Actress Irina Shmeleva is known for her roles in the Soviet comedies Acceleratka, Trap for a Lonely Man, Womanizer and many others. The image of a bright long-legged brunette immediately fell in love with the Russian audience. However, in the 90s, the girl suddenly disappeared from the movie screens. How her future fate and career has developed, you will learn from this article.
Childhood and youth
Shmeleva Irina, an actress of Soviet and Russian cinema, was born in 1961, January 24, in the city of Kushva, Sverdlovsk Region. The girl was brought up very strictly. After graduation, she worked as a mass entertainer in the local palace of culture. In 1980, the girl entered the B.V. Theater School Schukina, who successfully graduated four years later.
The role of Zoe Kosmodemyanskoy
In 1985, the actress starred in Ozerov, Yuri Nikolaevich, whom he considers to be a real general of Russian cinema. In his film "The Battle of Moscow", the girl played Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Irina Shmeleva recalls that she suffered a lot while working on the role. In torture scenes, she was hit on the back with leather lashes. Of course, the instruments of torture were fake, but the girl still walked all in scratches and bruises. And they generally wanted to shoot the execution for real, having previously filed the rope. Fortunately, this idea was quickly abandoned. Despite everything, Shmeleva recalls with pleasure her work in this picture.
Painting "Kin-Dza-Dza!"
The actress says that the shooting in this film was unusual. Director Grigory Danelia wanted the characters in the frame to look phantasmagorically, digging in garbage cans and trash, looking for details for the costumes of the characters in the picture. For some reason, the director didn’t like the chic leather jumpsuit that the costumers sewed specifically for the actress. Grigory Nikolaevich found a piece of canvas for Irina, which is usually used for mopping, and then inserted a rusty spring into her mouth. In this form, Shmeleva entered the frame and began acting. The film "Kin-dza-dza!" had great success with the audience.
Filmography
The heyday of the actress's film career fell on the perestroika years, she managed to star in several films before the Soviet cinema industry finally collapsed. Irina Shmeleva made her debut in a cameo role in the film directed by Danelia "Tears Trickled." Then she began to be invited to shoot again and again. While still a student of "Pike", the actress starred in the films "Pokrovsky Gate", "Alyosha", "Seven Soldiers" and "Find and Defuse". The directors liked working with a spectacular and talented girl. Irina was involved in two paintings by Vladimir Pavlovich Basov: "Seven screams in the ocean" and "Time and the Conway family." The popularity of the actress was constantly gaining momentum. Shmeleva starred in such comedies beloved by all, such as “Where is Nofelet?”, “Accelerate”, “Trap for a single man”, “Womanizer”. Then came the era of cooperative cinema. At first, Irina tried to play what they were offering, but then she realized that this work did not satisfy her professionally. The girl decided to leave the career of the actress and went to America.
Personal life
Shmeleva Irina, an actress who was incredibly in demand in the post-Soviet era, got married twice. Her first chosen one was the sculptor Yosya Kavalerchik. He was a talented, intelligent and funny person who immediately fell in love with a spectacular girl. Irina married him more by a sudden impulse than by love, and quickly regretted it. Soon she left her first husband. There were plenty of fans for the actress. Letters with declarations of love came to Mosfilm in bags.
Irina Shmeleva, whose personal life evolved quite rapidly, constantly heard fervent confessions addressed to her. However, she soon met a man of her life - Nikolai Pavlovich Bogolyubov. He is the grandson of the famous physicist N.N. Bogolyubov. The guy showed great perseverance, courting the famous actress, but Irina did not reciprocate. She did not like young men, and Nikolai was five years younger than her. A year later, Bogolyubov managed to win the position of Shmeleva, and they got married. Their relationship was not simple, several times the actress wanted to get away from the extremely loving spouse, but still remained with him. And then Nikolai Bogolyubov found work in the USA and took Irina with him.
Life in America
Finding herself on the other side of the Atlantic, Shmeleva did not bet on her acting career. She and her husband bought a house in Marlborough, New Jersey, and began to live a real American life. Irina went to college. First, she chose an artistic direction, but then decided to study for a specialist in mass communications. Her husband was not only talented, but also hardworking, earned a lot of money and was able to pay Irina education. During her studies, the actress managed to work as a host on the Russian television channel RTV. She hosted two such entertainment programs as the Dream Factory and Night Gazebo. Then Shmeleva entered New York University and graduated with success. She opened her own marketing and PR company and is now happy to do what she loves.
Still, without creativity, the actress still can not. In 2009, she accepted the invitation to star in the Russian series Volkov Hour, where she appeared in the frame with Nikolai Chindyaykin, a wonderful actor. Photos of Irina Shmeleva again flashed on the pages of Russian publications. The actress claims to be happy. Irina’s most daring plans become reality, and this is entirely her merit.