Rina Green: biography, personal life, photos, films

The actress with a strange name and an equally unusual appearance was phenomenally popular. Rina Zelenaya - both adults and children adored her. The article, which tells about the biography of the actress, her creative career and personal life, invites readers to once again recall this extraordinary woman, see her photo.

A brief biography of Rina Zelena: the beginning of her life

The heroine of this story has gone a long life journey of almost 90 years. She was born in 1901, at a time when the tsar ruled Russia. Survived the revolution, the overthrow of the monarchy, the formation of Soviet power, the birth and prosperity of the USSR, World War II, the years of repression, the Khrushchev thaw and Gorbachev perestroika.

All this time many events took place in her life: she studied, worked, fell in love. How to put a story about such a busy life in one small article? Let's try to briefly introduce the reader to the biography of Rina Zelena.

So, the future star was born in 1901 on November 7, in Tashkent. She was the third child of her parents. Mother was Nadezhda Fedorovna, father - Vasily Ivanovich. The newborn girl was named Katya. Yes, the real name of the actress does not sound like we are used to. Her full name is Ekaterina Vasilievna Zelenaya.

In Tashkent, Katya Zelenaya went to study at a real school, but did not study there for long, since the family moved to Moscow, and her father gave his beloved daughter to a girls' gymnasium for girls from wealthy families.

In 1918, Vasily Ivanovich was appointed to Odessa and first went there alone, without a family. When the wife, along with Katya and her sister, came to her husband, it turned out that he already had another woman. Katerina decided to look for work in order to start earning money and help her mother get a new place.

By chance, the girl saw a piece of paper on the wall of the house announcing the admission of youth to a theater school and decided to go to the address indicated. Presenting herself before the introductory commission, she began to read a dramatic poem.

She struggled to convey the tragedy of poetry with her voice and facial expressions, but the more she tried, the more theatrical teachers laughed. Katya was adopted unanimously. How could a girl with such an incredible comedic talent be missed!

A few years later, Katya graduated from the Moscow Theater School. Ahead the girl was waiting for a long creative journey.

The beginning of an acting career

In 1921, Green began to play in the Odessa theater KROT, located in the old basement. It happened that in one evening she had to perform five roles. On stage, she was universal: she sang, danced, uttered monologues.

The girl's performances were always accompanied by noisy success. Soon she decides to move to Moscow, learning about the opening of new theaters there. Arriving in a big city, Rina Zelenaya quickly realized that no one was waiting for her here. For some time she could not find work and was in a depressed mental state.

Once she caught the eye of a catchy sign of the theater "Do not cry!". It turned out that this was not a theater, but a night cabaret, and it was very popular and expensive. The metropolitan bohemia gathered there at night: musicians, artists, actors and writers. The repertoire of the entertainment institution was based on funny parodies, comic couplets, and romances.

This time, actress Rina Zelena was lucky - she was received in "Do not Cry!". There she began to perform songs specially composed for cabaret by composers Matvey Blanter and Yuri Milyutin to the poems of the poets Vera Inber and Nikolai Erdman.

Rina's restless nature did not allow her to stay long in one place. The actress goes to Petrograd and settles there in the theater "Balabag", then in the "Bat". And yet she returned to Moscow. At this time, the Moscow Satire Theater was created there, where the actress was pleased to take. After all, her talent perfectly corresponded to the creative direction of the newly made theater.

When she first appeared on the big stage, the audience did not even notice this fragile, unremarkable girl. But as soon as she began to speak words from the role, all the attention of the audience instantly switched to her. Moscow spectators fell in love with the bright actress. The article in the photo Rina Zeleny in her youth.

Origin of an unusual name

Once Katerina, an actress of the KROT theater, together with her colleagues drew a poster for the play, where she was to perform. It was required to write in large letters the name of the young comedic prima, who did not want to fit completely on the sheet.

The young actress acted decisively, she boldly cut off the first part of the name Catherine, it turned out - Rina. Everyone suddenly liked the creative pseudonym. From now on, the actress began to be called exclusively by Rina Zelena.

Entertainer

Once, the actress was supposed to perform at a concert in the club, but her accompanist did not come. The administrator, in desperation, asked Rina Green to come up with something to keep the bored audience busy.

The actress took the stage and began to read Chukovsky’s “Moidodyr” in a childish voice. The audience liked it so much that they again and again asked to repeat the impromptu number. So the actress discovered a new role and began to regularly perform on the stage.

At this time, such popular children's poets as Agnia Barto, Samuel Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov specially wrote poems for Rina Zelenaya. The actress wrote some texts for her pop numbers herself. She often spoke on the radio, the children sent her letters.

Movie work

Of course, cinema could not ignore such an interesting creative person as Rina Zelenaya. In 1931, the actress first tried herself in the cinema, playing the role of a singer from the gang of thieves Zhigan. The tape included a very small episode with the actress, but this was only the beginning! From now on, films with Rina Zelenaya will delight the audience constantly.

In 1935, she starred in an episode in the film "Love and Hate." In 1939, Green, together with Agniya Barto, wrote the script for the comedy "Foundling" and plays the funny role of Arisha's housekeeper in it.

The actress loves cinema and the filming process, therefore, without hesitation, agrees to the most minor roles. But she plays so that the attention of the audience is always riveted precisely to her character. And this always happens, no matter in which film she appears.

