Marina Mstislavovna Neelova was born in Leningrad on January 8, 1947. From early childhood, the future People's Artist of Russia gravitated to art. At the age of four, the girl was already dancing in the classroom at the ballet school, where the parents of Marina Neyolova identified their daughter. And in the future, Marina faced the difficult fate of a theater actress and a long thorny path to the heights of genuine art.
Studying in Petersburg
In 1965, Marina Neyolova entered the Theater Academy (formerly LGITMiK), and in 1969 she brilliantly completed her studies on the course of Vasily Merkuryev. Then the creative biography of Marina Neyolova began. During her studies, she made a film debut, which, in fact, determined the future fate of the young actress. It was a role in the film "Old, Old Tale", which received rave reviews from critics. Neyolova dreamed of working in the Leningrad Theater BDT under the direction of Georgy Tovstonogov, and therefore, after graduation, she set out to ask the famous director to enroll her in the troupe. However, an innate sense of tact did not allow the girl to openly make her request.
Moving to Moscow
Then the biography of Marina Neyolova replenished with new pages. Having decided in the future to wait for an invitation from Tovstonogov, Marina moves to Moscow, where she enters the troupe of the Moscow City Council to the director Yuri Zavadsky. At the same time, the actress gets acquainted with Anatoly Efros and passes tests with him. However, the director is doubtful about the small growth of Marina Neyolova. In 1974, Neyelova transferred to the Sovremennik Theater, where she still works today. During her formation as a theater actress, she successfully participated in several film projects. The 1972 film "Monologue" with Mikhail Gluzsky made critics unanimously recognize our heroine’s game as a manifestation of true acting, and films with Marina Neyolova soon began to take their place at the box office.
Amplois
From 1970 to 1980, Marina Neyolova successfully developed her creative career. In theatrical performances, she performs the main and title roles, starring in films with such famous directors as Eldar Ryazanov, George Danelia, Vadim Abdrashitov. The role of the young actress is closest to "travesty," and the spiritual component of her roles impresses with her integrity and depth. The heroines of Neelova suffer, they are vulnerable, trying to resist the brutal injustice. The images that the actress embodies on the stage and on the screen reflect the life of many, many Russian women, their aspirations, aspirations, dreams and disappointments.
Drama and tragedy on stage
Marina Neyolova is a dramatic, even tragic actress, if we consider her roles in a narrower sense. At first glance, ordinary, most insignificant events in the life of a woman are presented to Neyelova in the focus of deep analysis, and the audience, with bated breath, follow the development of the plot. However, for all the obvious dramatic background of the production, Marina is not alien to any share of comedy, she is able to give a humorous coloring to the episode, soften the burden of what is happening on the stage and thus realize the full versatility of her theatrical skills. The audience understands this, and they are grateful to the talented actress for their deep impressions.
Chess sketch
The personal life of Marina Neyolova began immediately after completing the course at the Academy of Theater Arts, when a graduated actress married the director Anatoly Vasiliev, moved with him to Moscow and lived in a marriage for 8 long years. Marina tries not to remember this period of her life.
Neyelova’s real personal life actually began with meeting the world chess champion Garry Kasparov. This happened in 1984 at a party with pianist Vladimir Krainev and his wife Tatyana Tarasova, who is a close friend of Marina. They met - chess player Garry Kasparov, 21 years old, and actress Marina Neyolova, she was then 37 years old. A stormy romance began, which lasted several years and ended with the birth of a child, a girl. Marina called her daughter Nika.
Relations with Kasparov ended there, and this was largely due to the efforts of the mother of the champion, who did not particularly pay attention to actress Neyelova. The influence of Garry Kasparov's mother on her son was overwhelming. Klara Shagenovna took care of her only child in all directions. She accompanied the chess player on his trips to the competitions, where she arranged herself during the match behind him and inseparably watched the game, believing that her silent presence helps her son win.
Nick's daughter
Nika Neyolova-Gevorgyan, daughter of Marina Neyolova and Kirill Gevorgyan (not related, but by recognition), today a well-known artist, is engaged in installation, lives in London. During her stay in Holland, along with her father, the head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Amsterdam, Nika entered the Royal Academy of Arts, graduated from it and then continued her studies at UCL SLADE of FINE ART, London School of Fine Arts, receiving a master's degree after graduation. Nika is fluent in French and English. Fine art became a part of her life, installations by the artist Nika Neyelova-Gevorgyan are exhibited in prestigious art salons around the world. The last contest Nick took part in was organized by Charles Saatchi's London gallery for graduates of art institutes in England. The young artist took first place and received the prize awarded to her live on 4 television channels in the UK.
Daughter and her work
What is Nicki's art installation? This is a combination of the most unpredictable materials, items and stationery. How can lamb bones be used in art, for example? Coal anthracite, nutshell or dried insects? After all, all of the above is a natural material, which means that in the hands of the artist can take a unique, inimitable form. And the artist Nika, a deeply creative person, the daughter of Marina Neyolova, creates her fantastically interesting images by folding, gluing, combining and combining. Her works are awarded with diplomas. The artist Ilya Kabakov, who reached unattainable heights in the installation business, characterizes Nika's work as an example of new solutions previously unknown in art. Perhaps Nike is helped in creating exclusive works by her independent and decisive character, which was cultivated in a five-year-old girl by her father and mother. Immediately after the family moved to Paris, Nika went to school, not knowing a single French word. Classmates teased her, laughed at her Russian origin. Nika only frowned, and after three months she began to speak French. Classmates and parents opened their mouths in surprise when they heard quite correct phrases from the lips of little Nika Neelova-Gevorgyan.
