The life and work of actress Lyubov Malinovskaya

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Lyubov Ivanovna Malinovskaya is a Russian and Soviet theater and film actress who worked on the stage and on the set for almost the entire second half of the 20th century. Almost all of her roles are of the second plan, but nevertheless the viewer loved and respected her for her charisma, diligence, lively dynamic performance.

Biography of Lyubov Malinovskaya

Actress Lyubov Ivanovna Malinovskaya was born in Orenburg in the turbulent 1921, notable for the history of the Kronstadt rebellion. Like all people who were born in Russia at this time, many hard trials and difficulties fell on her lot. But, like many who had to fight adversity, she was a strong-willed and strong person and was able to achieve a lot in her long life.

Nothing is known about her childhood and youth. At the age of 19, she came to St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) to enter the Pedagogical Institute and ended up there on the same course with Lyubov Sokolova, who became her faithful friend and in many waysdetermined her future fate. The girls were even born on the same day, albeit in different cities. Together they entered the acting school at Lenfilm.

But, alas, it was not destined to finish it, the war broke out, and already in the second year, the girlfriends voluntarily went to the front. There they dug ditches and built fortifications on the Luga line. During the war, the friends also managed to work at the factory, and then together they survived the hunger of the besieged Leningrad.

After the war, they entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (the famous VGIK) in the workshop of Boris Bibikov, among whose students were such brilliant actors as Nonna Mordyukova, Leonid Kuravlev, Nadezhda Rumyantseva and others. Malinovskaya graduated from VGIK in 1947 and immediately began working in a Moscow theater studio. But it was difficult for her in the capital: there was nowhere to live, she devoted almost all her time to work, and spent the night … on the windowsill in her own theater. Subsequently filmed the corner.

Once she went on vacation to Leningrad, and so she stayed there, having met a loved one, got married and soon gave birth to a daughter. There, Lyubov Malinovskaya continued her career, getting a job as an actress at the Leningrad Variety Theater. In films, Love began acting when she was 34 years old, and continued to work until 1998, when she was already 77 years old.

Immediately after the filming of the last film, Lyubov Malinovskaya had an accident in which she received four complex fractures. But even between operations, the actress continued to voice the role, which was later appreciated. She died in her beloved St. Petersburg in 2009 at the age of 87 and rests in the Northern Cemetery.

Filmography of Lyubov Malinovskaya

Although Malinovskaya started acting in films quite late, during her life she managed to play more than 150 roles (including episodic ones) and dubbed 16 films. Her first character was Pelageya in Mikhail Schweitzer's film Alien Relatives, filmed in 1955. Her roles were varied, she was equally good at playing dramatic and comedic characters. She happened to work on the same set with such celebrities as Zinovy Gerdt, Lydia Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Vladimir Tikhonov, Nonna Mordyukova, Elena Proklova, Oleg Dal, Mark Bernes, Alexei Batalov. This list goes on and on.

Her best roles are:

• Antonina at the Russian Field.
• Alexeikha in the Black Birch.
• Convict in Katerina Izmailova.
• The mistress of the house in Zhenya, Zhenya and Katyusha.
• Nyura in the film "My Dear Man".
• Protasova in "Calendula Flowers".

In addition, she starred in such notable films as “The Key without the right to transfer”, “Boys”, “Barbarian Day”, “Farewell”, “We looked death in the face”, “I ask you to blame my death Klava K”, as well as in the series “The Bronze Bird”, “The Adventures of Prince Florizel”.

Actress Personality

Malinovskaya cannot be called a beautiful woman in the classical sense, but she definitely had charm and charm. They, together with herdiligence and allowed her to be in demand in her profession all her life. Although Malinovskaya did not have the main roles and she is considered a supporting actress, even in episodic roles the viewer managed to notice her and fall in love.

Sorrows and hardships of fate were reflected on her face, but they also illuminated it with intellect, knowledge of life, people. Maybe that's why she fit into each of her roles so organically that it seemed that she did not play - she lived in the frame. Her colorful characters:

• The mother of a wounded boy with grief reflected in her eyes (film "There is no ford in the fire", 1967).
• Compassionate Nurse Nyura (film "My Dear Man", 1958).
• Kindest Lyubov Ivanovna (film "White Curse", 1987).
• Agatha with her unforgettable "tudema-sudema" (film "After the Fair", 1972).

In these and other films, Lyubov Malinovskaya reveals her talent and versatility to the fullest.

Achievements of the actress

In 1980, Lyubov Malinovskaya became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and in 2002 she received the title of "People's Artist of the Russian Federation". In 1999, the actress, as the performer of the best female supporting role, for her last role of Inessa Iosifovna Protasova in the film "Calendula Flowers" received two awards at once - "Constellation" and "B altic Pearl". The older generation cherishes the image of this truly national artist, who played such roles close to their hearts.