Soviet actress Mikaela Drozdovskaya: biography, film career and family

Mikaela Drozdovskaya is an amazingly beautiful woman and a talented actress. During her short life she managed to star in two dozen films. Are you interested in the biography of the actress? Do you want to know the details of her personal life? Now we will tell about everything.

Mikaela Drozdovskaya: biography

She was born on March 10, 1937 in Moscow. The father and mother of our heroine had no relation to the cinema. They had technical professions.

Mikaela from an early age showed creative abilities. The girl loved to draw, to make crafts from plasticine. And she also arranged home concerts. Baby composed songs on the move and funny danced.

Our heroine studied in an ordinary school. It was best given to the humanities. A talented girl has always been a participant of school events: theater performances, singing and dancing competitions.

Student

After graduating from high school, Mikaela Drozdovskaya submitted documents to VGIK. Parents supported the choice of their daughter. The brunette successfully passed the exams and was enrolled in the university.

Drozdovskaya never skipped classes, gave off tests on time and helped lagging fellow students. Everyone loved and respected this girl.

After graduation, Mika quickly found a job. She was accepted into the troupe of the Theater-Studio of the film actor. At first she was content with small roles. But the local artistic director nevertheless saw in the tiny and pretty girl a great talent and creative prospects.

Film career

For the first time on wide screens, Mikaela Drozdovskaya appeared in 1955. She played a small role in the movie "Behind the Showcase of a Department Store." Her colleagues on the set were Anatoly Kuznetsov, Oleg Anofriev, Boris Novikov, Zinaida Sorochinskaya and others.

In 1957, the second painting with her participation - "The Leningrad Symphony" was released. Director Zakhar Agranenko was pleased with the cooperation with the graduate of VGIK.

Filmography Mikaela Drozdovskaya includes about 20 roles in the paintings, belonging to different genres. Let's list her most vivid and memorable works:

• "The Seven Nannies" (1962) - Maya;
• "Once upon a time there lived an old man with an old woman" (1964);
• "A bad anecdote" (1966) - a saleswoman of ties;
• "Explosion after midnight" (1969) - Duska;
• "Burn, burn, my star" (1969) - the wife of the staff captain;
• "Solo for an elephant and an orchestra!" (1975);
• "The Legend of Thiele";
• "Mimino" (1977) is the wife of Papishvili.

Mikaela Drozdovskaya: personal life

Our heroine was an attractive young lady, an interesting companion and "the soul of the company." In her youth, Michaela liked many guys. But to none of them she did not reciprocate.

The girl studied at the university, then built an acting career. Drozdovskaya pushed her personal life to the background. Although she occasionally lacked a strong man's shoulder and affectionate words.

The actress got married when she was about 30 years old. Her chosen one was cardiologist Vadim Smolensky. It was a real love with ardent confessions, trembling in the voice and burning embraces.

The couple played a modest wedding. Only friends, colleagues and relatives of the bride and groom were invited to the celebration. Soon Mikaela gave her beloved husband a first-born daughter, Veronica. The actress spent several months in the "decree." Then she started shooting again.

In November 1970, the second daughter of Mikaela and Vadim appeared. The baby was called Daria. The family lived in a luxurious apartment located opposite the House of Cinema. Many people kindly envied them.

The couple dreamed of giving birth to another son. But fate decreed otherwise.

Death

In late November 1978, actress Mikaela Drozdovskaya went to the shooting in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia). She could not even think that she would never see her loved ones again.

On November 7 all members of the crew went to the city. And Mika was left alone in the house, allocated for living cinematographers. The premises in it were not heated. Drozdovskaya knew about this. It was going to night. She wanted to sleep. To get a little warm, the actress turned on two projectors (small and large). The woman covered her head with a blanket. A misfortune happened at night. The blanket slid down from Mickey. From contact with a red-hot lamp, it caught fire. Drozdovskaya breathed in carbon monoxide, and also received severe burns from both legs.

When the scene of the incident came to the actress's colleagues, they rescued her from the burning house. Mikaela was sent to a Moscow clinic. The best metropolitan doctors fought for the life of Drozdovskaya. But they failed to bring her back to life. November 14, 1978, the actress died in terrible agony. After 3 days, she was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

The younger daughter of Mikaela (Dasha) was adopted by her longtime friend - Alla Budnitskaya. Nika took to her Sonya Davydova. A husband, Vadim Semenovich, did not have a widower's status for long. He married a second time.

Daria Drozdovskaya graduated from the Shchukin School, became a famous actress. She followed in the footsteps of her own mother. What is known about the eldest daughter of Mikaela? Nika learned to be a pediatrician-gastroenterologist. Today she works in one of the major Moscow medical centers.

Finally

We talked about how Mikaela Drozdovskaya lived and died. This actress contributed to the development of Soviet (Russian) cinematography.