Soviet actress Irina Bunina is best known to viewers for the epoch-making TV series "Eternal Call" (1973-1983), where she skillfully played the beautiful and vicious Lushka Kashkarova. She is also remembered by the regulars of the Moscow Vakhtangov Theater and the Kiev Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka.
This “frantic woman” in life was emotional, bright and fearlessly amorous, so such roles she turned out to be especially expressive. In addition to this series, which has become a favorite for all viewers of the Soviet Union, there are many wonderful films in Irina's filmography. The best of them are the paintings "Believe me, people" (1964) and "Every evening at eleven" (1969).
Biography
Irina Alekseevna Bunina was born in 1939 in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region. Her family was theatrical: both mom and dad were actors. Therefore, they experienced the war years especially hard - it was cold, hungry. However, at that time, people were especially drawn to art, because there was hope for them for a better time.
Irina's parents worked hard, and she spent all the time behind the scenes and in the dressing rooms. And I went on tour with them, because there was no one to leave her with. Since childhood, she has absorbed this theatrical spirit, which means that as a little girl she dreamed of becoming an actress.
Her parents were quite ambitious people and all the time talked about how they would like to work in Moscow, and most of all they were attracted by the Moscow Art Theater. Irina also decided to go to the capital after school to get a professional acting education. She managed to enter the Shchukin school the first time. The course leader was a real celebrity - Vladimir Etush, and Irina's joy knew no bounds. And then the dream of her parents came true: they moved to Moscow and entered the service at the Moscow Art Theater.
Career as an actress
Bunina graduated from the theater school in 1961, was immediately assigned to the Vakhtangov theater. Here she successfully worked for five years, but her personal drama forced her to leave the theater "to nowhere." Friends and colleagues tried to help her, but they were unsuccessful. By that time, Irina's parents were already living in Kiev, and she went to them.
Here she was eagerly accepted into the Lesya Ukrainka Theater, and for many years she appeared on the stage, performing roles in a variety of performances. She was especially good at portraying the heroines of classical plays.
Both theaters, in which Irina Alekseevna worked, keep the memory of her in their history.
A career in cinema for Bunina was also quite successful: she managed to combine work in the theater and on the set. While still a student, she starred in the films "Father's House" (1959) and "I Love You, Life!" (1960).
And in Kiev, Irina collaborated with the film studio. Alexandra Dovzhenko also starred in her most famous films there.
Personal life
Irina Bunina had true love in her life, which ended in a real drama: at the Vakhtangov Theater, she met Nikolai Gritsenko, who because of her left the family. However, he drank heavily, and this complicated the relationship. And when Irina left him, he did everything so that there was no work for her in Moscow theaters.
In Kiev, she met Les Serdyuk, with whom she recklessly fell in love. They had a daughter, Nastya, but Irina and Les did not become husband and wife, because the feelings somehow quickly faded away.
She raised Nastya alone, and later worked with her granddaughter.
Irina Alekseevna Bunina passed away in 2017.
