Biography of Larisa Malevannaya: childhood
Back in 1939, in the very middle of winter, on January 22, a girl, Larisa, was born in the village of Fedorovka, Rostov Region. Life for the family was not easy, and soon the war began. Larisa, along with her two sisters and brother, had to survive. After the war, the head of the family became addicted to drinking and began to raise his hand against the children. Larisa grew up as a sickly and weak child.
In 1952, the family moved to Krasnodar. Larisa's mother was a teacher, she had to work very hard, and at the age of 43 the unfortunate woman died. In Krasnodar, smart Larisa took up sports, signed up for the basketball section and practiced there diligently. She recalls how gradually her dream of becoming strong, agile and fast came true with every training session. There, in Krasnodar, the girl attended a theater club, where the vocation of the future actress gradually took shape.
People's Artist of Russia Larisa Malevannaya celebrates her anniversary
January 22, Minsk / Corr. BELTA/. People's Artist of Russia, talented theater and film actress Larisa Ivanovna Malevannaya celebrates her 80th birthday today.
Larisa Malevannaya was born on January 22, 1939 in the village of Fedorovka, Rostov region. Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an artist, but her parents believed that this profession was for the elite. Therefore, after graduating from school, Larisa entered the Faculty of History and Philology of the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute.
Shortly before receiving her diploma, she took the documents and decided to take a risk. Young 21-year-old Larisa Malevannaya left for Leningrad and the first time she entered the directing department at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, from which she graduated in 1965 with honors.
While studying at the institute, Larisa Malevannaya met her future husband Gennady Oporkov. Soon they got married. After graduating from the institute, Larisa Malevannaya and her husband first worked at the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators, and since 1968 at the Leningrad Lensovet Theater.
In 1971, Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov invited Malevannaya to his theater, but she refused. By that time, Gennady Oporkov had been appointed chief director of the Lenin Komsomol Theater, and she chose to join her husband’s troupe.
Larisa Ivanovna recalls that in the first years of their life together, Gennady Oporkov simply could not live without her. However, with his appointment to the position of chief director, the situation began to gradually change. Oporkov began to cheat on his wife. When Larisa Malevannaya realized that nothing could be changed, she left her husband, despite the fact that they had a son. In 1976, after a divorce, Larisa Malevannaya left her husband's theater. At this moment, she was re-invited to the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.
Gradually she became one of the leading actresses of the theater. Among her roles: Varvara in “Summer Residents”, Natalya in “Quiet Don”, Commissioner in “Optimistic Tragedy”, Elena Andreevna in “Uncle Vanya” and many others.
Larisa Malevannaya first appeared on screen immediately after graduating from college: she played one of the roles in Yulian Panich’s television film “Seeing the White Nights.” And two years later, Malevannaya made her debut in a big movie. Director Vadim Mikhailov entrusted the young actress with the main role of Nyura Salova in his melodrama “On the Wedding Day.”
After this work, film directors paid attention to the extraordinary actress, and the invitation was not long in coming. In the 70s and 80s, Larisa Ivanovna played a large number of roles, often embodying complex, poignant characters on the screen. Among the most famous are Ekaterina Mikhailovna Selezneva in the film story “Allow Takeoff!”, Polina in Yuri Egorov’s dilogy “Behind the Clouds is the Sky” and “There, Beyond the Horizon”, Manyunya in the social melodrama “The Only One” by Joseph Kheifits, Vera Ivanovna in the melodrama by Vladimir Grigoriev “Late Dates”, Sofya Andreevna in “Teenager” by Evgeny Tashkov based on the novel of the same name by Dostoevsky. Larisa Malevannaya had a chance to play in the films of Pyotr Todorovsky. In Intergirl she played Alla Sergeevna. The role in the tragic melodrama “Anchor, more Anchor!” was also notable.
