People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981) Lilia Mikhailovna Tolmacheva is a legendary Russian actress who made a huge contribution to the development of Soviet and Russian theatrical art. And her achievements in this area for more than half a century have been repeatedly noted with prestigious prizes and state awards.
The brilliant theater and film actress - Lilia Mikhailovna Tolmacheva - in her creative career made a clear emphasis on the theatrical stage. For many decades, her creative home was the legendary Sovremennik, whose team has always greatly appreciated and respected the actress for her abilities, willpower and character.
Biography and career of Lilia Mikhailovna Tolmacheva
On June 6, 1932, in the village of Rudnevo (now the Volgograd Region), the future legendary actress of Russian theater and cinema was born into a teaching family. It is interesting that Lilia's contemporary, Oleg Tabakov, studied with her mother during his school years. And from the age of five, the girl ended up in an orphanage, about which she later spoke very warmly. After all, it was there that the future actress showed her first creative talents, actively participating in amateur performances.
After receiving a certificate of secondary education, Lilia Tolmacheva (creative pseudonym Lilia) entered the Moscow Art Theater School (workshop of Blinnikov and Stanitsyn). In 1950, she began her professional career with a diploma of graduation from the service in the Saratov Youth Theater. Here her portfolio is filled with her debut theatrical projects "What is to be done?" and Romeo and Juliet.
After a two-year period of work in the Youth Theater, Tolmacheva returned to the capital, where until 1956 she appeared on the stage of the Mossovet Theater. During this period, her repertoire consisted of the performances "Masquerade", "Theft", "In a quiet side street" and "Karin Lefebvre".
And then followed a very long (more than half a century) and fruitful period of work at Sovremennik, where Lilia Mikhailovna made her debut with the play Forever Alive. It is interesting that the community of like-minded people, who became her real family, repeatedly stopped the actress's impulses to leave the stage. She plunged so deeply into the theatrical activities of her native institution that later she often repeated about his leading role in her life in general.
The cinematic debut of the People's Artist of the RSFSR took place in 1958 with the role of Nina in the film Life Passed By. Her filmography is indicative of the fact that the actress made the main emphasis in her professional career on the theatrical stage. However, her roles in the film projects "An Ordinary Story" and "Steep Route" fell in love with the multimillion army of her fans.
And the period 1977-1980. became for Tolmacheva also a time of realizing her creative abilities in the directing field, when she was able to stage three projects at Sovremennik and the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky.
Personal life of the actress
The first and short marriage of Lilia Tolmacheva in her student years was the conjugal union with Oleg Efremov, which broke up in 1956. Despite the negative experience of living together, the former spouses were able to maintain friendly relations for the rest of their lives.
For the second time and already for thirty years he became the husband of the famous actress Viktor Fogelson (head of the poetry department of the publishing house "Soviet Writer").
And on August 25, 2013, after a long illness at the age of eighty-one, the legendary Russian actress died.
