A native of the city on the Neva and a native of a director and actor family - Honored Artist of Russia Elena Vsevolodovna Safonova - today continues to participate in the life of Russian cinema. This talented actress is fluent in French and has a special sense of style, which helps her to be a true embodiment of femininity.
The popular Soviet and Russian theater and film actress - Elena Safonova - is better known to the mass audience for her film works in the title film "Winter Cherry", which today has already four parts, the last of which is dated 2017. The Honored Artist of the Russian Federation is considered the most private actress of modern Russian cinema, because she practically avoids giving interviews and rarely appears at public events, inciting a special interest in her person among millions of fans.
Biography and career of Elena Vsevolodovna Safonova
On June 14, 1956, the future film star was born in Leningrad. A family that is most directly related to theater and cinema (mother is the director of "Mosfilm", and her father participated in the creation of films of the Soviet era: "The Case of the Motley", "Soldiers", "Belorussky Station"), gave Lena the opportunity to get acquainted with the "kitchen" domestic cinema. After all, from an early age she took part in film expeditions, helped sound technicians and lighting engineers.
However, even such a great startup did not guarantee her impeccable career life. So, Elena entered VGIK only from the third time, and even then she was expelled from the university after the second year due to her connection with a dissident who emigrated to the United States. After that, Safonova returns to the city on the Neva and undergoes training at LGITMiK, which she graduates in 1981, when she enters the service at the Komissarzhevskaya Theater.
Elena Safonova appears on the stage only for one year. By this time, she had already taken place as a film actress and subsequently made an emphasis in her creative career in this direction. Currently, her filmography has many film works, among which I especially want to highlight the following projects: "The Return of the Butterfly" (1982), "Winter Cherry" (1985), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" (1986), "Black Eyes" (1987), "Catala" (1989), "Accompanist" (1992), "Mademoiselle O." (1994), "Music for December" (1995), "The President and His Woman" (1996), "The Princess on the Beans" (1997), "Women's Property" (1998), "The Empire Under Attack" (2000), " Next 2 "(2003)," A man in the house "(2009)," Where the Motherland begins "(2014).
The last film projects of the actress include films: "Once Upon a Time We Lived", "Broken Hearts", "Woman with Lilies", "Portrait of a Beloved", "Winter Cherry 4".
Personal life of the artist
The first marriage of Elena Safonova with the movie actor Vitaly Yushkov lasted six years.
She got married for the second time in 1980. But not for long, but in this marriage a son, Ivan, was born, who today works at Mosfilm.
In 1992, Elena becomes the wife of Samuel Labarte, a French actor, who takes her to France for permanent residence. Due to the fact that her husband demands from a successful actress in a foreign land to give up work and stay at home as a housewife, Safonova leaves him and returns to her homeland. In this marriage, a son, Alexander, was born, who, in court, at the suit of Samuel, was forbidden to travel to Russia until the age of majority.
