Biography
People's Artist of Russia, beloved by audiences of different generations, Elena Yakovleva comes from the Soviet Union. From his childhood he most often recalls: “...moving, because it was probably the happiest moment in my life, my mother was packing her suitcases. My father is a military man, we traveled all over the Soviet Union. It was the most interesting, because it was new sensations, new schools, new classmates, I was always new, I liked it so much.”
Lena's parents had nothing to do with art, but she herself always really wanted to become an artist. Even at school, at the graduation party, she put a note in a champagne bottle with her cherished dream: “I want to become a famous actress.” And she did, although not right away. “There were, of course, throwing. I tried to work at a radio factory, and in a library... Still, nature took its toll. I went to enroll in GITIS,” recalls Elena. At the entrance exam in honor of Tamara Semina, she read Katyusha’s monologue from “Resurrection” and was immediately admitted to the university.
From 1980-1984, Elena Yakovleva studied at the theater institute in the workshop of Vladimir Andreevich Andreev. Upon graduation, she was accepted into the troupe of one of the leading theaters in Moscow, Sovremennik, and the members of the artistic council voted unanimously, which is very rare.
In 1986, Valery Fokin invited the actress to move to the Moscow Theater. M.N. Ermolova, where Elena worked for three years, but then returned to Galina Volchek. The actress served in her native Sovremennik for 27 years, but left the theater in 2011, commenting on her action as follows: “The decision had been brewing for a long time. From forty to fifty years old, that is, at a good acting age, when I still have strength, I received only one new role - in the play “Five Evenings.” The only one in ten years! And so it began to seem to me that I was living in vain... It’s hard to feel like some kind of robot, whose whole life is programmed, and there will be nothing new in it. Well, the last drop that overflowed the glass was the announcement of the theater’s plans for the next season. Once again I discovered that I was not there..."
Currently, Elena Yakovleva plays in enterprise performances and actively acts in films.
Elena Yakovleva's studies at GITIS
After graduating from school in 1978, following her dream, Elena Yakovleva went to the Institute of Culture in the city of Kharkov. But she was denied admission, arguing that Elena did not have “stage infectiousness.” After such a failure, she worked in a scientific library and at a radio factory. Despite the fact that she failed to enter the Institute of Culture, Elena Yakovleva still had the desire to become a famous actress. And in 1980 she went to Moscow to enter GITIS. Elena entered there without any problems, literally the first time. And she studied at the famous GITIS for 4 years.
Theater
On the Sovremennik stage, the actress made her debut in Galina Volchek’s play “Two on a Swing” based on the play by William Gibson. Later she played in the plays: “Three Sisters”, “Forever Nineteen”, “Twin”. It is especially worth noting the works of a later period: Varya in the production of “The Cherry Orchard” based on the play by A.P. Chekhov, the heroic Mary Stuart directed by R. Tumanis in “Playing... Schiller!”, the colorful Kabanikha in “The Thunderstorm” by A.N. Ostrovsky.
In total, Elena Yakovleva performed about twenty roles on the stage of her native theater. The main director of Sovremennik, Galina Volchek, admitted in the Life Line talk show that Elena is one of her muses, capable of most fully expressing the director’s ideas on stage and making her experience a “lump,” which rarely happens to “her artist.” About working with the actress she said: “She works surprisingly easily, it’s a pleasure, happiness, simple to work with her... I have very rarely met such modest people as Lena in this profession.”
At the theater. M. N. Ermolova Elena Yakovleva managed to shine in such performances as “Farewell, Judas” based on the play by I. Iredynsky, “The Dresser” based on R. Harwood and “Snow near the prison” based on N. Klimontovich, directed by Andrei Zhitinkin.
Director Vladimir Pankov staged two performances in an enterprise format with Elena Yakovleva in the title role: blues for lovers “Territory of Love” about a woman’s search for the one and only, where the actress plays with Igor Yasulovich, Vyacheslav Razbegaev, Pyotr Kislov, Andrei based on the play by Edward Albee. This is an exciting sound drama, a polyphonic musical performance, where the participants play music and sing. The duet for the actress in the production was Mikhail Trukhin.
Yakovleva, Elena Alekseevna
Born on March 5, 1961 in the city of Novograd-Volynsky, Zhitomir region, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). Mother - Valeria Pavlovna, employee of a research institute. His father, Alexey Nikolaevich, was a career military man, which is why the family often had to change their place of residence. Elena Yakovleva graduated from school in 1978 in Kharkov, where her father worked as a teacher at a tank school.
