903 or 1904 and not the generally accepted 1905. Her parents were Russian opera singers. Her father, Nikolay (1871-1940), was a singer and composer, a creator of the first Russian male quartet to perform liturgical chants. Her mother, Sofia Gladkaya (ru: ), was a singer at the Mariinsky Theatre and a teacher of Conservatoire de Paris. Kedrova's brother, Nikolay (1904?–1981) was a Russian singer and composer of liturgical music. Her sister Irene Kedroff was a soprano.

Some time after the October Revolution, in 1922, the family emigrated to Berlin. In 1928 they moved to France, where Kedrova's mother taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, and her father again recreated the quartet "Quatuor Kedroff". In 1932, Kedrova joined the Moscow Art Theatre touring company. Then her film career began, mostly in French films, until her first English appearance in 1964 as Mme Hortense in Zorba the Greek.