Natalya Tenyakova - People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Her biography and details of her personal life are well remembered thanks to such films as "Love and Doves", "The Investigation is Conducted by ZnatoKi", "The Widow Steamer" and others.
Biography
Natalia Tenyakova was born in 1944 in Leningrad. Parents wanted their daughter to become a teacher, but she gravitated towards the theater and after school entered the Leningrad Theater Institute. For a long time, the mother and father did not know about the choice of their daughter and thought that she was studying at the pedagogical institute. Only closer to graduation did the unexpected truth emerge. But Natalia had already decided everything for herself and, having received an education, got a job at the Theater. Lenin Komsomol.
Since 1967, Natalya Tenyakova has already been an artist of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in the Northern capital, to which she gave 12 years of her life. She also worked with many other creative troupes, being remembered for her roles in productions based on the classical works of Chekhov and Ostrovsky. Subsequently, Tenyakova even became a laureate of the Stanislavsky Prize. In 1966, the actress made her film debut. It was the Big Sister melodrama, which was warmly received by the audience.
Enormous success and popularity fell on Natalya Tenyakova after she played Baba Shura in Vladimir Menshov's cult comedy Love and Doves. To make an old woman out of a 40-year-old actress, she had to put on makeup. In addition, Natalya trained for a long time in the village dialect. All this made a tremendous impression on the audience, who stole the speech of the actress and her filming partners for quotes.
Even after a memorable role in a comedy, Natalya Maksimovna did not become a successful film actress. If she appeared on the screens, it was only in television performances, the roles in which, nevertheless, she played one hundred percent. Viewers can remember her from such works as "The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and others. One of the last notable appearances was the shooting in the multi-part film "The Investigation is Conducted by Experts."
Personal life
Natalya Tenyakova first married the famous theater director Lev Dodin. Little is known about this marriage, but on the whole it was quite successful. And yet, during the next filming, a romance broke out between Tenyakova and the legendary actor Sergei Yursky. Natalia chose to divorce her husband and create a new family. The lovers got married in 1970.
In her second marriage, Natalya Tenyakova gave birth to a daughter, Daria, and by now she is already raising the grandchildren of Georgy and Alisher. Despite her precarious health, the actress continues to play in theatrical productions, and sometimes appears on television as a guest on various shows. In 2017, she took part in a creative evening in honor of the 90th anniversary of the birth of actor Oleg Efremov.
