Elena Solovey (actress): a brief biography and personal life. The most favorite and interesting films with the participation of the actress

Elena Solovey is an actress of theater and cinema. The holder of the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR, which she was awarded in 1990. The greatest popularity was achieved after roles in the films "The Slave of Love", "The Fact", "A Few Days from the Life of II Oblomov."

Biography of the actress

Elena Solovei is an actress born on February 24, 1947 in a military family in the town of Neustrelitz in the Soviet zone of the German occupation. The population of the town is very small, a little more than 20 thousand people.

Her father - Yakov Abramovich - was a front-line officer, fought in artillery. Participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, and then passed the whole of the Great Patriotic War. Mother - Zinaida Shmatova - was a nurse at the front. Parents of the future actress became acquainted after the war in Germany, in 1946.

Soon the family returned to the USSR, her solo actress Solovey Elena spent in Krasnoyarsk. When she was 12 years old, her parents moved to the capital, Moscow, where they stayed.

After graduating, she entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, Elena Solovey. The actress was in the studio of Boris Babochkin, who played the role of Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev in the legendary film of the Vasilyev brothers. Graduated from the Institute Elena in 1970.

Career in cinema

Since 1971 Elena Solovei is an actress of the largest in the Soviet Union film studio Lenfilm. Over the next two decades, she plays in dozens of paintings, many of which have a natural success with the audience.

In the musical tale of Pavel Arsenov's The Deer King, she plays the role of Clarice, in Vitaly Melnikov's comedy The Seven Brides of Lance-corporal Zbrueva, plays Rimma, in the drama of Evgeny Tashkov's The Children of Vanyushin, the niece of the main character Lenochka, in Nikita Mikhalkov's cult film An Unfinished Play For a mechanical piano ", based on Chekhov's works, the main role of Sofia Yegorovna Voynitsova, and in the melodrama about the teenage love of Ilya Fraz" you never dreamed ... "- a literature teacher Tatiana Nikolayevna Koltsova.

Favorite director

At that time, the actress has her favorite director, who invites her to almost every role in her film. They become Nikita Mikhalkov.

In the Chekhov drama "Unfinished play for a mechanical piano" the society's highest society gathers for the summer in the luxurious estate of the widow of General Anna Voynitsova. All guests are distinguished people: Dr. Triletsky, admirer of the hostess Porfiry Glagoliev, Platonovs neighbors, creditors of the owner of the estate - Petrin and Scherbuk. For the invited evening, the stepson of Serge's hostess arrives, who presents his wife Sophia to the society, the role of which is brilliantly performed by actress Elena Solovei. Her biography says that after that the name of the actress for many years was associated with this film.

In Sofia, neighbor Mikhail Platonov learns of his long and strong love. Everyone is having fun, playing forfeits, and only Platonov has fallen into a dejectedly philosophical mood. He always tries to talk about the transience of human existence. Sophia will also recognize him.

A beautiful evening ends with fireworks, during which time between former lovers there is an explanation. Sophia still loves Platonov and is ready for him to abandon his new husband. But Mikhail himself is not ready for such a rapid development of events and, desperate for not being able to understand himself and his feelings, decides to commit suicide. He rushes from a small precipice into the river, but the water there is knee-deep. Suddenly his wife appears, Sasha, who says that she loves him, no matter what.

The work is based on several dramatic stories by Chekhov - "Three Years", "The Teacher of Literature", "Fatherlessness" and, of course, "In the Manor".

"The slave of love"

In 1975, Nikita Mikhalkov invited the actress to the main role in his drama "The Slave of Love." The actions take place in 1918, at the height of the Civil War. In Moscow, the Bolsheviks. Meanwhile, in the south of the country, in a hurry, they are trying to get to the melodrama about a quiet pre-revolutionary life, the main role of which is performed by Olga Voznesenskaya. It is played by Nightingale Elena - an actress, whose photo by that time was well known to all connoisseurs of Soviet cinema. This character is the prototype of the star of the domestic silent cinema of Vera Kholodnaya.

The film crew tries not to pay attention to the surrounding political reality, if possible, ignoring it. Everyone dreams of emigrating to Paris. In addition to the Pototsky operator performed by Rodion Nakhapetov. He is the only one who supports the revolution, uses film for underground shootings of Whiteguard excesses, to conduct propaganda for the Bolsheviks.

The main heroine of Voznesensky is literally worn on the hands. She does not know anything about politics, is fond of Pototsky, and at the same time, his revolutionary cause. But it's not the political side that attracts her, it's the romantic one. After all, this is a case for which you can go to jail or even die.

