Biography of Ostroumova
Olga Mikhailovna began in the city of Bugurslan in the Orenburg region, near the church, where her grandfather was a priest. She was born on September 21, 1947 in the family of a physics teacher and a housewife. Due to the fact that her grandfather was a clergyman, the Ostroumov family was oppressed and was looking for a better life in other cities of Russia. When the family settled in Kuibyshev, their fourth child, Olya, was born. She was the youngest.
The family lived financially rather difficultly, but holidays were always celebrated in their house, books from the father’s huge library were read aloud, it was warm and cozy.
The biography of Olga Ostroumova as an actress began in 1966, when she makes a fateful decision to devote her life to the theater. Having bought a daughter a train ticket and giving them pies, her parents sent her to Moscow, where she did not know anyone then. Having successfully passed the exams on the first attempt, young Olga became a student of GITIS and all the time she studied she lived in the hostel of the university. After graduating from GITIS in 1970, Olga goes to work in the Moscow Youth Theater.
The biography of Olga Ostroumova could have remained the biography of a theatrical actress, if not for the role of schoolgirl Cherkasova in the popular film “We'll Live Until Monday”. This film directed by Rostotsky made Olga Ostroumova famous.
This is followed by another significant role in her life - the heroine Zhenya Komelkova in the movie "And the Dawns Here Are Quiet" in 1972. The film made her a cult artist, in many countries they now knew who such actress Olga Ostroumova was. Her biography thanks to her work in this film was replenished with a new title - she becomes the laureate of the Italian Silver Nymph award. In 1979, Olga Ostroumova became a laureate of the USSR State Prize.
The actress was married to a young actor, her fellow student Boris Annaberdyev. However, in the early seventies she fell in love with Mikhail Levitin, who staged a play in the Youth Theater, where Olga worked. Michael was also married at the time of the meeting with Ostroumova. Their tumultuous romance lasted more than one year and still crowned the knot. In 1976, their daughter Olga was born in their union, and in 1984 - the son Mikhail.
From 1973 to 1983, Olga worked in the troupe of the Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, and in 1983 she worked at the Mossovet Theater.
Having lived together for a long 23 years, Ostroumova and Levitin broke up in 1992.
In 1995, the biography of Olga Ostroumova is again undergoing changes in her personal life. Sixty-year-old actor Valentin Gaft divorces his second wife. Six months do not pass, as he already meets Olga Ostroumova in a cafe in Sokolniki. And he went there precisely with the expectation of seeing her. As Valentin Gaft admitted, he noticed her a long time ago - back in 1978 during the filming of Ryazanov’s Garage. But then she was still married and raised a little daughter, so the actor did not make any attempts to courtship. After that meeting in a cafe in 1995, he invites the actress to a restaurant - this is how their romantic relationship began. A year later they got married.
In 1993, the actress was awarded the title "People's Artist of Russia."
Now Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova lives and works in Moscow. She has two children and three grandchildren.
In the photo: actress's husband Valentin Gaft and Olga Ostroumova herself, whose biography was presented in the article.