Valentina Talyzina is one of the most recognizable and sought-after actresses of Soviet and Russian cinema. Although her appearance on the screen was more often episodic, the roles performed by Valentina were remembered and became loved by the audience for their brightness and specificity. The path to such popularity was long and difficult.
Childhood: difficult and military
At first there was childhood, but not the way everyone imagines it - cheerful and serene. Not! War intervened in childhood. Valentina was born in 1935 in Omsk. Then her family moved to Borovichi, a city in Belarus. The father soon left the family, preferring life with another woman. And the mother was forced to raise her daughter herself, hide with her from bombing in safe places, survive in the village under conditions of hunger and hard work.
At school, Valentina was very interested in history, she wanted to connect her life with it and evenwrote a research paper on the formation of Russian culture. Unfortunately, or perhaps for the better, she failed to enter the Faculty of History, the girl decided to try herself in the field of numbers and chose the Faculty of Economics of the Omsk Agricultural Institute. It was during her studies that Valentina became interested in theater and began to study in a drama club, which only strengthened her in the idea that her world is cinema and theater. Gradually, this hobby determined the life path of the actress beloved by the audience.
The beginning of the acting path
The fact that the economy is not her vocation, Valentina was convinced after 2 years of study. She left the Agricultural Institute, moved from Omsk to Moscow, where she entered GITIS. In 1958, after graduating from a higher educational institution, she was invited to the Mossovet Theater, where she studied acting with Faina Ranevskaya herself, who somehow even noticed that the girl was not beautiful enough to shoot in films. Talyzina took it without offense, because she agreed with the great actress.
Fate gave Valentina a chance to meet such masters of the theatrical scene as Varvara Soshalskaya, Serafima Birman and Vera Maretskaya. It was they who taught Valentina the highest skill of the game, which aroused the complete confidence of the viewer and his gratitude.
On stage Valentina Talyzina
Biography, the personal life of the future actress is the theater and cinema that have become her destiny. The first roles (performances "Petersburg Dreams" and "Uncle's Dream") Valentina performed on the stage of the Yuri Zavadsky Theater -chief director and a person who had an invaluable influence on the development of a talented girl as an actress. Theatrical productions in which Valentina Talyzina performed superbly: The Queen of Spades, Mother Courage and Her Children, Uncle's Dream, Two from the Highway, Kingdom of the Earth. The actress achieved particular success by playing in the works of Roman Viktyuk, her most favorite role was Catherine II in the theatrical production of The Royal Hunt, and most often her partner in productions was Leonid Markov. When Zavadsky died, Valentina did not get good roles for some time. This forced downtime prompted the actress, who later became the favorite of millions of viewers, to audition for films.
And today, the actress, who has devoted more than half a century to work in the Moscow City Council theater and knows every corner of its endless corridors, is pleased to take the stage to the stormy sincere applause of the audience. These are the very moments when the artist feels truly happy. One director somehow tried to lure Talyzina, promising star roles and mountains of gold, to which he received a categorical no. To the question of what keeps her so in the theater, she received the answer: “Walls!” The walls and, of course, the people who have become her family and an integral part of her life all the time.
Cinema in the life of Valentina Talyzina
Loving theater Valentina Illarionovna fully revealed her talent in cinema. The first shooting, quite successful, came in 1963: Valentina played in the film "The Man Who Doubts." Next wasadventure film "The Way to Saturn", where the actress appeared on television in the role of Maria Sukontseva, and "The End of Saturn". Then the actress starred in "The Old Robbers", the film "Taimyr Calls You" and "Ivan's Boat" - a melodrama by Mark Osipyan, based on the novel by Boris Vasilyev and lain on the shelf for 15 years due to censorship restrictions.
Filmography of People's Actress
Valentina Talyzina achieved significant success in the cinema thanks to the role of Alevtina in the comedy Zigzag of Fortune by Eldar Ryazanov, after which the directors simply bombarded the actress with interesting proposals. By that time, the girl had made such wonderful friends on the set as Evstigneev and Burkov. The three of them constantly walked and amused themselves and others with funny stories.
A talented and beloved actress, whose career peaked in 1970-1980, has more than 100 roles, 10 of which are in films shot by Eldar Ryazanov. The most famous roles for the viewer are such roles as the housing office master Lyudmila Ivanovna in Athos, Elena Nikolaevna Popova from the film Taimyr Calls You, Fedyaev’s secretary from Old Robbers, chemistry teacher Nina Petrovna from Big Change, Fekla Ivanovna in Marriage”, Maria Pavlovna in “Guest from the Future”, Varvara from “After Rain on Thursday”.
Most viewers remember and like Valentina Talyzina in "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath", where she paired with Leah Akhedzhakova superbly played the main character's friend: cheerful, devoted, noisy.
Favorite role of an actress
Valentina Talyzina, whose filmography is rich and varied, calls her favorite role the role of Zhenya in the film "Nonprofessionals", filmed in 1985 by Sergei Bodrov Sr. This is a heavy film about a nursing home, about the life in it of old and lonely people abandoned by their children. This is a bitter story about a society that bears the blame for the lack of spirituality and spiritual callousness of the people brought up by it.
Valentina Talyzina is in demand, whose biography is fascinating and interesting, also in serials; in 2005, she played the role of Baba Zina in Healing with Love, which has more than 200 episodes. In 2011, she was noted in the Dostoevsky project, in 2012 she starred in the mini-series The Sign of the True Path by Vyacheslav Lavrov.
Voice-over: beloved and recognizable
Valentina Talyzina (the photo fully conveys the charisma and charm of the people's actress) works brilliantly as a reader.
Her repertoire includes a large number of compositions based on the works of Russian prose writers and poets. Her voice, gentle and beautiful, the audience will recognize unmistakably from thousands of others. They are told by the mother of Uncle Fyodor (the favorite cartoon of several generations is “Three from Prostokvashino”). Her voice can be heard in the films "Long road in the dunes", "In that area of heaven", "TASS is authorized to declare", in the musical "1st Ambulance".
Valentina voiced Barbara Brylska, who spoke with a very strong accent, in "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath", although she refused to do so for a long time. Only byAt the insistence of Eldar Ryazanov, who had tried many votes before her, she agreed. The actress did not receive any awards or prizes subsequently for outstanding voice acting, and then she joked that she helped Barbara receive the State Prize, although she never thanked her for her hard work.
Valentina Talyzina: personal life
Valentina's family life did not work out. In the 60s, she married Leonid Nepomniachtchi, a talented artist, in 1969 she gave birth to a daughter, Ksenia, who also became an actress. The couple lasted 12 years, after which they broke up. Moreover, both, apparently, were tired of living together: both the husband of Valentina Talyzina and herself. Valentina, while still married, was in love with actor Yuri Orlov, with whom they played lovers in the cinema. But, after weighing all the pros and cons, the woman decided to keep the family, not knowing that her husband had another woman.
Only Valentina Talyzina can play like this
Valentina Illarionovna is a strong personality; perhaps loneliness played into her hands and helped her reach certain heights in the world of cinema. Thanks to her straightforward fighting character, the actress overcame many life difficulties. To be able to play subtle spiritual beauty with an ordinary appearance is only possible for such a professional as Valentina Talyzina.
People's Artist Talyzina became in 1985, having previously received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1973. In 2004, the actress was awarded the Golden Eagle National Prize for her performancethe role of Rosa Sergeevna in the TV series "Lines of Fate". Today, Valentina continues to act in films, plays on the stage of her native theater of the Moscow City Council, and lives in Moscow. She looks great and is full of life and creative plans.
