Theater and film actress Marina Ignatova is known for her role as Natella in "Secrets of the Investigation" and work in the "House that Swift built." Most of all, she plays on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. G.A. Tovstonogov. Laureate of the Higher Theater Award of St. Petersburg "Golden Spotlights" in the nomination "Best Actress" for playing the role of Fedra in the play based on the work of J. Rasin.
Marina Oktyabryevna was born in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) on March 19 in 1956 in a family of doctors. Since childhood, she loved evenings at school, was fond of reading poems by Tsvetaeva, Blok. But at the same time, the girl did not engage in amateur activities. She liked sports the most. Marina chose fencing.
The path to art
The girl was going to act in a medical one. Before exams, classes were held with a tutor. The teacher had a hard time. During classes, the student was more willing to read poetry, and did not solve problems. As a result, the tutor himself put forward a proposal not to go to honey, but to the theater.
Marina agreed. She went to the capital. To the Studio School. The Moscow Art Theater could not enter, so Ignatova returned home. There she became in 1974 a student of a theater school with Valery Semenovich Sokoloverov.
Then the applicant again went to Moscow. She managed to enter GITIS from 1979 to 1981. Marina studied at Andrei Goncharov at the Mayakovsky Theater. The girl was fond of the work of Tatyana Doronina. She attended all the performances with the participation of an idol, imitated her. Then there were hobbies Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Inna Churikova, Zinaida Slavina, Alisa Freindlikh, Olga Yakovleva and others.
After graduation, Ignatova worked until 1998 in the capital's Lenkom. Since 1998, she moved to the Tovstonogov Dramatic Bolshoi Theater. As a student, Ignatova began playing with Goncharov. He took Marina to him after watching an excerpt from Fantasy Faryatyev, where a sophomore played Lyuba.
The girl got a role in the play of Radzinsky "She is in the absence of love and death." Then the aspiring actress visited Lydia Varavka in the play about Klim Samgin. The premiere took place only in the fourth year, as Goncharov preferred long rehearsals.
Lenkom and the Bolshoi Drama Theater
Together with Irina Serova Ignatova came to Lenkom. Marina only played along with Ira. However, Ignatova took it. She was offered to become Mrs. Page for the "Windsor pranks" in the version of Vasilyev. It took a very long time to wait for the role. Often the performances did not go out.
However, the rehearsals were surprisingly exciting. Marina married the musician Alexander Belyaev. His first group was St. Petersburg "TV". Having worked in the team since its inception, Belyaev moved to Nautilus Pompilius.
The musician did not want to live in the capital. With him, the actress went to St. Petersburg. She was sure that now her artistic career was over. The singer did not like the competition in Lenkom: several actresses claimed for one role.
At first, I had to live in two cities. Marina played in the capital, and came to Peter twice a week. Then it's time to choose. Since she met Andrei Tolubeev on the set of The Labyrinth of Love, she decided to phone him. As a result, Kirill Lavrov arrived at the “Seagull” show with her participation.
He offered Marina a job at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. Ignatova fit into the theatrical environment of St. Petersburg immediately. In the capital, she worked in both the Mayakovsky Theater and the Lenkom, which were very different from the Bolshoi Theater in their aesthetics and mode of existence. But there was no need to rebuild in a new way.
The actress plays in various productions, each time finding herself in her place. She visited Gurmyzhskaya from "Forest", became Fedra in the play of the same name, Madame de Sotanville from "Georges Danden". Ignatova reincarnated as Baroness Strahl for Masquerade, played Elizabeth in Mary Stuart, Renata in Ideal Thief.
At the Alexandria Theater, Marina became Protasova in The Living Corpse, Arkadina from The Seagull. She was Lisa in The Small Marital Crimes for Russian Entreprise, the actress played Gertrude in Hamlet. The directors of Ignatov are in demand for diverse. The most accurate coincidences were work with Chkheidze and Dityatkovsky.
Viewing all their work once is not enough. I would like to revise the productions again and again, opening up new plans. All works demonstrate artistically taste, intelligence, complete absence of falsehood.