In 1980 she moved to Moscow, where she entered the State Institute of Theater Arts. A.V. Lunacharsky (now the Russian University of Theater Arts - GITIS). Her teacher was Vladimir Andreev, chief director of the Moscow Drama Theater. M.N. Ermolova. Graduated from the institute in 1984.
After graduating from school, I submitted documents to the Kharkov Institute of Culture, but did not enter the university. She worked as a librarian at Kharkov State University, then as a cartographer, assembler at a local radio factory, and studied to become an accountant. After graduating from GITIS, Elena Yakovleva was accepted into the Moscow Sovremennik Theater, whose chief director was Galina Volchek (artistic director since 1989). The actress made her debut on the Sovremennik stage in 1984 in Galina Volchek’s production of “Two on a Swing” based on the play of the same name by William Gibson (the main female role of Giteli Mosca). She was also involved in the plays “Three Sisters” based on the play by Anton Chekhov (the role of Natasha; 1984) and “Twin” based on the play by Mikhail Roshchin (Galina; 1986). She played the head of the medical unit in Valery Fokin's production of Forever Nineteen, based on the story by Grigory Baklanov (1985). After working at Sovremennik for two years, Elena Yakovleva, at the suggestion of Valery Fokin, moved to the Moscow Drama Theater. M.N. Ermolova. However, already in 1989 she returned to the troupe with Galina Volchek. She played on the Sovremennik stage for more than 20 years and left the theater in May 2011 along with her husband, actor Valery Shalnykh. Among her works: “Steep Route” based on the book by Evgeny Ginzburg (Evgenia Semyonovna; 1989), “Murlin Murlo” based on the play by Nikolai Kolyada (Olga; 1990), “Pygmalion” by Bernard Shaw (Eliza Doolittle; 1994), “The Cherry Orchard” Anton Chekhov (Varya; 1997), “Five Evenings” based on the play by Alexander Volodin (Tamara; 2006), etc. In 2000, she played Mary Stuart in Rimas Tuminas’ production of “We’re Playing... Schiller!” Elena Yakovleva’s work in this performance in 2000 was awarded the “Best Actress” theater award from the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. Her acting duet with Marina Neelova, who performed the role of Elizabeth, received a special jury prize at the X International Festival “Baltic House” in the same year. The first film work for Elena Yakovleva was the episodic role of Lera in the musical film “Two Under One Umbrella” (1983) directed by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich based on the story by Sergei Abramov. Then there was the drama “Plumbum, or a Dangerous Game” by Vadim Abdrashitov (1986), the tragicomedy “Time to Fly” by Alexei Sakharov (1987), etc. She became famous for her work in the film “Intergirl” (1989), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky based on the story by Vladimir Kunin. For the role of Tanya Zaitseva, Elena Yakovleva in 1989 was awarded the title of “Best Actress” at the Tokyo International Film Festival and named “Best Actress of the Year” according to the magazine “Soviet Screen”. And in 1990 she became the laureate of the Nika Award and the winner of the prize of the International Festival of Film Actors “Constellation”. Later, Elena Yakovleva starred in several more films by this director. For the role of Anya in the film “Anchor, more Anchor!” (1992) was awarded the Nika Prize and the Constellation Festival Prize in 1993, for her work in My Step Brother Frankenstein (2004) - the Prize of the Presidential Council of the Open Russian Film Festival "Kinotavr" in 2004 and a prize in the field of cinematography “Golden Eagle” in 2005. In total, the actress starred in more than 60 feature films and TV series. She gained wide popularity from the detective television series “Kamenskaya” directed by Yuri Moroz based on the novels of Alexandra Marinina (published since 2000, six seasons), in which Elena Yakovleva played along with Andrei Ilyin, Sergei Garmash, Sergei Nikonenko, Dmitry Nagiev and others. The role of Anastasia Kamenskaya was awarded the TEFI television award in 2004. She also starred in the TV series “St. Petersburg Mysteries”, “Crime and Punishment”, “Curious Varvara”, “Sklifosofsky”, etc. In addition to working in theater and cinema, Elena Yakovleva was the host of television programs on the Rossiya channel for several years: in 2000 -2005 together with Klara Novikova, she hosted the daily talk show “What a Woman Wants,” and in 2013, the program “The Right to Meet.”
She was a member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art (2008-2011).
