Irina Evgenievna Osnovina is one of the few Russian supporting actresses who is able to fill the film with meaning and vivid feelings. She has few main roles, but without her, many series would become empty, devoid of color.
Almost 100 works in cinema, experience of serving on the stage of 5 theaters of various levels - this is the work of the actress Irina Evgenievna Osnovina. She is colorful, characteristic, unusually talented, capable of transforming into any heroine - from a market "woman" to a sweet, warm aunt from a neighboring apartment, and this is not all of her talents and advantages over her colleagues in the shop.
Biography of the actress
Irina Evgenievna was born in the Russian outback, in the city of Saratov, in mid-February 1965. She dreamed about the profession of an actress from early childhood, and her parents took the baby to the Saratov Children's Theater Studio. Osnovina did not give up her dream and grew older. Immediately after graduating from secondary school, the girl went to Minsk, where she entered the course of Sidorov Yu. V and Butakov A. And the theater institute. Why the choice fell on this specialized university and this city is unknown.
In 1984, Irina graduated from the Minsk Theater Institute, and was assigned to the troupe of the Tomsk Drama Theater. In parallel with her work on stage, she was also engaged in teaching - she taught the acting skills of children in the studio at the theater.
The career of the actress Osnovina cannot be called a rapidly developing one, but Irina Evgenievna has “her own” audience after her first appearance on the stage. It was simply impossible not to notice her, her talent. The critics also appreciated the game, they predicted a bright professional future for her, but the directors persistently offered her only supporting roles. Irina Evgenievna did not refuse, moreover, she played with pleasure.
Filmography
In the film-box of Irina Osnovina there are almost 100 roles in films and TV series. Her heroines are remembered, loved and even quoted. The debut of the actress in the cinema took place 4 years after receiving her diploma. In 1988, she played the role of a secretary in the film "Dangerous Man" directed by Igor Shadkhan. Then in the work in the cinema there were active periods and periods of inactivity, but the audience always watched films with her participation with pleasure and noted her acting talent.
The brightest works of Irina Osnovina in the cinema:
- "Operation Happy New Year!" (ensign Rachkov),
- Sancho Ranch (Mercedes)
- "Peculiarities of national hunting in winter" (Olga),
- "Russian horror stories" (neighbor),
- "Idiot" (housekeeper),
- "Brezhnev" (Lyudmila Zykina),
- "Traffic cops" (Lucy) and others.
Irina herself considers her star role to be the image of the head nurse Faina Igorevna Usova in the Sklifosovsky TV series. She started working on the project from its 6th season, and the producers decided that the series would not do without this colorful and vivid supporting character. The next season is being prepared for release, where the heroine of Irina Evgenievna will appear in the frame even more often. This time, she is given an even more significant place in the script.
Works by Osnovina in the theater
Irina Evgenievna worked in 5 theaters - the Tomsk Drama Theater, the Lensovet Theater, the Vologda Drama Theater, the Youth Theater on Fontanka, and the Baltic House. She played many supporting roles in such performances as:
- "Tram Desire"
- "The Dragon",
- "Hell's Garden"
- "Jacques and His Master"
- "If I live the summer"
- "Baby" and many others.
Many experts and critics agree - the secret of Irina Evgenievna's haste lies in the fact that she does not look like an actress. Her figure is far from perfect, she does not resort to the help of plastic surgeons, she almost does not use cosmetics, if the operator does not require it, she accepts her age. And she does not play her roles, but literally lives, deeply immersed in the image, beginning to think and feel like a heroine. This is how real, talented actors and actresses work, no matter where the action takes place - on a movie set or on a theater stage.
In recent years, directors' interest in actress Irina Osnovina has increased. Now she has to literally be torn between St. Petersburg, where she lives and works in the theater, and Moscow, where the bulk of the filming takes place. But Irina Evgenievna is not going to reduce her professional activity. She often jokes that she literally lives in Sapsan.
Personal life of the actress
Irina Evgenievna rarely gives interviews and even less often talks about her personal life. And this does not mean that she is not interesting to journalists and fans of her talent. Osnovina simply does not want to let outsiders into her personal space, even those who love her and her work.
After filming in the 6th season of the Sklifosovsky TV series, the actress, as they say, allowed herself to speak frankly about what was happening in her inner circle. She told reporters that during her work she lost her beloved husband Sergei, and only shooting, the support of colleagues helped her to cope with her grief.
Irina Evgenievna's husband fought against cancer for a long time, and lost this "war". Osnovina supported her husband as best she could, but her efforts were not enough to overcome the disease. Despite the loss of a loved one, Irina Evgenievna did not take a long break from work. The woman said that it was unbearable for her to be in the "four walls", she returned to work. Colleagues on the Sklifosovsky TV series supported Osnovina, and it helped her a lot.
