Tamara Semina: biography, personal life, family, husband, children

The favorite artist of millions of people, Semina Tamara Petrovna, celebrated her next birthday in October 2020 - she was already 82 years old. The people's favorite, who once brilliantly played Katyusha Maslova, still acts in films and gives advice to young actors. She became an actress at the age of 18, while still a sophomore, and both directors and audiences immediately fell in love with her.

Brief information

Tamara Semina, or Bokhonova by her own father, was born in the Kursk region (October 25, 1938), in the city of Lgov. Immediately after the outbreak of World War II, the mother of the future actress was evacuated with 2 children to her parents’ home - to the city of Bryansk, and there the girl went to first grade.

Then the family moved to Kaluga. There, the future actress studied from grades 2 to 10. The girl finished her studies, already working as a librarian at her own school.

After completing her studies, Tamara came to Moscow and entered VGIK. The selection committee immediately liked Semina (Bokhonova), and already from the 2nd year they began filming her as a leading actress. Since 1962, Tamara Semina immersed herself in daily work - she was constantly invited to various productions, without auditioning. The film actress has never been a “hostage” to one image.

The most significant role for her is Anfisa from the Soviet film “Eternal Call”. Bokhanova's fate partially coincides with the fate of the heroine - she also spent part of her life at the bedside of her paralyzed husband.

According to eastern astrology, all those who were born from October 15 to mid-November are under the zodiac sign of Scorpio. Tamara Petrovna is a bright and original person; she has a strong will and an independent disposition. Her zodiac sign is clearly Scorpio.

Now the actress continues to actively act in films - age has brought experience, but has not pacified her creative quest. In 2020, the detective film “Interns” with the participation of Tamara Petrovna should be released.

Tamara Semina's family

As we said at the beginning of the article, Tamara Semina’s family was not very closely connected with art. Of course, there were family movie screenings.

The future actress’s own father, Peter, went to the front - he commanded a tank platoon. He died without ever returning home. In 1942, mother and children were evacuated from their hometown, and later everyone moved to Bryansk. After the end of the war, she meets a young man who became Tamara Semina’s stepfather. By the way, she got her last name from her stepfather - they developed a warm relationship.

Childhood, youth and education

The artist lost her father, he died fulfilling his duty (serving as a tank platoon commander), but fate gifted Tamara with a kind and sympathetic stepfather. The future actress’s mother married Pyotr Semin a couple of years later, who adopted two children (Tamara and her younger brother). The adoptive father adored Tamara and tried to give her every opportunity for study and development. According to Tamara Semina’s memoirs, her stepfather was always her best friend and advisor.

Living in Kaluga, the girl studied at an evening youth school and participated in an amateur art group. At the same time, Tamara Semina worked as both a secretary and a librarian. All the teachers praised the bright and cheerful girl. The literature teacher at the school was the screenwriter, prose writer and bard Bulat Okudzhava, who had only recently graduated from university.

The teachers at the school for working youth believed that Tamara should enter the pedagogical faculty. Tamara studied easily and received good grades. However, Semina, who was very young at that time, wanted to try to enter the acting department at VGIK and did it on the first try.

Tamara Semina, who arrived in the capital, did not know the city - it was her first time in Moscow. But fate helped her - mystically she got off the bus straight to the doors of the institute. On the same day, the commission auditioned her and accepted her into the first year of study.

The girl was never afraid of difficulties and trials. Therefore, while still a student, she became an all-Union favorite.

Personal life of Tamara Semina

Tamara Semina’s personal life is not full of various novels and adventures. Besides, we can say that everything is fine there. While in her second year at the university, she meets Vladimirov Prokofiev, and a little later, the young people get married.

However, the couple was unable to have children. Two pregnancies ended prematurely due to tragic circumstances for which no one can even find someone to blame. After this, the couple decided not to play with their health and fate. Therefore, the acting couple did not have children, mainly by mutual consent.

Theater career, television, advertising

Tamara Petrovna is a versatile actress who knows how to play not only with facial expressions, but also with her voice and eyes. Viewers love her in all roles. She can work both on the theater stage and in cinema.

In the theater she got the following interesting projects:

The main role in the production of the story “The Thunderstorm”, in which she played Katerina.
The image of Valya Onishchenko - the production “Russian People”.

Everything was easy for her; Tamara can still play many roles, including comedic, surreal, and dramatic ones. The work of an actress is what Tamara Semina found herself in and to which she devoted herself completely. The artist puts her soul into all her images, and therefore they live in the hearts of her fans for a long time.

