Nadezhda Konstantinovna Markina, a native of the Tambov village, has a very rich creative biography. Despite the lack of dynastic ties and a reliable start-up in the form of a family resource, she was able to rise to the top of the theatrical and cinematic Olympus solely due to her own talent and dedication.
The Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, who was awarded world popularity for shooting in the title film "Elena", is also known to a wide audience for the films: "In the Fog", "Wedding", Priest-san, "Gagarin. The first in space”,“Sofia”,“Nakhodka”,“Petersburg. Only for love". This talented woman is very religious and morally stable, and she explains the absence of family relations in her life by the fact that she devotes all her time to work that benefits people.
Brief biography and career of Nadezhda Konstantinovna Markina
In the distant Tambov outback (village Kamenka) on January 29, 1959, the future actress was born into a peasant family. Nadezhda Konstantinovna recalls her childhood as a kind of fairy tale, where children themselves came up with entertainment in the form of playing geologists, hiking in the forest on skis and scary stories about evil wolves at night. After the village was disbanded and the family moved to a larger village with an abundance of "rich houses", life "became boring."
Seventh in a row in a large family, Nadezhda devoted a lot of time at that time to household chores and religious events. And after graduating from high school, she entered the Tambov pedagogical school. Markina got on the acting path by accident, finding herself in a local theater studio, where she was invited by a friend. The atmosphere and the team, among which were the students of VGIK and GITIS, so amazed the girl's imagination that she instantly decided to try herself in this role.
However, Nadezhda became a student of GITIS only after an incomplete year of study at the circus school, which she entered, not quite realizing what was happening. And since 1983, when she graduated from a theater university, Markina's professional career has already begun.
The first stage of the actress was the stage of the Taganka Theater, where she made her debut in the play "Living Water", playing the role of Barbara. Since 1992, for six years, Nadezhda was a member of the troupe at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Here she appeared to theater-goers in productions: "King Lear", "Deeps", "Goblin" and "Idiot". Then the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, the Gogol Theater became the home of the actress. In 1998, she won the prestigious Golden Mask theater award for her role in the play Five Evenings.
Nadezhda Konstantinovna made her film debut back in the "eighties", having played in several episodic roles. Real fame came to her already at the end of the "nineties", when she talentedly performed the role of Christina in the title serial film "Petersburg secrets". And then the filmography began to expand very rapidly with many successful film works, among which the following should be especially highlighted: "Wedding" (2000), "Under the Polar Star" (2002), "Private Detective" (2005), "Dead, Alive, Dangerous" (2006), "Court" (2009), "Governess" (2009), "Elena" (2011), "In the Fog" (2012), "Gagarin. The first in space”(2013),“The Inquisitor”(2014),“Demons”(2014),“Priest-san”(2015),“Nakhodka”(2015),“Petersburg. Only for love "(2016)," Sofia "(2016).
The most recent projects of the actress include social dramas "Nobody" and "Line of Light", where she played the main roles.
Personal life of the actress
Despite the fact that Nadezhda Konstantinovna does not have a family, she does not complain about her fate, but respects her. Indeed, her life priorities have always included stability and a desire to do work that is understandable to people and benefits them.
The actress is very romantic and distinguishes early spring among the seasons, and early morning in the diurnal phases.
