Olga Yakovleva is an actress who, for more than 50 years, has continued the best traditions of the Russian acting school with her work. In 2016, Yakovleva celebrated her 75th anniversary, while the artist does not cease to actively act in films and play in the theater. How was the singer’s life? And in what films can you see her?
short biography
Olga Yakovleva was born in 1941 in the city of Tambov. Her family had nothing to do with the world of art: her father ran the factory, and her mother raised children in kindergarten.
From childhood, Olga was distinguished by her artistry. Mom noticed her daughter’s abilities and took her to a theater studio. Then the family began to move often in connection with the new appointments of his father in the service. By the time she left school, Yakovleva was with her parents in Alma-Ata.
In this city, the girl liked the leadership of the local Youth Theater so much that she was invited to the troupe of the theater. However, Yakovleva wanted more, so she gained courage and went to enter a theater university in Moscow. As a result, Olga was admitted to the Shchukin Theater School, and in 1962 - into the troupe of the Theater named after Lenin Komsomol, which also played Alexander Abdulov, Lev Durov and Vladimir Kenigson.
The first work in the cinema
Olga Yakovleva first appeared on the screens in 1962. Just then, on New Year's Eve, the first “Blue Light” was shown on Soviet television. Olga was present among the guests of the celebration.
In 1968, the television theater staged J. Puccini's one-act opera Cloak. Yakovleva was assigned a supporting role, but in the credits her presence in the frame was not noted.
In 1969, the film “The Commandant of Lauterburg” was shot with Leonid Kanevsky in the title role. Olga appeared in the frame for only a few minutes.
In 1970, the actress played Marina Mnishek in the television performance of Anatoly Efros "Boris Godunov." Leonid Bronevoy and Nikolai Volkov Jr. also took part in the shootings . And a year later, Yakovleva received her first major role in the feature film "For Everything in Responsibility."
Main roles
Director George Nathanson, who shot the romance "Valentine and Valentine" and the war film "They were actors," in 1971, was looking for the lead singer in his new film "For Everything in Responsibility." The plot of the picture was built on the basis of the play "Traditional collection" by Victor Rozov, which tells about the graduates of 1941, who left the school ball immediately for war. Olga Yakovleva seemed to Natanson as an ideal candidate to recreate the image of the journalist Agnia Shabina on the screen, and he approved the actress for this role.
Yakovleva repeatedly had to collaborate with director Anatoly Efros, who entrusted her with the main roles in her television productions of Tanya, A Month in the Village, etc.
In the 90s. the actress categorically refused to shoot in the cinema and mainly worked in the theater. But in 2004 she returned to the screens, having received the main role in the drama of Vladimir Mirzoyev “Four Loves”. The company Olga in the frame was Evgenia Simonova and Victor Rakov.
In 2009, the same Vladimir Mirzoyev began shooting the television play “Before”, the plot of which is based on the play of the same name by playwright Alla Sokolova. Yakovleva’s partner on the set was Maxim Sukhanov - the star of the film “Country of the Deaf”.
The last appearance of the actress in the cinema dates back to 2015. Together with Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Tatyana Konyukhova, she became the main character in the 8-episode drama Keeping Fate. For 2 years, Yakovleva does not take part in the filming, but plays on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.
Olga Yakovleva: personal life
The actress, like many representatives of her generation, was never the heroine of the scandalous secular chronicle. Olga Yakovleva married only once. Her chosen one was footballer Igor Netto. Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, the couple divorced. Nothing more is known about the artist’s personal life.