Childhood and youth
Anna was born on October 8, 1982 in Moscow in the family of Soviet screen star Georgiy Georgievich Taratorkin and Sovremennik actress Ekaterina Georgievna Markova. In addition to the daughter, the family raised the eldest son, Philip. Despite the fact that both parents were busy with creativity, the children never felt lonely. The friendly family spent their free time together.
The brother and sister often found interesting things to do; once they even established a comic publishing house of their own newspaper, which they called “Barabulka”. Later, Ekaterina Georgievna became interested in writing, graduated from the Literary Institute and soon left the theater. The change in activity turned out to be no coincidence: both of Ekaterina Markova’s parents, Georgy Markov and Agniya Kuznetsova, were writers.
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Anna Taratorkina in childhood and her father Georgy Taratorkin
The father did not insist on the children’s acting career, so the son chose the specialty of historian, and later became an Orthodox priest. Philip is the author of the biography of St. Basil from the ZhZL series. Anna, on the contrary, was eager to go to the theater and to the screen.
After school, the girl did not dare to apply to VGIK, since her father worked there, but in all Moscow theater universities, Taratorkina received positive marks at the entrance exams. Having made a choice in favor of the Shchepkinsky School, Anna Taratorkina became a student in the workshop of Professor Viktor Ivanovich Korshunov, who by that time had been engaged in teaching work for almost half a century.
The life path of the actress
Little is known about the biography and personal life of Anna Taratorkina, since the actress began to gain popularity not so long ago. The girl was born in October 1982 in Moscow (Russia) into a family associated with art. Her father Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, the most famous actor of those times. And Anna’s mother Ekaterina Markova was not an actress for long; after she worked for some time in the theater with her husband, she left the stage and became interested in literature. Today she is a famous writer and screenwriter.
The actress also has an older brother, with whom she has an 8-year difference, Philip. After the young man received the title of Candidate of Historical Sciences, he entered the ministry at the church, and now he is an Orthodox priest. The girl’s parents are also creative people. Grandfather Georgy Taratorkin and grandmother Agniya Kuznetsova also had enormous popularity in their years as writers.
From an early age, the girl was sent to figure skating, in which her parents thought she would achieve good results. But after some conflicts with the coach, the father took his daughter away from this sport. It was her father who gave her enormous influence and support, who always helped and protected her from nonsense. Having matured, she fondly remembers her father's warmth. Anna was a very smart and sociable child , she knew how to make friends at any time and in any place.
She took some from her mother. Since childhood, Anya loved to compose and even said that in their family there was a family magazine in which she and her brother “printed” different stories. Young parents saw her as a philologist, but the girl followed in the footsteps of her parents.
Steps to success
Parents-actors, understanding the complexity of their profession, did not want their children to be public people, but despite this, as a child they allowed their daughter to play an episode in the film “Fiend of Hell.” After this, the little actress could not afford not to try to enter the theater. After graduating from school, Anna applied to the Shchepkin Institute and easily passed the selection. The choice fell on this particular educational institution, because the girl did not want to “show off her family” and dreamed of achieving everything herself at a time when her father taught at one of the best universities in the country - VGIK.
Personal life
In 2007, while working in the serial film “Trust Service,” Anna Taratorkina met the young artist Alexander Ratnikov, who later became her husband. The young people soon after filming had a wedding, which took place surrounded by loved ones.
In 2010, Anna and Alexander had their first child, who was named Nikita on his grandmother’s initiative. The actress’s personal life is connected with family and raising a child. Anna has a personal account on Instagram, where she posts photos of her parents and her creative photographs. The celebrity does not advertise her family life on social networks.
Anna still remains in excellent physical shape (height 170 cm, weight 59 kg), although she does not hide the fact that she often enjoys buns at night.
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Anna Taratorkina and Alexander Ratnikov
In an interview, Taratorkina noted that she calls beauty, first of all, harmony, which is characteristic of all happy women. Anna believes that an actress, like any other representative of the fair sex, should be able to age gracefully. She calls French screen star Annie Girardot her idol in old age. Anna Taratorkina is against plastic surgery, so she considers talk about her nose job inappropriate.
For herself, Taratorkina determined that it is important for a woman to get enough sleep and drink a lot of water. Sleep, which lasts at least 7 hours, allows the body to fully recover, while the condition of the skin improves.
The star of melodramas is often compared in terms of appearance with his colleague Evgenia Loza. Fans also find that Anna Taratorkina is similar to Irina Starshenbaum and TV presenter Elena Ishcheeva.
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Anna Taratorkina in a swimsuit
In February 2020, it became known that Anna Taratorkina and her husband broke up. The divorce was finalized without unnecessary scandals at the end of 2019, so the news appeared in the public domain later. According to friends of the couple, the artist herself filed an application for divorce. The couple repeatedly experienced difficulties, but tried to overcome them for the sake of their son Nikita.
