Many as children were fascinated by the movie Mary Poppins, Goodbye! And, it can be said that it was thanks to this picture that Russia found out who Natalya Andreichenko was. The biography of the actress has dozens of roles in various films, but for each viewer she is, first of all, “Lady Perfection” - Mary Poppins. About what was the backstage life of the actress, read the article.
Natalya Andreichenko: biography. Childhood
The future honored artist was born in 1956, in the spring, on May 3. Her father was an employee at an aircraft factory, and her mother worked at the Ministry of Education.
At the age of five, the girl became interested in ballet after she saw a performance at the Sleeping Beauty Theater. At eight years old, she already acted as a choreographer and director at one of the school holidays. And in the third grade, the girl went to music school and began to play the piano. Another hobby of the talented and energetic Natalia was swimming. But she was not going to big sports - she was afraid that her hands would lose their grace and would become the same as those of professional swimmers.
The decision that she would become an actress, Natalia made in the tenth grade, when documents were already collected for admission to the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University.
Actress Natalya Andreichenko
Her biography contains information that the actress first tried to enter the acting school named after Shchepkin, but to no avail. However, she did not give up and went to VGIK. She was immediately accepted there, and already in her second year she played her first role in her life. It was the movie From Dawn To Dawn. By 1977, her acting arsenal already had five roles. But the first success brought her participation in the film "Sibiriada" in 1978. There she played the role of the beautiful Siberian beauty Solomina Nastya, who, according to Andreichenko herself, became one of her most successful roles. After filming this film, Natalia was included in the list of Soviet actors who will go abroad. For her at the time, this was tantamount to a State Award. Andreichenko starred in several more average films, but even episodic roles she succeeded brilliantly, she was always remembered by the viewer. The directors appreciated the actress's amazing sensitivity to the camera, the so-called kinogenicity - she always had the best of feelings and emotions.
Natalya Andreichenko. Biography: true success
The beginning of the eighties was a turning point in the life of the actress. In 1983, the most popular films were made with her participation in the title role - "Mary Poppins, bye!" and a field novel. In 1984, at the International Film Festival in Spain for the best actress, it was Natalya Andreichenko who received the prize.
The biography of the actress, of course, is rich in other roles in lesser-known, but no less interesting films.
The personal life of the actress
The first husband of Natalia Andreichenko is the Soviet composer Maxim Dunaevsky. But Natalia broke up with him in 1986, as she fell in love with the American director Maximilian Schell, who had come to the USSR at that time to make a film about Peter the Great. She and Schell lived in Russia for five years, and then moved to the United States, where they spent another eleven years living together. From the first marriage, the actress has a son Mitya, from the second - the daughter Nastya.
Return to Russia
In the USA, Andreichenko was never able to realize herself as an actress. She starred in several films, but they did not bring her the popularity that she had here. In 1999, Natalia Andreichenko returned to Russia with her son. The daughter stayed in America with her father. With Shell, they are still married, rarely seen, but they say that their love only grows stronger. Now the actress is acting in films and simultaneously trying to realize herself in politics.