In the 80s Semina’s career stagnated - she was rarely invited to lead roles, only came across episodic and insignificant ones. But she did not lose heart, at that time she was engaged in dubbing for foreign films and toured the country.

Annie Girardot and Edith Piaf spoke in her voice. In the film “My Mother's Lovers” she dubbed the Polish actress Krystyna Janda. Later, in 1989, she took part in the voice acting of the American melodrama When Harry Met Sally.

In the early 2000s. The actress, beloved by millions, returned to television screens after the death of her husband. Tamara Semina played in many television projects and even starred in commercials. Her first video was released in 2013. It was an advertisement for a product catalog. Later she starred in an advertisement for the Corega cream, which fixes dentures.

When talk shows became widespread (in the early 2000s), Tamara Semina became one of the hosts of the “Your Business” program. This show aired in 2014 on Channel One on weekdays.

Tamara also participated in Boris Korchevnikov’s project “The Fate of a Man.” And in 2020, Yulia Menshova invited the famous actress to the shooting of the Russian-Ukrainian film “Queen Margot”.

Movies

The cinematic biography of Tamara Syomina began in her student years. Already in her first year, the aspiring actress starred in diploma films of young directors-graduates of VGIK. Her screen debut took place in the comedy Man Overboard. In the 2nd and 3rd years, Tamara Petrovna appeared in the film “Two Fyodors” and the drama “It All Starts with the Road.” In her latest project, Syomina demonstrated that she copes well with the role of a dramatic actress, because teachers saw her only as a heroine of the comedy genre.

The young actress was able to finally dispel the myth about her “comedy” ability in her last year at the university. The famous director Mikhail Schweitzer entrusted the student with a complex dramatic role – Katyusha Maslova in the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection”.

For this work Tamara Syomina received the first awards. The Soviet Screen magazine recognized the girl as the best artist of the Soviet Union in 1961. And in 1962, Syomina received the same recognition at two international film festivals - in Locarno, Switzerland, and Mar del Plata, Argentina. Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini themselves highly appreciated the skill of the Russian actress in the drama “Resurrection”.

Such a resounding success, which rarely fell to student actresses, brought down Tamara Syomina with many offers from Soviet directors who wanted to see the actress in the images of fallen women. Tamara Petrovna immediately rejected these proposals for fear of falling into the trap of one role.

After graduating from VGIK, Syomina was accepted into the troupe of the Film Actor Studio Theatre. Soon the girl appeared in a number of full-length films, including the films “Colleagues”, “Empty Flight”, “Day of Happiness” and “Time, Forward!”. The latest project was directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, who previously revealed Tamara Semin to a wide range of viewers in the drama “Resurrection.” And again a stellar role. In the film “Time, Forward!”, released in 1965, the young actress again surprised everyone by demonstrating new facets of her talent - subtle humor and eccentricity.

At the end of the 1960s and in the 1970s, new films with Tamara Syomina were released, which enriched Soviet cinema. These are “The Serf Actress”, “The Man I Love”, “Conscience”, “Chistye Prudy”, “The Love of Seraphim Frolov” and others.

But the greatest success was the drama “Eternal Call”, where Tamara Syomina played Anfisa. This dramatic role brought the actress a new wave of popularity and audience love. TV viewers bombarded Tamara with letters and recognized her on the street. Many fans placed Syomina’s photos in family albums.

In those same years, fans of the artist saw Tamara in three more projects that added to the “golden fund” of Soviet cinema. These are the paintings “Fatherlessness”, “Tavern on Pyatnitskaya” and “Mother of Man”. Filming the last film was grueling. Syomina had to walk barefoot in the snow and swim in the cold.

In the 1980s, Tamara Syomina acted much less frequently. But the actress was often involved in dubbing foreign films. The heroines Annie Girardot and Edith Piaf spoke on the screen with the voice of a Soviet actress. And the artist herself, who played many dramatic roles, dreamed of comedy work. And in 1983, Syomina appears in the image of the grotesque heroine of Samson Samsonov’s wonderful melodrama “The Singles Are Provided with a Hostel.” Later, the actress admitted that the role of the female hostel teacher Larisa Evgenievna is one of her favorite jobs.

At this time, the actress also appeared in the films “Formula of Light”, “Find a Horseshoe for Luck”, “Special Unit”. In 1984, with the participation of Tamara Syomina, the melodrama “I Still Love, I Still Hope” was released, where the actress embodied on the screen the image of Agnessa Feodorovna, the unrequited lover of Vasily Vasilyevich (Evgeniy Evstigneev).

