The popular theater and film actress - Elena Polyakova - has over fifty successful film works behind her back. However, to a wider audience, she is better known for her characters in the cinema projects "Open, Police!", "Pointing Dog" and "Dangerous Delusion."
The unique fate of a native of Moscow and a native of a family far from the world of culture and art, Elena Polyakova, eloquently suggests that a talented person will always find his own creative path, which will be shown to him by natural talents. Surprisingly, after the elementary grades of a comprehensive school with in-depth study of the English language, senior classes held in the UK, the State Academy of Management in Moscow, working in a casino, collaborating with a video studio, actively participating in student KVN life and receiving an economist diploma, Elena still accepts the decision to enter the acting faculty of GITIS first, and in 2015, the Higher Directing Courses at VGIK, where in the first six months of training she released her own short film "Mantis".
Biography and creative career of Elena Polyakova
On August 2, 1979, the future popular artist was born in the capital of our country. An inquisitive girl was fond of horses, ballet and educational programs on television. At school, Lena was in time in all subjects and, especially, in a foreign language. That is why the capital's educational institution with in-depth study of English was subsequently replaced by a lyceum in the UK.
At the insistence of the parents, Polyakova began to have exactly the economic one with her first higher education. However, immediately after receiving a diploma from a graduate of the State Academy of Management, she changed her life guidelines for the acting profession, enrolling in GITIS (workshop of Gennady Khazanov).
Elena Polyakova made her cinematic debut in 2001, when she first appeared on the set in the episodic role of the tragicomedy Life is Full of Fun, where Larisa Udovichenko and Irina Rozanova starred. And then secondary, but capacious film works in the projects "Avalanche", "Theater Academy" and "Mamuka" followed.
And the actress received the first main role in the detective "Red Square". Currently, her filmography is filled with more than five dozen serious film projects, among which I would like to separately highlight “We will die together” (2004), “Greenhouse Effect” (2005), “Quartet for Two” (2006), “Factory of Happiness” (2007), “Kings can do everything” (2008), “The sky is on fire” (2010), “Call and I will come” (2014), “Dangerous fallacy” (2015), “Nurse” (2016), “Hotel of happy hearts” "(2017).
The latest film works by Elena Polyakova include her roles in the melodramatic series "Salsa", the detective "Stationery Rat" and the series "Shelest-2".