Kornienko Nelly Ivanovna: photo, personal life, roles of the actress

2025 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-24 17:46

In her school years, having got to the play "Eugene Grande" at the Maly Theater, Kornienko Nelli Ivanovna was shocked by the play of Zerkalova, Turchaninova, Mezhinsky. And then she made a firm decision - to become an actress.

The desire was so great that in the tenth grade, without having yet received a certificate, the girl easily passed all the qualifying rounds at the Shchepkinsky school. The admission committee and the directorate promised to accept her after she received a certificate and came to take general education exams. So Nelly Ivanovna Kornienko was admitted to a theater university.

Schepkinskoe school

At the Shchepkinsky school, she came to a wonderful teacher, artist and director Konstantin Aleksandrovich Zubov. Unfortunately, this was his last course, he did not teach for long, he soon died, but he left his unique individuality forever in Nelly Kornienko's memory.

She studied with pleasure, easily finished Sliver, she was already invited to the Maly Theater, but when she helped a fellow student in Sovremennik at the graduation performance, she was immediately invited there. Kornienko Nelli Ivanovna found herself between twolights. On the one hand - the Maly Theater, where she promised to come, and "Sovremennik" - innovative, fashionable, popular, in whose troupe she wanted to enter.

Director of the Maly Theater Mikhail Tsarev, noticing the talented actress's hesitation, directly asked why she did not want to serve with them. The future actress sincerely replied that at the Maly Theater young actors have to wait a long time for good roles. Tsarev promised that she would have roles. After much torment, Nelly Ivanovna Kornienko chose her native theater and did not regret it at all later.

First roles

Mikhail Tsarev, in turn, kept his word. Immediately Nelli Kornienko introduced to the play "House of Cards", then to "Masquerade", where she played Nina. And, finally, in the play "Ivanov" the young actress played Sasha. This performance was staged by Boris Andreevich Babochkin. Nelly even argued with the director of the Chekhov performance. She saw her character differently. Babochkin himself hesitated - to give freedom to the young actress or not to change anything in the established production? As a result, creativity won and Boris Andreevich Babochkin allowed her to play the way she wanted. After Sasha, Nelli Kornienko also played Babochkin's Inna Golubeva in the production of "Colleagues", Sonya in Gorky's play "Summer Residents".

Leonid Varpakhovsky

Memories of another theater director, Leonid Viktorovich Varpakhovsky, Nelly Ivanovna evokes only good feelings. He was an extremely intelligent, attentive person. In five days heintroduced the actress to the role of Lydia in the play "Mad Money" and rehearsed with her all these days and nights. On the day when the actress Kornienko Nelli Ivanovna received the title of "Honored Artist", Varpakhovsky wrote thankful words to her on a postcard.

It is impossible not to note the work of the actress with director Boris Ivanovich Ravenskikh, who, in fact, made her popular. In the play "The Makropulos Remedy", based on the work of Chapek, Nelli Ivanovna played the main role of Emilia Marty. This work allowed the actress to show all her talent. Showing Emilia Marti in different eras, she herself changed not only externally, but also internally. Such roles are the dream of any actress.

Work in the play "Cyrano de Bergerac"

In another production of Cyrano de Bergerac by R. Kaplanyan, Nelli Ivanovna was supposed to play Roxana, but the actress had doubts. After all, Roxana is a young girl, and by that time she was already a mature woman.

The performance was grandiose with stylish scenery by Stenberg, with wonderful music by Zhurbin, with staircases rotating on wheels, with balconies and other ideas of artists. Actress Kornienko Nelli Ivanovna, whose photo can be seen in this article, had to climb balconies and stairs. She went on a strict diet and did acrobatics, every rehearsal was like a fight. Nelli Kornienko coped with the role of Roxana brilliantly. Even Professor Razumny wrote an enthusiastic review about her in the Theater Life magazine.

It is impossible not to remember the role of LoveAndreevna Ranevskaya, whom she loved very much and which she literally received as a gift. The day she was appointed was her birthday. She played Ranevskaya for more than ten years, but the first rehearsals were difficult. Director Igor Ilyinsky passed away and his assistant gave the actress purely technical advice, she had to think of the rest herself.

An actress with such external data and voice was the best fit for the role of Chekhov's heroine.

Nelli Ivanovna Kornienko: films

Cinema did not become native for Nelly Ivanovna, it was difficult for her to combine work in the theater and in the cinema, although at first she wanted to. Nevertheless, this amazing woman with a unique musical voice starred in several films.

These are the films "Our Home", "Rendezvous with Youth", "The Brickmill Scandal" and "Unforeseen Visits", where she played a woman returning from a concentration camp. It was a dramatic, difficult role. To enter the image of a woman who had been in a concentration camp, Nelli Ivanovna read Solzhenitsyn's novel.

Kornienko Nelli Ivanovna. Personal life

The actress met her future husband (Yuri Vasiliev) in Gelendzhik. She and her friend were resting on the sea and suddenly her eyes met the eyes of a young man coming out of the water. It was love at first sight.

It turned out that Yuri Vasiliev is studying in Moscow at VGIK. Nelly was then a student at the Shchepkinsky School. Surely everyone remembers Vasiliev in the role of Rodion in the film Moscowdoes not believe in tears. The entire female half of the Soviet Union was in love with the imposing actor. But before the premiere of Menshov's film, Yuri Vasilyev was known as the main character in Sergei Gerasimov's film The Journalist.

For the USSR, this film was a sensation, it was filmed not only at home, but also in France, where Vasilyev met with Ani Girardot and Mireille Mathieu.

Unlike the hero in Menshov's picture, Yuri was an ideal husband and father. Their daughter Katya was born, everything went on as usual. But one day, Vasiliev, having come home and refusing to have dinner, lay down on the bed and fell asleep. But this dream turned out to be eternal.

So a wonderful person and husband of actress Nelli Kornienko passed away. She often remembers him and says that every year the pain of loss does not subside, but becomes stronger.