People's Artist of Russia (2002). Awarded the Orders of Honor (2006) and Friendship (2020). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 2000.
She has received numerous awards in the field of theater and cinema. These include the national cinematographic award “Nika” (1990, 1993), the television award “TEFI” (2004), the award of the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Russia “Golden Eagle” (2005).
In 2011, Channel One released the documentary “Elena Yakovleva. InterLenochka" directed by Yuri Linkevich.
Married. The first marriage with fellow GITIS student Sergei Yulin lasted six months. In 1990, she married Valery Shalnykh, an actor at the Sovremennik Theater. Son - Denis Shalnykh (born 1992), a graduate of the directing department of the Humanitarian Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting.
Cinema
The first film in which Elena Yakovleva starred was Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich’s film “Two Under One Umbrella” (1983). The actress recalls: “It was a very small, episodic job, but then for the first time I met Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky, the very famous Kalnins Ivar and the very famous Elena Safonova. These were already movie whales, and I was still a student, in my third year. But Innokenty Mikhailovich shocked me to such an extent that the only thing I asked my destiny for after this picture was to meet with Innokenty Mikhailovich at least once again in a film where I could work with him more. And then it happened. It was the painting “The Heart is Not a Stone” by Leonid Pchelkin based on the play by Ostrovsky.”
After a successful debut, the directors began to actively work with the artist, making a film a year. In 1986, Vadim Abdrashitov’s film “Plumbum, or a Dangerous Game” was released; in 1987, “Time to Fly” by Alexei Sakharov; in 1989, “The Staircase” by the same director.
A real breakthrough for Elena Yakovleva was the stunning role of Tanya Zaitseva in the melodrama “Intergirl” (1989), directed by Pyotr Todorovsky based on the story by Vladimir Kunin. At that time, the film was something like a bomb exploding; it turned the actress’s life upside down. Not every Soviet actress of the 80s was ready to play the role of a prostitute, but Yakovleva agreed without much hesitation after learning that the director was Todorovsky. “I knew and loved his films and initially understood that this man would not make anything vulgar and disgusting,” the actress said in an interview. “If another director had offered such a role, such a plot, I would have had to think about it. But with Todorovsky, I didn’t doubt it for a second: so what, a prostitute?”
On the set, the director managed to assemble a real star team; together with Elena Yakovleva, the film starred: Anastasia Nemolyaeva, Irina Rozanova, Vsevolod Shilovsky, Lyubov Polishchuk, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Martins Wilsons, Zinoviy Gerdt, Maria Vinogradova, Tatyana Agafonova, Natalya Shchukina and many others . The story of the “moths” did not leave viewers and critics indifferent; the film was awarded a number of awards at domestic and foreign film festivals.
Subsequently, Elena Yakovleva starred more than once in the films of Pyotr Todorovsky. She played the main roles in the films: “Ankor, more Ankor!” (1992), “What a wonderful game” (1995), “Retro Threesome” (1998).
Also in the 1990s, such famous works as Yuri Moroz’s detective story “Black Square”, Inessa Selezneva’s drama “Educating Cruelty in Women and Dogs”, and Leonid Pchelkin’s serial television film “St. Petersburg Secrets” were released with the participation of the actress.
At the turn of the century, Elena Yakovleva found herself on a new wave of popularity, starring in the series “Kamenskaya” based on the novels of Alexandra Marinina. Elena got used to the role so organically that the audience began to identify the actress with her character. “Everyone persistently congratulates me on Police Day, which, by the way, is nice: there is another day when they say good words to me and give me flowers,” explained the actress.
The series spanned six years. Together with the artist, Andrei Ilyin, Sergei Garmash, Sergei Nikonenko, Dmitry Nagiev starred in it. But, as a creative person, Elena Yakovleva eventually got tired of one role and switched to characters different from Kamenskaya. She played in popular TV series: “Sklifosovsky”, “Vangelia”, “Foundling”, films “Unexpected Love Will Come”, “Waltz-Boston” and others. Currently, the artist is in great demand and lives with a busy schedule of rehearsals and filming.
Films and television
The actress’s film debut was the eccentric fairy tale-musical “Two Under One Umbrella” directed by Sergei Abramov. In this film, 22-year-old Yakovleva’s partners were the stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky and Ivar Kalnins.
