Valentina Panina: I accumulate views in myself. And I feel good.

Biography

Valentina Panina was born in the post-war years in Siberia, where she spent her childhood and youth. The actress recalls this time: “I was born in Omsk in 1946. Our life there was difficult. At first we huddled in a barracks in the same room with my father’s brother, who also came to us with the children after the war. We lived in a former stable.

My parents were very bright people. They had a real purpose - to help people. Mom and dad maintained a very warm relationship with each other all their lives. They were not people of creative professions in the usual sense. Dad is a doctor, mom is first a paramedic, then a teacher of Russian language and literature, but they had a creative relationship, and they never ceased to be interesting to each other.”

Valya turned out to be a very musical child, and also the owner of a beautiful voice. Her parents sent her to a music school, which she successfully graduated from.

However, at first Panina did not intend to become either a musician or an actress. Later, in an interview, she said: “I followed in my mother’s footsteps - to the pedagogical institute. And that’s where I got into the student theater. I plunged into a new world for myself, fell in love with the theater and Mom was shocked: “Where, why?” — the artist admits. “She came to Moscow after I arrived and was seriously concerned that I would immerse myself in the capital’s bohemia. My parents were afraid that all this acting would blow my head off. They didn't know that I would be a tough nut to crack."

Childhood

Natalya Panina is a native Muscovite who was born in October 1974, but soon her family moved to Bulgaria, where the future actress spent her childhood and youth.

From an early age, the girl loved to perform in the family circle, portraying the then popular Sofia Rotaru and Alla Pugacheva, which, by the way, she did well. None of the adult family members took the girl’s hobby seriously.

Although, as a schoolgirl, Natalya attended a local drama club, her parents hoped to instill in her a love of biology and chemistry, dreaming that their daughter would become a family dentist.

Theater

In 1968, Valentina Panina graduated from “Sliver”, but refused the offer to stay at the capital’s Maly Theater. It turns out that she always dreamed of living and working in Leningrad. Having moved to the northern capital, the actress got a job at her beloved Alexandrinka (Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin). For 23 years, Panina, together with Bruno Freundlich, appeared on the famous St. Petersburg stage in the play “Elegy”. This is a story about the relationship between Russian actress Maria Savina and Ivan Turgenev.

Sixteen years later, the artist was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Komsomol Theater (now the Baltic House). And since 1988 she became the leading actress of the Komissarzhevskaya Theater. Here she is busy both in the classical repertoire and in performances based on plays by modern playwrights.

The actress says about her theatrical career: “I loved and love the Pushkin Theater, where I spent my youth. There I played roles on which the performance largely depended. Then there was the Lenkom Theater, where I came with hope, love and faith that I was needed and could do a lot. But it didn’t work out. And to the theater. V.F. Ruben Sergeevich Agamirzyan called me to Komissarzhevskaya, and I will be grateful to him all my life. Here I had a feeling of freedom, independence, despite the fact that all of us, artists, are insanely greedy for work. I also realized that you can be free, here no one forces you to think differently than you think. There is freedom and joy of co-creation with different results - both success and failure."

A talented and charming artist, possessed of outstanding appearance, musicality, and a beautiful voice, can be seen on the stages of a number of other theaters, as well as in enterprises. Panina works a lot and fruitfully in the genre of melodic recitation and in musical solo performances. One of her latest works in this direction is a play based on the songs of Klavdia Shulzhenko “I am returning your portrait.”