Marriage
In the early 90s, Marina Neyolova all devoted herself to work in the theater, experiencing a period of relative loneliness. Then she periodically happened and role in the movie. Marina devoted all her free time to raising her daughter. And when Kirill Horatievich Gevorgyan appeared in her life, the actress saw in this meeting a new perspective on life for herself. The future husband of Marina Neyolova was a diplomat, a responsible employee of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For a long time he worked abroad. Despite the age difference, Marina Neyolova and Kirill Gevorgyan got married. The husband was six years younger than his wife, but this did not affect their relationship. In 1993, the diplomat Gevorgyan was appointed to France, and the whole family moved from Moscow to Paris. Now Marina had to periodically come to the performances of Sovremennik, which were impossible without her, because the audience went to "Neyelov". The actress was tired of constant flights, but there was no way out, she could not leave her native theater. Galina Volchek, the artistic director of the theater, tried to customize the performances, matching them with the arrivals of Marina, and to some extent it was possible. The biography of Marina Neyelova, thanks to the numerous voyages, became more informative. Gradually, the situation improved. Neelova’s husband worked at the Russian embassy, little Nika went to school, and Marina lived between Paris and Moscow.
Theatre
The repertoire of the Sovremennik Theater has many productions based on the works of literary classics. Marina Neyolova, whose biography is constantly updated with new roles, is occupied in almost all of these performances. "Three Sisters" and "Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov, "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare, "Examiner" by Gogol, "Anfisa" by Leonid Andreev. And in just 30 years of service at Sovremennik, the actress played more than 60 roles. In the play "Cherry Orchard" in 1976, Marina got the role of Ani, which the actress was age-appropriate. The 1997 Cherry Orchard, staged in 1997, already allowed her to play the role of Ranevskaya. Lyubov Andreevna Ranevskaya performed by Marina Neyolova shocked the audience on the day of the premiere. The tragedy of the finale, the inevitability and hopelessness of grief - all this was written on the face of Ranevskaya. And in wide-open eyes, the pain from the blows of an ax, cutting down cherry trees, was reflected.
Movie
The filmography of Marina Neyolova has about 50 paintings with her participation. Some of them went unnoticed. As the actress herself says: "I would leave a few films, and deleted the rest." But films such as "Autumn Marathon" or "You are my one" are not forgotten, many viewers watch them several times. Marina leads all her film roles unobtrusively, nobly, correctly emphasized. Her heroines have an internal culture, they are shy and restrained. And at the same time, each of them is capable of exploding, decisive action, if it comes to a loved one. As it was in the movie "Autumn Marathon", in the episode when Andrei Buzykin almost gets hit by a car. Alla runs up and (where a quiet employee of the Mashburo just got to) a kite pounces on the dumbfounded driver of the Gazelle. Such transformations are beyond the power of every actress. Neyolova improvises on the go, not paying attention to the script, and her vision of the situation gives a special emotional coloring to the episode.
A family
The biography of Marina Neyolova can tell us a lot about the qualities of the character of the actress. She is a doubter, constantly analyzing everything and everything. Once she complexed about her too thin waist, forced the dressmaker to re-measure it several times, because she did not want to admit that her waist was only 54 centimeters. For some reason, Marina believed that this was not very normal, just unacceptable. Once, when asked by her friends how she was doing in family life, Marina sadly replied: "This is the only role that I can’t do." At the same time, everyone knows that she is happy in her marriage, and her husband Kirill Gevorgyan simply does not have a soul in her and is ready to carry (and wears) in her arms. The family of Neyelova and Gevorgyan are friendly, only their daughter is trying to distance herself from her parents out of a desire to be completely independent.
Abandonment of the past
Neyelova is one of the few high-class actresses who manage to combine their profession and home, family existence in all its manifestations into one. Marina knows how to cross out episodes from her life, in the same way as whole pieces of film are cut out in the editing room at the movie studio, irrevocably and without regret. Often the actress is asked whether she really remembers her former hobby, Kasparov. And gradually, everyone begins to understand that there will never be an answer to this question. Marina with cutting scissors cut out everything unnecessary from her past. The biography of Neyelova Marina Mstislavovna, thus, undergoes a kind of editing, revealing to the public only the most important events in the life of the actress.
Documentary
Not so long ago - in 2011 - the documentary "Do not ask me about my novels" was shot about the life and work of Marina Neyolova. For an hour, the actress talked about herself, about her work in her native Sovremennik Theater, about her daughter and husband. Kirill Gevorgyan, the husband of Marina, took part in the filming of the film, and Nick Neelova-Gevorgyan, daughter, spoke about herself. But not a word was said about the chess player Kasparov, to whom the actress devoted several years of her life.