Lyudmila Dmitrieva is a famous domestic theater and film actress. In 2011, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. The role due to which the actress is known, remembered and loved by thousands of residents is the eccentric and weird Suzanne Brissard from Alla Surikova’s comedy “Look for a Woman”. This article will present a creative biography of actress Lyudmila Dmitrieva, personal life and the most popular roles.
early years
Lyudmila Dmitrieva was born in Moscow. She was born in 1947. There were no artists among her relatives, which did not stop the heroine of our article from childhood dreaming of conquering the stage. In the graduation class, she shared her plans with her mother, saying that she plans to enter a theater university, but she was rather skeptical about this idea. She advised her daughter to first get a "normal" profession, and only then, if she still wants to, go to the artist.
Lyudmila Dmitrieva did not dare to disobey her mother, having entered the evening department of the Textile Institute after school. In parallel, she began working at a design research institute.
Acting education
All this time, receiving virtually technical specialties, the girl did not stop dreaming that she would someday become an actress. As a result, fate turned to face her, giving such a chance.
It all started with a small one: at the textile institute a theater studio worked, which was directed by the theater artist of the Soviet Army Leonid Persiyaninov. As a third-year student, Lyudmila Dmitrieva decided to try her luck. An experienced Leonid Nikolaevich immediately suggested that she read a selection of any passage from an artwork to evaluate her data. The heroine of our article was chosen by Katerina’s monologue from Ostrovsky’s play The Storm. She read so penetratingly that in the end she even burst into tears, and Persiyanov became sympathetic and immediately invited the future actress to study in her studio.
After graduating from a textile institute, Dmitrieva entered the Moscow Art Theater School. Her future husband Boris Ardov, who by that time was playing in the theater with Persiyanov, helped her prepare for difficult entrance exams. He brought the girl all the necessary textbooks and working materials, selected for her the most successful passages for presentation, learned them, taught him to recite fables.
In 1975, Dmitrieva received a graduation diploma. Immediately after that, she was accepted into the Moscow Art Theater troupe, she received an invitation there when she was still in her last year. They paid attention to the young actress, waiting for her to graduate from the university and fully devote herself to work on the stage.
Theater career
Actress Lyudmila Dmitrieva made her debut on the stage of the theater on the penultimate course of the Moscow Art Theater School. She was invited by artistic director Oleg Efremov, immediately offering the main role in the new performance.
By 1990, she performed in the theater more than 20 roles. Among the most striking images that the actress created on the stage in different years, one can recall Lyuba in the play "The Last" based on the novel by Maxim Gorky, the bride in the play "Tamada" directed by Kama Ginkas. In the play of Roman Viktyuk "Husband and wife will rent a room," Dmitrieva played the role of Gali.
There is in her piggy bank and the main role in the production of Oleg Efremov himself, the play was called "Nina". It is worth noting that almost every theatrical work of Lyudmila was immediately remembered by the audience and critics, she was struck by vivid images and masterful transformation. Photos of Lyudmila Dmitrieva regularly appeared on the pages of theater magazines. Experienced critics noted that she organically looked in all roles without exception: both the frivolous maid Sasha in "Summer Residents", and the inspired Til-Til in the "Blue Bird" based on the tales of Meterlink, and the insidious Sophia Karamzina in "Copper Grandma".
Dmitrieva took a worthy place in the stellar troupe of the theater. However, having worked on the stage for a decade and a half, she was forced to leave due to disagreements that she had with Oleg Efremov. The artistic director has always been distinguished by a difficult character.
In the project of Kalyagin
Soon after saying goodbye to Efremov’s troupe, dramatic changes took place in the biography of Lyudmila Dmitrieva. In her theater project called Et Cetera, she was invited by Alexander Kalyagin. Since 1993, Lyudmila became one of the leading actresses, they began to trust her with the main roles of a very different format - from dramatic images to comedic ones.
For example, in Uncle Van based on Chekhov’s play, she brilliantly coped with the role of the age-appropriate Maria Voynitskaya. As Dmitrieva herself admitted, her former mentor Efremov even came to the premiere, who praised the work done.
After this, the heroine of our article appeared in the performances "An old friend is better than the new two," "A doctor involuntarily," "The Secret of Aunt Melkin." She created characteristic and vivid images in the productions of Moliere, Shakespeare, Ostrovsky, Vampilov. It was thanks to these works that the actress became so famous and successful. In 1998, she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and in 2011 - People’s.
A lot of performances with her participation in the Et Cetera Theater went on for several years. For example, the production of "Competition", based on the work of the same name by Alexander Galin, in which Lyudmila plays the main role, lasted about ten years on the stage, constantly accompanied by full houses.
The production of "Luciete Gauthier, or Shoot at once!" Was also successful. with her participation. This is a play based on the comedy of the same name by Georges Feydo. This time the heroine of our article reincarnated on stage as Baroness Duverger. Critics and fans of the scene noted that the actress played with surprising ease, striking others with enviable eccentricity. The audience fell in love with her for her role as Mavrusha in the tragicomedy Death of Tarelkin, for the image of the Doge in Robert Shylock's Shylock. She turned into the prima of the theatrical scene thanks to the tragicomic and dramatic images, the ease with which she was transformed into a variety of characters.
Big screen debut
Significant changes in the creative biography of actress Lyudmila Dmitrieva occurred after she began to play in the movie. The heroine of our article herself noted that on the set she felt as organically as on the theater stage. But the theater still remained a priority in her work. However, Dmitrieva perfectly understood that without roles in the movie she would not gain popularity among the masses, so she willingly agreed to play in various tapes.
Her debut work was a small role in the psychological drama of Ilya Averbakh's "Foreign Letters", which was released in 1975. The next film by Lyudmila Dmitrieva was the melodrama Sentimental Novel, in which the main roles were played by Elena Koreneva and Elena Proklova. She also had to work next to Vladimir Basov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Yankovsky, Nikolai Karachentsev. This collaboration has given her a lot in terms of creative and professional development.
Starring
In 1977, Dmitrieva appears in the fairy tale film "The Rings of Almanzor", and in the adventure melodrama "Take Me With You" for the first time in her career she plays the main role.
Real fame comes to her in 1982 after the appearance on the screens of the comedy Alla Surikova called "Look for a woman." The director of this picture for a long time could not find an actress who would fit the type of "church rat", but the main cast was selected for a long time. So Dmitrieva became a real find for Surikova.
"Search a woman"
“Look for a Woman” - a detective comedy based on the play of the British playwright Jack Popluell “Mrs. Piper leads the investigation”. This story begins on New Year's Eve in Paris, when a notary Rocher, played by Sergey Yursky, sends employees home, and his telephone operator Alisa Postik (actress Sofiko Chiaureli), who lingers at work, becomes a witness of how the owner with a knife in his back falls on the table. However, when the police arrive, the body is not found, and the telephone operator now faces two weeks in prison for a fake call.
Dmitrieva in this tape played the role of Susanna Brissard, Roche's personal secretary, who at 34 turned into a "cracker in a hat." She is an old maid who, without reciprocity, is platonically in love with her boss. At the same time, shy, gloomy, claims to suffer from a heart ailment.
Supporting roles
However, after this, the main roles were not offered to Lyudmila, which could not but upset her. This continued until the end of the 1990s, until she got the image of a teacher of Russian language and literature in the comedy series "Cafe Strawberry".
In the 2000s, Dmitrieva began to star in TV shows often. For example, it can be seen in separate episodes of the Voronins, the Kremlin cadets, and the Lavrova Method. In 2013, she got a vivid and memorable role in the historical series "Secrets of the Institute of Noble Maidens."
Personal life
The personal life of actress Lyudmila Dmitrieva has developed successfully. She met her husband Boris Ardov when she studied at the theater studio of the Textile University. Youthful passion grew into a passionate romance, which ended in marriage. For Ardov, this marriage was the second, he broke up with Mira, who married Igor Starygin. At the same time, they maintained friendly relations among themselves, which were established between Mir and Lyudmila.
The heroine of our article settled on Ordynka, in the very center of Moscow. She lived in her mother-in-law's apartment, in which Faina Ranevskaya and Anna Akhmadulina, who knew them well, liked to stay. A frequent guest was Aleksey Batalov with his wife Gitana, who was the uterine brother of her husband.
In general, the first wife of Ardov played a big role in the structure of Lyudmila Dmitrieva’s personal life. For example, she lent her a white wedding suit, and then convinced her to give birth to a daughter, Masha. But all her efforts were in vain, the marriage with the excessively loving Ardov was short-lived. Three years later, he began an affair with Olga Rozovskaya, after which the couple broke up.
Second marriage
The second time the woman married the artist-decorator Yuri Senchishin. The personal life of the actress Lyudmila Dmitrieva in this marriage was much more successful, the couple still remain together.
In 1988, their son Alex was born.
Activities in recent years
Now Dmitrieva is 71 years old, but she does not leave the theater stage. In the theater, Kalyagina still plays in the play "Companions", which premiered about ten years ago. Viktor Verzhbitsky performs with her in a duet.
And in 2017, a fantastic melodrama Grail was released, in which Lyudmila played the supporting role.