Lyudmila Efimenko: biography, creativity, career, personal life

Lyudmila Efimenko is a teacher, as well as a Ukrainian actress, screenwriter and director. Many people know her from such films as "The Legend of Princess Olga" and "Ave Maria".

Lyudmila Filippovna Efimenko is a Ukrainian actress. She is also known as a filmmaker, screenwriter and educator.

Biography

Lyudmila Efimenko was born in 1951 in the capital of Ukraine (Kiev) on September 25. Since childhood, she wanted to become an actress. Despite the fact that Lyudmila Filippovna studied at a mathematical school, she also went to a music school, theater clubs, and also to gymnastics.

Parents Lyudmila Efimenko believed that she had better get some serious profession, for example, an accountant. Therefore, the family was skeptical about the choice of a daughter.

However, the actress was still able to enter VGIK at the acting department and successfully graduated from it. From 1972 to the present, Lyudmila has been working as an actress in the A. Dovzhenko film studio.

In Kiev, the actress is also known as an assistant professor at the State University of Theater Arts named after Karpenko-Kary. Ludmila Filippovna teaches at the Department of Directing and Drama at the Faculty of Film and Television.

Lyudmila Efimenko has two honorary titles of Ukraine - Honored Artist (since 1998) and People's Artist (since 2008).

Personal life

The actress was married twice. The first marriage was too short, probably because of this she has no children from her first husband. During the first marriage, Lyudmila Filippovna changed her surname to the surname of her husband - Terziev.

For the second time, the actress married the director Yuri Gerasimovich Ilyenko, but instead of taking her husband’s surname, she regained her maiden name. The actress met Yuri Gerasimovich at the end of the second year of study at VGIK. The age difference between them is almost 16 years, but this did not prevent Yuri and Lyudmila from legalizing relations.

Lyudmila Filippovna likes the fairy tale "Cinderella" and she always dreamed of a prince. She considers her marriage with Yuri Ilyenko ideal, as she found a man with whom life was a fairy tale. According to the actress, it was her husband who taught her how to bake pies and cook borsch.

Lyudmila Efimenko and Yuri Ilyenko had two children - Philip and Andrey. The actress is very proud of her sons. Unfortunately, the marriage of the actress and director lasted only 35 years.

At the moment, the actress is a widow (her second husband died in 2010).