Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova - People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, familiar to moviegoers and theatergoers in her many works. It does not matter what role she plays - secondary, most important - her character will shine on stage or in the frame.
Paramonovna from the film “Once upon a time there was a woman”, Vasilisa Timofeevna from “The Mockingbird Smile”, Rimma Ivanovna from the “Zemsky Doctor” - film lovers know actress Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova from these and other roles. Her biography, career, personal life are full of bright events, and not always joyful. Who is she and where from? How did you come into the profession?
Biography of actress Lyudmila Polyakova
Lyudmila Petrovna is a native Muscovite. The future actress was born 2 years before the start of the Second World War, at the end of January 1939. Little Luda, when she was with her mother in evacuation in Murom, spoke to the wounded in the hospital, for which she received sweets as a fee. That period of her life, despite her very young age, she remembers well. A time of deprivation, hunger, fear for every next day, which even children felt.
After defeating the Nazis, Lyudmila and her mother returned to Moscow, the girl graduated from junior high school. She did not dream of becoming an actress and did not plan to; she decided to enter an oceanographic specialized educational institution, but was late for entrance exams. She had to return to the capital, work as a teacher in a kindergarten, then as a stenographer.
Lyudmila saw the announcement of the recruitment of students in a theater studio by chance, went to the competition without hope, but passed it. The selection took place at the Shchepkinsky school. Lyudmila did not hope that she would be accepted, but her texture, high growth, which she was always shy of, became a plus for the girl at the competition.
Before connecting her life with one theater, Maly, Lyudmila Polyakova managed to work in the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, in the Stanislavsky Theater, on Taganka, in the School of Dramatic Art, but did not find herself anywhere. Only the Maly Theater managed to "hold" it, made it recognizable and beloved by the audience. For theatrical success came recognition in the cinema.
Theatrical roles of actress Lyudmila Polyakova
Maly Theater Lyudmila Petrovna considers her second home. Having just entered his troupe, she immediately got the main role in the play "Uncle's Dream". In order to learn the huge text of the role, she was given a minimum of time, but she lived up to the director’s confidence. Thanks to her perseverance and hard work, talent, texture in a short time, the actress became a leader in the troupe of the Maly Theater. Now in her theatrical piggy bank there are works in such plays as
- "Living corpse" according to Tolstoy,
- "Undergrowth" by Fonvizin,
- "The Last Victim" by Ostrovsky,
- "Examiner" and "Marriage" by Gogol,
- "Children of the sun" in Gorky and in others.
The directors and critics note that Lyudmila Petrovna’s game on the stage of the theater is different in depth, she very subtly conveys the character and feelings of her heroines. It is impossible not to fall in love with the actress, and the whole army of her fans confirms this.
Filmography of Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova
Play in the movie Polyakova began in 1967. Her first role is a pregnant peasant woman in the film "The Beginning of an Unknown Century." Now her filmography includes more than 110 works in films of various genres. Filmmakers trust her with the most difficult roles, wise women, and she copes with them perfectly. Lyudmila Petrovna herself assures that this is not only due to her talent, but also thanks to the difficult school of life that she passed.
It can be safely said that Polyakova was at the origins of the development of the series industry in Russia. In the 90s, she starred in the first series, which took on Russian filmmakers, titled "Little Things in Life." The role was secondary, but her heroine Lydia sometimes attracted more attention than the main "characters" of the picture.
Despite the fact that recently Ludmila Petrovna turned 80, she continues to actively act and go on the stage. Polyakova not only plays in feature films and series, but also acts in documentaries. In the tape "She fell in love with him for torment
"Polyakova talks about the fate of the legendary Vladimir Gostyukhin.