THEATER WORKS

Leningrad Drama Theater named after. Pushkin:

• “Much Ado About Nothing” by W. Shakespeare - Beatrice
• “Warm Heart” by A. Ostrovsky - Parasha
• “The Green Bird” by C. Gozzi (dir. N. Sheiko) - Pompeii
• "Artem" - Froska the Soldier
• “Elegy” by P. Pavlovsky - Maria Savina
• “My love Electra” L. Durko - Electra

Leningrad State Variety Theater:

• “Terrible Parents” by J. Cocteau (staged by G. Egorov) - Madeleine
• “Don’t say goodbye” by G. Mamlin (staged by G. Egorov) - Vera Petrovna
• Leningrad State Theater named after. Lenin Komsomol:
• “The Trial” by E. Mann, based on the script of the film “The Nuremberg Trials” (directed by G. Egorov, directed by V. Vetrogonov) - Frau Berthold
• “Toastmaster” by A. Galin (production by G. Egorova, directors I. Struchkova, V. Tykke) - Irina Minnelli
• “The Gadfly”, rock musical by A. Kolker and A. Yakovlev (production by G. Egorov, director V. Tykke) - Gemma

Theater named after V. F. Komissarzhevskaya:

• “Librarian” A. Galin - Inna Sergeevna
• “Maxim at the end of the millennium” L. Zorin - Alexandra
• “Lackey Games” E. Braginsky - Krutilina
• "Robespierre" R. Rolland - J. Fouche
• “Pretenders” E. Braginsky, E. Ryazanov - Balakina
• “Crazy Jourdain” M. Bulgakov - Dorimena
• “French things” by J.J. Bricker, M. Lasegue - Mathilde Lasbry
• “The Murder of Gonzago” N. Yordanov - Elizabeth
• “Shadowkeep” B. Stavis - Josephine
• “Dreams of Isabella Kay” I. Leitner - Memory
• “Kin IV” G. Gorin - Amy
• “Rike with a Tuft” by C. Lascari - Carmencita
• “Antigone in New York” J. Glowacki - Antigone
• “Invitation to the Castle” by J. Anouilh – Mother
• “The Player” F. Dostoevsky - Grandmother
• “Honoring” B. Slade - Gladys
• "Goat Island" Ugo Betti - Agatha
• "Hangman's Humor" J. Richardson - Lucy, Martha
• “Thief in Paradise” E. De Filippo - Carmella
• “The Jester Balakirev” G. Gorin - Anisya Kirillovna
• “Schweitzer’s namesake” V. Shenderovich - Agunya
• “Kreutzer Sonata” L.N. Tolstoy - Lady, wife of an elderly gentleman
• “Passion for the Sofa” M. Tulchinskaya - 3rd woman
• “Slave Women” A. Ostrovsky - Marfa
• “Days of the Turbins” by M. Bulgakov - Elena Talberg
• “With you and without you” A. Menchell (dir. V. Grishko)
• "Tartuffe" by Moliere - Elmira

St. Petersburg Theater “Russian Entreprise” named after Andrei Mironov:

• “Faryatyev’s Fantasies” by A. Sokolova (dir. Y. Tsurkanu) - Mother
• “Heir Laptev” by A. Khmelik (dir. V. Kaminsky) - Skripitsyna

Theater "Comedian's Shelter":

• “Charley's Aunt from Brazil” by B. Thomas (dir. V. Minkov)

Mariinskii Opera House:

• “My Fair Lady” by B. Shaw (musical, directed by R. Carsen)

Panina Natalya Vadimovna

Born in 1970 in Moscow.
Honored Artist of Russia (April 17, 2006).

Came to the Russian State Drama Theater named after. A.S. Pushkin in 1992 immediately after graduating from the Theater School. M.S. Shchepkina. Olga’s debut role in Mark Rozovsky’s play “Romances with Oblomov” allowed the young actress to declare herself as a bright creative individual. And the next role - Mirandolina in “The Landlady of the Hotel” by Carlo Goldoni (director Vladimir Vorobyov, 1992) became a truly benefit performance. Mirandolina Panina appeared in the play as a daring, crafty girl, recklessly and easily playing pranks on her unlucky gentlemen-guests. Her young heroine challenged the adult world, in which there was so much stupidity, lies and injustice. “Natalia Panina, an artist of royal stature, with extraordinary stage charm, managed in the textbook role of Mirandolina to create the image of a strong, bright and charming woman for all times. She is playful, flirtatious, capricious and prone to adventure, but the main thing in her heroine is genuine, and not sanctimonious, purity and dignity of a person...” - this is how critic Tatyana Shipilova wrote about the actress (“Soviet Siberia”, 1995).

