The Soviet actress Irina Bunina is best known to the audience on the epoch-making series “The Eternal Call” (1973-1983), where she masterfully played the beautiful and vicious Lushka Kashkarova. She is also remembered by the regulars of the Vakhtangov Moscow Theater and the Lesya Ukrainka Kiev Drama Theater.
This "frantic woman" in her life was emotional, vibrant and fearlessly amorous, therefore such roles in her turned out to be especially expressive. In addition to this series, which has become a favorite for all viewers of the Soviet Union, there are many wonderful films in the filmography of Irina. The best of them are the paintings “Believe me, people” (1964) and “Every evening at eleven” (1969).
Biography
Irina Alekseevna Bunina was born in 1939 in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region. Her family was theatrical: both mom and dad were actors. Therefore, they experienced the war years especially hard - it was cold, hungry. However, at that time, people were especially attracted to art, because there was hope for a better time for them.
Irina's parents worked hard, and she spent all the time behind the scenes and in the dressing rooms. And went on tour with them, because there was no one to leave her with. From childhood, she absorbed this theatrical spirit, which means that she dreamed of becoming an actress as a little girl.
Her parents were rather ambitious people and all the time they said that they would like to work in Moscow, and most of all they were attracted by the Moscow Art Theater. Irina also decided to go to the capital after school to get a professional acting education. She managed to enter the Shchukin school the first time. The course was headed by a real celebrity - Vladimir Etush, and Irina knew no bounds. And then her parents' dream came true: they moved to Moscow and entered the service at the Moscow Art Theater.
Actress career
Bunin Theater School graduated in 1961, was immediately distributed to the Vakhtangov Theater. Here she successfully worked for five years, but a personal drama forced her to leave the theater "nowhere." Friends and colleagues tried to help her, but everything was unsuccessful. By that time, Irina's parents were already living in Kiev, and she went to them.
Here she was readily accepted to the Lesya Ukrainka Theater, and for many years she went on stage, playing roles in a variety of performances. Especially well she managed the images of the heroines of classical plays.
Both theaters, in which Irina Alekseevna worked, keep a memory of her in their history.
A career in cinema for Bunina also developed quite successfully: she managed to combine work in the theater and on the set. As a student, she starred in the films "Father's House" (1959) and "I Love You, Life!" (1960).
And in Kiev, Irina collaborated with a film studio to them. Alexandra Dovzhenko also starred in her most famous films.
