Nina Drobysheva – biography, photo, personal life, filmography, death 2020

Childhood and adolescence

Nina Ivanovna, a native Leningrader, was born on July 21, 1939. The father did not see his daughter grow up; he died almost immediately in the war. Mom had to work hard, because of this she was almost never at home. Little Ninochka was raised and raised by her grandmother, whom the girl loved very much.

Nina never dreamed of becoming an actress. But she was always surrounded by an alluring creative world. Possessing a rich imagination, the girl imagined herself as the heroine of a fairy tale. She dreamed everywhere she went.

Of course, amateur activities and clubs at the House of Pioneers were Drobysheva’s favorite activity.

Nina Drobysheva in her youth. Photo: 24smi.org

She began participating in amateur performances, quite successfully. At one of them, when “Cinderella” was staged, director V. Vengerov saw her in the role of a cute page. He invited a girl with long pigtails and open eyes to play the on-screen sister of Alexander Mikhailov in the adventure film “Two Captains.”

Later, the young actress played in such a wonderful film as “The Road of Truth,” where she was lucky enough to work with Tamara Makarova herself.

After such an experience, Nina decided to enroll in drama. studio at the Youth Theater (Leningrad). Before the examination committee, I read a monologue from Romeo and Juliet, but feeling that I was not convincing, I immediately ran away.

Young Nina in the film “Two Captains”, 1955. Photo: 24smi.org

But they found the girl and said that she had entered.

After studying, she stayed briefly on the stage of the Youth Theater; almost immediately she was lured away by the director of the Mossovet Theater, Yuri Zavadsky.

How Nina and Elena Drobysheva became actresses

Nina's childhood was not sweet. She was born in Leningrad in 1939, she practically doesn’t remember the blockade - she was too young. Father did not return from the front. The mother was alone, while Nina was in the care of her grandmother, who was her closest friend.

My poor childhood in a communal apartment was brightened up by daily trips to the Hermitage, where it was warm and beautiful. Nina even had her favorite halls there, where she spent time until closing, and then trudged home. As well as classes in the drama club, where the future actor Igor Klimenkov, who played the page boy in “Cinderella,” played with her. He was several years older and Nina was in love with him like a child.

When her grandmother died, Nina was 12-13 years old. This was the first loss in her life that she had to fully understand. The world became different, there was no longer a person in it with whom she shared everything. Her mother was a kind person, but did not take her passion for acting seriously. But already in high school, Drobysheva received her first role in the film “Two Captains”.

Nina Drobysheva in the film “Two Captains” (1955) / Elena Drobysheva in the film “Burnt Sun” (1988)

Elena Drobysheva's childhood

Nina gave birth to Elena in 1964, already being a famous actress not only in the USSR, but throughout the world. With the film “Clear Sky” she traveled to many countries. He brought Drobysheva not only fame, but also her first serious feeling. On the set she met her future husband and Elena’s father, actor Vitaly Konyaev, who played the main character’s childhood friend Petya.

Nina Drobysheva and Vitaly Konyaev in the film “Clear Sky” (1961)

Her parents spent a lot of time working and Elena was raised by her grandmother (as Nina herself once was). Drobysheva and Konyaev separated when their daughter was about five years old. Elena remembers this moment well, which traumatized her. She grew up withdrawn and this subsequently affected her first early marriage with the writer Dmitry Lipskerov. It lasted only 11 months, during which Elena was never able to fall in love.

Nina Drobysheva with her daughter Elena and her first husband Vitaly Konyaev. Photo: belan-olga.livejournal.com/

Film period

At first, Nina Ivanovna received many offers to work in films, she acted quite fruitfully.

In 1957, she starred in two films at once - “The Immortal Song” and “The Street is Full of Surprises.”

Soon Drobysheva received the coveted leading role in the honest and truthful film “Clear Sky,” where for the first time they dared to talk about political repression during the war.

In the film "Clear Sky", 1961. Photo: 24smi.org

According to the plot, Sasha’s husband, pilot Alexey Astakhov, fought heroically, but was captured. Returning home, he was called a “traitor to the Motherland.” During this difficult period of time, his loving wife Alexandra was next to him. She believed in his innocence and said that the truth would prevail. And so it happened. Alexey was summoned to the Ministry of Defense and presented with a high award - the Gold Star medal.

Nina was only 19, and according to the plot she had to play almost a teenager, and then an adult woman. The girl coped with the task brilliantly, clearly conveying the courage and loyalty of her heroine.

The film made Drobysheva famous not only in her homeland, but in Europe. The film was shown abroad and received several major awards. And Nina especially liked it in France and many years later she happily goes there on vacation with one of her daughters.

Nina Drobyshev in the film “Russian Forest”, 1963. Photo: 24smi.org

Another leading role in the war film “Russian Forest” was also highly praised by critics. In the political film “Enemy of the People Bukharin,” Drobysheva played the sister of Vladimir Lenin. With the television version of the play “Five Corners”, Nina Ivanovna traveled to Berlin, where she received the title of actress of small stages in Europe.

