The life and work of Tatyana Protsenko

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Tatyana Protsenko is a famous Soviet and Russian actress, known to the audience for her role as Malvina in the movie "The Adventures of Pinocchio". The role of a girl with blue hair was the only one for Tatyana, but despite the fact that the film was shot forty-three years ago, the actress is still famous throughout the entire former Soviet Union.

Biography

Tatiana Protsenko was born on April 8, 1968 in Moscow. Tanya was the only child in a fairly we althy family by those standards. Her mother was a dispatcher at Vnukovo Airport, and her father, a creative person, graduated from the screenwriting department and headed the documentary film department of the Goskino of the Soviet Union. Since childhood, Tatyana was very artistic, she loved to perform and read poetry. However, she did not dream that someday she would act in films and become famous throughout the country.

How the actress got into cinema

Tatyana Protsenko's acting career began absolutely by accident, the girl never dreamed of acting in a movie, much less hadrelevant education. According to Tatyana herself, once she and her mother were traveling on a train, and a strange fellow traveler looked at the girl for a long time. Then she took Tanya's mother aside and suggested that her daughter star in Leonid Nechaev's new film The Adventures of Pinocchio, playing Malvina. As it turned out later, it was the director's assistant. Many, listening to this story, reproached Tatiana for lying. Like, the story with the train is a fiction, and in the movie Tatyana was arranged by an influential dad. However, the actress Tatyana Protsenko herself stubbornly denied this, saying that dad was generally against her role in the film at first. He, who worked in the field of cinematography, saw how hard and exhausting acting work was, and he would never have voluntarily wished this on his little daughter. However, Tanechka was very fond of the fairy tale about Pinocchio and, of course, Malvina herself. She begged her parents for a long time to let her act in the film, and in the end they were forced to agree.

Role in the film "The Adventures of Pinocchio"

In the fabulous film "The Adventures of Pinocchio" Protsenko received one of the main roles - Malvina. The plot of the film exactly repeats the fairy tale by A. K. Tolstoy "The Golden Key". Malvina became one of the brightest characters in the picture. She was the most beautiful doll in the collection of Karabas Barabas, who forced the heroine to perform in his own theater. However, the heroine was able to escape from him, Pinocchio helped her in this. Thanks to her blue hair, kind sympathetic smile, young Tatyana was remembered by all viewers and caused them a hugesympathy.

Participation of Tatyana Protsenko in the shooting of the film

Director Leonid Nechaev brought together children from all over the USSR to shoot his film. It was a real talent - to see in a completely random person, and even more so a child, a real actor. It was important for Nechaev that the kids behaved naturally in the frame, so he paid great attention to joint rest. That is why the one and a half hour film was shot for almost a year. According to the actress, during the filming they became close friends with other actors, so their game was so natural. For playing the role of Malvina, Tatyana Protsenko received about ten thousand rubles, which at that time was just a fabulous amount. After the release of the film on the screen, Tatyana began to receive a huge number of letters: these are expressions of admiration, and offers of friendship, and declarations of love. The girl began to be recognized on the streets, many directors wanted to see her in their films, but, unfortunately, this was not destined to come true.

The end of acting career

Young Tanya was about to start acting in the new film "Little Red Riding Hood", the script of which was written just for her. Filming almost began, but an unexpected incident happened: the actress fell off her bike and was seriously injured. Filming had to be abandoned, and another actress got this role. Later, Tatyana Protsenko was invited to play a role in the film Scarecrow, but she also refused it.

After that, the girl graduated from high school and continued to work on television. She participated in the creation of a children's program, which never saw the light of day, and Tatyana herself fell under a series of cuts. Now she is doing her favorite thing - computer layout, and also writes poetry. Sometimes Tatyana Protsenko appears as an expert in various entertainment programs.

Actress's personal life

Tatiana was married twice. The first marriage of the actress was unhappy. Despite the fact that Protsenko married for love, the family idyll was destroyed by her husband's constant drunkenness. From her first marriage, Tatyana Protsenko has a daughter named Anna. The second time Tanya married Russian actor Alexei Voytyuk. He adopted the daughter of the actress as his own, and soon the couple had a second child - a boy named Vladimir. An interesting fact is that Vladimir decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents and at the age of 11 starred in the film "Milky Way".