Elena Yakovleva in the film “Two under one umbrella”
Then roles appeared in the drama “Plumbum, or a Dangerous Game”, the tragic farce “Time to Fly”, the melodrama “Two Shores” and others. National fame and an avalanche-like growth in popularity for the artist came with the film “Intergirl,” a sensational adaptation of Pyotr Todorovsky’s story by Vladimir Kunin about the life of foreign currency prostitutes, which made a splash throughout the Union.
The furor created by this film was such that, despite the morality inherent in it, the opposite effect was obtained: schoolgirls dreamed of becoming girls of easy virtue, the shameful occupation acquired a romantic overtones.
Elena Yakovleva in the film “Intergirl”
“Intergirl” received many film awards, and Yakovleva herself, at the age of 28, was awarded prizes at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Constellation Festival, recognized as the best actress of the year according to the Soviet Screen magazine, and also received the prestigious Russian film award “Nika”.
Later, the actress starred in another film by Todorovsky. This time Elena appeared in the image of Anya Kryukova in the post-war romantic drama “Anchor, more anchor!” For this role, the actress received a second Nika, as well as a prize from the Constellation Film Festival. After this, the collaboration between Yakovleva and Todorovsky continued with 2 films - “Retro Threesome” and “What a Wonderful Game”.
Elena Yakovleva in the film “Anchor, more anchor!”
Yakovleva wanted to star in the famous drama “Burnt by the Sun” and then regretted that director Nikita Mikhalkov approved Ingeborga Dapkunaite for the role.
The actress owes her next round of popularity to the role of detective Nastya Kamenskaya in the legendary television series “Kamenskaya,” based on the detective novels of Alexandra Marinina. This detective telenovela lasted 6 seasons, and throughout its run it enjoyed constant love from the public. As Elena Yakovleva now recalls, she had difficulty auditioning for the series, since for a long time she was still seen as “Intergirl”, the fame of the actress played against her. The 3rd season of this series brought the actress the TEFI award in 2004.
Elena Yakovleva in the TV series “Kamenskaya”
Among the best works in Yakovleva’s filmography, television viewers note her participation in the post-war drama “Katya. Military History" and the romantic melodrama "In the Style of Jazz". The actress also starred in the Russian medical drama “Sklifosovsky”, where she played the role of the head of the surgery department, Irina Alekseevna.
Popular multi-season projects with the participation of the star were the series “Foundling” about a woman who in adulthood decided to become a mother, and “Curious Varvara” about a former teacher who is interested in investigating crimes.
Elena Yakovleva in the TV series “Vangelia”
In 2013, the actress embodied the image of Vanga Gushcherova on the screen in the biographical series “Vangelia” by Sergei Borchukov. Popular performers Irina Rakhmanova, Karina Andolenko, Anatoly Bely, Karina Razumovskaya, Anton Makarsky played in the film, which touched on the life story of the famous Bulgarian soothsayer.
Elena Alekseevna’s repertoire also included box-office projects – Zhora Kryzhovnikov’s comedy “The Best Day!”, where the actress appeared as the mother of the main character, and the disaster film “Crew”. With the participation of Yakovleva, the crime series “Such Work” was released in 2020, in which the actress again embodied an older role on the screen.
Elena Yakovleva on the talk show “Right to Meeting”
In addition to working in films and TV series, Yakovleva has repeatedly appeared on screen as a TV presenter. So, for 5 years, the artist hosted the daily TV show “What a Woman Wants” alternately with Klara Novikova. And in 2013, Elena became the face of the talk show “Right to Meeting,” which aired on the Rossiya TV channel.
A television
In 2000, Elena Yakovleva debuted in a new capacity for herself - a TV presenter. For five years, she hosted the daily talk show “What a Woman Wants” on television, alternating with Klara Novikova. Elena recalls her participation in the project: “As an artist, all this is very interesting and instructive. I saw a lot of characters.” Communicating with the characters in the talk show, the artist developed her own recipe for happiness: “Only one thing - women need to develop a sense of self-love. Our Russian woman is beautiful, economical, and loving. If we added one more thing to these qualities - a little self-love, then everything would be wonderful. Unfortunately, our women don’t love themselves and don’t spare themselves.”
After an eight-year break, Elena Yakovleva was again invited to the role of host, now of the “Right to Meet” program, where non-fictional stories are told, long-awaited and completely unexpected meetings take place.
Fans of the actress in 2006 were lucky enough to see her in an unusual role. Elena took part in the popular project “Dancing with the Stars”. According to her humorous admission, now she does everything by dancing.
