From a young age, Nina Agapova was distinguished by her singing talent and even performed in the choir. However, she never became a professional singer - the girl was more attracted to her theatrical career. Agapova also had a chance to act in films. During her long creative life, Nina Fedorovna has created many images that will be remembered by the Russian audience.
From the biography of Nina Fedorovna Agapova
The future actress was born in the capital of the USSR on May 30, 1926. Nina's parents moved to Moscow from a village near Kolomna in search of a better life. My father worked as a shop assistant, my mother worked in the weaving industry. In 1945, his father died of tuberculosis.
Since childhood, Nina was distinguished by excellent vocal abilities. At the age of fifteen, she became a member of the Yarkov Russian folk choir. She traveled all over the country with a musical group. She performed on the Karelian front, in the Crimea, in the Far East.
The war is over. Many members of the choir at that time took part in extras at Mosfilm. Once an assistant director recommended Nina to enter a theater university. After some deliberation, Agapova submitted documents to VGIK, to the acting and directing department.
Nina Fedorovna had a chance to study acting in the workshop of M. Roma and S. Yutkevich. The main emphasis in preparation was placed on directing. Actors from the course were gradually weeded out. And yet Agapova managed to bring her studies to the end. She graduated from the university in 1951 and plunged into creativity.
Nina Agapova's career in theater and cinema
After graduating from VGIK, Nina entered the Film Actor's Studio Theater. And she served in this team until 1990. Here are just a few of the actress's works: a gypsy in Ostrovsky's Dowry, the first lady in Dostoevsky's play Uncle's Dream, a girl in Poverty is Not a Vice, Liza in At the Dangerous Line, Julie in The Shadow Schwartz.
In 1950, Agapova began acting in films. Her first film was the film "Donetsk Miners". It just so happened that from a young age to old age, Nina Fedorovna played mostly either "ladies with charm" or foreign women. However, she never got the main roles in cinema. And yet the audience remembered and fell in love with the talented actress.
During her work in the cinema, Agapova played more than a hundred diverse roles. The audience will remember her from the films "Good Morning", "Unyielding", "Old Robbers", "Give a Book of Complaints", "The Invisible Man", "Forgotten Melody for the Flute", "The Secret of" Blackbirds "," Shield and Sword "," To the Black Sea ".
After perestroika, Agapova began to appear in films much less often. She preferred theater to work in cinema. At the age of 80, Agapova began performing on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. She also played on the stage of the Yablochkina Central House of Actor.
Personal life of the actress
Nina Fedorovna was happily married to the operator Sergei Sergeevich Poluyanov, who passed away in 1983. They had a chance to work together in the film "Twelve Chairs". The couple had a son, Alexander. He learned to be an operator, but later went into business. Alexander died untimely in the mid-90s.