After Mirandolina, Natalya Panina was written mainly as a “character actress”, with a bright temperament and an open, catchy manner of acting. However, the roles of recent years, especially the role of Julia in the play “PS Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler, its author and their beloved Julia” (1998) by E.T.A. Goffman and V.A. Mozart, revealed the actress’s talent in a different way, proving that she is fluent in many stage genres, from the most tender lyrics to grotesque slapstick. In the play “PS...” the role of Julia, the conductor’s beloved, incorporates many of the most dissimilar female characters, and the actress, with her characteristic grace, masterfully builds the most complex score of the role. “Chrysler’s beloved Julia, performed by Natalya Panina, appears either as an embarrassed girl in a checkered dress, or as a femme fatale under a black veil, or as an ethereal Muse in a flowing tunic, or as a carnal seductress vulgarly shouting out the Queen of the Night’s aria, or as a mournful Donna Anna, or as a playful Zerlina, or Columbine. An actress, a girl, a woman, a muse, a dream, again an actress...” noted critic Elena Tretyakova (“Wind Conductor” // St. Petersburg Theater Magazine No. 17, 1999). For her role in the play “PS” in 2000, the actress was awarded the State Prize of Russia.

Natalya Panina played more than 20 roles on the Alexandrinsky stage. Among her heroines were Olga (“Romances with Oblomov”, director Mark Rozovsky, 1992), Bianca in Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” (director Rostislav Goryaev, 1993), Lady Mary in “Elizabeth of England” by F. Bruckner (director Svetlana Milyaeva, 1994 ), Masha in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” (directed by Rostislav Goryaev, 1996), Anitra (“Peer Gynt” by G. Ibsen, 1997), Julia in the famous play “PS” by Grigory Kozlov, Liza Sinichkina in “A Pair of Bays” (directed by Alexander Belinsky, 2000), Varya (“The Cherry Orchard” by A.P. Chekhov, director Roman Smirnov, 2001), Nina (“Cap with Bells” by L. Pirandello, director Vladimir Vorobyov, 2001), Becky Sharp in “Vanity Fair” Thackeray (director Alexander Belinsky, 2002). Dona Anna and Mary (“Little Tragedies,” directed by Grigory Kozlov), Jane Worthington in R. Cooney’s comedy “Number Thirteen” (directed by Vladimir Golub, 2005), as well as Nina and Baroness Shtral in “The Unknown” (play by Marina Gavrilova based on “ Masquerade" M.Yu. Lermontov, 2004).

Natalya Panina is also willingly invited by other creative groups. In the 1997/98 season. Panina played the role of Joe in the enterprise play “The Taste of Honey” by S. Deleni (dir. Elena Chernaya). At the Russian Entreprise Theater named after Andrei Mironov, she played the main role in the play “Forty-First” by B. Lavrenev, and also performed in two musical performances: “From the Notes of a Crazy Entrepreneur” and “Oh, These Poor Men!” The actress performs concert programs in which she performs Russian romances. Artistry, stage charm and brilliant vocal abilities allowed her to take first place in the St. Petersburg Acting Song Competition in 1999. A. Mironova.

Today the actress’s repertoire includes the role of Agafya Tikhonovna in Valery Fokin’s play “Marriage” by N.V. Gogol (2008) and the role of Olga, the former lover of the main character in the play “Izotov” by M. Durnenkov (director Andrei Moguchiy, 2009).

movie roles 2009 The Story of a Convict :: Sveta 2007 The Last Voyage of Sinbad :: episode 2005 MUR is MUR-3 :: episode 2004 Opera-1. Chronicles of the homicide department :: Alena 2003 Alien face :: Vorontsova 2003 Love of the Emperor :: Maria Fedorovna 2002 Streets of Broken Lanterns-4 :: Marina 2000 House of Hope :: Olga 1998 Sleeping Beauty (film-play) :: Queen 1996-1997 Let's live - we'll see :: Irina 1992 House on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard :: Maria 1991 Sonya, insomnia, sleep :: Lucy 1987 Temptation :: Masha 1981 Personal life of the director :: Natasha

voice acting 2004-2012 Desperate Housewives | Desperate Housewives (USA)

