Soviet and Russian actress Olga Yakovleva: a short biography, filmography

Olga Yakovleva - an actress, who is already more50 years of his work continues the best traditions of the Russian acting school. In 2016, Yakovleva celebrated her 75th birthday, while the actress does not cease actively to act in films and play in the theater. How was the life of the singer? And in what films can you see it?

short biography

Olga Yakovleva was born in 1941 in the city of Tambov. Her family had nothing to do with the art world: her father was in charge of the plant, and her mother brought up children in the kindergarten.

Since childhood, Olga has been very artistic. Mom noticed the daughter's abilities and took her to study in a theater studio. Then the family began to move often in connection with the new appointments of the father in the service. By the time of graduation, Yakovleva was with her parents in Alma-Ata.

In this city, the girl so muchthe leadership of the local Youth Theater, that she was invited to the troupe of the theater. However, Yakovleva wanted more, so she got courage and went to enter the theater high school in Moscow. As a result, Olga was admitted to the Shchukinsky Theater School, and in 1962 - to the troupe of the Theater. Lenin Komsomol, in which also played Alexander Abdulov, Lev Durov and Vladimir Kenigson.

The first work in the cinema

Olga Yakovleva first appeared on the screens in 1962. Just then, on New Year's Eve, the first "Blue Light" was shown on Soviet television. Olga was present among the guests of the celebration.

In 1968, the television theater staged a one-act opera by J. Puccini "Cloak". Yakovleva was assigned the role of the second plan, but in the credits her presence in the frame was not noted.

In 1969, the film "The Commandant of Lauterburg" with Leonid Kanevsky in the title role was shot. Olga appeared in the frame only for a few minutes.

In 1970 the actress played Marina Mnishek in the television performance of Anatoly Efros "Boris Godunov". Leonid Bronevoi and Nikolay Volkov, Jr. also took part in the shooting. And a year later Yakovlev received his first major role in the full-length film "For All in Answer."

Main roles

Director Georgy Natanson, who removed the melodrama"Valentine and Valentine" and the war movie "They were actors," in 1971 he was looking for a leading role in his new film "For All in Responses." The plot of the picture was built on the basis of the play "Traditional Collection" by Victor Rozov, which tells about the graduates of 1941 who left the school ball at once for the war. Olga Yakovleva seemed to Nathanson an ideal candidate for recreating the image of the journalist Agnia Shabina on the screen, and he approved the actress for this role.

Yakovleva repeatedly had to cooperate with the director Anatoly Efros, who entrusted her with the main roles in her television performances "Tanya", "Month in the Village", etc.

In the 90's. the actress categorically refused to shoot in the movies and mostly worked in the theater. But in 2004 she returned to the screen, having received the main role in the drama of Vladimir Mirzoyev's "Four Lovers". The company Olga in the frame was Evgeniya Simonova and Viktor Rakov.

In the year 2009 all the same Vladimir Mirzoev began to shoot the television performance "Previously", the plot of which is based on the play of the same name by playwright Alla Sokolova. Yakovleva's partner in the set was Maxim Sukhanov, the star of the film "Country of the Deaf."

The last appearance of the actress in the movies is dated2015 Together with Armen Jigarkhanyan and Tatiana Konyukhova she became the main character of the 8-episode drama "Stored by Destiny". For 2 years, Yakovlev does not participate in the filming, but he plays on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.

Olga Yakovleva: personal life

The actress, like many representatives of her generation,never was the heroine of a scandalous society chronicle. Olga Yakovleva got married only once. Her choice was football player Igor Netto. Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, the couple divorced. Nothing else is known about the artist's personal life.