People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990) Tatyana Vladimirovna Bestaeva in the "sixties" was accepted by the domestic cinema community as the most beautiful actress. Interestingly, the directors of that period often attracted her to play the role of foreign women, because she possessed a huge stage charm and a burning comedic and dramatic temperament. According to the actress herself, on the streets of Moscow in Soviet times, she was often mistaken for Marina Vladi, which amused her very much.
The popular Soviet and Russian theater and film actress Tatyana Bestaeva in her creative career emphasized, primarily, theatrical activity. Her favorite phrase “I am engaged to the theater” refers to those curious who ask the question: “Why wear a wedding ring to a widow on her right hand ?!” The famous lyceum is really afraid of "slipping to the level of KVN" when the great traditions of the Russian theater are replaced by "antics" on the stage.
Biography and career of Tatyana Vladimirovna Bestaeva
On July 13, 1937, in the South Ossetian Tskhinvali, in the family of a famous Soviet actor and director (father Vladimir Gerasimovich Bestaev), the future People's Artist of the RSFSR was born. From childhood, the girl was well aware of what fate awaited her. After all, her father’s influence on her was very serious, and he dreamed of seeing the successor of the creative dynasty in his beloved daughter.
Despite the very poor performance in high school, which she graduated from, studying in the evening for the last two years, Tatyana easily entered VGIK. And in 1961, with a diploma in her hands, she joined the troupe of the Mossovet Theater, where she continues to serve to this day. Currently, behind her creative shoulders, there are many theater projects and nineteen cinematic roles.
Tatyana Vladimirovna was lucky to go on the stage of her native theater with Faina Ranevskaya and Lyubov Orlova, Georgy Zhzhenov and Rostislav Plyatt, Georgy Taratorkin and Alexander Domogarov, Yegor Beroev and many other domestic stars.
For long and fruitful activity in the field of culture and art Tatyana Vladimirovna in 1998 became a holder of the Order of Friendship. And among the most significant professional awards there is the prestigious Theater Spring prize received in 1985.
Tatyana Bestaeva’s cinematic debut took place in 1958 with the pictures “Overboard” and “Sailor from the Comet.” And she became really famous after the release of the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” by Sergei Parajanov in 1964, where she played the role Palagny.
