Stella Ilnitskaya is a fairly well-known Russian "serial" actress who has a memorable appearance and presented the audience with wonderful characters in melodramatic and criminal television novels.
Biography
Stella was born into a family far from cinema and art in general - her mother ran a store, and her father worked in medicine. Their daughter was born on December 7, 1964, the family then lived in Chisinau. From an early age, the parents tried to give the girl a versatile education. The school that little Stella entered was not quite ordinary - they studied French in depth here.
It was at school that Stella realized that she wanted to be an actress and struggled to make her dream come true. Immediately after the prom, the girl submitted documents to the Chisinau Conservatory for the Faculty of Musical Comedy, and in 1991 she entered VGIK. Stella's arrival in the profession coincided with a deep crisis of cinema and the collapse of the country, therefore, the actress did not immediately become a famous person.
Career
Stella Ilnitskaya made her screen debut only in 1998 in the drama Who Else But Us, playing a serious and strict aerobics teacher. The picture was nominated for many awards and the actress became famous. This was followed by the role of a lady in the series "The Adventures of a Magician" in 2002 and several other melodramas. In 2008, Stella starred in the domestic crime series "Open, Police". By this time, Stella's daughter had already starred in films, becoming an equally popular actress in Russian cinema, sometimes working with her mother.
In 2011, Ilnitskaya was involved in the filming of the multi-part novel "Hello, Mom!", And the actress was waiting for a new wave of success. And in 2014, after working in the series "Pregnancy Test", Stella began to be recognized on the streets, calling her character Dina, a charming nurse, by the name of her. For this series, the actress mastered the skills of a paramedic and there was always a medical consultant next to her, helping the actress to play her role as realistically as possible.
To date, the actress works in the telenovela "Pregnancy Test 2", and there she plays the same nurse Dana. The series was released in 2018. In addition to her main job, Stella is constantly developing and expanding her horizons. In 2004 she received a diploma from the French School of Psychoanalysis, attends photography courses and is actively involved in sports.
Personal life
While still a student, Stella met the young artist Gheorghe Gryu, and it was with him, who later became her husband, that she left for Moscow to enter VGIK. At the time of enrollment, the actress was already pregnant. Ilnitskaya gave all her strength to her studies and her health, taking care of her unborn child, and her husband went “all bad”, drinking too often, cheating on his wife and rolling up scandals. And then he left his pregnant wife and went to Romania, where he soon died of excesses.
At 23, Stella gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Lyanka. The girl grew up and followed in the footsteps of her mother, being today one of the most sought-after actresses of the young acting generation of Russian cinema. The second husband of the star was Mikhail, a businessman who has his own daughter, Veronica.