The star of Svetlana Karpinskaya flashed brightly after the release of the film "Girl without an address". One fine day the whole country started talking about the young actress. However, the main creative work of Svetlana Alekseevna is associated with the theatrical world, where she managed to create amazingly powerful, vivid images.
From the biography of S. Karpinskaya
The future actress was born in Leningrad on September 16, 1937. Svetlana's parents were specialist historians. The girl had priests in her family. The brother of his father, who had the dignity of a priest, was repressed in 1937.
Alexey Karpinsky met Sveta's future mother when he was studying at the pedagogical institute. During the years of evacuation, my mother worked as a director in an ordinary school. Father fought with the Nazis on the outskirts of besieged Leningrad, was wounded, after which he remained slightly lame. Svetlana's childhood years were spent in a typical St. Petersburg communal apartment.
As a child, Sveta attended the dramatic art circle at the Palace of Culture named after. From Kirov. During the next concert, the teacher Lev Shostak drew attention to the talented girl. It was he who saw her talent. The master's assessment inspired Karpinskaya. At the age of 16, she performed a role in the play "Factory Girl" with considerable success.
In 1954, Svetlana received a certificate, and then entered Leningrad State University, choosing a philological specialty. Soon Karpinskaya made her debut in cinema: she played in the funny musical film "Poddubenskie ditties", which tells about the youth of the Land of Soviets.
Further career as an actress
The event that determined the fate of Svetlana Alekseevna took place in 1957: she was invited to play a key role in E. Ryazanov's film "Girl without an Address". She played with Nikolai Rybnikov. The result is a colorful and memorable film story about the adventures of a guy and his casual fellow traveler. The film premiered in early March 1958. The film was immediately appreciated by the audience, who parsed it into quotes. But the director himself called the film the weakest of his works.
Subsequently, Ryazanov decided to invite Karpinskaya for a role in the masterpiece Beware of the Car. Alas, by age she did not fit I. Smoktunovsky's partner. Therefore, the director assigned the central role to Olga Aroseva.
After a serious success in cinema, Karpinskaya, without further ado, was immediately enrolled in the 2nd year of the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema, located in Leningrad. The young actress was trained in the class of Boris Zon, an experienced teacher.
And in 1961 Svetlana played together with O. Efremov in the film "Business Trip". The relationship between the partners did not want to develop in any way. Later, Karpinskaya admitted that for some reason she did not like Efremov right away.
Another creative success in Karpinskaya's career can be considered the 1975 film project "For the rest of my life." The film story is a story about the selfless and hard work of military doctors. Svetlana Alekseevna created the image of the operating nurse of an ambulance train.
Very often, Karpinskaya also appeared on Leningrad TV, performing diverse roles in television shows. Among them: "Dead Souls", "Donkey Skin", "This Sweet Old House". But Svetlana Alekseevna did not receive central roles in the cinema.
But her career in the theater was very successful. For more than half a century, the actress spent on the stage of the Comedy Theater. Akimova.
Personal life of S. Karpinskaya
The first marriage of Svetlana Alekseevna lasted only five years. He was destroyed by envy on the part of her husband, Dmitry, for the success of his wife.
During the filming of the film "Shadow" Karpinskaya meets Gennady Voropaev. He becomes her second husband, and she becomes his fourth wife. However, they did not formalize the relationship. Svetlana loved Voropaev, although she knew that Gennady was cheating on her. The breakup took place when Svetlana was expecting a child. When the little girl Katyusha was born, her father did not even bother to come and look at her. Resentment and pain killed Karpinskaya's feelings for her husband completely.
In the last period of her life, Svetlana Alekseevna was very ill, she spent a lot of time in a hospital bed. But she stopped appearing on the stage of the theater only a few months before her death. Karpinskaya died on February 18, 2017.
