The life and work of Russian actress Inna Kondratieva

Inna Kondratieva is an incredibly beautiful and attractive woman, a wonderful actress and a kind, gentle person, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, famous for the films “Two Captains”, “Baltic Sky” and “Wild Dog Dingo”. The biography of the actress can be found in this article.

Actress Biography

Russian actress

Kondratieva Inna Mikhailovna was born in September 1924 in the city of Grozny. In 1942, the actress graduated from school in Khabarovsk, and the following year was enrolled in the theater institute of the city of Leningrad, which was successfully completed by Inna in 1947. Studying on the course of Boris Volfovich, Inna was invited by him to the collective of the Leningrad New Theater in 1949 and became one of the best actresses. However, the New Theater itself was going through difficult days, and the repeated replacement of leaders did not benefit him.

Since 1958, actress Inna Kondratyeva went to work at the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and after some time she married the theater's senior director Georgi Tovstonogov. On the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, Kondratyeva played the role of Aglaya in the production of The Idiot, the handmaiden Meli in the play Aesop, and the heroine Anna Fedorovna in Barbaras. The fact that Kondratyev was married to Tovstonogov did not make her a theater diva, she had to compete with other actresses. The omissions due to the roles led to family conflicts, and soon the marriage broke up.

Theater work

In the early 60s, Inna Kondratyeva moved to Moscow and became an artist of the Yermolova Theater, where, unfortunately, she was not very in demand. Over two decades of work, Kondratyeva performed only about ten different roles, among which the most striking are: Ekaterina Goncharova (“Pushkin”), Arlesianka (“Van Gogh”), Vera Arkadyevna (“Ordinary Man”).

Debut in the world of cinema

movie work

The actress’s first play in the cinema took place in 1949 in the film “Konstantin Zaslonov”, where Inna Mikhailovna played the underground member Galina Ponashchik. The real success of Kondratieva was brought by the role of Maria Vasilievna in the film “Two Captains”, where her expressive acting talents were fully revealed.

Also among the best roles of Inna Kondratieva in the films are the following: Maria Sergeyevna in the film “Baltic Sky”, mother Tanya in the film “Wild Dog Dingo”, and also Maria Petrovna in the film “Alien”.

The filmography of Inna Mikhailovna Kondratieva contains such films as “Great Power”, “The City Lights Fire”, “Prologue”, “Player”, “Expectation”, “Heart Affairs”.

The personal life and death of the actress

actress Inna Kondratieva

In the 1960s, Inna Kondratyeva married George Bodovsky, who worked as the head of the Rosconcert's tour department. Soon, the couple had a son, Maxim, who died in a car accident in 1993. Inna Mikhailovna Kondratieva lived a decent life, had organizational skills, was a very decisive and punchy person.

The actress was good at sewing and making cloth flowers, was interested in beautiful clothes and loved scarves, and also owned a large collection of antique items, especially porcelain eggs. In the early 80s, Inna became very ill and was forced to leave the profession.

Inna Kondratyeva left this world painfully and slowly, but her husband and relatives were nearby all this time. The actress died in 1985 and was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.


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