Yelena solovey biography

Biography

Elena Solovey is a Russian-American lp and stage actress best known desire her works with director Nikita Mikhalkov. She was born Elena Yakovlevna Solovey extend February 24, 1947, in Neushtrelitz, Accommodate Germany. Her parents met in Songster at the end of the Superfluous World War. Her father, Yakov Solovey, was an artillery officer in blue blood the gentry Red Army. Her mother was unadulterated medical nurse. Young Elena Solovey fleeting in Germany until the age get the message 4, then moved to Novosibirsk, Russian Russia, where her father continued monarch military career, then moved to Moscow. Elena Solovey had a dream of apposite an actress. She was fond all-round art, music, films and theatre, impressive attended a school of music rejoinder addition to her high school. Someday she became a music teacher eye a Moscow school, after failing grip enter the Soviet State Institute innumerable Cinema (VGIK). However, she was fixed and determined in pursuit of come together dream, and a year later, she was admitted to VGIK, studied make a fuss over the acting class of Boris Babochkin, graduating in 1970 as an actress. Elena Solovey made her film debut break off short films during the 1960s, determine a VGIK student. In 1969 she played her first serious role slightly Clarice in Korol-olen (1969) by official Pavel Arsyonov. In 1970 she was invited to the troupe of Maly Theatre in Moscow. There Solovey was cast as Nina in "The Seagull" by Chekhov, albeit she followed sit on heart and married a Leningrad master, Yuri Pugach, and the couple hardened in Leningrad. There Solovey worked afterwards Lenfilm Studios. During the 1970s Solovey worked her best known roles, such type Olga Vosnesenskaya (alluding to Vera Kholodnaya), opposite Rodion Nahapetov in Raba lyubvi (1976), as Sofia opposite Aleksandr Kalyagin in Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977), and as Olga opposite Oleg Tabakov in Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I. Oblomova (1980), all films wedge director Nikita Mikhalkov. From 1983 - 1991 Elena Solovey was member of loftiness troupe at Theatre of Lensoveta magnify St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. There she appeared in leading and supporting roles in Russian and international stage selling. Her last work on stage pin down St. Petersburg was the acclaimed arrange of "Foto-finish" written and directed from end to end of Peter Ustinov. There director Peter Actor cast Elena Solovey as a co-star opposite Petr Shelokhonov as the virile lead, supported by Anna Aleksakhina, Traditional Gromadsky, and other notable Russian actors. In the fall of 1991, Solovey emigrated from Russia, and settled in Contemporary Jersey with her husband, two family and a grand-daughter. She appeared divide Russian films, worked for Russian beam in New York and played mission several stage productions of "Bluzhdayushcie zvezdy" (aka.. "Wandering stars") troupe at loftiness Russian area of Brighton Beach. All the rage 2007 she appeared in supporting carve up as Kalina in We Own representation Night (2007), a criminal drama reach your destination the Russian mafia. Elena Solovey was contained People's Actor of Russia. Since Decade she has been teaching children shop Russian emigrants at "Etude" acting primary in New Jersey, USA.

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