Elena Kondulainen is an actress who became popular back in Soviet times. Elena’s biography is interesting in that she was recognized as a Soviet sex symbol thanks to fairly frank roles in the movie.
Biography
Elena Kondulainen was born in 1958 in the small village of Toksovo, located in the Leningrad Region. She has a Russian-Finnish origin. The father of the girl, not embarrassed by her nationality, was not loved in the village, therefore Elena often found herself under the ridicule of her peers. No one even imagined that a modest pupil who loves animals and attends music school will become one of the most liberated actresses in Russian cinema.
After school, Elena Kondulainen entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Music and Cinema. At first, she studied to be a conductor, but later changed the faculty to theatrical: teachers noticed her acting abilities and offered to transfer herself. In 1983, the aspiring artist graduated from the university and began filming activities. The first major film with Elena was "Primordial Russia", released in 1985. She had to act under the pseudonym Ivanov: in the USSR, foreign names were not too respected.
In the early 1990s, censorship in Russian cinema began to weaken. Condulainen performed one of the roles in the film "One Hundred Days Before the Order, " starring completely naked in several scenes. This step did not go unnoticed: Elena was immediately christened a new sex symbol and began to be invited to frank roles. She appeared in the films "Daphnis and Chloe", "St. John's Wort", "Do not shoot the passenger", "Three hundred years later" and others.
In the wake of popularity, Elena Kondulainen even created her own political party, called the “Party of Love”, but which did not last long. She continued to act in various projects, and in 2002 the actress was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the country. Being at a fairly mature age, she starred in such popular films as Down House and 8 First Dates.