Cinema

The actress’s film career began in 1970 with the role of Elizaveta Petrovna in Yuri Shvyrev’s historical film “The Ballad of Bering and His Friends.” Then she had the chance to play Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, the wife of Nicholas I, in Vladimir Motyl’s romantic film “Star of Captivating Happiness” with Irina Kupchenko and Alexei Batalov.

In the 80s, the artist played a lot in films and performances, while simultaneously starring in feature films. Among her roles: Rita Lavrova (Seryozha’s mother) in the drama by Nikolai Lebedev and Ernest Yasan “Please blame Klava K for my death,” Lady Huxley in the famous “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” by Igor Maslennikov, leading engineer Irina Anatolyevna Rumyantseva in the film Vladimir Shredel’s “The Personal Life of the Director”, The Good Witch in Nadezhda Kosheverova’s film adaptation of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales “Donkey Skin”, the head of the exhibition of the Glyukin collection in the melodrama by Rostislav Goryaev “Everyday Life and Holidays of Serafima Glyukina” and others.

In the new millennium, fans of the actress’s work could see her in numerous TV series: “Lines of Fate” by Dmitry Meskhiev, “One Shadow for Two” by Alexey Kozlov, “Streets of Broken Lanterns-7” by Vladimir Nakhabtsev, “Tatiana’s Day” by Mikhail Mokeev, “Alien Nest” Denis Carro.

In recent years, Valentina Panina appears mainly in older roles. Her heroines are mothers, grandmothers, doctors, neighbors, etc. The actress continues to actively star in projects of various genres, but the basis of her cinematic work is melodrama. Thus, in Vladimir Shevelkov’s film “Love Under Supervision” she played Demidova, in the film “House of Sleeping Beauties” by Sergei Komarov - the grandmother of the main character Pavel.

"Shuttle girls"

In the popular social melodrama by Yulia Krasnova “Shuttle Girls,” the actress had the opportunity to play Larisa Sergeevna, the mother of Mikhail Rodionov. Her on-screen son was Konstantin Yushkevich.

According to the plot, Olga Rodionova (Maria Poroshina) and Svetlana Lyutaya (Elena Panova) are the wives of officers and best friends. They have wonderful husbands and children. They live in a small military town and are quite happy.

But the 90s came: soaring prices, delayed wages, widespread layoffs. Olga urgently needed money for medicine for her daughter, and Svetlana had to pay off a loan to save her mother from losing her home. The friends, reluctantly, decided to go to the market to trade.

But, not knowing either the local rules or the people who run them, the inexperienced women only worsened their situation: they made enemies and new, unsustainable debts.

The owner of the shuttle business, Zoya Viktorovna (Irina Rozanova), invites Olga and Sveta to work for her. In just a few trips to Turkey or Poland, shuttle traders could not only pay off their bills, but also quickly earn money that they had never received before. The heroines are forced to agree.

Together with new acquaintances - nurse Alisa (Zoryana Marchenko) and Zoya's niece - former ballerina Ella (Svetlana Ivanova), Olga and Svetlana begin a new life full of dangers, risks and excitement. They have to constantly deal with the criminal business and pay for any mistake too dearly. Each of them regretted more than once that she became a shuttle operator. But they are not going to give up.

In 2020, the Rossiya TV channel aired a continuation of the intriguing story about how to survive in difficult times, not lose love and find happiness. Yulia Krasnova worked on new episodes of “Shuttle Girls” in collaboration with Sergei Krasnov.

The “shuttle period” in the lives of the heroines is over, and they return to the market in a different status. But we must not forget that this is still the 90s. There are gang wars and fights in progress, then drug control, then the police will appear. The girls will not be allowed to rest on their laurels, and they will still have to carry everything on themselves,” director Serey Krasnov said about the plot.