It is not surprising that Elena Yakovleva decided to try herself on the dance floor. A few years earlier, she took a much bigger risk - she starred in the extreme program Fort Boyard. The actress recalls her French adventure: “I was incredibly shocked by everything that happened there. To be honest, I didn’t go to France to win, but simply to participate. In general, such adventures fascinate me a lot, excite me... By participating in this kind of project, you experience incredible feelings of excitement, youth, and thirst for adventure. And what an incredible feeling of team, a sense of community! And the place immediately takes you back to the times of “The Three Musketeers”... And if they had offered me something else like that, I would have rushed to participate without thinking.”
Is Elena Yakovleva alive or not?
Alive and well. The “funeral” of the Soviet and Russian actress, which was made by some media, seriously frightened fans and colleagues who almost came to the funeral ceremony. Yakovleva is remembered not only for her bold roles in “Interdevochka” and “An Education for Cruelty,” but also for her numerous lyrical images. The actress is truly talented, having gone through the Soviet directing school, so the latest news that Elena Yakovleva has died simply tore the hearts of TV viewers to pieces.
Personal life
Elena Yakovleva met her first husband Sergei Yulin at GITIS. Their romance ended with a wedding, but just six months later the family broke up.
The actress met Valery Shalnykh, her second chosen one, at the Moscow Sovremennik Theater. The couple played on the same stage for many years, even going to the registry office in the interval between the morning rehearsal and the evening performance. “Because of me, I deliberately “dynamized” him. I really wanted to extend the overture... The most pleasant thing about the feeling of falling in love is meetings, flowers, vows, courtship,” recalls Elena.
In 1992, a son, Denis, was born into an acting family, who inherited a craving for art from his talented parents. He recently graduated from the directing department of GITIS.
Why did Guzeeva dislike Elena Yakovleva
58-year-old actress Elena Yakovleva has been happily married to her second husband Valery Shalnykh for almost thirty years. He, like Elena, is an actor, although not as popular. Despite the stamp in her passport, crowds of fans always followed Yakovleva, and journalists attributed affairs to her with fellow artists. It was this circumstance that once became the reason for the hostile relationship between Larisa Guzeeva and Elena Yakovleva.
Larisa Guzeeva disliked Elena Yakovleva. A black cat ran between the actresses back in 1989, when Elena received the main role in the cult film Intergirl, which made her famous. But initially, nurse Tanya Zaitseva was supposed to be played by Larisa Guzeeva. However, due to her bad character, the director rejected her candidacy and invited the more accommodating Yakovleva into the film.
Left without a role, Larisa Guzeeva harbored a grudge against her more successful rival, which grew to enormous proportions after it became known that Yakovleva had an affair with the handsome actor and ex-lover of Guzeeva, Dmitry Nagiyev. Larisa couldn’t stand this! True, Nagiyev and Yakovleva claim that nothing happened between them, because at that time each of them was married. However, the presence of a wife did not prevent Nagiyev from having an affair with Guzeeva at one time.
Interview
About the actress
Director Valery Todorovsky is well acquainted with Elena Yakovleva. His father made many films with the participation of this wonderful actress. Valery also witnessed Yakovleva’s terrible months-long audition for the main character of Intergirls. In the Life Line talk show, he recalls: “As for my father, as long as I can remember, if there is no role for Lena Yakovleva, his film and project in many ways becomes somewhat empty and meaningless, because this is her favorite actress, and a talisman. In general, he seems to be dancing because of Lena.”
About his own vision of Elena Yakovleva as an actress who has long been established, who has played almost everything in theater and cinema, Valeny says: “In addition to serious talent, God also gave (Elena) intelligence and drama in the fact that you want something else and offer This is something very few people can do. There burns a cauldron of unspent, unused actresses. And in this sense, I really see drama.”
Elena Yakovleva’s close and long-time partner in the TV series “Kamenskaya” Sergei Nikonenko admitted to the actress in one of his television programs: “You are a pleasant woman in all respects.” He also emphasized: “This charming, fragile woman has incredible courage... always ready, always collected. The most talented actors are the most disciplined, the most focused, the most organized.”
Actress about profession
“The actor’s body is so vulnerable that even friendly advice can be interpreted as hostility.”
“In our profession, nothing can be calculated or planned.”
Elena Yakovleva once admitted that what fascinates her most in the theater is the unity of the stage and the auditorium, although: “This is a completely different feeling and perception, which is why both are interesting. And what you give with applause in the auditorium, and what you receive from the audience when you stand on stage and bow. This is such a divine action that if a person once knows and feels, he will not be able to refuse it.”