In recent years, Larisa Malevannaya played Marina Larina in the series “Black Raven”, in the film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot” - General Ivolgina, Maria Drozdetskaya in the series “Demon of Noon”. Malevannaya also starred in the films “Memory” and “Thaw”. Among the actress’s latest works are roles in the films “The Translator” and “Two Women”. -0-
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Dream of becoming an actress
At school, Larisa Malevannaya studied well, was a diligent student, and among school subjects she preferred literature and the Russian language. The girl dreamed of becoming an actress, but those around her told her that such external data was not enough to get on stage. Her friends called Larisa ugly, and even her grandmother advised her to give up acting, considering her youngest granddaughter, Angelina, to be much prettier. After graduating from school, Larisa heeded the advice of those around her and chose the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute to enroll. The girl studied well at the Faculty of History and Philology, but in her final year she decided to withdraw her documents, realizing that this was not her calling.
University admission
Despite the protests of her relatives, Larisa Ivanovna comes to Leningrad. She had already turned 21, and she was worried that due to her age she would not pass the competition for admission to the coveted university. But fate turned out to be favorable to the talented girl, and on the first try she entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. Larisa was enrolled in the directing department, in the course of Alexander Musil. Larisa Malevannaya was taught acting by Arkady Katsman. While studying at the institute, the girl met her future husband, director Gennady Oporkov. In 1965, Malevannaya graduated from high school with honors and almost immediately tied the knot with Gennady.
Painted Larisa Ivanovna
Born on January 22, 1939 in the village of Fedorovka, Neklinovsky district, Rostov region.
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (02/24/1975). People's Artist of the RSFSR (11/13/1985).
Graduated from the directing department of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (1965, course of Arkady Katsman).
Since 1965 - actress and director of the Krasnoyarsk Youth Theater, since 1968 - of the Leningrad Theater. Lensovet, from 1971 - Leningrad Theater. Lenin Komsomol, in 1976 - Maly Drama Theater, in 1976-2007 - ABDT named after. M. Gorky.
From 1988 to 1993, he was the director of the Municipal Drama Theater of Vasilyevsky Island. theatrical works Krasnoyarsk Youth Theater: played in the plays of Anouya, Volodin, De Filippo, in the stage developments of “The Passenger” by Z. Posmysh and “The Forty-First” by B. Lavrenev. Academic Theater named after. Lensovet "Passenger" - Anna Lisa Leningradsky Lenkom "Don't part with your loved ones" - Katya Bolshoi Drama Theater "Dachniki" M. Gorky - Varvara Mikhailovna "Quiet Don" Sholokhova - Natalya "Optimistic Tragedy" Sun. Vishnevsky - Commissioner “Rereading Again” - Irina “Uncle Vanya” A.P. Chekhova - Elena Andreevna “Private Soldiers” - Vera “I Built a House” - Alena “The Last” - Sofia “Sisters” (Small Stage) - Elder Sister Drama Theater "The Comedian's Refuge" "Restless Tango" by Karel Capek. Director: Veneamin Filshtinsky - Mother of prizes and awards Pushkin Medal (2004). Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize. Winner of the Petropol art prize (bronze statuette of St. Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg) in 1999 for achievements in the field of culture and art and for original projects.
film roles 2014 Two women (Russia, France, Latvia with the participation of Great Britain) :: Anna Semyonovna :: main role 2014 Ambulance (Ukraine) :: Zabelina 2013 Translator :: Alexandra Konstantinovna :: main role 2013 Thaw :: Zoya Alexandrovna 2011 Pandora :: Galina Osipovna Vityaeva 2011 House :: Nadezhda Petrovna 2010 Color of the flame :: Daria Nikitichna 2010 Sun circle :: healer 2009 Death of Vazir-Mukhtar :: Nastasya Fedorovna 2009 St. Petersburg holidays :: Miroslava Antonovna 2009 Vidrimasgor, or the History of my cosmos a :: grandma Clara 2009 Admiral (TV series) :: Essen's wife 2008 Parent's Day :: Elena Ivanovna Tomilina :: main role 2008 My autumn blues :: Alexandra Mikhailovna 2008 Clinch :: Anna's mother 2008 Cityscape (Ukraine) :: Lena's grandmother 2008 Apostle | Apostol :: Evgenia Tikhonovna