A native of the city on the Neva and a native of the director's acting family - Honored Artist of Russia Elena Vsevolodovna Safonova - today continues to participate in the life of domestic cinema. This talented actress is fluent in French and has a special sense of style, which helps her to be a true embodiment of femininity.
The popular Soviet and Russian theater and film actress - Elena Safonova - is better known to the mass audience for her film works in the title cinema project "Winter Cherry", which today has already four parts, the last of which is dated 2017. The Honored Artist of the Russian Federation is considered the most closed actress of modern Russian cinema, because she practically avoids giving interviews and rarely appears at public events, sparking the special interest of millions of fans in her persona.
Biography and career of Elena Vsevolodovna Safonova
On June 14, 1956, the future film star was born in Leningrad. A family that is directly related to theater and cinema (his mother is a director of Mosfilm, and his father participated in the creation of films of the Soviet era: The Case of Motley, Soldiers, Belorussky Train Station), gave Lena the opportunity to get acquainted with the "kitchen" domestic cinema. After all, from an early age she took part in film expeditions, helped sound engineers and illuminators.
However, even such a great startup did not guarantee her perfect career. So, Elena only entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography for the third time, and even then she was expelled from the university after the second year due to her connection with a dissident who emigrated to the United States. After this, Safonova returned to the city on the Neva and was trained at LGITMiK, which she graduated in 1981, when she entered the service at the Komissarzhevskaya Theater.
On the theatrical stage Elena Safonova goes only for one year. At this point, she had already taken place as a film actress and subsequently made an emphasis in her creative career in this direction. Currently, her filmography has many film works, among which I especially want to highlight the following projects: Return of Butterfly (1982), Winter Cherry (1985), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1986), Black Eyes (1987), Katala (1989), Accompanist (1992), Mademoiselle O. (1994), “Music for December” (1995), “The President and His Woman” (1996), “The Princess on the Beans” (1997), “Women's Property” (1998), “The Empire Under Attack” (2000), “ Next 2 "(2003), " The Man in the House "(2009), " What the Homeland Begins "(2014).
The latest film projects of the actress include films: "Once Upon a Time We Lived", "Broken Hearts", "Woman with Lilies", "Portrait of a Beloved", "Winter Cherry 4".