The artist’s filmography in the late 80s was mainly replenished with works in the social dramas “Farewell, Zamoskvoretsk punks...”, “Grey Mouse”, “World in Another Dimension”. Since the beginning of the 90s, the artist has participated in the filming of the detective film “Murder of a Witness,” the action film “Charged with Death,” and the drama “Executor of the Sentence.”

In the TV series “Two Fates,” released in 2002, Tamara Syomina played the role of Aunt Dusya, which again proved her title as a people's favorite. The studio received letters asking them to keep the character until the last episodes. Fans of the actress had the opportunity to watch Syomina’s performance in the TV series “The Fifth Angel”, “Plot”, “Poor Relatives”, “Masha and the Bear”. Over time, the actress’s characters acquired the features of typical older heroines, which impressed Tamara Syomina herself. According to the actress, she knows how to enjoy her own age.

In 2014, two iconic roles appeared in Tamara Syomina’s repertoire - in the melodrama “Martha’s Line” and the comedy “Casanova’s Favorite Women.” A year later, the actress had the opportunity to play a supporting role in the biographical series “Lyudmila Gurchenko”, where the main role went to Yulia Peresild.

Personal life

Happiness came to the actress in her 2nd year at VGIK - Tamara Semina met her first and last love. Her personal life was overshadowed by difficulties and misfortunes, but she never regretted choosing her beloved. After the death of her husband (V. Prokofiev), the actress never married again.

Children of the actress

That’s how Tamara Semina discovered maternal happiness. She experienced 2 miscarriages and, after 40 years, no longer attempted to become pregnant again. Semina’s children could not be born because her blood was Rhesus negative. After the loss of her second child, the actress came to terms with the absence of children and again began to devote all her strength to work and her husband.

Husband Vladimir Prokofiev

When in the 70s. Semina was at the peak of her fame, her husband almost never acted. He worked in the 70-80s. voice actor. But envy of his wife did not become an obstacle to a happy married life. Tamara Semina and Vladimir Prokofiev spent the first half of their life together in harmony and work. But in the early 90s. Vladimir was struck by a stroke, which left him disabled.

During this period, Semina refused all offered roles and focused on her husband. Tamara spent almost 17 years at the bedside of the paralyzed Prokofiev and all this time she tried to instill hope in him. After his death, the actress returned to television screens, but did not want to remarry.

Children of Tamara Semina

The children of Tamara Semina are a sore subject for the actress herself. We have already said that during her life, she suffered two miscarriages. If everything had gone well, two boys would have been born.

However, after unsuccessful attempts to give birth, the spouses Tamara and Vladimir decide to stop tempting fate and playing with their health - after all, such tragedies rarely go smoothly. But the absence of children did not prevent us from establishing comfort in our own home and living together almost until old age, until illness cut short the husband’s life, but this is already discussed below.

Actress titles and awards

Since 1961, Tamara Semina worked at the Moscow State Theater of Russia. The very first award that distinguished the girl from young talents - “Best Actress of 1962” - was received for the role of Katya Maslova in the film “Resurrection” in her last, 5th year at VGIK.

Then there were many other significant grants and awards:

Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
People's Artist of the RSFSR (in 1978).
For services in the field of art - Order of the Red Banner of Labor (in 1990).
Order of Honor (in April 2005).

But the best reward for this hardworking woman is the sincere people's love, which accompanied her all her life. Even when Semina was away from the screen for more than 15 years, viewers did not forget her striking roles and were waiting for her return to cinema.

Personal life and hobbies[ | ]

Semina got married in her 2nd year at VGIK to her fellow student Vladimir Prokofiev and remained faithful to him all her life, until the end of his days[3]. Unlike his wife, Prokofiev, who had an undoubted talent, did not become widely known in the cinematic environment. However, viewers are familiar with his voice. For more than thirty years, Prokofiev dubbed films at the Gorky Film Studio. Since the late 1980s, Syomina has acted little in films, and in the early 1990s, her husband had a stroke, and Tamara Petrovna devoted the next 15 years to caring for her husband. After his death on September 28, 2005, from the consequences of a stroke, Syomina never married again. The actress has no children, suffered two miscarriages (boys), and after forty years she decided not to try to have a child anymore.

In her youth, Tamara was friends with actors Nikolai Kryuchkov, Boris Andreev, Vsevolod Sanaev, Mark Bernes. She lovingly called them “my girlfriends.” Continues to be friends with some fellow students. But the kindest friendship is with neighbors, with people of a completely different profession.