Khromova 2007 Guide :: Anna Antonovna 2007 Before Sunset (film-play) 2006 Sonya Golden Hand :: Varvara Tikhonovna 2006 Mine :: Olga Sluzhaeva 2005 Realtor :: sick woman 2005 Echelon :: Glushkov's mother 2003 Broken streets lanterns-5 :: Eleonora Karlovna 2003 Idiot :: Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina 2003 Demon of the Midday :: Maria Petrovna Drozdetskaya :: main role 2002 Girlfriend Autumn (Belarus) :: Anna's mother 2001-2004 Black Raven :: Marina Larina 1993 On the Murom path: : Alevtina Sergeevna 1992 Anchor, more anchor :: Tamara Vladimirovna Vinogradova 1989 Intergirl | Intergirl (USSR, Sweden) :: Alla Sergeevna 1988 Everything is fine | Viss kārtībā :: Mila 1987 My dear :: Tamara Khrustaleva 1986 Igor Savvovich :: Elena Platonovna 1986 BDT thirty years later (film-play) :: spectator 1985 Privates (film-play) :: Vera 1983 Teenager :: Sofya Andreevna :: main role 1982 Long road to yourself :: Kostromina Lyudmila Pavlovna 1980 Rafferty :: March 1980 Late dates :: Vera Ivanovna :: main role 1980 Nora (film-play) :: Nora :: main role 1979 Scenes from family life :: Kira Anatolyevna Mironova 1978 Lika (film-play) :: Nina 1978 Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov :: Margarita Sergeevna Petrova 1978 Meetings :: Anna 1977 Jump from the roof :: Margarita Sergeevna 1976 The Legend of Tila :: Soetkin 1976 Everyday Affair (film almanac) : : Evdokia Gavrilovna 1975 There, beyond the horizon :: Polina 1975 Memory :: Maria Osipovna Boldina 1975 The only one :: Manyunya 1974 Voice of the heart (documentary) :: poetess :: main role 1974 Spring shifters :: Vera Tyagunova 1973 Beyond the clouds is the sky :: Polina 1972 Ivan, the third son (film-play) :: Arina 1972 Grandmaster :: Elena Dontsova 1971 Allow takeoff! :: Katerina Seleznyova 1971 Two Veronese (film-play) 1971 Lark (film-play) :: Joan of Arc :: main role 1970 Call the hurricane “Maria” :: Maria :: main role 1970 Slow motion explosion :: Lena 1969 Farewell to the white nights :: Tamara 1969 Tomorrow, the third of April... :: Masha Gavrikova's mother 1968 On the wedding day :: Nyura Salova
dubbing 1989 Personal file of Anna Akhmatova (documentary)
participation in films 2012 Actor's Roulette. Yuri Kamorny (documentary) 2011 Baltic House. Biography (documentary) 2009 Reading “The Siege Book (documentary) 2008 Stories and legends of Lenfilm (documentary) 2001 To be remembered (documentary) 1983 G. Tovstonogov. Stage and hall... (documentary)
Work in the theater
The actress was invited to join the troupe of the Komissarzhevskaya Theater, but the newlyweds had other plans, and they moved to Krasnoyarsk. Larisa and Gennady were promised employment in the new theater, housing and creative freedom. In reality, everything turned out to be completely different, and as a result, after almost four years of work at the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators, in 1968, the family moved to Leningrad.
Gennady got a job as a director at the Leningrad Komsomol Theater, and Larisa rejected the invitation of Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov, and instead of the Bolshoi Drama Theater she chose Lenkom to be close to her husband. Among the theatrical works of this period are the main roles performed by the actress in such performances as “The Passenger” and “Don’t Part With Your Loved Ones.” Malevannaya was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Biography
Born on January 22, 1939 in the village of Fedorovka, Neklinovsky district, Rostov region.
She studied at the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute, which she left in her last year [2] and only then came to the theater university - LGITMiK - to the directing department (course of A. A. Musil - directing and A. I. Katsman - acting) and in 1965 I graduated with honors.
She married a classmate, future director Gennady Oporkov[3].
Since 1965, she worked with her husband at the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators as an actress and director.
In 1968, she returned to Leningrad with her husband, who was invited to become a director at the Leningrad Lensovet Theater. Larisa begins working in the theater together with her husband.
In 1971, L. Malevannaya moved to the Leningrad Komsomol Theater, where her husband was appointed chief director.
In 1976, she separated from her husband and, at the invitation of Georgy Tovstonogov, moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater, where she served until 2007.
