Childhood and youth
Natalya Olegovna Strizhenova was born on July 28, 1957 in Moscow. Her parents were Oleg and Marianna Strizhenov, already famous at that time. Father and mother met on the set of the film “The Gadfly,” where they played the leading roles that made them famous.
Natalya Strizhenova in her youth
The marriage broke up 11 years after the girl was born. Leaving his family, Oleg Strizhenov went to the actress Lyubov Zemlyanikina, but did not stop communicating with his daughter.
Little Natasha dreamed of following in her parents' footsteps and becoming an actress. After school, she entered the Moscow Academic Choreographic School, then continued her education at VGIK.
Carier start
The biography of the future performer began in 1957. The girl was born into the star family of famous actors Oleg and Marianna Strizhenov on July 28. The parents met on the set of the film “The Gadfly,” in which they played the main roles.
When Natalya turned eleven, the family broke up, but the father continued to communicate with his daughter. The famous director and actor Alexander Strizhenov is Natalya’s paternal brother. The girl dreamed of an artistic career. After graduating from school, she chose to study at the capital's academic choreographic school. Then there was admission to VGIK.
Film career started early. A fifteen-year-old teenager was invited to the filming of the film “Moscow-Cassiopeia”. The schoolgirl got a cameo role in the film. She played Lena, the sister of one of the main characters, Pasha Kozelkov.
Subsequently, Strizhenova constantly received small and quite noticeable roles. At the time of completing her studies at VGIK, the actress’s portfolio included 4 works. She participated in “The Middle of Life” and played the girlfriend of sailor Grigoriev for a comedy mini-television series about a village police officer. In the film “Aniskin Again,” the hero familiar to the audience, who has become a major, investigates the disappearance of ceramic exhibits from a museum.
Theater and films
Natalia's career started successfully. Already at the age of 15, the girl was invited to star in the film “Moscow – Cassiopeia”. In this fantastic film for children and youth, Natasha played the cameo role of Lelya, the sister of Pasha Kozelkov, one of the “youths in the universe.”
Natalya Strizhenova in the film “Moscow – Cassiopeia”
Subsequently, Strizhenova was regularly offered small, but still noticeable roles in films. Therefore, by the time she graduated from VGIK in 1980, the girl had 4 screen works to her credit. Natalya could be seen in an episode of the drama “Middle of Life”, as well as in the role of the sailor Grigoriev’s girlfriend in the mini-series about Aniskin, the beloved district police officer in the USSR.
The girl’s non-standard appearance also left an imprint on the nature of the roles offered: a pretty face, high forehead and huge eyes allowed Natalya to play characters much younger than herself. Thus, in the 1979 film “Preparing for the Exam,” the 22-year-old actress appeared in the image of high school student Lyudochka Kusikova, perfectly portraying not a young woman, but a teenager.
Natalya Strizhenova in the film “Preparing for the Exam”
In 1983, Natalya again got a character younger than her own age: she was invited to a cameo role in the film adaptation of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s novel “The Teenager.” The actress embodied on the screen the image of Olympiad Fanariotova, about whom the writer in the original source said that she looked “no more than nineteen.”
The next work in the woman’s filmography was a small role in the detective drama “The Bus Driver.” Natalya played the blonde Lena, again being remembered by TV viewers for her bright appearance.
Natalya Strizhenova in the film "Tales of the Old Wizard"
There are no major roles in Strizhenova’s biography. In the film “Tales of the Old Wizard,” the actress appeared in the cameo role of a maid of honor, and Joan Halford became a more or less noticeable character of Natalia in the film adaptation of John Priestley’s play “Time and the Conway Family.” However, although the actress played the main character, it did not become a big role - Natalya appeared on the screen only to show Joan in her youth.
In the mid-1980s, the actress played 3 more episodic roles: she can be seen in the films “On the Eve”, “The Victims Have No Claims” and “Without a Statute of Limitations”. Despite her talent and external appearance, Natalya got passable, unimportant characters. After that, Strizhenova disappeared from the screens for 4 years.
Natalya Strizhenova in the film “On the Eve”
And then perestroika began in the country, which led to a serious decline in Russian cinema. Many actors, including those of the first magnitude, found themselves on the sidelines, not to mention non-professionals who did not have time to shine in big roles. In 1990, shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Natalya appeared on screen in the melodrama “Provincial Women,” again playing the inconspicuous character Svetlana. Strizhenova never acted in films again; “Provincial Girls” became her last screen work.
The woman’s theatrical career was also not very successful. After graduating from VGIK, Natalya entered the service of the Moscow State Film Actor Theater, but even there the actress was not given leading roles. From 1988 to 1990, Strizhenova was involved in the production of “Demons” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, playing in the play Lizaveta Nikolaevna, a girl with a tragic fate, like almost everyone else in this novel.
Natalya Strizhenova in the film “Provincial Women”
Her heroine, already weak and unhappy, after a night with a man who does not love her, is damaged in her mind and, being at the wrong time and in the wrong place, dies, beaten to death by a crowd that considers the girl involved in the murder of the Lebyadkins.
