Nina "Nutsa" Platonovna Chkheidze (; ; 30 September 1881 – 14 August 1963) was a Georgian-born Soviet actress. She was born in

Kutaisi Kutaisi ( ; ka, ქუთაისი ) is a city in the Imereti region of the Georgia (country), Republic of Georgia. One of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it is the List o ...

. Her mother and sisters were both actresses. She was the pupil of Lado Aleksi-Meskhishvili. Chkheidze was the first tragic actress in Georgia at just 13 years old when she first came out on stage. In 1894, she took on the role of a little girl called Emma in a performance of ''Offender's Family'', staged at Kutaisi Theatre and directed by Kote Meskhi. In 1925, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the

Georgian SSR The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Georgia, the Georgian SSR, or simply Georgia, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union from its second occupation (by the Red Army) in 1921 to its independence in 1991. Cotermin ...

. Chkheidze died in

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and was buried in the Didube Pantheon.

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