In 1984-1988 she worked at the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography as an associate professor of the acting department, course director, and graduated from the acting course in 1988[3].
In 1984, Larisa Ivanovna staged Valentin Krymko’s play “Daughter” at the Bolshoi Drama Theater. On the small stage of the BDT there was another play staged by Malevannaya - “Sparklers” by A. G. Averchenko.
From 1988 to 1993, Larisa Malevannaya was the director of the Drama Theater on Vasilievsky Island (St. Petersburg).
In 2009-2012 she served as a director at the Krasnodar Municipal Youth Theater.
Writer, author of three published books: “The Pea in the Box”, “The Sandbox”, “Make up, make up, don’t fight anymore...”[4].
Son - Alexander Oporkov, programmer. Three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. She lived with her second husband for 20 years[5].
Further career in theater
Larisa Malevannaya finally accepted Tovstonogov’s offer and began working on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Here the actress plays noticeable and vivid roles: Varvara Mikhailovna in Gorky’s “Dachniki”, Natalya in Sholokhov’s “Quiet Don” and others. Thanks also to Malevannaya’s extraordinary talent, these productions became successful for several seasons in a row. At the BDT, Larisa also tries her hand at directing, and soon her production of “Daughter” based on the play by Valentin Krymko appeared on the stage, and her play “Sparklers” based on Averchenko was staged on the small stage of the theater. Within the walls of the Bolshoi Drama Theater, Larisa met her second husband. The marriage was strong and lasted 20 years, and the new husband accepted Larisa’s son Sasha as his own.
Actress in cinema
During the same period, Larisa began acting in film and television projects. In the first film “On the Wedding Day” in 1968, she was assigned the main role of Nyura Salova. In the film “The Legend of Tila” by Alexander Alov and Vladimir Naumov, Malevannaya played the role of Soetkin, and the truly star role for the actress was the image of Vera Ivanovna in the film “Late Dates”. This was already the 20th film by Larisa Malevannaya. The role of Sofia Andreevna in the historical drama “The Teenager” based on Dostoevsky is considered the standard of Larisa’s acting skills to this day.
Larisa Malevannaya now
The actress, as in her youth, remains in the ranks and annually appears in projects that are interesting to her. In 2019, Larisa Malevannaya appeared in the international drama “See You Soon,” where she played a minor character. The film was about a football player from the USA who, having received a serious injury, decided to retire from the sport. While traveling around the world, he met a girl from St. Petersburg, whose meeting changed his whole life.
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Larisa Malevannaya in 2020
The main premiere of the year in the artist’s filmography was the screening of the historical film “Union of Salvation.” The film is dedicated to a secret political society, whose members became participants in the 1825 uprising. The film brought together a galaxy of Russian cinema stars: Leonid Bichevin, Maxim Matveev, Pavel Priluchny, Ivan Yankovsky, Anton Shagin and others.
Opening your own theater
In 1984, Larisa Ivanovna returned to the institute, which she herself graduated from. She works as an assistant professor in the acting department. In 1985, Larisa Ivanovna Malevannaya received the honorary title - People's Artist of the RSFSR. And four years later she graduates her own acting course. Malevanna had such a warm relationship with the students that when they offered to organize their own theater, she could not refuse them. So Larisa Ivanovna became the head of the Drama Theater on Vasilyevsky Island and worked here for five years.
Film roles
The actress gained enormous fame after the release of Todorovsky’s film “Intergirl”. In the film, Larisa Malevannaya played the role of a teacher - the mother of the prostitute Tanya. Malevannaya's participation in the filming of this film was received ambiguously. In addition to delight, the actress also had to endure impartial, rude comments. Despite the fact that the role played by Larisa Ivanovna was positive, many viewers condemned her. The actress admits that participation in this film helped her reconsider her own views on life and become more tolerant of people.