In total, the actress’s filmography includes more than seven dozen diverse roles.

Filmography

She made her film debut in 1970, in the film “The Ballad of Bering and His Friends,” where her character is the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna.

Five years later, in the film “The Star of Captivating Happiness,” they wanted to approve Panina for the main role - the wife of the Decembrist Trubetskoy, but later she got the episodic role of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, the wife of Nicholas I.

And in 1977, the actress played the character Belskaya in the film “Open Book”. Another famous role of Panina is the cook Tosya in the film “If I Love.” And in 1979, viewers saw her in the role of the mother of a teenager in love in the drama “Please blame Klava K for my death.”

Since the 1980s, Panina preferred to act in theatrical performances, and began to act in films less often. During this period of time, the actress’s filmography was replenished with the following films: “The Personal Life of the Director”, “Without a Family”, “Donkey Skin”, “Mozzhukhin’s Field Guard”, “Called by the Revolution”, “Kill the Dragon”, etc.

Since the 2000s, Valentina Viktorovna began acting in the TV series: “Lines of Fate”, “Love Like Love”, “Tatiana’s Day”, “Gingerbread” and many other serial films.

In 2020, two series with her participation were released - “The Last Week” and “The Burning Phoenix”.

For her fruitful creative work, the actress was awarded numerous awards, prizes and titles. One of them is the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Voice acting. Radio

In the 70s, Valentina Panina worked on the radio. “On the radio I completed what I missed in the cinema and on stage,” she admits. For ten years, the artist took part in the recording of the “Pages of History” program.

In 1977, Panina was invited to voice Zinochka, the heroine of Eva Shikulski, in Ilya Averbakh’s melodrama “Declaration of Love.” Later, the actress’s voice could be heard in the documentaries “It’s Your Turn” and “Belated Premiere.” She also provided voice acting for the Russian-American biographical film “Young Catherine” with Julia Ormond, Franco Nero, Maximilian Schell, Nikolai Lavrov and Yulian Makarov.

Film roles

The first film with the participation of the actress was “The Ballad of Bering”, in which she got the role of Elizaveta Petrovna. In 1975, she played Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in the historical-romantic film “The Star of Captivating Happiness” and Lavrenev’s wife in “Eleven Hopes.” The next heroines of actress Valentina Panina were the cook Tosya in the melodrama “If I Love” and Belskaya in the film adaptation of V. Kaverin’s work “Open Book”.

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In 1980, she appeared in the war film “Chief Designer” in the image of Galina. Then she played the main character of the leading engineer Irina Rumyantseva in the drama “The Personal Life of the Director.” At the same time, she starred in the film-play “Invitation to Life” and the mini-series “December 20”. The artist’s next works were the fairy tale “Donkey Skin”, the dramas “Lethargy” and “Portraits of Men”.

In the 1999 film-play “Honoring,” actress Panina Valentina, whose photo you can see above, played the role of Gladys Petrelli. Soon she played Mukha's mother in the first and second seasons of the detective series Mongoose. In 2005, the artist starred in the war drama “Alka”, the film adaptation of “One Shadow for Two” and “Streets of Broken Lanterns 7”. Then Valentina Viktorovna appeared in the TV series “Tatiana’s Day”, “Defense Against” and the full-length melodrama “Love under Supervision”. In 2009, the actress played Dina Krylova in the film “To Live First” and the head physician Nina Mikhailovna in “Gingerbread”. In the second season of the series “Terms of Contract” she got the role of Valeria Pavlovna. At the moment, the latest projects with the participation of the artist are the detective story “What Needed to Be Proved” and the social drama “Shuttle Women”.

