Nina Usatova - filmography and family of the actress

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Nina Usatova is familiar to both the older generation of viewers and young people. She talentedly plays the roles of puffy county matrons of the century before last, descended to us from the pages of classic novels. Along with these rather complex works, the actress plays our contemporaries superbly. While other actors complain about lack of demand, Nina Nikolaevna is so busy that there is no time to look at herself in the mirror. But once upon a time they stubbornly did not want to let her into a magical land called "cinema".

Star Childhood

Usatova Nina Nikolaevna was born in Altai in a small steppe village with a very nice name Crimson Lake. It happened on October 1, 1951. The family of Nina Nikolaevna was not rich, but did not live in poverty either. Her parents were hardworking and responsible people, they ran their household correctly and firmly in a peasant way. So there was always enough in the house.

This attitude and love for the native land were transferred to little Nina and remained in her forever. After living for some time in the village, the Usatovs moved to the regionalcity of Kurgan. There Nina graduated from secondary school No. 30. She enjoyed playing in all school productions and already in the eighth grade she firmly decided to become an actress.

Youth years

Having passed the final exams, Nina Usatova went to conquer Moscow. The capital met the young provincial with the first failures and disappointments. Nina applied to the Shchukin school, but failed the exam. She was not going to return home with anything, she went to work at a cloth factory as a warper. Standing at the barre, she did not stop dreaming about acting, and at home she was preparing for new exams.

The next year, the stubborn girl again applied to Shchukinskoye. And failed again. In total, she had four unsuccessful attempts. Despite her strong-willed nature, she was completely desperate. In order to somehow get closer to her favorite business, Usatova got a job as a director at the House of Culture. Watching the actors play, their rehearsals, the staging process, Nina Nikolaevna plunged headlong into the acting life.

At some point, she again felt self-confidence and again, for the fifth time, she applied to Shchukinskoye. Finally fate smiled at her. In 1974, she became a student of the directing department, having entered the course of Ter-Zakharova and Zakhava.

Work in the Youth Theater

After graduating from Shchukinskoye and receiving a diploma, Nina Usatova went to practice at the Kotlas Theater, where she played more than a dozen roles. In Kotlas she lived for aboutyears and already in 1980 left from there to Leningrad. The new Youth Theater under the direction of Vladimir Malyshchitsky was just beginning to work there. The young actress fit perfectly into the team. She worked in the theater for almost 10 years and in 1989 moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Tovstonogov. On the stage of the Youth Theater, Usatova played many roles. Filmmakers drew attention to her and invited her to try her hand at cinema.

Her first job was the role of a dressmaker in Vadim Gausner's comic film "Where Fomenko Disappeared". Her partners were Liya Akhedzhakova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Rolan Bykov and other stars of Soviet cinema. Unfortunately, the debut role of Nina Usatova was voiced by another Nina - Ruslanova. But still, the debutante's game was appreciated and began to be invited to other projects.

First 10 years in movies

Nina Usatova in her youth, as now, had a magnificent figure and a peculiar appearance of a simple Russian peasant woman. That is why the directors determined the creative framework for her and invited her to roles that corresponded to her external image. As a rule, these were small works in episodes. But in order for the picture to turn out to be bright and memorable, each actor playing even the smallest role must give all his best. This is exactly what Nina Usatova did, whose filmography at the beginning of her career consisted almost exclusively of episodic roles.

So, in the film about the film "Voice" she played a kind and sympathetic patient in the hospital where the main character was put. The tape was released in 1982. bright andmemorable was the work of Nina Usatova in the comedy "The Neverfare", filmed in 1983. In this tape, the actress played a peasant woman, the wife of the protagonist.

Episode Queen

Time flies fast. In the ten years that have passed since her debut work, Nina Usatova, whose filmography included 20 roles, fell in love with the audience. Her heroine was especially bright in the famous film "Cold Summer of 53". Usatova played a dumb woman, so the main emphasis was not on replicas, but on playing with gestures, facial expressions, and eyes. The actress brilliantly coped with this extremely difficult task. The spectators watched with a sinking heart as the unfortunate mute ran out onto the pier and screamed as best she could to save the people on the ship. And the scene where she mourns her daughter killed by bandits is generally impossible to watch without a shudder. This film was recognized as the best in 1988, received the Nika Award, the Grand Prix and several awards. A considerable merit in this and Nina Usatova.

Main roles

Usatova Nina is a very talented actress, perfectly embodying any image offered to her on the screen. Nevertheless, the main role was entrusted to her only in 1991. She was invited to her film "Oh, you geese" by the novice screenwriter and novice director Lidia Bobrova. And she was not wrong. The tape entered the top 100 films in Russia, and Bobrova herself received several prizes and the Grand Prix.

Usatova in the film played the wife of one of the main characters. The image of Dasha turned out to be very lyrical and characteristic. In many scenes, the actress perfectly conveyed the feelings of her heroine,her complex psychological state with the help of facial expressions, facial expressions, gaze. After this film, the popularity of Nina Usatova increased even more.

Perestroika has begun in the country. Many actors in this difficult period were left without work, but not Nina. Now she began to be invited to the crime films born of a new era. So, she starred in the popular film "Next", in the films "Muslim", "Caucasian Roulette" and many others.

Awards

Nina Usatova, whose filmography currently includes more than 70 works, was awarded the Pushkin medal for her contribution to Russian art and the medal "For Services to the Fatherland". She twice, in 1995 and 1999, was awarded the Nika award in the nominations for the best performance of female roles, and twice the Golden Eagle award for the best performance of episodic female roles. So, her work was noted in the film "Pop", where she played mother Alevtina, and in the film "Legend No. 17".

Besides this, Nina Nikolaevna repeatedly became the laureate of various awards and festivals. She combines work in cinema with service in the theater. Tovstonogov. The play “Man, wait!”, where she plays in tandem with Igor Sklyar, is especially popular. Here, the highest award for her is a flurry of applause.

Actress's personal life

In everyday life, our heroine is the most ordinary woman who does not think that she is the famous actress Nina Usatova. Her family consists of a son, named after his father Nikolai, and a husband. Usatova is married to a wonderful person, a linguist, andpart-time job and film actor Yuri Lvovich Guryev. They are of the same age. By nature and spiritual values - ideal partners. Yuri Guryev graduated from the Pedagogical University in the city of Tula, speaks French and German. Since 1972, he worked as an actor in the Tula theater "Dialogue". Yuri Lvovich has been actively acting in films only since 2008.

As the actress admits, her family lives a simple life. She does not have a housekeeper, so she has to manage everything herself. Fortunately, her men always help in everything. She also does not have time to prepare pickles. Nobody complains, they eat what they have. Nina Nikolaevna loves the Russian banya with a park and relaxing at her dacha very much, it’s a pity that she chronically lacks time for these pleasures.