In 1999, Larisa Ivanovna became a laureate of the Petropol art prize for achievements in art and culture. Collaboration with Pyotr Efimovich Todorovsky continued on the set of the film “Anchor, More Anchor.” In this film, Malevannaya talentedly played the tragic role of the abandoned general’s wife. Then, after almost a ten-year break, Larisa Ivanovna flashed a bright role in the TV series “Black Raven”. In the multi-part television film based on Dostoevsky “The Idiot” by Vladimir Bortko in 2003 she appeared in the role of Nina Alexandrovna. In the 2000s, Malevannaya came to St. Petersburg to accept Larisa Gergieva’s offer and teach acting at the Academy of Young Singers. During the same period, the artist was awarded the Pushkin Medal and also became a laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize.
Movies
In the first film, the melodrama “On the Wedding Day” by Vadim Mikhailov, Malevannaya played the main character, a strong-willed woman who is trying to arrange her personal life. Interestingly, not all scenes made it into the final film. At the insistence of the artistic council, footage was cut out in which the bride, abandoned on her wedding day, breaks bottles from the festive table in despair.
Larisa Malevannaya as Alla Sergeevna (still from the film “Intergirl”)
In 1970, the actress brought to life the image of the revolutionary Commissar Maria in the film “Call the Hurricane Maria.” A tall, slender woman (Larissa’s height is 173 cm) managed to organically fit into the image depicted.
The 1970s–1980s became stellar years for the actress. Larisa Malevannaya played poignant, complex, multifaceted characters in the films “Allow Takeoff!”, “Behind the Clouds is the Sky,” “There, Beyond the Horizon” and “The Only One.” Larisa Malevannaya’s heroines Vera Ivanovna in the film “Late Dates” and Sofya Andreevna in “Teenager” still serve as a standard of excellence for current students of theater universities.
Larisa Malevannaya (still from the series “Personal Space”)
The projects that brought Larisa Malevanna real fame are the films of Pyotr Todorovsky. The intelligent teacher Alla Sergeevna, Tanya’s mother in “Intergirl” and the tragic role of the abandoned general’s wife in the film “Anchor, more Anchor!” - this is real gold in the actress’s creative baggage.
Critics and viewers call Malevanna’s roles in the TV series “Black Raven” and “Idiot” talented and impeccably played. These films were released at the beginning of the new century. After filming the black comedy “Decent People” and the crime melodrama “Our Happy Tomorrow,” Malevannaya began working on a new project, the melodrama “Personal Space,” where she appeared as the mother of the main character, Professor Koloskov (Yuri Baturin).
Theatrical life of an actress
In 2007, the famous actress and director Larisa Malevannaya left the walls of the BDT. By this time, a kind of stagnation had continued in Malevannaya’s theatrical life for several years - no roles were given, and the actress had already devoted more than thirty years to this theater. After parting with the Bolshoi Drama Theater, Larisa Ivanovna left for Krasnoyarsk to brilliantly and happily play “The Strange Mrs. Savage” at the local Youth Theater. And a year later the artist was invited to the Krasnodar Municipal Youth Theater. On the stage of this theater, Malevannaya staged such performances as “The Doll” based on Arkady Averchenko’s “The Patron’s Joke”, as well as “The Eternal Husband” by Dostoevsky and “Freaks” by Shukshin. The production of “The Doll” was awarded first prize at the prestigious Kuban Theater festival.
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At the Bolshoi Drama Theater, Malevanna was immediately entrusted with the main role, and then she was one of the favorite actresses of director Georgy Tovstonogov, who entrusted her with the most important roles.
In this theater, the actress had the opportunity to work together with such outstanding artists as Kirill Lavrov, Evgeny Lebedev, Oleg Borisov, who greatly helped her get used to her new place of work. She starred in common films with Borisov more than once and played in the same performances.
The year eighty-eight became significant in the creative biography of Larisa Malevanna, when she was the director of the theater that she created together with her students, and Larisa Ivanovna held this position for five years. These years were some of the most difficult in Malevanna’s career, and today Larisa Ivanovna calls the idea of creating a theater her big mistake.
Nevertheless, thanks to this, in the difficult nineties, the theater helped many young artists, who then found it difficult to find work, survive.
After leaving the Bolshoi in 2007, where the actress had been little involved in recent years, Vyacheslav Pinchuk, with whom she studied at the pedagogical institute, invited her to work at the Krasnodar Youth Theater. Malevannaya staged several performances in this theater, and she had the best memories of working there.
After working in that theater for three years, she returned to St. Petersburg again.