The boy is growing up as a capable child. He goes to the swimming pool, practices chess and gymnastics, and enjoys fine arts. Nikita has not yet shown acting inclinations. According to Anna, she protects the heir from theatrical everyday life.
Taratorkina wants her son to have a happy, fulfilling childhood. But, if in the future Nikita wants to connect his life with the acting profession, he and Alexander will not interfere with him.
Anna Taratorkina: As a mother, I feel sorry for the movie children
In the series “Matchmakers” on the Domashny channel, Anna Taratorkina plays Inga, the daughter of the heroine Tatyana Vasilyeva and, accordingly, the daughter-in-law of the character Lyudmila Artemyeva. It is precisely because Inga one day decides to go back to work from a long maternity leave that two crazy grandmothers appear in the house and have a blast.
- Anna, your heroine goes to work when her son and daughter are already in school - it turns out that she spent many years at home with them. How long did your vacation last after the birth of your son Nikita?
— Due to the specifics of my profession, I only stayed at home for two months. Then she started acting in plays and went to auditions. I went on set for the first time after giving birth when Nikita was 5 months old. At first my parents helped me, so we somehow got out of it - I’m very grateful to them for that! Now my son has a nanny, she is a lifesaver for us, but at the same time she is not a substitute for her mother. I have a tough position: I do not hand over my child to a nanny. There wasn’t a day that Nikita spent alone with her, there was always someone else nearby: me, my husband, my parents or his uncle - my brother. He is also a busy man, he works a lot, but sometimes he drops by to visit his nephew. I don’t want to condemn anyone, but it’s beyond my understanding when some of my fellow actresses give birth and immediately send the child to numerous assistants - nannies, tutors. Why then do they even need a child? It’s as if they became a mother for show. Thank God, this is not my case: in our family the nanny is just there to help.
— How were you able to organize your life so that you could actively film and spend time with your son? Do you take it with you to the site?
- No, it’s just that any filming ends sooner or later, the weekend comes, and I spend it with my son. And when I'm at work, I often call him. He knows that his mother loves him and takes care of him. I firmly believe that everything in life can be organized and built. Yes, it’s not easy, it takes effort from all family members, but everything is real! Of course, with the birth of Nikita, everything in our lives changed. Now he is 3 years and 3 months old, and he is the center of the universe. Sometimes it seems that he is a planet, and we are like satellites that revolve around him.
— How was your relationship with your serial son and daughter?
— When you work on camera with children, you tense up in advance: you understand that there will be additional takes, the pace of shooting will change. We’ll have to adapt, make allowances for age... And how surprised I was when I realized that the children who play in our series work on an equal basis with adults! I'm not exaggerating. We didn't feel any difference between them and other artists. It was a pleasant surprise for the entire film crew!
— Would you like your Nikita to also play in TV series?
— As a mother, I feel sorry for the movie children: it seems that their childhood is passing by. Yes, it's great, interesting, but it's work! At some point, young actors and actresses suddenly stop being children, something like a mutation happens, and they suddenly become little women or little men. But I wouldn’t want Nikita to grow up early. Although, of course, if he decides to become an artist, I will not interfere.
In the series, Anna has two children: a daughter (pictured) and a son.
— Nikita has good genes: her parents are actors, her grandfather is generally a famous people’s artist. By the way, how did your dad Georgy Taratorkin rate the series “Matchmakers”?
“My parents try to keep an eye on my work, but they don’t always have time to watch everything. Dad saw “Svatya” and said that it was quite interesting, the topic was not hackneyed - and this is a rarity in our time. And, of course, we are very lucky with serial grandmothers!
— You were probably worried when you met your “mother” Tatyana Vasilyeva?
- Very! At that time, we had been filming for a month, and the grandmothers were still not in the frame - both actresses playing them were busy. And then the day came when they arrived - and filming immediately began. There were no adjustments, no rehearsals, we went straight into the frame. The very first scene is a meeting between mother and daughter. And Tatyana Grigorievna supported me, it was noticeable that she was trying to help. At that moment, I myself believed that she was my mother. In general, she is an amazing person, very beautiful, smart, with an extraordinary sense of humor. I was interested in her, although we worked under strict conditions: we filmed twice as many minutes a day as is usually done.
— The whole series is based on the fact that two grandmothers come to visit a young family. Have you ever lived with your parents?
- No, we all live separately. In general, this is a difficult question. On the one hand, it’s great when the family is big, when everyone is together. On the other hand, no one has canceled housing issues: after all, in order for everyone to be comfortable, you need to have a huge apartment! It would be difficult with my parents in general, because we are all creative people, and this is an explosive mixture. Although I often think that I would probably like to try to live like this. At least, as we see in the series, it's fun!
Theater
In 2004, after the graduation performances “Nameless Star”, “Three Sisters”, “The Servant of Two Masters”, “The Thunderstorm” were shown, Anna Taratorkina received offers from several Moscow theaters.