In the final, she witnesses the murder of the operator, which by that time managed to fall in love without a memory.

The film was based on real episodes from the life of the actress Vera Cold.

"A few days from the life of II Oblomov"

In 1979, Nikita Mikhalkov shoots another one of his famous film - the adaptation of Goncharov's novel Oblomov with Oleg Tabakov and Yuri Bogatyrev in the lead role. The character of Olga Ilyinskaya goes to Elena Solovey.

The main character of the film Ilya Obolomov is a classic Russian landowner. He owns a small but profitable estate. He spends his life, not caring about business. His day is devoted to sleep, idleness and food. A radical change in this situation is tried by his childhood friend Andrei Ivanovich Stolz, who thanks to his German roots is very active and practical.

From time to time, he manages to get Oblomov to leave the house and begin to lead a healthy lifestyle. In one of such secular trips Oblomov gets acquainted with the family of the Ilinskys. Among them is a young Olga, to whom Ilya Ilyich has an unfamiliar feeling.

Olga also feels sympathy for Oblomov and, like Stolz, tries to wrest it from the usual circle. However, Oblomov already mired in laziness and change something cardinally in his life, even with a strong desire, can not. The final is disappointing - he breaks up with Olga.

"Fact"

Another milestone film in Elena Solovei's career was the military drama "The Fact" by Almantas Grikevičius, released in 1980. For the role in this film, Elena was awarded a nomination for the best female role at the international film festival in Cannes. However, the award in that year went to the Hungarian actress Jadwiga Jankowska-Czesljak for the role of Eva Tsalanski in the drama Karoi Makka "Looking at each other", which tells of an anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956.

In the film "Fact" the action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in the territory of modern Lithuania. 1944 year. German punitive detachments destroy the village of Pirciupiai. Already in peacetime, the Soviet authorities are investigating war crimes committed by the German invaders in conjunction with Lithuanian accomplices, who went over to the invaders. They were mostly nationalists.

The film is based on real facts and documents that scrupulously recreate the events that preceded the destruction of the Lithuanian village. This is the murder of unknown forest rangers, the decision of Colonel Titel, who led the occupation, about the punitive operation. The murder of a German officer, committed by a young Lithuanian peasant Vintsas.

Elena Solovei in this film plays sister Tekle, who is in love with the brave peasant Vintsas.

In the competitive program of the international film festival in Cannes, the picture participated under the name "Blood Group" Zero ".

Awards of Elena Solovey

During her career Elena Solovei was awarded a large number of awards. Thus, for the role in the film "Fact" she received the prize of the international federation of film press FIPRESCI in the nomination "Best female role of the second plan".

In 1976 she became the winner of the diploma for the best female role in the film "The Slave of Love" from the Council of Young Cinematographers of the studio "Mosfilm". And in 1980 she received the prize "Silver Shield of Oxford" for her role in the film "A few days from the life of II Oblomov" Elena Solovey (actress). Her films are still loved by the audience.

Career in the theater

Since 1983, Nightingale plays on the stage of the Academic Theater named after the Leningrad City Council. Actively participates in the filming of television auditions and premieres. However, more attention is paid to roles in the cinema.

Personal life

Actress Elena Solovey, whose personal life was interested in many of her fans in the 1980s, met in 1971 with Ilya Averbakh's "Drama from an Old Life" painting by Yuri Pugach, a production director. Once the work on the film was completed, she moved from Moscow to her beloved in Leningrad. Soon they get married. In the marriage they had two children - the daughter Irina and the son Pavel.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, Nightingale with her husband left the USSR, moving to live in the United States. Their children have already grown up and gave them three grandchildren - Sophia, Ivan and Agrafena. Everyone now lives in America.

Elena Nightingale these days

Actress Elena Solovey now works as a teacher of acting. Periodically lives in Canada, where he plays in the Russian-language Theater named after Varpakhovsky. On the stage, often put Russian classical works.

Actress in the United States actress returned infrequently. Basically, she played episodic roles. True, it could be seen in cult American TV series. In particular, in the 2000s she played in the criminal drama of David Chase "The Sopranos". She got the role of Branka, a nurse Korrad Soprano nicknamed Junior, who was the younger brother of the father of the protagonist.

Many fans are still wondering where is Elena Nightingale. The actress still lives in New Jersey. Periodically conducts author's programs on Russian radio. She founded her own creative studio for young actors.