He loves listening to music. Among my favorite singers are F. Chaliapin, V. Agafonov, E. Kamburova.

In one of the interviews [4] to the question: “Why doesn’t the audience’s love for you fade over the years, although no one called you a star?” - Syomina replied:

We were favorite artists. In the letters that flew to me from all over the country, people wrote that they had albums for artists, and my photograph was in a family album. One old woman at the market said: “Oh, this is our very tall artist.” Not great. Not famous, no - tall. And, to be honest, I didn’t expect that the audience would receive my modest appearance in the TV series “Plot” so enthusiastically. In general, when they see us, something incredible happens to people. We are a piece of their life.

On October 26, 2013, Channel One, on the occasion of the actress’s 75th birthday, showed the documentary “Temptations and Admirers,” tracing the life and creative path of Tamara Syomina[5].

Filmography, list of the most popular

Tamara Petrovna Semina has more than 100 roles in both film and television. Even now, Semina continues to act and receives many offers from modern directors. She only takes roles that she likes.

The most interesting and memorable films with the participation of Tamara Petrovna are as follows:

1958 - the film “Two Fedoras” - the first appearance on television;
1958 - “Overboard” - the actress has the main role;
1959 - the role of Nadya in the dramatic film “It All Starts with the Road”;
1960 - the role of Katya in the film Resurrection, after which she became popular;
1963 - “Day of Happiness” - the heroine of Alexander Orlov;
1970 - the film “One of Us” - Tanya played here;
1973-1983 — the role of Anfisa in the film “Eternal Call”;
1977 - TV movie “Tavern on Pyatnitskaya”;
1977 - the film “Kindness”, in which she played a literature teacher;
1980 - the role of Avtodia in the film “Smoke of the Fatherland”;
1985 - a very memorable role of Agnes in the film “I Still Love, I Still Hope”;
1990 - “Murder of a Witness” - here she is Tatyana Yankina, director of a thrift store;
2002 - “Two Fates” - Aunt Dusya;
2013 - film “I will give you love” - the role of Irina Petrovna;
2015 - biographical film “Lyudmila Gurchenko” - main role;
2017 - melodrama “Queen Margot” - the role of Semina - the grandmother of the main character (Margarita).

The actress has no equal in resourcefulness, sincerity, she endlessly loves life. Maybe that’s why her images in films are so natural and sincere. And now she is not going to “give up to the years” and continues to star in new productions.

Tamara Syomina

“I kissed Mikhalkov, I had deep love for Nikita, slept with the handsome Kuravlev, I cheated on Bernes, I lay on the beach with Durov, I drank wine with Matveev, and I gave birth to Nikulin. What a pity that it’s all in the movies.”

They said about Tamara Syomina that she was the only Soviet actress who starred with all the beauties of our cinema. Few people know about this, but 20-year-old Tamara Syomina became an actress completely by accident. One day, having arrived in Moscow, she got caught in the rain. And suddenly a trolleybus stopped nearby. She got into it to shelter from the rain, and the trolleybus started moving and after some time stopped at the All-Union Institute of Cinematography. Now she understands that it was a sign.

Tamara was born in 1938, Kaluga region, in a town called Lgov. At first, the girl’s last name sounded different – Bokhonova. Her father died in the war when Tamara was very young.

In 1946, my mother married for the second time. Stepfather Pyotr Vasilyevich Semin adopted two children and managed to replace their own father. In gratitude, Tamara Petrovna took her stepfather's surname.

Syomina graduated from an 8-year school in Kaluga, but the girl wanted to get a higher education. To enter university, she went to a school for working youth, where a creative teaching staff was selected. Bulat Okudzhava became Tamara’s literature teacher.

Tamara made her film debut while still a student, in 1958 in the film “Two Fedoras”. Having reincarnated as an officer's wife, she had to find a common language with a street child sheltered by her lover. At first, the relationship did not work out, and the boy decided to run away from home. Upon returning, the situation changed dramatically, and the girl and child finally found a common language and reconciled. The main roles in the film were played by Vasily Shukshin and Nikolai Chursin.