The actress chose RAMT, where she immediately received two leading roles in performances based on works created by Boris Akunin specifically for the troupe of Alexei Borodin. In the production “Yin and Yang. White version" Anna played a positive heroine, whereas in "Yin and Yang. Black version” she had to reincarnate as a criminal and intriguer.
After her debut, the actress played in several more plays - “Tom Sawyer”, “The Canterville Ghost”, “Cinderella” and “The Coast of Utopia”. In Pavel Chomsky's production of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, which took place at the Mossovet Theater, Anna Taratorkina played the role of Cordelia. The actress does not neglect the enterprise either. With her participation, the comedies “The Most Expensive is Free” and “Roller Coaster” were staged.
Movies
Anna Taratorkina made her film debut at the age of 9 in Vasily Panin’s crime drama “Fiend of Hell,” playing the governor’s daughter. The following film works in the creative biography of Anna Taratorkina appeared only after graduation. Since 2005, the actress has starred in episodes of the films “Airport”, “The Last Battle of Major Pugachev”, “Who Comes on a Winter Evening...”, “Infidelity”.
In 2007, Vladimir Potapov’s adventure film “07 Changes Course” was released in cinemas, in which, along with Taratorkina, the main characters were played by Sergei Makhovikov, Sergei Batalov, Dmitry Mulyar, Vladimir Menshov and Boris Klyuev.
Together with her father, Anna appeared in the multi-part crime drama “Trust Service,” which was broadcast in 2007 on the RTR channel. In 2008, three more works followed in the series “Cruel Business”, “Girl”, “Palm Reader-2”.
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Anna Taratorkina and her mother
In 2009, Anna Taratorkina received an offer from director Yaroslav Chevazhevsky to play in the main cast of the comedy “Happy Ending” together with Pavel Derevyanko and Yuri Kolokolnikov. The piquancy of the plot lay in the fact that the fate of Gogol’s once escaped Nose was now tried on by the genital organ of one stripper.
In 2010, the actress’s filmography included the significant film “Mortal Combat,” the plot of which is based on real events during the Great Patriotic War. Together with Vladimir Epifantsev, Anna Taratorkina transforms into soldiers of the Red Army.
Later in an interview, the performer called this work the most physically difficult in her acting career. A fragile girl, not very athletic, had to move through the forest for a long time, armed with a real heavy rifle.
A year later, with the participation of the actress, two major projects appeared - the drama by Sergei Govorukhin “Land of People” and the detective story by Vadim Sokolovsky “Save the Husband”. The versatile actress transforms into the heroine Lena, who survived her husband’s betrayal in the film “Other People’s Children,” and into the happy wife and mother Inga in the comedy about a large family “Svatya.”
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In 2014, the Rossiya-1 channel launched the detective series “Private Detective Tatyana Ivanova” with Anna Georgievna in the title role. A year later, the melodrama “The Pieces of the Glass Slipper” was shown on the same TV channel with the participation of the actress. The heroine Elena managed to expose the fraudster, who managed to gain the trust of her mother-in-law and husband.
In 2020, three films were released with the participation of the actress in the title role - “The Blacksmith of My Happiness”, “Unlucky” and “Freshman”. On Channel One, the actress appeared in Oleg Fomin’s detective series “Penalty Man,” which premiered in February 2020. After that, another melodrama “Love with All Stops” with Yuri Baturin, Anna Taratorkina and Victoria Maslova in the lead roles was released on TVC.
Later, the artist’s repertoire was replenished with the popular medical series “Doctor Richter”, as well as the detective story “Scar”, in which Anna played the main role.
Anna Taratorkina now
Now Taratorkina’s acting piggy bank never ceases to be replenished with participation in new projects. In 2020, the artist continued working on the youth series “Outside the Game,” which showed high viewership ratings in the previous season.
Anna reincarnated on screen as a single mother raising a teenage son. The performer was attracted to the heroine because she remains an optimist in every situation and looks at life with genuine interest.
In 2020, with the participation of Anna, the film “Shadow of the Dragon” was released. In addition, she starred in the historical saga “Two Shores”.
Wedding and divorce
They were both actors by vocation, by heart. Anna continued the dynasty of famous actors, Alexander was the recognized “star” of the Tabakov Theater. The young couple had no shortage of roles (their last work was the series “The Ferry Lady”), they were in demand and raised their beloved son, but all this did not save the family from disintegration. They did not celebrate the New Year 2020 together.
The young people met, like most of the actors, on the other side of the screen. The series “Trust Service” was filmed, where Anna and Alexander were supposed to play the roles of enthusiastic students. It seems they got carried away too much, because after filming was over they moved in and began to live together.
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In December 2010, the Ratnikovs had a son, Nikita. Now he is a handsome, well-developed and athletic guy who, in addition to school, has a lot of different activities. He enjoys sports - swimming and gymnastics. She is also seriously engaged in studying English. Alexander and Anna are not trying to develop their son’s acting talents, believing that the time for this has not yet come.