Here are some of Green's most memorable movie roles:

• make-up artist ("Spring);
• secretary ("Bright Way");
• old woman Nadia ("The Tale of Lost Time");
• restaurant singer ("Give a complaint book");
• Aunt Ganymede (Three Fat Men);
• Elizaveta Timofeevna ("Girl without an Address");
• grandmother ("About Little Red Riding Hood").

But there were 2 more roles that became especially important in the work of the actress. For them, many called Rina the "queen of the episode."

Star roles of Rina Green

In 1975, on television during the New Year holidays, Soviet schoolchildren were shown the new film "The Adventures of Pinocchio." The success was deafening. Moreover, adults liked the film no less than children. A small role of Tortilla's tortoise was played by Rina Zeleny.

And how organically she played this role! Since then, many began to call the artist nothing more than a “tortilla tortilla,” which could not but annoy the star, but popularity has its own laws that cannot be resisted.

It was difficult to predict that soon fate will give the actress another star role. However, after a few years, the actress is offered to play Mrs. Hudson in the serial film "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson." Of course, she gave her consent. The success of the image of the old English lady - the apartment owner of the famous detective, even surpassed the popularity of the unforgettable Tortilla.

The first series of "Sherlock Holmes" was released on television in 1979, the last - in 1986. We are happy to watch this film now. We invite you to take a look at the photo of the unforgettable Mrs. Hudson performed by Rina Zelena.

Literary talent

From a very young age, the actress kept a diary where she wrote down the most interesting events of life, and there were a lot of those in the actress. Subsequently, a book entitled "Scattered Pages" was published based on these notes.

Judging by how easily these memoirs are read, how interesting the actress leads the story of various funny life episodes, we can conclude that the actress had a remarkable literary gift.

The personal life of the "Queen of the episode"

Our heroine got married very early - at 18, for lawyer Vladimir Blumenfeld. The first husband was much older than Rina, perhaps because of this, the married life of Rina Zelena soon fell apart. But after the divorce, the former spouses maintained friendly relations all their lives.

The second husband of Rina Zelenaya was the architect Konstantin Topuridze. With him, the actress lived for more than 40 years. The couple did not have common children, but Rina adored the two sons of her husband from her first marriage and her nephews. In the photo you can see how the happy married couple looked.

Interesting Facts

Despite the fact that the personal life of Rina Zelena can be called happy, she was never a good housewife and absolutely did not know how to cook, sew, clean. All this was done by a housekeeper.

When the actress performed away concerts at the front during World War II, she could not even sew on buttons that had come off her coat. The boys helped the actress solve this overwhelming task.

Rina did not know how to save money, did not save anything for a "rainy day" and always wondered how her colleagues in the acting department had money for expensive antiques or fashionable things.

She was very fond of sports. In her youth she was actively engaged in rowing and all her life until old age she played billiards. Yes, such was the indefatigable Rina Green.

The personal biography of the actress is approaching a sad ending.

The last years of life and death

In the late eighties, Rina Zeleny began to live in the movie Veteran's House. She did not see well and had difficulty moving due to trauma. But despite the feeling of well-being, the aged actress nevertheless every day began with the "lying" morning exercises.

In the Veteran’s House, Zelena didn’t communicate with anyone, her old age annoyed her. However, a sense of humor never left her. Once, during a walk, the actress fell. It was not possible to stand up independently, and she was not visible behind the bushes. To attract attention, she loudly said: "Pay attention! Rina Zelena is lying around here! She fell!"

The people's favorite died on April 1, 1991. She was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow, next to her husband, Konstantin Topuridze.

Filmography of the actress

The list of films in which Rina Green played:

• "A ticket to life";
• "Foundling";
• "Love and hate";
• "The Old Courtyard";
• "Bright Way";
• "Glinka Composer";
• "Spring"
• "Poet";
• "Hypnosis session";
• "A precious gift";
• "Funny stars";
• "Girl without an address";
• "Seriously";
• "Seven Nannies";
• "Groom from the other world";
• "Key";
• "Cain XVIII";
• "Cheryomushki";
• "Bicycle Tamers";
• "The Tale of Lost Time";
• "Give a plaintive book";
• "Everything is for you";
• "Operation Y" and Shurik's other adventures ";
• "Three Fat Men";
• "Foreigner";
• "In the city of C";
• "New Year Abduction";
• "The Adventures of the Yellow Case";
• "Attention, turtle!";
• "How we searched for Tishka";
• "12 chairs";
• "Hello, Warsaw!";
• "Telegram";
• "Fire";
• "Nylon 100%";
• "Starling and lyre";
• "The Adventures of Pinocchio";
• "One Hundred Grams for Courage";
• Eleven Hopes;
• "About Little Red Riding Hood";
• The series "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson";
• "Citizens of the universe";
• "Valentine and Valentine."

Also, the actress worked a lot in the field of sounding cartoons. Her voice sounds in the following animated tapes:

• "Who said meow?";
• "Naughty cat";
• "Firefly number 4. Our pencil";
• "Rooster and colors";
• "Mouse and pencil";
• "The little frog is looking for dad";
• "Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom";
• "About the evil stepmother";
• "Naughty Princess";
• "Beavers follow the trail";
• "The Canterville Ghost";
• "A cherished dream";
• "The Wizard of Oz";
• "How the goat kept the Earth";
• "Dunno in the Solar City";
• "Alice in Wonderland";
• "Mom for a mammoth";
• "Mrs. Vinegar and Mr. Vinegar."

Final word

It is nice to remember the great actress, read about the biography, the personal life of Rina Zelenaya, take another look at her photo. I would like to mentally thank the talented artist for the joy that her work in the cinema continues to bring to people!