The Resume

(August 14, 1887-February 3, 1938)
Born in Riga, Latvia
Performed with Max Reinhardt's theater company in Berlin (1917-20)
Appeared in the films 'Kain' (1918), 'Lola Montez (1919), 'Satan' (1920), 'Fear of Women' (1921), 'The Rats' (1921), 'The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen' (1923) and 'The Green Alley' (1928)

Why she might be annoying:

She and her lover fled Latvia for Austria when he was suspected of being involved in the murder of a policeman (1908).
She left films with the arrival of talkies.
Few of her silent films have survived.

Why she might not be annoying:

When her daughter Nora died in childbirth, she traveled to Soviet Georgia to pick up her granddaughter to raise (1935).
During a stopover in Moscow on the return trip, she accepted an invitation to join the Latvian State Theatre.
In a xenophobic purge, Stalin had almost the entire theater company, including Leiko, arrested on charges of belonging to 'a counter-revolutionary nationalist group' in league with fascists (December 15, 1937).
After a ten-minute trial, she was shot, then buried in a mass grave at the NKVD killing fields outside Moscow.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 54]
• Executed by the State
• Film Pioneers [Silent Era]
• German Expressionist Films
• I Died in 1938 (Ranked: 50)
• I Outlived My Child
• I Portrayed a Queen
• I Portrayed Ophelia
• I Took a Bullet
• Look at My Mug Shot
• Profiles 35501-35750 (Ranked: 35748)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 23 Votes: 13.04% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying