Irina Bunina: biography and films

In this article we will talk about who Irina Bunina is. Films with her participation, as well as a short biography will be given below. This is a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian film and theater actress.

Biography

Irina Bunina was born in 1939, on August 17, in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region. She studied at the Moscow Theater School named after B. Schukin. In 1961 she graduated. Started to work. In 1961-1966 she played in the academic Theater of Evgeny Vakhtangov. So began her career Irina Bunina. Her personal life will be considered later.

Her parents, Alexei and Claudia Bunin all his life worked in the acting field. The childhood of little Irina is hardly happy. Times were hard, hungry. The family often moved from place to place. In search of work, Irina's parents knocked on all the provincial theaters, took on any roles, just to earn their daughter food.

And so, everything seemed to be working out. There is education, there is a profession, there is a dream, which, by the way, has even begun to come true. The fact that Irina was taken to the Vakhtangov Theater was a great honor for her. And they treated her there very well. Particularly attentive to Bunina was the then popular actor, Nikolai Gritsenko. However, the 50-year-old artist, behind a mask of helpfulness, hid obvious sympathy, which later developed into an obsession. He, being a connoisseur of female nature, managed to fall in love with a 20-year-old actress. He broke off his previous relationship and invited Irina to live together. Despite the difference in age, Bunina was sure that she could become happy with this person. She agreed to move to his outskirts of Moscow. But her dreams of love crashed on the intoxicated life embodied in the lifestyle of Gritsenko. She wanted idylls, and he wanted entertainment. She was looking for love, and he lived only with passion. Moreover, these passions were addressed not so much to a young lover, as to a drunken reckless life. Bunina left, but the revenge of the vexed Gritsenko cost her work in the theater and reputation.

In 1966, Irina Bunina moved to the city of Kiev. She played as part of the National Russian Drama Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka. In addition, she was shot at the A. Dovzhenko film studio . In Kiev, she met a man who became the father of her daughter. This is an actor Les Serdyuk. Their relationship was fleeting. After the birth of their daughter Anastasia, they somehow parted quickly, most likely on his initiative. Irina suffered for a long time, since feelings for Serdyuk at that time had not yet cooled down. But her "tender heart" managed to recover from shocks. And everything began to improve in work. Bunin began to trust big roles and began to invite to the cinema.

Theatrical roles

She played in the following productions: “Living Corpse”, “Barbaras”, “Late Love”, “Power of Darkness”, “WESTER”, “Paper Gramophone”, “Woe from Wit”. She also reincarnated as the grandmother-mother for the play "Christmas Dreams." It was put by Irina Duka, and the plot was based on the play “While She Died” by Nadezhda Ptushkina.

Filmography

Irina Bunina is an actress who has played many roles. In particular, in 1959 she starred in the film "Father's House". In 1960, she got a role in the film “I Love You, Life!”. In 1961 she worked on the tape "Artist from Kokhanovka." In 1964, she starred in the films Mother and Stepmother and Believe Me People. The end of the 60s was marked for Bunina by participation in the films “Two Years Over the Abyss”, “Every Night at Eleven”, “Afrikanych”.

In 1973, the actress received the role of Lushka in the television series Eternal Call. It was this work that brought her wide popularity. Irina Bunina perfectly embodied the image of Lushka on the screen, which in search of female happiness sometimes does not look too dignified and too relaxed. But this is just a mask under which oppressive loneliness lies.

In 1975, Bunina starred in the movie "My Dear". In 1976, the film “The disturbing month of spring” was released with her participation. In 1977 she worked on the films “Recollection” and “Own Opinion”. In 1979, she starred in the films "A Trip Through the City" and "White Shadow."

1983 was marked for the actress by the release of three films at once with her participation: “There would be no happiness”, “Mirgorod and its inhabitants” and “Whirlpool”. In 1989, the tape "My People" was released. In 1999, he worked on the films “Bourgeois's Birthday” and “Ave Maria”.

Of the latest films of the actress, which were released at the beginning of the new century, we can mention “Lady Bum”, “Babi Yar”, “Russian Medicine”, “Ashes of the Phoenix”, “The Myth of the Perfect Man”, etc.

What about today?

Irina Bunina is now very ill. She underwent several complex operations. She lives alone, but her daughter and granddaughter support the actress and do not let her lose heart.

And even though her career was thorny, and her personal life was full of suffering, she was able to maintain her dignity and did not allow difficulties to break her “tender heart”.