Natalya Tenyakova - People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Her biography and details of her personal life are well remembered thanks to such films as “Love and Pigeons”, “ZnatoKi Investigate”, “Widow Steamer” and others.
Biography
Natalya Tenyakova was born in 1944 in Leningrad. Parents wanted her daughter to become a teacher, but she gravitated to the theater and after school entered the Leningrad Theater Institute. Mother and father for a long time did not know about the choice of daughter and thought that she was studying at a pedagogical institute. Only closer to graduation, an unexpected truth surfaced. But Natalya had already decided everything for herself and, having received her education, got a job at the Theater named after Lenin Komsomol.
Since 1967, Natalya Tenyakova was already an artist of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in the Northern capital, to whom she gave 12 years of her life. She worked with many other creative troupes, remembering the roles in the productions of classical works by Chekhov and Ostrovsky. Subsequently, Tenyakova even became the winner of the Stanislavsky Prize. In 1966, the actress made her film debut. It was the melodrama "Elder Sister", rather warmly received by the audience.
Great success and popularity fell upon Natalya Tenyakova after she played Baba Shura in the cult comedy by Vladimir Menshov “Love and Pigeons”. To make an old woman out of a 40-year-old actress, she had to apply makeup. In addition, Natalya practiced village dialect for a long time. All of this made a tremendous impression on the audience, who smashed the speech of the actress and her filming partners for quotes.
Even after the memorable role in the comedy, Natalya Maximovna did not become a successful film actress. If she appeared on the screens, it was only in television plays, the roles in which, nevertheless, played out one hundred percent. Viewers can remember her from such works as The Death of Wazir-Mukhtar, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and others. One of the last notable appearances was shooting in the serial film "Experts Conduct Investigation."