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Personal life

“It didn’t work out for me, like mom and dad – one lifelong marriage. “I was married three times,” admits the actress. She recalls about her first husband: “The existence in my heart of Seryozha, he was from Omsk, not yet an official husband, still a groom, kept me in a kind of cocoon. We corresponded for seven years and invented this love of ours. He was a translator in India. I imagined that he was homesick for his homeland and for me. But was it really like that? We saw each other a little - and broke up quickly when we got married and began to live together.”

The artist found family happiness with her colleague Vadim Nikitin. In their marriage they had a daughter, Natalya. Both husband and daughter are actors at the Alexandrinsky Theater.

Natasha followed in the footsteps of her parents, although her mother made every effort to lead her away from this path: “I did everything to prevent her from going. I took her on tour so that she could see this life - with the laboratory tiles on which we cooked food, we received pennies all our lives, we sewed everything for ourselves, I just didn’t sew boots. I sewed fur coats, altered coats, and concert dresses. And only for the performance, which I dedicated to my favorite singer Klavdia Shulzhenko, I ordered a dress from a dressmaker. But my daughter was not afraid of such a life. She knew what she wanted and went into acting.”

Valentina Panina likes to spend her free time with her family, delighting loved ones with culinary delights, relaxing at the dacha with her beloved granddaughter and her cat Tikhon, whom she once picked up on the street.

Natalia Panina

– Natasha, did you study in Moscow? Why not at home, under the supervision of your mother?

“Precisely because I didn’t want my mother’s patronage and mother’s fuss, I left to enroll in Moscow, away from the house on Pestel Street, which was very close to Mokhovaya and the Theater Institute.
It seems that I entered all the schools in Moscow and was accepted almost everywhere, but I still chose “Shchepka”, since they were enrolled immediately in the first year, without preliminary exams, in the course of Viktor Korshunov... - My mother also studied here, if I didn’t Am I wrong?
- Yes!
But then I was under the name of my dad (Vadim Nikitin, an actor at the Alexandrinsky Theater), and only after some time they “deciphered” me... - Probably, it was possible to stay not only in Moscow, but also at the Maly Theater without any problems?
- I was invited to many theaters, Mark Rozovsky really wanted me to play in his theater “At the Nikitsky Gate”...
- ... but my character, apparently, did not allow me to choose the easy path?
“Now everyone, like my Chekhov heroine Masha in Three Sisters, moans: “To Moscow, to Moscow,” and even then I moaned: “To St. Petersburg and only St. Petersburg!”
And at that time St. Petersburg was completely different, now there is a huge gap between the capital and us, everyone thinks that a career can only be made in Moscow... - Haven’t you dreamed of a career?
“Both then and now I believe that the Theater that I was taught and which I profess is located in my hometown.
– Natasha, you have a good repertoire: Chekhov, Pushkin, Western classics and modern plays – at first glance, you are a quite successful actress...
– I don’t complain about the lack of work, but satisfaction is very rare...
– Grigory Kozlov’s performance “Little Tragedies” Doesn't the recent premiere bring satisfaction?
– This is a very painful question.
You know, this often happens - both in cinema and in the theater - it seems that everything is there to make the film or play work, but it doesn’t work. And vice versa, when no one particularly strives to create a masterpiece, then a masterpiece is obtained. This, in my opinion, is what happened with “Little Tragedies.” – You made such a brilliant film debut in Boris Yashin’s film “The House on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard”, where your partner was none other than Alexander Zbruev himself.
So the road to cinema has been paved? – It all depends on what type of female actresses is in demand at one time or another, and youth is the only type that is always in demand, but now I know this from myself, it will flash instantly... After “The House on Rozhdestvensky Boulevard” there were a lot of offers play similar girls, but it was no longer interesting to me.
Moreover, I wanted to return to St. Petersburg, and I didn’t want to act in any nonsense. It seemed to me that I would hide my face with nonsense, and they would not take me seriously... - What are your plans now?
– I’m starring in the film “Broken Bridges” – it’s a multi-part film. I am rehearsing with Nikolai Sergeevich Marton a very interesting play “Masquerade” - this is a fantasy on the themes of Lermontov’s play. In addition, I hope that together with the composer, conductor and arranger Timur Kogan I will perform in the Czech Republic at a music and theater festival, where I will perform his vocal cycle based on the poems of Apollinaire...

