Elena Kotelnikova is a Russian film, television and theater actress. She played in the series "Closed School", "Reflection", "Hotel Eleon". She starred in the films "The Matrona Effect", "Sasha the Good, Sasha the Bad", TV presenter of programs on the TMC, TVC, "Doverie" and "Kultura" channels.
Elena Valerievna prefers not to tell anything about her personal life. It is not even known whether she has a family or a child. The performer is sure that both the press and fans should only be provided with information about her work.
Searching for a vocation
The biography of the future actress began in 1977. The girl was born on February 25 in a metropolitan working-class family. Since childhood, the child has shown aptitude for music. Lena studied guitar and piano at a music school, took vocal lessons.
It turned out that the girl has a very good mezzo-soprano. Dancing became another hobby. Elena studied ballroom, jazz, and modern and jazz dances with equal interest. However, Elena did not have any desire to connect her life with artistic creativity. And parents were not connected with the world of art in any way.
After school, the graduate decided to get an education at GITIS. She realized that she dreams of playing on stage. Elena became a student of the acting department. During the exams, it turned out that the applicant had a real talent for instant transformation into any image.
The girl studied in the workshop of Chomsky. After completing her studies in 1998, the aspiring lyceum played at the Satire Theater. She took part in the productions of The Youth of Louis in the role of Henrietta, and played Maria in The Barrel of Honey. Her performances included The Threepenny Opera and Farewell, Entertainer.
From 1998 to 2006, the girl worked as a model. The commercials became the film debut. Kotelnikova starred in advertisements for MTS, Beseda tea, appeared in commercials for Makfa, Nescafe, Nivea, starred for Hundred Recipes for Beauty and Russian Post.
Confession
She gained popularity after working with Roman Kachanov Jr. in 2001. The director invited the young actress to play one of the leading roles in his film Down House. The painting based on Dostoevsky's famous work "The Idiot" was a film noir style.
The picture gained immense popularity among film enthusiasts. The film shows the society of the times of the second half of the nineties. The comedy also pokes fun at prejudice. In the author's version, Kotelnikova reincarnated as Aglaya Epanchina. After the successful premiere, the artist increasingly took part in filming. The classic type of a Russian woman provided her with the role of heroines from the provinces.
She was regularly invited to TV shows and films. However, the roles were offered secondary and episodic. One of the main characters Elena became in the telenovela "Reflection" in 2011. The girl's character is Valentina Ustinova, a prisoner who previously worked as a plastic surgeon. The detective's action takes place in a women's prison.
Kotelnikova preferred working on television over cinema. She starred in a small number of films. She appeared much more often in TV series. So, in the "March of the Turkish" she reincarnated as the partner of the main character, in 2006 she played in the popular multi-part project "The Bodyguard". Kotelnikova took an active part in the work on the series "Happy Together". She got the role of the friend of the main character.
In the rating series "Daddy's Daughters", shown on television from 2007 to 2011, Elena played a classmate of one of the main characters of the project, Lena Golovneva. Since 2008, the actress has participated in the filming of "My Favorite Witch", "Capercaillie", "Wild-2". Her characters have always been remembered by the audience.
Television and cinema
On television, Kotelnikova hosts the programs "City Palette" and "Encyclopedia of Leisure" on the Doverie channel.
In 2011 on the national television it was decided to create a remake of the famous Spanish project "Black Lagoon". Its final result was shown on STS. In the mystical-detective television project "Closed School" Kotelnikova played the role of the wife of Sergei Krylov, Zinaida Vasilievna, the mother of Elena and Yegor. The secondary character turned out to be realistic and vivid.
Kotelnikova returned to the project "Daddy's Daughters" again in 2013. This time one of Dasha's clients, Svetlana, became her character. At the same time, she participated in the work on the TV series "Shopping Center" in one of the episodes of a small project. The telenovela tells about passions boiling outside the walls of a shopping center, hidden secrets and relationships of several families.
Elena will work at the present time on the MTTs channel. She hosts the programs "Central Person" and "News". Kotelnikova presents News of Culture on the Kultura TV channel.
Introductions appear in the press that the artist is in business. According to some journalists, Kotelnikova opened a nail studio and completely switched to entrepreneurial activity. However, these are just rumors. Elena continues to appear in serials and on television.
In 2016, she participated in several multi-part projects. She played class teacher Elena Petrovna in Stepmother, participated in the work on the second season of Hotel Eleon in the image of Alla Yurievna, starred in the multi-part film The One Who Reads Minds (The Mentalist). Also visited the image of the wife of the oligarch Elena Rozhdestvenskaya in the "Nurse".
The celebrity is also in no hurry to talk about his hobbies in his free time. It is known that she knows English and French, collaborates with the acting agency "Firebird".
