Olga Wikland is a famous theater and film actress, her personal life was strange and unfortunate. Despite the fact that she was always popular and loved by the audience, the actress Wickland for a long time was looking for her way in life. She played in 30 performances and 20 films. Tragically, she died. Refusing to eat and water, not wanting to be a burden to anyone. Strong and strong-willed, she was forever remembered by the audience for her characteristic roles.
Childhood
Olga Wikland was born on December 7, 1911 in the capital. About her parents, no information has been preserved.
Education
It is known that after graduating from school Olga Wikland, whose photo is in this article, carried away by the theater, entered the technical school, which was created at the ISPSA theater. Her teacher was the actor Vanin. In 1935, she successfully completed her studies.
Theatrical career
Immediately after graduating from the theater college, Olga Vikland was accepted into the ISPSA troupe, where her teacher and then her husband Vasily Vanin was the art director. Olga Arturovna was his best student. It was on the stage of this theater that she played her most significant role. Lyudmila in the play "Vassa Zheleznova" became the most beloved role of the famous and talented actress.
In 1940, Wickland played in the second composition of Mirandolina in the production of The Innkeeper. On the stage of this theater, she played diverse and characteristic roles in 10 performances.
It is known that in 1949, Vasily Vanin was offered to head another theater, and he immediately agreed. And the very next year, Olga Wikland herself and her second husband moved to the same Pushkin Theater. Olga Arturovna became a leading actress. When Vasily Vanin died, Wickland remained in the theater. And despite the fact that many directors have changed, she was able to work in it for forty years.
At the Pushkin Theater, the outstanding actress Wickland played in ten performances. This is the role of Martha in the production of "Slave", Saltykova in the play "Last Days" and others. But not only she participated in the performances. It is known that Olga Wikland, whose biography is eventful, always tried to support young and talented actors. She was a real mentor to them.
But the theater itself acted cruelly with her. Once a new director appeared, who began to offer her minor roles that did not at all correspond to her talent and level of play. Olga Arturovna was a proud person, and she immediately wrote a letter of resignation. Then she regretted that she herself had not left the theater earlier.
Cinematic career
The film debut for the actress Wickland was the film "Native Fields" directed by Boris Babochkin and Anatoly Besupaev. The film takes the viewer in 1941 to a small village where all the men went to the front. The old men, children and women remained in the villages. The collective farm chairman also aspires to the front , but he must organize life in his village, so he is not yet taken to the front. In this film, which was released in 1944, the outstanding actress played the role of Duni.
The very next year, actress Olga Wikland, whose films are always interesting to the audience, is shot in the film "Guilty Without Guilt" directed by Vladimir Petrov. Her role as Nina Korinkina was talented. And in 1949, Olga Arturovna also successfully played the role of Telegin’s dispatcher in the musical film “Happy Flight”, directed by Vladimir Nemolyaev.
But the actress Wickland starred not only in films designed for adult viewers. In her cinematic piggy bank, where there are approximately 20 films, there are also films that are intended for children. For example, in 1952 Olga Arturovna played the role of Tsaritsa-Vodyanitsa in the fairy tale “Sadko”. In 1957, she also successfully and talented played a small role as a peasant in the film "Don Quixote". In 1966, the guys saw her in the role of Babarikha in the movie "The Tale of Tsar Saltan."
But nevertheless, Olga Arturovna gained popularity and fame among the children's audience after she starred in two films: “The Snow Queen” and “Twelve Months”. In the film “The Snow Queen”, directed by Gennady Kazansky, she played the ataman who did not want to let Gerda go in search of her brother. This film was released at the box office in 1966.
In the movie "Twelve Months" directed by Anatoly Granik, she got an equally interesting and characteristic role. In this film, she successfully and talentedly plays the stepmother of a young girl. The heroine Wikland is so wayward and so capricious that it is hard not to believe her. This film was released at the box office in 1972.
Personal life
The life of the actress Wickland, personal and creative, is closely intertwined with two men. The first husband of the outstanding actress was her theatrical teacher Vasily Vasilyevich Vanin. Their romance began even at the time when Olga Arturovna was a student. They merried. But Vasily Vanin was always fascinated by women who simply adored him. No matter how Olga struggled with her husband’s temperament, she couldn’t change anything.
Therefore, Olga Viklandt, whose personal life was not happy, immediately drew attention to the new actor, who during the war, when the theater was evacuated, came to work in it. Mikhail Nazvanov, who had only recently freed himself from the Gulag, immediately drew attention to the beautiful Wickland.
Because of him, the actress divorced her first husband and entered into a new marriage. But when the theater returned from evacuation, there was nowhere to live as a young spouse, so they settled in the same apartment where Vasily Vanin lived. But she outlived her husbands.
The outstanding actress had no children, so she gave all her motherly love to her sister's daughter, who died early.
The death of the actress
Having left the theater, for a long time, the actress Wickland still tried to take care of herself. But once she injured her thigh. Olga Arturovna soon realized that now she alone could not move. And in her advanced age there are unlikely to be any improvements. And the actress decided to die on her own, not wanting to become a burden for someone.
While still in the hospital, she turned her back to everyone in the common room and refused water and food. All the patients who lay with her in the ward saw how bravely and steadily she endured torment, waiting for death. Dying, she asked that she be buried quietly, without requiem. And she bequeathed to bury her next to Vasily Vanin, whom she had loved all her life. Olga Arturovna Vikland died in early May 1995.