Interview

About the profession

“This profession allowed me to see the world, see the country in which I live, see people, understand a lot, experience a lot, feel myself in different times and different spaces.”

“When on stage you know what you are doing, when it was born together through rehearsals and searches, then in the theater there is a release after very difficult work - there were such moments in my life, these happy moments, when there was a feeling of duality in your work: you are simultaneously something... you do it and watch what you do.

And in the cinema it’s like falling off a cliff - there is no such time as in the theater. Very often an unconscious pressure arises - you don’t understand what is needed, your sense of the role does not coincide with what the director wants. And when it matches and goes - wow, it’s like jumping from a 10-meter tower, and you get creative swimming both “in the water” and “under the water” - pleasure!”

“There are many actors, but few good roles. It is the viewer who sees the stage as huge. In fact, the stage cannot be bigger than the actor's heart. The actor's heart is a red-hot stage. The heart works without prompters. The connection between criticism and the acting world has been greatly exaggerated. Don't look outside the actor's soul for theater theory. Theater theory is written in the actor’s blood.”

“I approach my profession with trepidation, tenderness and great love. And I closed the door to myself, to my heart, the very second filming or rehearsals ended.”

“I didn’t have many great writers and playwrights in my acting life. The classic that I dreamed of somehow passed me by. But I’m glad that I was lucky enough to perform on the same stage with Merkuriev, Tolubeev, Ekaterininsky, Adashevsky...”

About the roles

“I love them all, even the ones that were unsuccessful, because in each of them I did everything I could. But there are performances that shaped me not only as an actress, but also as a person. This, of course, is “Elegy” at the Alexandrinsky Theater directed by Ilya Saulovich Olshvanger. Meetings with him and Bruno Arturovich Freundlich were some kind of incredible happiness for me, which I will remember for the rest of my life.”

About the theater

“Firstly, theater is a school of relationships with people. With everyone who works here. We do one thing together, each of us. If this is done with love, with acceptance, but with dignity, it is good, good to tears. And theater is also a school of life. I believe that all schoolchildren will then discover for themselves what family is and how to be friends. Will you be actors, no, it doesn’t matter. You can make your life creativity, art, knowledge of yourself and others. Forgive yourself, forgive others, meet people halfway.”

“If I used to think that all life is theater, and theater is life, now I understand that any work is part of life.”

“For me, theater is like poetry, it’s such a feeling that comes to the throat when a person can cry from the beauty.”

Family and children of Andrei Panin

Our hero’s parents had nothing to do with creativity. However, Andrei Panin dreamed of conquering the stage from his youth. And there were some problems. But still he showed his persistence and began to pursue his life’s work.

It is known that over the years of his life the actor was married twice. In total he had three children. A daughter from the first tank and two sons from the second. They were the actor's pride. He always treated all his relatives with care and love.

After the death of the artist, the family and children of Andrei Panin worried for a long time; they could not accept that he was no longer there.

Due to the similarity of the surname, many people ask the question: “Andrey Panin and Alexey Panin - who are they to each other?” But it’s worth noting that both of these actors are nothing like each other.

