Michaela Drozdovskaya is an amazingly beautiful woman and a talented actress. Over her short life, she managed to star in two dozen films. Are you interested in the biography of the actress? Want to know the details of her personal life? Now we will tell you everything.
Michaela Drozdovskaya: biography
She was born on March 10, 1937 in Moscow. The father and mother of our heroine were not related to cinema. They had technical professions.
Michaela from an early age showed creative abilities. The girl loved to draw, do crafts from plasticine. She also hosted home concerts. The baby composed songs on the go and danced amusingly.
Our heroine studied at a regular school. Best of all, she was given the humanities. A talented girl has always been a participant in school events: theater performances, singing and dance competitions.
Student
After graduating from high school, Michaela Drozdovskaya filed documents with VGIK. Parents supported the choice of their daughter. The brunette successfully passed the exams and was enrolled in high school.
Drozdovskaya never skipped classes, on time passed tests and helped lagging classmates. Everyone loved and respected this girl.
After graduation, Mika quickly found a job. She was accepted into the troupe of the Theater Studio of the film actor. At first, she was content with small roles. But the local artistic director nevertheless discerned a great talent and creative prospects in a miniature and pretty girl.
Film career
For the first time on wide screens, Michaela Drozdovskaya appeared in 1955. She played a small role in the movie Behind a Department Store Showcase. Her colleagues on the set were Anatoly Kuznetsov, Oleg Anofriev, Boris Novikov, Zinaida Sorochinskaya and others.
In 1957, the second picture came out with her participation - “Leningrad Symphony”. Director Zakhar Agranenko was pleased with the cooperation with a graduate of VGIK.
The filmography of Michaela Drozdovskaya includes about 20 roles in films belonging to different genres. We list her most vivid and memorable works:
- “The Seven Nannies” (1962) - Maya;
- “Once upon a time there lived an old man with an old woman” (1964);
- "Bad Joke" (1966) - a saleswoman of ties;
- “Explosion after midnight” (1969) - Duska;
- “Burn, burn, my star” (1969) - the wife of the staff captain;
- “Solo for an elephant and orchestra!” (1975);
- The Legend of Thiel;
- Mimino (1977) - Papishvili’s wife.
Michaela Drozdovskaya: personal life
Our heroine was an attractive young lady, an interesting interlocutor and the "soul of the company." In her youth, Michaela was liked by many guys. But she did not reciprocate with any of them.
The girl studied at the university, then built an acting career. Personal life Drozdovskaya pushed into the background. Although she periodically lacked a strong male shoulder and an affectionate word.
The actress got married when she was about 30 years old. Her chosen one was a cardiologist Vadim Smolensky. It was a true love with passionate confessions, trembling voice and burning embrace.
The couple played a modest wedding. Only friends, colleagues and relatives of the bride and groom were invited to the celebration. Soon, Michaela gave her beloved husband the firstborn - daughter Veronica. The actress spent in the “decree” for several months. Then she again started filming a movie.
In November 1970, the second daughter of Michaela and Vadim was born. The baby was called Daria. The family lived in a luxurious apartment, located opposite the building of the House of Cinema. Many kindly envied them.
The couple dreamed of having another son. But fate decreed otherwise.
Death
At the end of November 1978, actress Michaela Drozdovskaya went on set to the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia). She could not even think that she would never see her near and dear ones again.
November 7, all members of the crew went to the city. And Mika was left alone in the house allocated for the filmmakers. The rooms in it were not heated. Drozdovskaya knew about this. It went to night. She wanted to sleep. To keep warm a little, the actress turned on two spotlights (small and large). The woman covered her head with a blanket. At night, misfortune happened. The blanket slipped from Miki. From contact with a red-hot lamp it lit up. Drozdovskaya breathed carbon monoxide, and also received severe burns to both legs.
When the colleagues of the actress arrived at the scene, they rescued her from the burning house. Michaela was sent to a Moscow clinic. The best metropolitan doctors fought for the life of Drozdovskaya. But they failed to bring her back to life. On November 14, 1978, the actress died in terrible agony. After 3 days, she was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
The youngest daughter of Michaela (Dasha) was adopted by her old friend Alla Budnitskaya. Nika was taken by Sonya Davydova. And the spouse, Vadim Semenovich, did not long have the status of a widower. He got married a second time.
Daria Drozdovskaya graduated from the Schukin School, became a famous actress. She followed in the footsteps of her own mother. What is known about the eldest daughter of Michaela? Nick learned to be a pediatrician-gastroenterologist. Today she works in one of the largest Moscow medical centers.
Finally
We talked about how Michaela Drozdovskaya lived and died. This actress has contributed to the development of Soviet (Russian) cinema.