Nonna Koperzhinskaya is a Soviet actress, a native of the city of Kiev. She performed roles in 37 cinematographic projects, including feature films “For Two Hares”, “Queen of a Gas Station”. She acted in films for 45 years - from 1950 to 1995. Films with Nonna Koperzhinsky belong to the genres of melodrama, comedy, drama. She was married to Pavel Shreba. Died June 10, 1999 in Kiev at the age of 79 years. She worked in partnership with actors Nikolai Yakovenko, Valentin Grudinin, Sofia Karamash, Mikhail Kramar and others.
Biography
Nonna Koperzhinskaya was born on May 1, 1920 in Kiev. The actress, which many compared during her lifetime with the great Faina Ranevskaya for her delicate humor, love of life, talent and sparkling remarks, once jokingly spoke out that she was born on chests almost in wartime, and therefore she fights all her life. Her mother worked as a doctor when she was pregnant with Nonna, studied at medical courses. In the early 1930s, the mother of the actress, who lost her husband when her daughter was two years old, was sent to work in the Donbass by profession. Thus, the future actress was in the city of Dimitrov, where she became a student of the first school.
According to the memoirs of Nonna Koperzhinsky, the times were hard then, once she ate enough apricot kernels to satisfy her hunger, and almost died from this. She sadly ironized that she received her first acting skills at a very young age, when she went home and asked for alms. Mom scolded her for this, said that others were even more difficult, although the inferior family lived in that period very poorly, ate rotten potatoes fried in oil from expired canned food.
The thorny path to acting
Nonna Koperzhinskaya, being a seventh grader, wanted to escape from home to become an actress. This happened after the schoolgirl saw the performance of the visiting troupe. But the “sick” art was not allowed to leave the girl. She was then told that you must first graduate from school, and only after that think about how to get on stage. Nonna Koperzhinskaya admitted that she often behaved in hooligan ways at lessons.
After completing her studies at the school, the future actress Nonna Koperzhinskaya applied for admission to the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Faculty of Shevchenko University . A little later, she successfully passed all the exams, but then, according to her, “having heard the lyric trills,” she decided that she should try to become a student at a theater university.
The girl brought her ideas to life, having fallen on the course of the teacher Ambrose Buchma. Before the start of World War II, a student at a theater institute even managed to play a small role in Alexander Shovors' film Dovzhenko. Due to the war and the death of her mother, Nonna Koperzhinsoy had to interrupt her studies.
During the war years, she met a young architect and soon married him. When the girl became pregnant, fate parted the newlyweds. Nonna Koperzhinsky had a son, Zhenya, but her marriage, however, did not last long. After the war, got a job in the theater. Ivan Franko, where she spent all her further creative life. The second time the actress married at the age of 33 years for the director Pavel Shkrebu. At forty, she gave birth to a son, whom she named Dmitry.
About the roles
Nonna Koperzhinsky often had to play the roles of mothers in the cinema and theater, because the audience gave her the title "Mom of All Ukraine - Mom Nonna." One article regarding her life and work noted that the actress was able to translate in her small works (the main roles Nonna Koperzhinsky was not lucky to play) "maternal insides, birth pain and a complex national character."
The fate of the actress
According to Dmitry’s son, Nonna Koperzhinskaya was always obsessed with home and family and remained childishly naive until she was old. In 1985, her husband died, which was a big shock for her. After the Chernobyl disaster, her eldest son went with his family to Czechoslovakia. Later, her only granddaughter went to study in the United States. The actress was very worried about all these events. According to Dmitry, he acted unjustly and cruelly with his mother, having driven him out of the theater in the early 1990s. Nonna Koperzhinskaya perceived the rejection of the theater painfully, did not sleep at night, lost peace. In recent years, “mother of all Ukraine” was friends with actress Olga Kusenko. In June 1999, Koperzhinsky died. She was buried next to the grave of her husband in Kiev Boykovsky cemetery.
Significant roles of the actress
In 1953, the actress played the role of Motry in the film “The Fate of Marina,” a Soviet drama about a divorced woman who has to raise her daughter alone after an ex-husband who had studied in the city as an agronomist, considered her uneducated and abandoned. The biggest success of actress Nonna Koperzhinsky was the role of Seklet in the film “For Two Hares” with the brilliant Oleg Borisov - a story about a young rake named Golokhvasty, who, after a major loss in cards, intended to marry a rich woman and thereby solve his financial problems. In 1969, the actress appeared in the role of Nonna Stepanovna in the film "Varkina Land" - stories about young people who wished to stay in their homeland and work on local collective farms. In 1995, she played her last role in the movie, appearing in the film of the serial format “Island of Love”.