Many of those whose childhood can be called Soviet know and remember Yana Poplavskaya as the performer of the role of Little Red Riding Hood. Meanwhile, the already mature actress has dozens of film roles, television work and more than 15 years of charitable work behind her shoulders.
Soviet Little Red Riding Hood was born on June 28, 1967 in Moscow. Yana's mom, Evgenia Yurievna, theater actress. Father, Evgeny Vasilievich, journalist. According to Yana Poplavskaya herself, her mother was strict and demanding of the girl. However, the actress believes that this is what shaped her character and allowed her to achieve her goals in the future. Outside the house, Yana, a nimble girl who loved to misbehave, found a common language with the boys more. Mannered girls did not always accept the girl for who she is.
Raised in a creative family, Yana could not be away from the stage. The actress made her film debut at the age of 4. However, the scene with Yana was cut from the film, which caused great disappointment in the child. At the age of 6, the actress first appeared on the theatrical stage, playing a small episode in the play "Crossroads". And five years later, the girl was invited to the role of Little Red Riding Hood, which brought Yana the love of the whole country. During her school years, which took place within the walls of a prestigious English special school, Yana starred in several more films. And after graduating from school, she chose the Shchukin Theater School for further education.
Getting higher education turned out to be not the easiest test in the life of an actress. From the very beginning, her relationship with the head of the school, Vladimir Etush, did not work out. In addition, as a second-year student, Yana became a mother, which, of course, could not but affect her studies. In her final year, the actress was expelled due to absenteeism. Despite the existence of a good reason, Yana was busy filming "Prisoner of the Castle of If", and the absence in only three days, Yana Poplavskaya managed to recover with a lot of effort. However, she soon successfully defended her diploma.
During her acting career, Yana Poplavskaya played on the stages of the Sovremennik 2 Theater and Vasily Livanov's Detective Theater, starred in more than 20 films, including The Secret of Queen Anne, or The Musketeers Thirty Years Later, The Snow Queen, Gloss "," Dark Waters ". Yana also works on radio and television, teaches at Moscow State University and the Ostankino Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting.
The actress is actively involved in charitable activities and is the founder of the Fund to help those in difficult life situations. Yana Poplavskaya.
Yana Poplavskaya married actor Sergei Ginzburg at the age of seventeen. It was a marriage of great love, in which two sons, Klim and Nikita, were born. After 25 years of marriage, the couple parted, not seeing the opportunity to stay together. Now the actress is in a relationship with radio host Yevgeny Yakovlev. The couple plans to legalize the relationship.
