Actress Natalya Arkhangelskaya: biography, career and personal life

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Natalya Arkhangelskaya is a People's Artist of the Russian Federation, theater and film actress. She made her film debut as Dunyasha in The Quiet Don immediately after graduation.

Later, she starred a little, preferring work on the stage to cinema.

Biography of Natalia Arkhangelskaya

The actress was born in the city of Moscow on December 4, 1937. Her father, Viktor Stepanov, was shot in 1937, before the birth of his daughter. He was originally from the Kuban Cossacks, worked as a major civil engineer in Germany and the USSR.

Her mother, Galina Arkhangelskaya, was a quarter Georgian. Maternal grandfather was the mayor of Lipetsk and a tsarist general. Shot in the revolution by the Reds.

Mom married a general of medicine, a military doctor, when Natasha was seven years old. Her stepfather gave her his last name and replaced her father. Later, when she became an actress, she took her mother's maiden name.

Natalya Arkhangelskaya from an early age dreamed of becoming an actress, attended a theater group and a music school.

After school, the girl decided to enter VGIK. When she came to the entrance exams, sheI saw in the lobby an advertisement for the recruitment of actors for filming in The Quiet Don. Obeying a momentary impulse, she flew into the audience and immediately heard the words of the wife of director Gerasimov, Tamara Makarova, that Dunyasha had been found.

Career

After graduating from GITIS in 1959 (after all, he turned out to be closer to her, because Natalya dreamed of becoming a theater actress), she was invited to the Sovremennik Theater by the famous actor Oleg Yefremov.

Her debut role on the stage of the theater was the role in the production of "Two Colors" with Igor Kvasha. Then she played with Oleg Efremov in the play "Nobody".

In 1962, Natalya Arkhangelskaya moved to the Yermolova Moscow Drama Theater, where she still serves and is the leading actress.

Played her roles:

• "Sports Games of 1981" (Inga);
• Mad Money (Lydia);
• Costumers (Milady);
• "Last summer in Chulimsk" (Kashkin);
• Heartbreaking House (Chizion);
• Deep Blue Sea (Hester);
• "Stalemate, or the Game of Kings" (Elsa) and others.

For the role of Elsa in the production of "Pat, or the game of kings" Natalia was nominated for "Crystal Turandot". With this play, they traveled all over Europe.

In 1960, the film career continued. Andrei Tarkovsky filmed his graduation film "The Skating Rink and the Violin". He gave the main role in his short film to Arkhangelskaya.

In 1961, she played the role of Daria Burmina in the drama "Lubushka". On this film career of the actress ended. She laterstarred only in television performances.

Private life

In the personal life of Natalia Arkhangelskaya there were three official marriages. The first husband was Jacob Segel - a famous director and actor. The age difference of 14 years affected the rapid breakup of relations. Natalya was very young and did not really understand why she married him, and her husband was very jealous of her.

After three months of married life, she went to the son of actress Angelina Stepanova and the stepson of the author of the "Young Guard" Alexander Fadeev, a stormy romance with whom also ended.

The second husband of Natalia was the actor and theater director Vladimir Andreev, with whom they lived for seven years in a civil marriage. Still signed, the couple broke up a month later. Vladimir went to actress Natalia Selezneva.

The third husband, with whom they lived for 30 years in a happy marriage, was the French correspondent Vlad Vishnevsky. He left his family for her. Natalya Arkhangelskaya gave her consent to marry only seven years later.

Husband passed away before reaching his seventieth birthday. For the last 10 years before his death, he was ill (Alzheimer's disease). Natalia never married again.