Actress Inna Ulyanova is associated with the film "Pokrovskie Vorota" and its main character, Margarita Pavlovna Hobotova, by the majority of Soviet and Russian filmmakers. But this actress has other roles in theater and cinema, no less vivid and characteristic, albeit secondary.
On the screen, we are used to seeing Inna Ulyanova as a domineering and self-confident lady. In life, she was completely different - friendly, sociable, cordial and unusually kind. Her personal life and career were not cloudless, but she knew how to stay positive, she looked at all the problems with a smile. Why didn't this talented actress have a career? What was the reason that she never found family happiness, did not become a mother?
Biography of actress Inna Ulyanova
Inna Ivanovna was born in the small Ukrainian town of Horlivka at the end of June 1934. A few years after her birth, the family moved to Moscow, where her father got a job at the USSR Ministry of Coal Industry. The high post allowed Ivan Ulyanov to get an apartment in a house where mainly cultural figures lived. Inna actually grew up among actors, directors and other representatives of the film industry.
The girl literally dreamed of acting and, when another girl from their house was invited to shoot instead of her, she decided to become the best actress, to prove that she was worthy to decorate the screens of cinemas.
Even her parents did not believe in Inna's success in the acting field, but she managed to enter the legendary "Sliver" the first time, successfully graduated from a specialized university, and was invited to the Leningrad Comedy Theater. This dizzying success ended. Unfortunately, Inna Ulyanova's career did not develop, her dreams never came true.
A long way to the success of the actress Inna Ulyanova
The young actress Inna Ulyanova came to the Leningrad Comedy Theater in 1957. She was full of enthusiasm, she was sure that she would immediately get one of the main roles, but the directors thought differently. For six long years she played episodic roles or supporting roles, which did not suit her at all. In 1963 she decided to move to Moscow.
In her theatrical treasury was experience in several theaters - on Taganka, in the theater "Commonwealth of Taganka Actors", in the theater of Lanovoy Vasily, the entreprise of Kazakov and Artsibashev, Yatsko.
The most striking roles of Inna Ivanovna Ulyanova are the characters of the performances:
- "The good man from Cezuan",
- "And the dawns here are quiet"
- "Ten Days That Shook the World"
- "At the bottom",
- "Exchange" and others.
The audience adored the actress, theater critics noted her originality and bright talent, but the directors stubbornly offered her secondary roles. Inna Ivanovna decided that it was time to expand the field of activity and went to fulfill her childhood dream - to audition for the cinema.
Film career of actress Inna Ulyanova
And in the cinema, Inna Ulyanova did not immediately find recognition of her talent. Her first role was episodic - she starred in the extras of the film "Carnival Night". Only 17 years later, she managed to attract attention to herself as a movie actress. This was allowed to do only one phrase in her performance - "In love, I am Einstein", which she uttered in the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring". Then there were other vivid supporting roles that literally pulled out even mediocre films. Viewers remember such pictures with her participation as
- "The freak from the fifth" B ",
- "Slave of love"
- "Lasted, lasted, charm",
- "Caution, Cornflower!"
- Burnt by the Sun
- "Tartarin of Tarsacon" and others.
But the main movie role of Inna Ivanovna Ulyanova was the role of Margarita Khobotova in "Pokrovskie gates". The image was close to the viewer, bright, charismatic, the heroine's quotes scattered into catch phrases.
It was in this film that the actress literally blossomed, revealed herself, but even after his success at the box office, no offers to star in the main roles were received. Natural optimism did not let this unique actress lose heart.
When the crisis hit the film industry due to changes in the country, Inna Ivanovna was forced to appear in commercials. In addition, she accepted Grachevsky's invitations with great pleasure and became one of the leading artists of Yeralash.
Personal life of actress Inna Ulyanova
Inna Ivanovna had an extraordinary appearance, she could not be called a classic beauty, but she literally attracted men. At one time, such famous actors as Sergei Filippov and Evgeny Samoilov, Mikhail Derzhavin and her friend Alexander Shirvindt sought her favor, but she reciprocated few people, continuing to wait for that one "prince on a white horse".
There were many rumors about Inna Ulyanova's personal life, she was even accused of being connected with a married popular actor and director, which threatened a scandal, but the rumors were not confirmed.
Inna Ivanovna was married once - to Boris Goldaev, a theater partner. The marriage lasted only two years - from 1966 to 1968. The couple had no children, they divorced quietly, without scandals and mutual reproaches. Each of them at that moment was more interested in a career.
Then there was an affair with a French pilot. According to Inna Ivanovna herself, only this man was able to give her that sea of love that she dreamed of. But there was no documentary evidence or witnesses for this novel. Whether he was a fiction of the actress, no one knows for sure.
The last years of the life and death of actress Inna Ulyanova
Inna Ivanovna suddenly disappeared from the profession. For a long time nothing at all was known about her - where and how, with whom she lives, on what means she exists. Only a few close friends not associated with the world of cinema, and neighbors knew that the great actress spent the last years of her life in the fight against cancer.
Inna Ulyanova died on June 9, 2005 in an ambulance called for her by neighbors. The official version of her death is cirrhosis of the liver. "Dirty on hand" journalists tried to connect the disease with an addiction to alcohol, but the neighbors and girlfriends of the actress denied these speculations. Inna Ivanovna did not drink alcohol.
Actress Inna Ulyanova is buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow. A monument on her grave was erected by representatives of the world of cinema, collecting funds for it among colleagues.
