Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema Balashova Svetlana

Balashova Svetlana, whose biography is known to every domestic film fan, was born on October 2, 1943. The childhood of the future well-known actress passed in very difficult, post-war years: the country recently experienced World War II, having left it with large human and monetary losses, and now with all its might restored its economy and life as a whole. But, despite this, her family formed close and friendly relations, which turned Svetlana into a very kind, honest and decent person. Many friends and relatives liked to repeat these qualities many times.

The first work on the big screen

During her education at one of the most prestigious theatrical studios, which was under the tutelage of the Moscow Theater of Young Spectators , seventeen-year-old Svetlana Balashova received her first, very significant, work in a big cinema. The debut of the young beauty was Henry Hovhannisyan's film "The Adventures of Krosh", based on the novel of the then-novel Anatoly Rybakov with the same title. In this film Svetlana played the role of Vera Semechkina, the best friend of the main character, Nastya. The spectator is very remembered this "lively and easy" character, and to Balashova came her first resounding success. The next morning after the premiere, she felt popular, she began to learn more and more people on the streets.

Learning acting skills

In the early sixties Svetlana Balashova entered the theater studio at the Moscow Youth Theater. Supervised by her training is a venerable, very well-known in narrow circles mentor Pavel Osimovich Chomsky. He often singled out among the other students the talent of the girl to play roles in puppet shows, which later in her creative life played a huge role: she devoted almost all her theatrical activity to working with dolls. In 1964, the girl successfully graduated from this theater.

Playing in the theater and on television

Having flocked into adulthood, Balashova Svetlana devotes most of her professional work to work in the metropolitan puppet theater known throughout Russia. During her long creative career, she managed to play a lot of roles liked by the audience: Lyudmila in Pushkin's Ruslana and Ludmila, Giraffe in Giraffe and Rhinoceros Günther, Jaschka-Tarakashka in the play Such Big and Scary and many other amazing characters . In parallel with the theater, the actress worked on Russian television, where in the nineties she played a frog-quakusha in the program "Quartet the merry company" and in 2000 she tried on herself the image of Fedor's kind grandmother on the popular television channel "Joy". Also the young viewers of the TV channel know the actress as the performer of the image of the wise owl Matilda Leonardovna.

Special award

In early 1981, Svetlana Balashova, an actress who played many diverse roles, was awarded the honor to wear the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Following the results of the meeting of the Supreme Presidium, for her great services to the Soviet cinema and the theater, she was decided to give such an important reward for every artist in life. The government award, which is one of the highest forms of recognition by the state and society of the merits of the actress, served as a guarantor of her professionalism and acting skills for filmmakers of that time period. Balashov was increasingly invited to the big cinema.

Filmography

In addition to the theater and work on television, Balashova Svetlana, whose photo was adorned with billboards of many performances, indulged the audience with playing a movie. Below is a list of films and characters embodied in the screen.

1. Black-and-white two-part dramatic full-length drama "Journalist", 1971, directed by Sergei Gerasimov - the role of Pustovoitov's daughter Vera.

2. The first film in the dilogy on the Ulyanov family based on the works of Zoya Voskresenskaya's "Mother's Heart", in 1965 the release (directed by Mark Donskoy) - Maria Ulyanova.

3. Satirical comedy "Easy Life" in 1964 (director Benjamin Dorman) - employee of private dry cleaning.

4. The drama, touching the burning topic of political depression, entitled "Sinful Angel", in 1962 (directed by Gennady Kazansky) - the role of a girl named Natasha.

5. Family film "The Adventures of Krosh" in 1961 on the same name by Anatoly Rybakov (director of the tape Heinrich Hovhannisyan) - the best friend of Nastya, Vera.

Completion of the life path

Recently, the performer worked in the Moscow Puppet Theater, owned all kinds of theatrical dolls: glove, cane, puppets, shadow, tablet and others.

At the end of February 2012, at the age of sixty-five, the great artist Balashova Svetlana dies. This all-Russian loss occurred in the capital of Russia, the city of Moscow.