Elvira Zubkova is a famous Soviet actress who played several vivid roles in the movie. First of all, the audience remembers her from the spy detective television series Vladimir Fokin "TASS is authorized to declare." Also, her image is well known and loved by many compatriots, due to the fact that she was a model of the Vyacheslav Zaitsev Fashion House, shining there in the late 70s and until the mid 80s.
Actress Biography
Elvira Zubkova was born in 1956. Her biography has developed bright and extraordinary. After several bright roles on the screen, she was invited to become a fashion model. For almost a decade, Elvira Zubkova was one of the personifications of Soviet fashion and style. Vyacheslav Zaitsev paved the way for her on the covers of domestic fashion magazines. It is noteworthy that she did not have a professional acting education.
In the late 80s, another sharp change occurred in her life. She got married. The choice was made by Elvira Zubkova, a Soviet diplomat, with whom she was forced to leave for Lebanon in 1991. There she finally had to leave her acting career. Her husband Noel Usmanov was a famous orientalist and Arabist, professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
The husband of the heroine of our article worked as the head of the center of culture of Russia. In 2012, he died at the age of 80. After that, Zubkova returned to her homeland.
Big screen debut
Actress Elvira Zubkova performed her first film role in 1972, when she was only 16 years old. In Nina Zubareva’s melodrama School Performance, she appeared in the image of Ani Rogalskaya, classmate Vari Samarina. It is the last four young men who choose hearts as their lady. This event serves as the plot of this picture.
Because of romantic feelings, they completely abandon their studies until a literature teacher Andrei Danilovich comes to their rescue. He makes an unexpected offer - to stage a performance. In working on the production, they manage to understand the complex relationships with each other.
Zubkova played, though not the main, but a vivid role that was remembered by many Soviet viewers.
In 1976, the heroine of our article appeared in the episodic role of a fashion model in Konstantin Khudyakov’s social drama “To Live Your Own Life”.
Spy Series Role
One of the brightest pages in the acting biography of Elvira Zubkova was the role in the spy series "TASS authorized to declare." She created on the screen a memorable image of a girl named Pilar. This was one of the key female roles in the film. According to the plot, Pilar is the mistress of the Deputy CIA resident in the fictional country of Trasiland, John Gregory Glebba, played by Vakhtang Kikabidze.
Interestingly, her character Zubkova Elvira Borisovna in the film is not voiced by herself. Valentina Talyzina does it for her . So, unfortunately, we will not hear her voices in this tape.
In 1984, TASS is authorized to declare became one of the most popular projects on Soviet television. This is a fascinating adaptation of a spy story by Julian Semenov. It tells about the work of Soviet counterintelligence, which seek to prevent a coup in a small African country that cooperates with the Soviet Union. Complicating everything is the fact that the coup is being prepared by American intelligence agencies who want to establish their influence in this state.
Zubkova plays the role of the insidious lover of a CIA employee. With its help, the Americans are recruiting Soviet employees who are on a business trip in Africa.
Casting for a role
It is noteworthy that this role Zubkov might not have received. The fact is that Julian Semenov, who was the author of the script, insisted that Colonel Slavin, one of the main characters, must be played by Nikolai Gubenko. He was not opposed, but set a condition - then the role of Pilar should then go to his wife Zhanna Bolotova.
The director of the picture, Vladimir Fokin, having looked at Bolotova’s samples, flatly refused to take her to his film. As a result, Gubenko also refused to work in the series. By the way, Slavin in the film "TASS authorized to declare" was brilliantly played by Yuri Solomin.
Fokin himself later admitted that he could never work with those whom he did not like. At the same time, he noted that he did not really like working with movie stars, he wanted to do them. A good example is Zubkov. Pilar, in her performance, became a sultry and coveted woman who was difficult to refuse even staunch Soviet diplomats. At the same time, Fokin admitted that due to the fact that Zubkova had no acting education, she had to suffer with her, but the result was brilliant.
Success in Soviet Cinema
After success in the series "TASS is authorized to declare," Zubkova was actively invited to appear again.
She appears in Sulambek Mamilov’s sci-fi horror film “Day of Anger”, Vakhtang Kikabidze’s musical comedy “Men and All Others”, Zinovy ​​Roizman’s family fairy tale “Love Constellation”, and Yevgeny Ginzburg’s musical comedy “Merry Chronicle of a Dangerous Journey”.
She was remembered by many in the episode in Karen Shakhnazarov’s tragicomedy “Courier”, where she played as a guest on Katya’s birthday.