Theater and film actress Marina Ignatova is known for her role as Natella in Secrets of the Investigation and for her work in The House That Swift Built. Most of all, she plays on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. G. A. Tovstonogov. Laureate of the Highest Theater Prize of St. Petersburg "Golden Soffit" in the nomination "Best Female Role" for her performance as Phaedra in the play based on the work of J. Racine.
Marina Oktyabryevna was born in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) on March 19 in 1956 in a family of doctors. Since childhood, she loved evenings at school, was fond of reading poetry by Tsvetaeva, Blok. But at the same time, the girl was not engaged in amateur performances. She liked sports most of all. Marina chose fencing.
Path to art
The girl was going to enter the medical school. Before the exams, classes were held with a tutor. It was not easy for the teacher. During classes, the student was more willing to read poetry, and not solve problems. As a result, the tutor himself put forward a proposal to go not to honey, but to the theater.
Marina agreed. She went to the capital. To the Studio School. Moscow Art Theater failed to enter, so Ignatova returned home. There she became a student at the theater school in 1974 with Valery Semenovich Sokoloverov.
Then the applicant again went to Moscow. She managed to enter GITIS from 1979 to 1981. Marina studied at Andrei Goncharov at the Mayakovsky Theater. The girl was fond of the work of Tatyana Doronina. She attended all the performances with the participation of the idol, imitated her. Then there were the hobbies of Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Inna Churikova, Zinaida Slavina, Alisa Freindlich, Olga Yakovleva and others.
After graduation, Ignatova worked until 1998 in the capital "Lenkom". In 1998 she moved to the Tovstonogov Drama Bolshoi Theater. While still a student, Ignatova began to play with Goncharov. He took Marina to him after watching an excerpt from Faryatyev's Fantasies, where the sophomore played Lyuba.
The girl got a role in the play by Radzinsky "She is in the absence of love and death." Then the aspiring actress visited Lydia Varavka in a play about Klim Samgin. The premiere took place only by the fourth year, as Goncharov preferred long rehearsals.
Lenkom and BDT
Together with Irina Serova, Ignatova came to Lenkom. Marina only played up to Ira. However, it was Ignatova who took it. She was offered to become Mrs. Page for "The Wicked Wives of Windsor" in Vasiliev's version. It took a very long time to wait for the role. Often the performances did not come out.
However, the rehearsals were surprisingly exciting. Marina married the musician Alexander Belyaev. His first group was the St. Petersburg TV. Having worked in the team since its inception, Belyaev moved to Nautilus Pompilius.
The musician did not want to live in the capital. With him, the actress went to St. Petersburg. She was sure that now her artistic career was over. The performer did not like the competition in Lenkom: several actresses each applied for one role.
At first I had to live in two cities. Marina played in the capital, and came to St. Petersburg twice a week. Then it was time to choose. Since she met Andrei Tolubeev on the set of Labyrinth of Love, she decided to call him. As a result, Kirill Lavrov arrived at the show of "The Seagull" with her participation.
He offered Marina a job at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. Ignatova immediately entered the theatrical environment of St. Petersburg. In the capital, she worked both at the Mayakovsky Theater and at Lenkom, strikingly different from the BDT in their aesthetics and way of existence. But there was no need to rebuild in a new way.
The actress plays in various productions, each time finding herself in her place. She visited Gurmyzhskaya from "Les", became Phaedra in the play of the same name, Madame de Sotanville from "Georges Danden". Ignatova reincarnated as Baroness Shtral for Masquerade, played Elizabeth in Mary Stuart, Renata in The Ideal Thief.
In the Alexandria Theater Marina became Protasova in The Living Corpse, Arkadina from The Seagull. She was Lisa in "Small Marital Crimes" for "Russian Entreprise", the actress played Gertrude in "Hamlet". The directors of Ignatova are in demand for diverse. The most accurate coincidences were the work with Chkheidze and Dityatkovsky.
It is not enough to look at all their works once. I want to revise the performances again and again, discovering new plans. All works demonstrate artistic taste, intelligence, complete absence of falsehood.
Cinema and personal life
In the movie "The House That Swift Built" Ignatova starred during her fourth year of study. She does not regret anything, believes that fate itself decides which roles to offer. Even the Marne Theater calls it a hobby, not the raison d'être. In all the series, the actress is critical.
Work in them is rarely of interest. The image of Natella in "Secrets of the Investigation" belongs to such exceptions. Marina always tries to get used to the image, to supplement it with special features. Filming takes a lot of time, most of which is spent looking for solutions. Fans are sure that the actress has a magnetic charm, which is why it is always interesting to watch her.
Ignatova does not consider herself to be a fan of the profession. She loves nature, she loves fishing very much. At the same time, Marina releases all caught fish. She likes quality cinema. She considers the recognized classics of world cinema to be her favorite directors. The favorite writer was and remains Leo Tolstoy.
True, Ignatova at times reads only one author or the only direction of literature. She was awarded the International Stanislavsky Prize for artistic excellence and a commemorative medal for the one and a half century anniversary of Chekhov for her personal contribution to the development of dramatic art.
