Elena Torshina - theater and film actress. A well-known figure in theatrical circles. Performances with her participation are incredibly popular. The actress also starred in film projects, but the theater has always been in the first place for her.
Biography
Elena Viktorovna Torshina was born on November 6, 1964 in Moscow. She made the decision to become an actress at a young age. The choice of an educational institution after graduation was proof of this. She goes to study at the Schepkin School. Her mentor was Nikolai Afonin, the rector of the theater school where Elena Torshina studied. Afonin is an honored worker of arts in the Russian Federation, as well as an artist of the times of the RSFSR. In addition, Afonin is a professor. He became a real role model for the young actress. She tries to learn as many skills as possible from him, thanks to which she becomes the best student in the school.
First job
In 1988, the girl successfully graduated from college and became a promising actress. The biography of Elena Torshina was replenished with a place in the Vedogon-Theater team. That's where sheI started to show myself as a professional. At first, she was given only supporting roles, but very soon all the main images became hers. After a short time, Elena Torshina became a theater star, all the main roles went to her. Thanks to the promising actress, the theater gained popularity, the audience came to watch her play. It is worth noting that Elena coped with any role easily: both comedy and drama. Actress Elena Torshina, at the age of twenty-four, was already a high-class actress.
Successful theater actress
The most popular performances in which Elena participated is "Angelo", in which she played the main role of Juliet. In the productions of "Comedy of Errors", "Greetings from the Fountain" and "Any Dear" - everywhere she played the main roles, but they were noted because the actress reacted to them most responsibly, imbued with the character of the hero, thanks to which she got an incredibly lively and real image in each of the listed productions.
Actress of famous theaters
Also, Elena Torshina played in the troupe of the theater "Commonwe alth of Taganka Actors". The theater was founded in 1993 by the decision of the deputies of the city of Moscow. The cast included thirty-six well-known artists. A sensational scandal took place between the theater and part of the team of another theater studio. The fact is that after the play "The Good Man from Sezuan", the head of the theater "Commonwe alth of Actors on Taganka" Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov invited the actorsthe aforementioned performance to his troupe. After that, a scandal broke out between Lyubimov and the cast, which lasted for a year and a half. Part of the troupe from the former artists did not want to accept new team members into their ranks. This case even went through several courts, the actors of the two teams shared the stage. After the end of the trials, the troupe of the theater "Commonwe alth of Actors on Taganka" moved to a new place for rehearsals.
Besides this, Elena Torshina was a member of the troupe of the "Modern Enterprise Theater", whose artistic director was Albert Moginov. This theater is famous for the fact that several well-known producers and directors have always participated in the production of each performance. Performances have always gathered full halls of spectators and are still popular.
Cinema
Since 1990, Elena Torshina began to try herself in films and television shows. Such a new experience was not easy for the actress, but she was also able to succeed in this field. The biography and filmography of Elena Torshina began to replenish with roles in films and TV shows. Moreover, she got roles both comedic and dramatic. Of course, not in all films the actress played a major role, sometimes even she was invited to only one episode of the entire film. But nevertheless, for many years of work in the filmography of actress Elena Torshina, the list of films with her participation is amazing.
Movie List
- The first film project was the comedy "Attention: Witches!" in 1990. There Elena played a character named Lera.
- After that, Elena Torshina was often invited to shoot movies. The second film was the drama Night of the Sinners, in which the actress starred in 1991. After that, Elena had a seven-year break from work, but she still returned.
- In 1998, she again starred in an episode of the comedy musical In a Busy Place.
- Starting from 2004 to 2008, Elena also starred in several episodes of the popular comedy series "My Fair Nanny" starring Anastasia Zavorotnyuk. Perhaps it was this series that glorified Elena, although she played far from the main role. Thanks to the popularity of "My Fair Nanny", directors of other films saw Torshina, after which she regularly starred in films for several years in a row.
- In 2005, Elena starred in the film "Swan Paradise". Film genre - adventure, drama, melodrama.
- In 2006, Torshina was invited to shoot the equally popular series "Who's the Boss?". In those years, the series "My Fair Nanny" and "Who's the boss?" were the two most common comedy projects that even competed with each other for a while. In the tape "Who is the boss in the house?" Elena played in two episodes: "The Woman in the Red Mercedes" and "Full Banzai!".
- In 2007, the actress played the role of Nina Kurzova in the Russiancomedy series "The Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin", which brought her even greater fame in cinema circles.
- In 2008, Elena Torshina played the role of Olga in the series "My Favorite Witch" in the twenty-first series called "The old witch is better than the new two".
- In 2009, in the "Village Comedy" project, her image was a postwoman, with whom Elena coped, as always, brilliantly.
- In 2010, the actress starred in the film "In the woods and on the mountains", but there she got only one episode.
- In the same year, in the famous and popular Russian detective series "Detective of Samovars", she played a serious role of Judge Rosa Romanovna.
- In 2011, in the new Russian detective story "The Fine Line", Elena played the role of Veronica, the daughter of a murdered war veteran.
- In the period from 2011 to 2012, Elena starred in the comedy series "We Got Married", where she played the role of the mother of the main character Lera. There were many episodes with the actress, so you can see her on the screen very often.
- 2012 was a very productive year for Elena Torshina in the cinema. In parallel with the comedy "We Got Married", she participated in the filming of two more series. In "Cornflowers for Vasilisa" she played a small role as an agent. And in the series "Emergency", the actress played a far from secondary role as a squad dispatcher, so Elena can be seen in many episodes.
- In 2013, in the film "Second Chance" she got only one episode, since in parallel Elena starred infilm "Between Us Girls", where she played the role of a dressmaker Dora Isaevna. Reviews of this film say that Elena did an excellent job with the task and was the star of the project.
- In 2016, in the film "At the Crossroads of Joy and Sorrow", Elena Torshina played the role of the headmaster.
Not over yet
At the moment, the filmography of the actress is stopped, but they say that a new project is being prepared for the show, in which Elena also takes part.
For the actress herself, the role on the theater stage is closer to her liking, so she rarely plays big roles in the movies. As Elena herself said: "The theater is in my heart!"