In the play “Guilty Without Guilt,” Natalya appeared on stage in the guise of actress Nina Korinkina, and in 1994 she participated in the fairy tale “The Wizard of the Emerald City,” where she played the Snow Maiden. The artist had no other notable roles in the theater. Thus, despite her stellar parents and excellent education, Strizhenova starred in only episodes of 13 films and in the theater also embodied minor heroines on stage.
Oleg Strizhenov's ex-wife - Marianna Bebutova
Oleg Strizhenov’s ex-wife, Marianna Bebutova, met her betrothed on the set of the film “The Gadfly.” It would seem that the birth of a daughter should have strengthened the couple, but eleven years later Oleg Strizhenov announced a divorce, admitting that his heart belonged to another. Like any woman, Marianna did not go through this moment easily, but tried to lose herself in her work, accepting all the offers.
Later, when the woman had to go through many problems - lack of money, the early death of her daughter, her granddaughter being supported by her, Marianna began to drink. Exactly one year after the death of Natalya Strizhenova, Marianna Bebutova’s heart also stopped.
Personal life
Natalia's personal life was no less difficult than her acting career. In the late 1980s, she married her colleague Nikolai Kholoshin. However, despite the fact that a daughter, Alexandra, was born in the marriage in 1987, the married life of Natalya and Nikolai did not work out - they divorced. Sasha’s father did not take part in the girl’s life, and all worries about the child fell on the shoulders of the actress and her mother Marianna Strizhenova.
Natalya Strizhenova and Nikolai Kholoshin
The USSR collapsed, there was practically no work, the theater paid pennies, and I had to live on Natalya’s small salary and Marianna’s pension. Strizhenova began to abuse alcohol even then. According to Alexandra’s stories, her mother drank even before going on stage, so her grandmother took the girl in with her.
Later, another man appeared in Natalya’s life, who became her common-law spouse. Years later, Alexandra also spoke extremely negatively about him.
Alexandra Kholoshina, daughter of Natalia Strizhenova
Sasha Strizhenova left theater school after the death of her mother, although she showed talent as a child and even appeared on stage with Natalya. The girl went to work as a waitress to ease the family's financial situation. When her grandmother passed away, due to her poor decisions during her lifetime, Alexandra lost her apartment.
Subsequently, she gave birth to 4 children and unsuccessfully became a surrogate mother: the “customers” abandoned the twin boys because of the publicity of the situation and Alexandra gave them up for adoption. Neither her father nor her famous grandfather’s relatives help the girl.
Personal life of Oleg Strizhenov
The personal life of Oleg Strizhenov has never gone unnoticed. The young, always well-groomed actor was always the favorite of the female half, and being in his first and second marriages, the womanizer managed to have affairs on the side.
Officially, Oleg Strizhenov was married three times. But the last wife, with her wisdom and love, managed to rein in the man, and now the actor cannot imagine a day without his beloved. Oleg Strizhenov and Lionella Pyryeva have been happily married for several decades, living in harmony and understanding.
Death
Natalya Strizhenova died on May 21, 2003, the actress was only 45 years old. The autopsy results showed that the cause of death was poisoning caused by the simultaneous use of alcohol and phenazepam. The grave of Natalia Strizhenova is located at the Golovinsky cemetery in Moscow.
Grave of Natalia Strizhenova
Alexandra Kholoshin is inclined to blame her common-law husband for the death of her mother. According to the girl, when he reported Natalya’s death, he cried not from grief, but from happiness. The actress’s daughter believes that a man mixed her pills, and Strizhenova herself would not mix alcohol and tranquilizers.
Alexandra created a small website on the Internet dedicated to the memory of her mother and grandmother. There you can find information about the actresses, as well as several photos of Natalia.
Son of Oleg Strizhenov - Alexander Olegovich Strizhenov
The son of Oleg Strizhenov, Alexander Olegovich Strizhenov, was born into a family of actors. His mother, Lyubov Zemlyanikina, recalled more than once that the boy had been a born artist since childhood. He loved participating in children's and youth productions, and knew that when he grew up, his career would be dedicated to the world of cinema.
The family atmosphere paid off. Now Alexander has many roles, he is a producer and TV presenter. The man is married to Ekaterina Strizhenova and has two charming daughters, Anastasia and Alexandra.
Oleg Strizhenov's wife - Lionella Pyryeva
Oleg Strizhenov’s wife, Lionella Pyryeva, was the love of his life. And although fate brought them together more than once, the couple legalized their relationship thirteen years after they met, when the actor was already quite a few years old.
Oleg Alexandrovich more than once recalled the plump lips and wasp waist of the actress, having already been married twice. And although the couple does not have children together, they lived together for more than forty years. Perhaps Strizhenov’s period of violent passions has ended, or perhaps this is true love, time-tested.
Wikipedia Oleg Strizhenov
All creative activities and biography will be revealed on Oleg Strizhenov’s Wikipedia. After all, the actor has hundreds of roles and more than twenty awards and titles, although he chose films and directors very pickily. Oleg Aleksandrovich believed that it was better to act in one, but in a high-quality, proven one, so that it was to your liking, than somehow, but in many.
I want to constantly watch films with his participation, as they do not leave anyone indifferent. Great talent, great roles, a real people's star - that's what can be said about Oleg Strizhenov.