“It’s a blessing that I met Efremov Sr. on the set, with Yuri Bogatyrev, with Avtandil Makharadze, with Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky... It was such a school that I was already ready for a lot, in any case, I already knew how to behave so that I am understood correctly on the set and at rehearsals in the theater.”
In life
Elena Yakovleva devotes her free time to her favorite hobbies: she reads a lot, grows flowers in her dacha, loves to pick mushrooms and strawberries in the forest, and the actress also enjoys horseback riding. “It all started when Denis and I discovered a stable not far from our country house. The first time we just went to look at the horses and pet them. And when they came, my son wanted to go for a ride. And he got carried away... I asked for some nag for myself and went to catch up with him... It’s so cool: driving through the forest in winter, looking at the tracks of bunnies, breathing fresh air! If it weren't for horses, I wouldn't spend so much time in nature. Now we’re so involved that even on the day of the performance we go on horseback rides,” admitted the artist.
Based on materials from the Life Line talk show, Wikipedia, websites elena-yakovleva.ru, vokrug.tv, peoples.ru, rusactors.ru, liveinternet.ru, mega-stars.ru
Titles and awards
1996 - Honored Artist of Russia 2002 - People's Artist of Russia
For the film "Intergirl": 1989 - Tokyo Film Festival Prize - "Best Actress" 1989 - NIKA - "Best Actress" 1989 - Prize of the magazine "Soviet Screen" - "Best Actress" 1990 - Prize of the "Constellation-90" Film Festival - "Best Actress" »
1990 - International Television Film Festival in Shanghai - "Best Actress" in the film "Heart is not a Stone" 1990 - Rome Film Festival Prize - "Best Actress" for her role in the film "The Staircase"
For the film “Anchor, More Anchor”: 1992 – NIKA – “Best Supporting Role” 1993 – Prize of the “Constellation-93” Film Festival
1994 - National Film Festival "Women's World" - for charm and light of hope 1999 - Award of the VII International Film Festival of Children's Cinema "Artek-99" - "Best Actress" for her role in the film "Yukka" 1999 - Theater Award of the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" - "Best Supporting Role" 2000 - Award of the VIII International Film Festival of Children's Cinema "Artek-2000" - "Best Actress"
For the television series "Kamenskaya": 2000 - Award of the 1st International Telefilm Forum "Together in the Third Millennium" - "Best Actress" for her role in the film "Don't Interfere with the Executioner" 2002 - Award of the X All-Russian Film Festival "Vivat Cinema of Russia!" — “Best Actress” 2002 — Award “Person of the Year 2002” of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” — “Actress of the Year” 2003 — Award of the Fifth International Festival of Detective Films and Television Programs “Law and Society” — “Best positive image of a representative of the Law” for his role in the series “Kamenskaya-2” 2004 - TEFI - Performer of the female role in a television film/series
For the play “Playing... Schiller!”: 2000 - Theater Prize of the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" - "Best Actress" 2000 - Award of the X International Festival "Baltic House" - "Special Jury Prize for an Acting Duet" for a duet with Marina Neelova
2001 - State Prize of the Russian Federation - Award in the field of "Dramatic Theater" for 2000 2002 - "Gallup Media" poll commissioned by the magazine "Seven Days" - The most popular actress of 2002 2003 - "Gallup Media" poll commissioned by the magazine "Seven Days" - The most popular actress of 2003 2003 - Award of the film festival "Love in Russian" - "The most elegant" 2004 - "Gallup Media" poll commissioned by the magazine "Seven Days" - The most popular actress of 2004 For the film "My Step Brother Frankenstein": 2004 - Kinotavr Festival - "Presidential Council Prize for Acting Ensemble" 2005 - National Film Award "Golden Eagle" - "Best Supporting Actress"
For the film “The Best Day”: 2020 - Golden Eagle Award in the category “Best Supporting Actress”
Elena Yakovleva's film debut
While studying at GITIS in her 3rd year, Elena Yakovleva played her first, albeit not the main, role in a film. She was very happy about her film debut. It was a musical comedy called “Two Under One Umbrella.” The director of this film was Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich. In this comedy, Elena Yakovleva played the role of a circus performer, Valeria. The filming greatly influenced the well-being and condition of the actress, and during the time the film was being filmed, Elena Yakovleva lost as much as 23 kg.
