We can say with confidence: who in childhood did not see the amazing Soviet children's philosophical film “About the Little Red Riding Hood”, he lost a lot. The cinematic biography of Yana Poplavskaya, a famous Russian actress and TV presenter, in fact, began precisely with the role of Little Red Riding Hood. Young Yana even became a laureate of the State Prize of the Soviet Union for this role in 1978.
Biography of Yana Poplavskaya: childhood
A girl was born on June 28 in 1967 in Moscow in a family of creative people - actress Yevgenia Yurievna (Georgian roots) and journalist Yevgeny Vasilyevich (Jewish). As a child, she was a terrible hooligan, she was friends only with boys, she loved to triple all kinds of disgrace at school, for which her parents often had to blush.
In order to somehow calm down the daughter’s turbulent temper and direct her energy flowing over the edge, her parents passed Jan to a sports school, and she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics. And here she reached certain heights, became a candidate for master of sports.
The future actress and TV presenter all the time dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon, and precisely because her grandmother, who herself was a doctor, said that there were very few female neurosurgeons. Yana often came to her grandmother and watched her doing her job. Once, a young surgeon even performed an operation herself - she sewed an ear on a hamster, which a cat tore off, and it took root perfectly. But the dream was not destined to come true, acting genes still won.
Biography of Yana Poplavskaya: debut in the cinema
Together with her mother, Yana was on the set at the age of 4, but the wayward girl did not want to be removed. For the film "Remember Your Name", when Poplavskaya was 6 years old, the director Kolosov was looking for an actor for the role of a boy. He invited Yana to play, but she categorically refused, said that she wanted only a girl. The director agreed, but during the editing the episode with Poplavskaya was cut out, at the premiere the girl did not see herself and was very upset.
Her debut as an actress took place when Yana was 10 years old. At that time, her mother worked at the Taganka Theater, and the girl played a role in the play "Crossroads." But the real success came to her with "Little Red Riding Hood", this is the first bright event that contains a cinematic biography of Yana Poplavskaya.
The director of the film was looking for the actress for the main role for more than a year, and all this time he was advised to take film screenings from Poplavskaya, but, looking at the girl’s photos, he refused. And only finally desperate, he still agreed. When the girl finished her "introductory" performance, he grabbed her in his arms, began to circle with the words: "Finally, I found you!" After the premiere of the film, a real fame fell on the young actress. The whole country found out who Yana Poplavskaya is.
Biography: personal life
The actress married at the age of 17 for actor Sergei Ginzburg. But after 25 years of family life, they parted. Poplavskaya has two sons - Klim and Nikita. “I see no reason to maintain disability and call them family,” Yana Poplavskaya said about the reason for the divorce . Children now live with her.
Little Red Riding Hood today
In the arsenal of Poplavskaya more than 15 movie roles, successful work on the theater stage. Now she works as a teacher at the Ostankino Higher School of Cinema and Television and at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University, as well as Yana Poplavskaya, a successful radio and television presenter.