Yanina Melekhova: Belarusian theater and film actress

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:43

Actress Yanina Melekhova was first seen by Russian viewers in the film "Dandies", where a native of Belarus played one of the secondary roles. She later appeared in a number of projects, including television series, and most recently starred in the controversial film Between the Legs, or a Tantric Symphony. Yanina does not consider herself a full-fledged film actress, she spends most of her time on the stage of the Impromptu Theater, whose regular viewers highly appreciate the girl's talent.

Girl on a bike

Yanina Vladimirovna Melekhova was born in Borisov, Belarus, in 1985. She was lucky to grow up in a family closely associated with art. Mom worked as a choreographer, dad worked as a director at the local theater. It goes without saying that the Melekhovs raised their daughters in a certain way, their entire childhood was associated with music and dancing. Yanina's sister - Svetlana repeated the path of her mother and became a choreographer, nowshe lives and works in Moscow.

Yanina also developed in this direction, attended theater circles at the local House of Culture. Borisov is not such a big city, according to Yanina, she did not part with her bicycle, cutting through it from home to school and to the city recreation center. Gradually, she became involved in classes, and by the end of school she set herself a firm goal of becoming a real actress.

To make her dream come true, Yanina Melekhova left her hometown and moved to Minsk, where she entered the State Academy of Arts. There she began to diligently study the noble art of drama and comedy. In 2006, the girl completed her education, receiving an official diploma as an actor in theater and cinema.

Theater

Despite the status of a graduate, Yanina Melekhova has already earned a reputation as a serious actress, thanks to her film works when she was a student. She pulled out her lucky ticket by landing the lead role in the novel "War" as part of the film "Resistance Territory".

The picture was released in 2004 and received rave reviews from critics. The main character Yanina Melekhova received especially high marks. She received the Best Actress Award at the National Film Festival in Belarus. But that was not all, at the Gerasimov International Film Festival, the young actress also conquered the members of the strict jury, receiving another similar award.

For an aspiring artist, this was a great start, Yanina was willingly invited to their filmsleading Belarusian directors. She herself decided not to linger in her small homeland and moved to Russia, where she became an actress of the theater on Pokrovka, whose artistic director was Sergei Artsibashev. Here Melekhova did not stay long, having played on stage from 2006 to 2007. She was involved in the performances "Marriage", "Woe from Wit".

In 2008, Yanina moved to the Impromptu Children's Musical Theater. Children, music - all this was to the liking of the actress, and she still serves here. Since 2009, a native of Borisov has also been acting as a teacher of choreography and acting at the children's studio at the theater.

Films with Yanina Melekhova

In the first years of her career, Yanina starred in films by Belarusian directors, the most famous of which was her triumphant "War". Later, a talented girl began to conquer Russian film sets. In 2008, she starred in the acclaimed movie Dudes, appearing as one of the dudes.

In 2010, Yanina Melekhova received her first major role in a Russian feature film. She took the risk of starring in a rather frank film "Wirt: the game is not childish", which included many scenes with nudity. Nevertheless, despite her conservative upbringing, Yanina is quite calm about such moments and works freely on camera, both dressed and naked. But the film never came out, and the next explicit scenes with Yanina had to wait until 2016.

During this period, she starred in a number of passing films,mostly focusing on work in the theater. In 2016, Yanina played the main role in the film Between the Legs, or Tantric Symphony, directed by Boris Grachevsky. Here, as in "Virt", there were many sex scenes, but the actress brilliantly worked out all the episodes on camera.