The only daughter of Anatoly Papanov himself did not immediately receive a blessing from the parent to continue the dynastic profession. However, then he insisted that Elena work hard with a tutor. And for an objective assessment by the theater community of the daughter’s creative career at the family council, it was decided that she would work in another theater. The father’s initial decision regarding the marriage of Elena Papanova was also interesting, when he was categorically against her choice. But after some time, the great artist did not cherish the soul of his grandchildren.
A native of the capital of our Motherland and a native of a great artistic family (father - Anatoly Dmitrievich Papanov, and mother - Nadezhda Yuryevna Karataeva), despite the desire of parents to avoid their creative destiny, she was firm in her intention to become a continuer of the great dynasty. And she received her initial education up to the age of fifteen in the family of her mother’s parents, which was associated with the huge employment of her own parents.
Biography and career of Elena Anatolyevna Papanova
On November 20, 1954, the future actress was born in Moscow. From childhood, the girl showed great artistic talent, actively engaged in figure skating and attending a drama club at school. With her parents, she began to live one family fully at the age of fifteen, when it was already necessary to precisely determine her future profession.
Despite the persuasion of parents not to follow in their footsteps, Elena, after receiving a certificate of secondary education, made an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Moscow Art Theater School. However, the failure in the second round of exams did not become fatal, because Anatoly Papanov saw in his daughter a sense of purpose and a great desire to achieve his goal. Having hired a tutor and giving his daughter a paternal blessing, he created all the conditions for his native child to successfully enter GITIS on the course of V. Andreev.
After graduating from a theater university in 1976, Papanova, heeding his father’s instructions, did not distribute to the Satire Theater, where he worked, but became a member of the troupe of the Yermolova Theater. It was he who became for the actress to this day a creative home, where she revealed herself as a talented theater actress.
And since 2014, the popular domestic actress also works in the children's Red Theater, founded by Roman Svetlov.
Elena Anatolyevna’s cinematic debut also took place in 1976 with an episodic role in the films Shoes with Gold Buckles and We Together, Mom. The late seventies and eighties were full of various film projects. But in the nineties, her creative career as a film actress experienced a crisis, which was associated with the objective situation in the domestic cinema of this period.
A new impulse in her cinematic activities was received in 2002 after completing film work in the TV series "The Line of Defense" and "Behind the Scenes". The most significant film projects of the new stage of Elena Papanova’s work were “Deffchonki” (2012), “Sklifosovsky” (2016), “House Arrest” (2018) and “Decembrist” (2018).
