Biography of Olga Ostroumova - a cult actress

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

Ostroumova Olga Mikhailovna's biography began in the town of Bugurslan in the Orenburg region, not far from the church where her grandfather was a priest. She was born on September 21, 1947 in the family of a physics teacher and a housewife. Due to the fact that her grandfather was a clergyman, the Ostroumov family was oppressed and looked for a better life in other cities of Russia. When the family settled in Kuibyshev, their fourth child, Olya, was born. She was the youngest.

The family lived financially rather hard, but holidays were always celebrated in their house, books from the huge library of their father were read aloud, it was warm and cozy.

Ostroumova Olga's biography as an actress began in 1966, when she made a fateful decision to devote her life to the theater. Having bought their daughter a train ticket and given pies with them, her parents sent her to Moscow, where she did not know anyone then. Having successfully passed the exams on the first attempt, young Olga becamestudent of GITIS and all the time she lived in the hostel of the university. After graduating from GITIS in 1970, Olga goes to work at the Moscow Youth Theater.

The biography of Olga Ostroumova could have remained a biography of a theater actress, if not for the role of the schoolgirl Cherkasova in the most popular film “We'll Live Until Monday”. This film directed by Rostotsky made Olga Ostroumova famous.

Followed by another significant role in her life - the heroine Zhenya Komelkova in the film "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" in 1972. The film made her a cult artist, in many countries they now knew who the actress Olga Ostroumova was. Thanks to her work in this film, her biography was replenished with a new title - she becomes the winner of the Italian Silver Nymph Award. In 1979 Olga Ostroumova won the USSR State Prize.

The actress was married to a young actor, her classmate Boris Annaberdyev. However, in the early seventies, she falls in love with Mikhail Levitin, who staged a play at the Youth Theater, where Olga worked. Mikhail was also married at the time of the meeting with Ostroumova. Their stormy romance lasted more than one year and yet culminated in marriage. In 1976, a daughter, Olga, was born in their union, and in 1984, a son, Mikhail.

From 1973 to 1983, Olga worked in the troupe of the Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, and in 1983 she worked at the Mossovet Theater.

After living together for a long 23 years, Ostroumova and Levitin broke up in 1992.

In 1995 Olga Ostroumova's biography again undergoes changes in her personal life. Sixty-year-old actor Valentin Gaft is divorcing his second wife. Not even six months pass, as he already meets Olga Ostroumova in a cafe in Sokolniki. And he went there with the expectation of seeing her. As Valentin Gaft admitted, he noticed her a long time ago - back in 1978 during the filming of Ryazanov's film "Garage". But then she was still married and raised a little daughter, so the actor did not make any attempts at courtship. After that meeting in a cafe in 1995, he invites the actress to a restaurant - this is how their romantic relationship began. A year later, they got married.

In 1993, the actress was awarded the title of "People's Artist of Russia".

Now Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova lives and works in Moscow. She has two children and three grandchildren.

In the photo: the husband of the actress Valentin Gaft and Olga Ostroumova herself, whose biography was presented in the article.