Childhood and family

Elena Drobysheva’s date of birth is December 2, 1964. Place of birth: Moscow. The artist’s parents are theater and film actors, her father is Vitaly Konyaev, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, her mother is Nina Drobysheva, People’s Artist of the RSFSR. Elena became the couple's only child.

Elena Drobysheva was born into an acting family

When Elena turned 6, the couple divorced. Later, Nina Drobysheva married actor Vyacheslav Butenko, in this marriage she had a daughter, Christina, Elena’s half-sister. Until the age of 16, Elena bore her father's surname; when she received her passport, she took her mother's. However, the father took an active part in his daughter’s life and ensured that she was enrolled in the best metropolitan school with the study of French, which subsequently allowed the artist to work as a translator with the French delegation when the play “Notre Dame de Paris” was staged in Moscow and to play on the stage of Parisian theaters

Parents of Elena Drobysheva: Nina Drobysheva and Vitaly Konyaev

Elena chose her profession as a child - after graduating from school, she applied to the theater studies department of GITIS. The exams were passed successfully, but after the first year the girl attended “student sketches” with friends from the acting department, doubted the correctness of her decision, became disillusioned with the theater profession and took away the documents. Later she entered VTU. Shchukin, to the acting and directing course of Evgeny Rubenovich Simonov. In 1987, Drobysheva received a diploma.

Elena Drobysheva in her youth and now

Theater era

Nina Drobysheva gave 55 years of her life to her native stage (Mossovet Theatre). Refusal to further filming was a conscious choice of the actress.

During her career, she played many roles in productions of plays by Russian classics such as Ostrovsky and Dostoevsky.

The play “Maslenitsa is not everything for the cat,” where Drobysheva played the role of housekeeper Feona, was awarded the Golden Mask award in 2017.

Nina Drobyshev (left) in the play “Maslenitsa is not everything for the cat.” Photo: 24smi.org

At the beginning of the 2000s, Nina Drobysheva briefly returned to the screens, playing one of three middle-aged adventurer sisters in the film “The House on the Promenade des Anglais.” Her longtime friends, wonderful actresses O. Volkova and L. Chursina, became her partners in the film.

And in 2020, Nina Drobysheva took part in the historical drama “The Frenchman” by Valery Todorovsky.

Film career

Elena played her first episodic role in a movie back in 1984 - the actress’s film debut was the film “The Limit of the Possible.” The very next year she was offered the main role - in a film on a military theme, “Meeting Before Separation.” In general, 1985 became a very productive year for her, during which Elena starred in two more films: “My Girlfriend” and “Rides in an Old Car.”

Elena Drobysheva in the film “Meeting before Separation”

Elena Drobysheva took her first steps to fame during the era of Perestroika. During these years, she got a cameo role in the famous television series “The Investigation is Conducted by Experts” (episode “Case No. 22. Mafia”). From the cinema, it is worth highlighting the historical drama about the times of Stepan Razin’s uprising “Walking People” (1988), where Elena played the “walking” (i.e. criminal) Ulyana. However, in those years, interest in “patriotic” cinema noticeably subsided, so the premiere of Ilya Gurin’s film did not cause a stir.

Elena Drobysheva in the film “Burnt Sun”

She also played the main role, intelligence officer Maria Tsukanova, in the film, co-produced by the USSR and North Korea, “Burnt Sun” (1988). The film told about the period of occupation of Korea by Japanese troops. After filming, Elena “fell ill” with Japanese culture, began to diligently study the Japanese language and infected her mother with this passion.

Elena Drobysheva in the film “French and Russian Love”

In the 90s, Elena had few film roles: there were few offers, and the actress focused on the theater. Among the films with her participation during this period, “French and Russian Love” (1994) and “Meshcherskie” (1995) stand out.

Elena Drobysheva in the television series “Another Life”

Success and audience popularity came to Elena in the early 2000s. After brilliant work in the television series “Another Life” (2003), offers from directors were not long in coming. Soon, viewers saw her in the film “The She-Wolf of Vesyegon” (2004), the television series “Kukotsky’s Case” (2005) and “Route” (2007). Elena Drobysheva in the film “The Kukotsky Case” (trailer) Her role in “Anna Karenina” by Sergei Solovyov (2009) was also memorable. Drobysheva played Dolly (Daria Arkadyevna Obolenskaya). In the original, her heroine is approximately 33 years old, and the actress turned 45 at the time of filming. The difference is explained by the sad fate of Solovyov’s film - 10 years passed between the approval of the cast and filming.

In the 2010s, the actress continued to act on television and in films. She could be seen in the series “In the Forests and on the Mountains” with Vladimir Gostyukhin (the role of the pious rich merchant Aksinya), the melodrama “Dove”, where she had the opportunity to play the wife of Colonel Podolsky (Igor Bochkin), the saga “The Best Friend of the Family” (she and Glafira Tarkhanova got the same character in different years), the mini-series “My Soulmate” with Alexander Domogarov.

