Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova is a legend, an era in Soviet television, a peculiar face and voice of our country. Invariably elegant, strict, but with warm eyes, charming and bewitching, with a unique voice - she always delighted and will delight the audience.
In Soviet times, the Vremya program was the most popular, and only exceptional, distinguished people should conduct it. Such rightfully became Igor Kirilov and the beautiful Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova. Few contemporaries know that legends were made up about this pair, they were considered a family, they fell in love with them, letters came to them in bags. But about the biography and personal life of Anna Shatilova, unfortunately, very little is known.
Biography of the host Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova
Anna Nikolaevna was born in the Moscow region in 1938 and knows firsthand about all the hardships of childhood during the war. When the girl was only 3 years old, her father went to war and never returned home. Only many years later, Anna Nikolaevna managed to find his tracks in the lists of the dead in one of the Nazi concentration camps.
Anna Shatilova’s mother worked the whole war in the orphanage, where her daughter was constantly with her. At that time, the little girl did not think about any creativity. Her craving for beauty was limited to reading poetry with classmates and a rare visit to the theater or film shows. After school, Anna entered a pedagogical university, despite a complete lack of interest in the exact sciences, successfully graduated from it. Quite by accident, the girl fell into a leading contest organized by the Directorate of the State Radio and Television, which determined her future fate.
Career of Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova
Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova became the winner of the contest of leading State Radio and Television and got on the radio. A few years later, in 1962, she was invited to audition as the leading news program on television. The girl was successful here too, she entered a unique team - the legendary Levitan, Olga Vysotskaya, Hertsik Vladimir.
Many of Anna Nikolaevna Shatilova’s colleagues, who came to TV with her, could not stand such a busy schedule and left. Anya worked selflessly, meticulously studied the basics of the profession, for days, and sometimes for several days, she disappeared into Ostankino.
Shatilova conducted not only Soviet news, but also managed to work in Japan, where she worked for a year as an announcer of the Russian-language channel. There were also acting works in her career - roles in two films and a television series. Anna Nikolaevna and now actively takes part in various talk shows, even starred in the parody clip of Urgant for Madonna’s song.