Syomina was only 22 years old when she shocked the whole world by playing the role of Katyusha Maslova in the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection.” Many bright actresses auditioned for this role, including Tatyana Samoilova, who by that time had already played her starring role in the film “The Cranes Are Flying,” and Zinaida Kiriyenko, who had “Quiet Don” under her belt. VGIK fourth-year student Tamara Syomina had few chances, especially since director Mikhail Schweitzer did not like her at first. Tolstoy’s Katyusha is an “appetizing” woman, “in body”, and Tamara was 40 kilograms. It also turned out to be unexpectedly difficult for Syomina to learn to smoke, which was necessary for the role.

For her role as Katyusha Maslova, she was recognized as best actress at the Locarno International Film Festival in 1962. But the most precious thing for Tamara was the admiration of Federico Fellini and the words spoken to her by the wife of the great director, the brilliant Giulietta Masina: “My God, what have you done, what have you done? It was my dream to play Katyusha Maslova. I looked at you and said: “No, I won’t play like that.”

In the film, Tamara Syomina showed herself as a classic representative of the Russian acting school of experience; She was especially successful in her close-ups, tragic and expressive. And - the greatest rarity in the cinema of those years - her Katyusha was truly sensual, but without any vulgarity. Immediately after playing the role of Katyusha, the actress was bombarded with a whole stream of offers to play all kinds of fallen women. But she immediately realized how destructive it was to isolate herself within such a “role”, and rejected all these proposals.

Then there were the films “Empty Flight”, “Serf Actress”, “Tavern on Pyatnitskaya”, “The Man I Love”, “The Black Prince”, “One of Us”, “Emelyan Pugachev”, “A Hostel is Provided to Singles”... Syomina Love has always played - holy or criminal.

The images of femme fatales did their job - Syomina was credited with having affairs with almost every partner. The most famous artists of Soviet cinema were in love with Tamara - Matveev, Batalov, Zhzhenov, Dzhigarkhanyan, Shukshin... And she was friends with the wives of her partners.

In the 70s she continued to actively act in films and was very popular with viewers. Particularly wild success befell her in 1976 - 1977, when the television epic “Eternal Call” by V. Krasnopolsky and V. Uskov appeared on the country’s screens, in which Tamara Semina played the role of Anfisa. The film was a huge success with the audience, and the actors Vadim Spiridonov, Ada Rogovtseva, Andrei Martynov, who starred in the leading roles, immediately turned into national idols.

Tamara Petrovna said about her work in “Eternal Call”: “The role of Anfisa is an understanding of almost the main thing that makes up the meaning of the life of every woman, of any person in general, determines the happiness or unhappiness of this life - with whom you lived the years allotted to you, with a loved or unloved person, has your life become happiness or a cross that you have carried all these years.”

In 1972, Tamara Syomina starred in the film “Tell Me About Yourself” by director Sergei Mikaelyan. The film tells the story of the fate of a Russian woman in the post-war years. The main character Ksenia (Tamara Syomina) cannot let go of her military past, where she lost a lot, and because of this she is unable to arrange her personal life. Most of the film is dedicated to Ksyusha’s life, from her first love at 18 to her endless work as a nurse in the post-war years. Ksyusha has a fighting friend, literally a fighting one, and this friend is trying to help her fall in love with all her heart and soul, but has such help ever led to anything good?

The heroine's last boyfriend, Fyodor (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan), perhaps for the first time in her life, wanted to hear her past - and this became decisive in their difficult relationship. The role of the loving sailor Dzhigarkhanyan is not key here, but very important.

The picture turned out to be about a real Russian woman - strong, with an unshakable character, who went through the most terrible war in the world, but, despite everything, remained a woman with her weaknesses and inner experiences, who really wants to love, to love just as she fell in love in the war, in my 18th birthday...

What’s interesting is that in this film Tamara met again with her school teacher Bulat Shalvovich. More precisely, with his song. And this is another sign...

During her long, vibrant creative life, Semina had the opportunity to play with many legends of Russian cinema.

Tamara Petrovna tells how, “out of despair,” Georgy Yumatov, with whom she starred in the film “One of Us,” asked her to give birth to his child, since his wife, actress Muza Krepkogorskaya, with whom the actor was passionately in love, did not want children - she was waiting for her star role.

Syomina herself did not have children either: walking barefoot in the snow and swimming in icy water played their fatal role - the actress lost her child.

She was credited with having affairs with many famous actors and directors, but she lived her entire life with one husband, Vladimir Prokofiev.

They studied at the institute together and fell in love when their course was sent to the Virgin Lands. Tamara’s parents were against this choice - they wanted to see their daughter as the general’s wife, but life showed that the union of Semina and Prokofiev turned out to be very strong.

