Maya Bulgakova was a Russian and Soviet theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1976).
Pretty girl was born on May 19, 1932 in the village of Buki (now Kiev region, Ukraine). In 1941 the Bulgakovs moved to Kramatorsk. There Maya graduated from high school and decided to become an actress.
In 1955 she graduated from the State Institute of Cinematography. The actress made her debut in the film Freeman by Grigory Roshal.
Bulgakova began to sing with Leonid Utesov’s orchestra and even won a prize at the World Youth Festival in Moscow in 1957. The actress was the first in the Soviet Union, who performed Edith Piaf’s songs.
By the way, Maya was one of the best supporting and character actresses of the 1960s. She specialized in war dramas, playing ordinary Russian women who showed courage and resourcefulness in overcoming adversity.
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Elena Shanina is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Russia. She is famous for the role of Conchita in the rock opera Junona and Avos.
Pretty girl was born on December 24, 1952 in Kazan. She was the first child in the military family. Five years after her birth a boy was born. As parents constantly were at work, Lena brought him up. Little Lena dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was not taken to the ballet studio, the girl decided to become an actress.
After school, the girl went to Leningrad to enter the famous Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography (LGITMiK).
In 1975 Elena became an actress of Lenkom Theater.
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Yulia Snigir is a Russian actress and model. She is talented, smart and surprisingly beautiful. In addition, she is a laureate of the Prize of the Government of Russia (2018).
Pretty girl was born on June 2, 1983 in Donskoy, Tula region.
At first Yulia didn’t make plans to become a star. She just wanted to leave her small provincial town and went to the capital. In Moscow she entered the Moscow State Pedagogical University, the Faculty of Foreign Languages. After graduation, she worked as an English teacher. But soon the girl realized it was not exactly what she wanted from life.
Once Yulia decided to try herself as a fashion model. The girl went to the modeling agency Point. There she was noticed by Valeri Todorovski who was searching for actresses for the film Hipsters. Yulia didn’t get the role, but Todorovski advised her to enter the Theatre School.
In 2006, Snigir starred in the music video for the song See You Soon by group Zveri. In the same year she began to play in films. Her debut film was The Last Slaughter.
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Nina Doroshina is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR. She was awarded the Medal of Honor (2006) and the Order of Friendship (2010).
Pretty girl was born on December 3, 1934 in Losinoostrovsk, Moscow region. Before the war, the family moved to Iran, where the father was engaged in buying furs for the Red Army. So, Nina spent most of her childhood in Iran. After the war, the family returned to Moscow. During her stay in Iran, Nina learned Persian language and fell in love with the East forever.
In 1956 she graduated from the Shchukin Theater School.
On January 11, 1958 Doroshina made her debut at the Contemporary Theater in the play Finding Joy (Victor Rozov’s play) where her partner was Oleg Tabakov.
In 1981, Nina became a teacher at the Shchukin Theatre Institute.
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Nina Drobysheva is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1985). Nina is known for the role of Edith Piaf in the eponymous play.
Pretty girl was born on July 21, 1939 in Leningrad. Her father died during the war, and her mother worked hard to feed her family. So the girl was brought up by her grandmother. Early childhood is associated with terrible military events. During the siege of Leningrad, the girl was evacuated from her native Leningrad together with her family. When they returned the future actress entered secondary school. Nina was an active girl and was fond of theater.
While still a schoolgirl, in 1955, Nina played her debut role in the film Two Captains. This film had a noticeable success, and the charming girl drew the attention of other filmmakers.
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Mylene Demongeot is a French actress, who has appeared in 72 films since 1953, including such classics as The Three Musketeers and the Fantomas trilogy.
She was one of the blond sex symbols of French cinema during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
The actress was born on September 29, 1935 in Nice, Southern France. Her father, an economist, Alfred Demongeot, was from Italy and her mother Klaudia Trubnikova, was a Russian-Ukrainian emigre from Kharkov. The parents met in Shanghai, China, and then moved to Nice.
Little Mylene was able to speak Russian and French, but eventually switched to French.
“I do not know Russian. But after all, this is my real mother tongue, the language of my family…”
The girl began her career at the age of 15. She worked as a model in the studio of famous fashion designer Pierre Cardin.
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Irina Medvedeva is a Belarusian and Russian film and theater actress, singer. Thanks to the comedy sketch-show 6 Kadrov, today Irina is known by millions of Russian viewers.
Pretty girl was born on August 14, 1982 in Bobruisk, Mogilev region, Belorussian SSR, USSR.
In 2003 she graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts in Minsk and worked as an actress of the Belarusian Army Theater. You know, Irina played the title role in the 3D musical Pola Negri.
Irina is a successful singer of love songs. She got the prize for The Best Debut at the festival Actors Recite and Sing for the love song And After All I Will Say. By the way, Irina was only 18 years old at that time.
After graduating from the Belarusian Academy of Arts she starred in small roles in the TV series The Team and Men Do Not Cry. Also she starred in the movie Return of the Thirty and the action movie The Agony of Fear.
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