Elena Drobysheva in the series “In the Forests and on the Mountains”

Most of all, Elena remembered her collaboration with such actors as Alexander Abdulov, Irina Rozanova, Alexey Kortnev and Margarita Shubina.

In her opinion, the main problem on the set of many modern films is the lack of sufficient time to “get used to” the role.

Interview with Elena Drobysheva “Movies today are made quickly, and the relationships of their characters are discussed in passing, and because of this, many problems, inconsistencies and inversions arise,” Elena once stated.

Personal life

Elena met her first husband, Dmitry Lipskerov (Russian writer, playwright), in 1985 at the B.V. Shchukin Higher Theater School. The young people soon got married. However, the marriage lasted only eleven months.

The second husband is Alexander Koznov, a Russian theater and film actor. In 1990, their son Philip was born. The marriage also did not last long. Elena raised Philip alone. When her son was little, the actress constantly took him with her to filming, and at a social reception in the Hermitage garden they read together Saint-Exupéry’s book “The Little Prince” in the original, in French. Philip completed his studies in economics and works successfully. The young man is fluent in French and English and knows Japanese.

Personal life of Elena Drobysheva

In her personal life, Drobysheva had two marriages. The actress met her first husband in the mid-eighties. Elena Drobysheva’s husband was the future successful playwright Dmitry Lipskerov. They studied at the same institute, as a result of which real passion flared up between the students.

Dmitry Lipskerov is the first husband of Elena Drobysheva

But as one might expect, the early wedding did not lead to anything good. According to Elena, there was nothing in common between them. So the couple fled as quickly as they came together.

Alexander Koznov is the second husband of Elena Drobysheva

The second love in Drobysheva’s life was the actor Alexander Koznov, whom she met four years later. But this time too, Elena Drobysheva’s personal life began to crack. The marriage with Alexander did not last much longer than the first.

Nina Drobysheva now

A person of the old school, for 55 seasons Nina Ivanovna continues to appear on the stage of the Mossovet Theater. The People's Artist of the RSFSR is faithful to her chosen style - a minimum of external expression and a maximum of internal intensity and concentration.

Nina Drobysheva in the play “Not everything is Maslenitsa for the cat”

In the stage adaptation of Stanley Kramer's drama "Ship of Fools", called "Sea Voyage 1933", Drobysheva plays Frau Schmitt.

In the original reading of Alexander Ostrovsky’s play “It’s not all Maslenitsa for the cat,” the actress plays the housekeeper Feona. The performance with the participation of Evgeny Steblov and Elena Valyushkina was nominated for the Golden Mask award in 2017.

Nina Drobysheva in the play “R.R.R.”

Drobysheva is involved in Yuri Eremin’s original production of “R.R.R.”, which hides Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel “Crime and Punishment”. Nina Ivanovna in the role of Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova performs in an ensemble with Alexander Yatsko, Viktor Sukhorukov, Olga Anokhina and Alexei Trofimov. In one interview about this performance, the actress allowed herself to note that the viewer for the most part goes

“look at media people than at the work of the mind.”

In 2018, Nina Drobysheva will have the opportunity to feel nostalgic about the 50s in the film “The Frenchman” by Andrei Smirnov and Valery Todorovsky. The premiere is scheduled for November.

Education

Successful filming in films forever determined the girl’s future profession. After completing her studies at school, she became a student at the drama studio at the Leningrad Youth Theater, which she graduated in 1960. While still a student, she began acting on the stage of the theater. Nina received the main role in the production of Romeo and Juliet. The performance was a huge success thanks to the excellent performance of the aspiring actress.

Drobysheva Nina was a very popular artist from a young age. She managed to combine studying in the studio, working in the theater and filming films. She played in the films “Fathers and Sons”, “The Street is Full of Surprises”, “At the Turning Point”, “Immortal Song”.

Childhood

Actress Nina Drobysheva was born in 1939, on July 21, in the city of Leningrad. Her father died in the war, her mother worked hard to feed the family, so the girl was raised by her grandmother. Nina's early childhood is associated with terrible military events. During the blockade, she and her family were evacuated from their native Leningrad. Upon her return, the future actress entered high school. At the age of thirteen, she experienced another serious test - the loss of her beloved grandmother. Nina grew up as an active girl, seriously interested in theater, and this passion brought her to the Palace of Pioneers, to the drama club.

Interview

On choosing roles “If I take on a role, I’m interested in building it. Of course, I would like to have more time to prepare in order to do this more consciously and deeply. And today films are made quickly, the relationships between the characters are discussed in passing - because of this there are many inconsistencies, problems and changes.”

About my favorite role “The role in Yuri Grymov’s film “The Kukotsky Incident” is dear to me. This is serious work. Everything came together there: an interesting character - from youth to old age, a knowledgeable and subtle director and excellent literary material, the novel by Lyudmila Ulitskaya.”

About co-stars “When you work with a good partner, a miracle occurs on set and the scene you are playing becomes alive. At such moments, you understand why you became an artist. I experienced true pleasure working, for example, together with Irina Rozanova, Alexander Abdulov, Margarita Shubina, Alexey Kortnev.”