Filmography: Actress

• Last Week (2019), TV series
• Shuttlewomen. Sequel (2018), TV series
• Burning Phoenix (2018), mini-series
• What needed to be proven (2016), TV series
• Shuttlewomen (2016), TV series
• Maruska (2016), short film
• The Queen's Last Move (2015), mini-series
• Alien Nest (2015), TV series
• Ban (2014)
• Terms of contract-2 (2013), TV series
• Legend for opera (2013)
• House of Sleeping Beauties (2013)
• Two with Pistols (2013)
• Surveillance (2012)
• The Man in Me (2011), TV series
• A Million to the Sky (2010)
• Gingerbread (2009)
• Live first (2009), TV series
• Tatyana's Day (2007), TV series
• Love under supervision (2007)
• Defense Against (2007), TV series
• Love Like Love (2006)
• My Dad is a Storyteller (2006), short film
• Streets of Broken Lanterns-7 (2005), TV series
• One shadow for two (2005), TV series
• Alka (2005), mini-series
• Edelweiss Pirates (2004)
• The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin (2004)
• Mongoose-2 (2004), TV series
• Mongoose (2003), TV series
• Lines of Fate (2003), TV series
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
• Honoring (1999), film-play
• Cinema, cinema, or Inevitable spring (1999)
• We'll wait and see (1997), TV series
• Music of love. Unfinished Love (1996)
• Everything will be fine (1995)
• Just Don't Go (1992)
• Regional emergency (1988)
• Kill the Dragon (1988)
• Everyday life and holidays of Serafima Glyukina (1988)
• Portraits of Men (1987)
• Called by the Revolution (1986), film-play
• Mozzhukhin's Field Guard (1985)
• Happy, Zhenya! (1984)
• Without a Family (1984)
• Lethargy (1983)
• Traces Remain (1982), film-play
• Donkey Skin (1982)
• Family Heirloom (1981), film-play
• Invitation to Life (1981), film-play
• Personal Life of a Director (1981)
• December 20 (1981), mini-series
• I am an actress (1980)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980), mini-series
• The Scream of a Loon (1980)
• A Day to Reflect (1980)
• Chief Designer (1980)
• Under the Linden Tree (1979)
• Please blame Klava K. for my death (1979)
• Ball (1979), film-play
• Open Book (1977-1979)
• If I fall in love... (1976)
• Eleven Hopes (1975)
• Star of Captivating Happiness (1975)
• Blizzard (1972), film-play
• The Ballad of Bering and His Friends (1970)

Valentina Panina

An inexplicable thing - fate - decreed that the gifted actress, owner of classical beauty and truly royal stature, rarely acted in films. The beauty and clever Valentina Panina compensated for the lack of roles on the big screen with work on the radio and a theater career.

Valentina Viktorovna Panina was born in Omsk in the family of a military doctor and a philologist teacher. Her father’s frequent assignments allowed her to travel across the expanses of the Soviet Union, she also lived on Sakhalin, and her soul inexplicably longed for the city on the Neva.

Dreams must come true - this is an axiom tested by Valentina Panina. She did not make a philologist; after dropping out of her second year at the pedagogical institute, she went to enroll in the capital’s Theater School. M. S. Shchepkina. Perhaps the experience gained in the student theater helped, or her excellent vocal abilities, or both, but Panina graduated brilliantly from the oldest higher theater educational institution in Russia. She was invited to the Maly Theater, she chose the long-awaited St. Petersburg.

The first big theater stage (1968-1984) was the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, then for four years it was possible to watch Valentina Panina at the Leningrad Theater. Lenin Komsomol, after which to this day she remains faithful to the Theater. V. F. Komissarzhevskaya.

Valentina Viktorovna's film career began with the role of Elizaveta Petrovna in the historical film The Ballad of Bering and His Friends (1970). Films with the participation of Valentina Panina over the next ten years were released with enviable consistency: The Star of Captivating Happiness (1975) - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, If I Love (1976) - Tosya, For my death, please blame Klava K. (1979) - Rita, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980) - Lady Huxley, Donkey Skin (1982) - Sorceress. The role of Irina Rumyantseva in the film The Personal Life of a Director (1981) is one of the few main ones in Panina’s film career; the actress had to wait sixteen years for the next one, in the TV series Tatiana’s Day.

She has the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980). She is married and has a daughter, Natalya, who continues the Panin acting dynasty.

Valentina Panina has blue eyes, naturally dark hair color, fair skin and medium lips. The face shape is oval, the forehead is high, the hair is straight and thick. Valentina Panina changes her hair color, preferring blonde. The actress has an average straight nose and an oval chin. The actress is 175 cm tall and has no tattoos.

Zodiac sign - Libra (06.10.1946)