In 2014, the television series “Casanova’s Favorite Women” was released, where Tamara plays the main role. The plot revolves around a young boy who is surrounded by care from his parents and relatives. To avoid advice and wrangling, the young man comes to an agreement with the young lady and introduces her as his bride. The relatives were shocked when they met their daughter-in-law, although in fact there would be no wedding. The situation changes when the young beauty begins to please the inhabitants of the house.

In 2020, Semina reincarnated as Grandma Lucy in the biographical television series Lyudmila Gurchenko. The role of the main character went to Yulia Peresild; Nikolai Dobrynin, Nadezhda Mikhalkova and Nikolai Rastorguev also starred in the film.

In 2020, with the participation of Tamara Syomina, the melodrama “Queen Margot” was released about a resilient hair salon employee Rita (Evgenia Loza), who finds personal happiness. Tamara Syomina reincarnated as the loving grandmother of the main character, Serafima Sergeevna.

In 2020, the actress continues to work on new images. The actress appears in episodic roles in the comedy “Crimean Sakura” and the retro melodrama “Two Comrades Served.”

In one of the last interviews, to the question: “Why doesn’t the audience’s love for you fade over the years, although no one called you a star?” Tamara Petrovna Syomina replied: “We were our favorite artists. In the letters that flew to me from all over the country, people wrote that they had albums for artists, and my photograph was in a family album. One old lady at the market said: “Oh, this is our very tall artist.” Not great. Not famous, no - tall. In general, when they see us, something incredible happens to people. We are a piece of their life."

Biography

People's Artist of the RSFSR Tamara Petrovna Semina was born into the family of a serviceman - tank platoon commander Pyotr Fedorovich Bokhonov.
My father died at the front during the war. In 1942, my mother, Tamara Vasilievna, was evacuated with two small children; later she came to her grandparents in Bryansk, where Tamara went to school. In 1946, Tamara Vasilievna met with Pyotr Vasilyevich Semin, who adopted the children and became a loving father and true friend for them. As a token of gratitude to him, Tamara bears his last name.

Soon Tamara Vasilievna and Pyotr Vasilyevich and their children moved to Kaluga, closer to his mother. Tamara studied here at school until the 8th grade, then the question of getting a job arose. And she dreamed of studying further. The solution was a school for working youth.

I would like to note that Tamara’s teacher of Russian language and literature was the poet Bulat Okudzhava.

“I have always been lucky to meet amazing and interesting people,” recalls Tamara Petrovna. — Back in my school years, I met Bulat Okudzhava, he taught Russian language and literature. It was a school for working youth in Kaluga. And before moving to us, Bulat Shalvovich, then a recent graduate of the university’s Faculty of Philology, was assigned to work at a rural school in the village of Shamordino. The school authorities were always dissatisfied with Bulat Shalvovich: he did not draw up a lesson plan, did not fill out forms, did not look at the manuals - reprimands rained down on him one after another. But we adored him.”

After graduating from school, the girl entered the Kaluga Pedagogical Institute, but soon took her documents and left for Moscow, deciding to become an actress.

Tamara didn’t know exactly which university to enroll in, but chance helped her: having trouble finding her way around the capital, she took a trolleybus, which brought her almost to the doors of VGIK.

Tamara decided that this was fate and submitted the documents. During the entrance exams I made the admissions committee laugh. This is how Tamara Petrovna recalls her admission to VGIK: “I had a thin voice, and I spoke very quickly, almost in a tongue twister. The selection committee was dying of laughter. They asked me to sing. They gave me an accompanist. The intro plays, looks at me, I don’t do anything. It's the second, third time. I say: “Can I do without you? You are disturbing me". No excitement, complete naive! While she was singing, members of the selection committee began to talk to each other. I fell silent. “Well, why don’t you eat?” “You said it yourself: sing, but you talk.” Well, should we continue singing? - "Enough. Read the poem." - “I won’t. Bad poem. “Our coat of arms” is called.” “Everyone basically lay down here.”

So, in 1956, Semina became a student in Olga Pyzhova’s workshop.

Semina Tamara today

Today, Tamara Petrovna Semina continues to take part in television programs and receives invitations to film films. So, in 2020, Yulia Menshova filmed the program “Alone with Everyone,” dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the actress’s creative activity.

Now the actress can afford to participate only in those film projects that are interesting to her, although offers are received regularly. In the film “Queen Margot” Semina acted as the grandmother of the main character. In 2020, Tamara Petrovna took part in supporting roles in the films “Two Comrades Served” and “Crimean Sakura”.