Budnitskaya Alla Zinovievna is a talented actress who is known to all lovers of Soviet cinema. However, few people know that Alla could not choose an acting profession, because initially she planned to become a professional translator. But the actress does not regret her choice at all, because she is confident in its correctness.
Alla Budnitskaya is a native Muscovite, she was born in July 1937 and spent all her childhood on the Arbat. She was only three years old when the Great Patriotic War began, so she remembers these terrible events badly. Her mother, who worked as an administrator, and her father-engineer tried to do everything so that little Alla could bear the hardships of the war as easily as possible.
Alla Budnitskaya and her family
In the family of Alla Budnitskaya, there was also a star - her uncle Evgeni Maltsev performed with the famous Chaliapin in the capital of France, where he lived his whole life. Alla often visited her uncle and, looking at his friends, dreamed of becoming a bright and talented actress, able to delight people with her game.
It is hard to believe, but Alla was pretty ugly in childhood, her face was decorated with a lot of hemp, and the boys did not pay much attention to her. The future star had many complexes with which she had to fight for many years.
Budnitskaya’s desire to go on an acting path intensified in 1947, it was then that her mother went to work in Germany. Alla left with her mother and spent most of her free time visiting cinemas. The father of the family could not stand the separation and soon filed for divorce. Budnitskaya was very worried about her parents' divorce, because her mother forbade her to communicate with her father.
As a child, Alla spent a lot of time with her father's sisters, it was they who taught her the subtleties of Jewish cooking. Budnitskaya was seriously interested in cooking and helped household chores. The mother of the actress had to do sewing to feed her family, however, the woman succeeded in this and very quickly became one of the best tailors in the capital.
First steps to the cinema
When Budnitskaya was in the 10th grade, she was noticed by one of the directors of the film "Certificate of Maturity" and invited to play a small role in the crowd. In the tape, the face of the actress can be seen close-up, this is due to one of the directors of the film. After making sure that the directors really notice something in it, Alla after graduating from the school submitted documents to the Shchukin school and to the VGIK.
However, Budnitskaya failed to enter either one or another educational institution and became depressed. The girl felt such hopelessness that she applied to the faculty of foreign languages ​​and soon became a student, having successfully passed the competition. But getting a higher translation education Budnitskaya was not at all happy.
For several months, Alla spent the evenings yearning and thinking about her failure at the entrance exams to the Pike and VGIK. Gradually, Budnitskaya began to get used to her lifestyle and at some point even reconciled with the fact that she would become a professional translator and begin to work in the profession.
Chance meeting
So three years passed, after which Budnitskaya met Alexandra Lyapidevskaya. The wife of Anatoly Kuznetsov specifically searched for Alla: it turned out that the selection committee of VGIK regretted her refusal and decided to give Budnitskaya another chance. Alla perked up and decided to try her fate again.
Budnitskaya was immediately invited to the third round of listening, and she passed it with a splendor. If it were not for a chance meeting with Lyapidevskaya at the bus stop, it is quite possible that Alla Zinovievna would become a popular translator. Now she got a chance to fulfill all her desires, and Alla Budnitskaya, whose biography here made somersault, was not going to miss him.
In VGIK, Alla began a completely new life, now she had talented teachers who, bit by bit, invested knowledge and skills in the young actress. But here, not everything went as smoothly as Budnitskaya would like - she was most often seen in the role of glamorous young ladies, representatives of high society, stupid and beautiful girls and sophisticated ladies, and the actress herself dreamed of playing in tragedy.
There is always a way out
The actress began to look for a way out of this situation, in the end she managed to solve the problem by starting to work on television. It was there that Budnitskaya played in almost all classical productions. Finally, the actress's life began to improve and she began to experience real pleasure from the game.
Alla Budnitskaya prefers to play characteristic roles, to take at least her work in the film “Clever Beauty”, where she practically did not use makeup. She was lucky to work with Alexander Muratov - she played a well-groomed old woman who managed to maintain beauty even in old age, but was forced to die alone.
TV shows and foreign languages
Most of the acting work of Alla Budnitskaya is series, it is in them that the actress feels most comfortable. In her opinion, the most successful multi-part film in which she happened to star is "On the Knives", where the actress played the main role, for which she received one of the main prizes of the Dombai film festival.
Despite the fact that Alla Budnitskaya, whose biography is full of bright and positive events, abandoned foreign languages, they still came in handy for her in the acting profession. Thanks to her knowledge, the actress actively starred abroad, preferring to work with French directors and actors. Among the foreign paintings in which she took part, Happiness and Woman in the Wind stand out. In the last film, Alla’s partner was James Thiers, the grandson of the great Charlie Chaplin.
Work in the cinema and beyond
In total, more than 50 roles in television series and films were played by a talented actress. The most famous works of the actress are the paintings “Gobsec”, “The Ideal Husband”, “Station for Two”, “Crime of Lord Arthur”. All the roles that Budnitskaya played, for one reason or another, were remembered by the viewer and brought the actress deserved popularity.
Filming in films and television series is not the only labor activity of Alla Budnitskaya, she was a TV presenter and program manager dedicated to home comfort, family and the secrets of culinary art. In parallel with this, the actress has always addressed in her programs the eternal female question of how to remain attractive for many years. The program with Alla Budnitskaya attracted the attention of not only women, but also men.
Alla Budnitskaya - writer and fashion designer
Alla Zinovievna proved herself as a writer by publishing the book “Tasty Memories”. The publication is more like a storybook, it contains 15 small stories dedicated to the life of the actress, her friends and culinary secrets. The book has been published in a rather limited edition, but finding it if desired is not difficult.
When the crisis struck in the 1990s, actress Alla Budnitskaya, like many actors, was left without work. The actress did not lose heart, but remembered the craft that her mother once engaged in sewing, and began to create exclusive things, realizing them with the help of her American and French friends.
Restaurant business in the life of an actress
It was necessary to somehow survive, and Alla Budnitskaya, along with a former classmate, decided to open a restaurant. At first, she had to work as a cook and a procurer; for the positions of cleaners and dishwashers, she took unemployed sound engineers and editors who were left without work on television.
Soon, the restaurant began to bear fruit and enjoy popularity. The whole acting elite of the capital came here, it was there that Alla Pugacheva and Philip Kirkorov celebrated their engagement. Thanks to her own restaurant, Alla Budnitskaya managed to build a country cottage, which she and her husband, director Alexander Orlov, had been dreaming about for so long
Friendship and love of Alla Budnitskaya
The actress gives a special place in her life to friendship, but she does not have many friends - Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Liya Akhedzhakova, with the latter Alla Budnitskaya even has a common living space. Among the friends of the actress - Irina Kupchenko and Vasily Lanova, who supported her in difficult periods of life.
With her own husband, Alexander Orlov, Alla Budnitskaya, whose photo once adorned the covers of magazines, met in the acting workshop of Kozintsev in VGIK. After completing the first year of training, they went together to the virgin lands, where they created an agitation brigade and began to conduct active social activities. Spouses have been together for more than 50 years, they have managed to overcome all the difficulties of life in their path.
Despite the fact that the spouses do not have children, they are not too worried about this. In the late 1970s, Michaela Drozdovskaya, Alla's best friend, died tragically. Her daughter Dasha was left an orphan. Alla Budnitskaya and Alexander Orlov adopted Dasha and gave her the appropriate education. The adopted daughter of the couple grew up and also became an actress, her husband is Alexander Aleinikov, a popular actor. Not only mom, but also grandmother is Alla Budnitskaya. Children are the most important thing in human life, so they need to be cherished and cherished, she is sure.