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Childhood and youth of the actress

Nina Antonova was born in 1935 in the village of Bakaly in Bashkiria. Her father is a military man, and her mother is a housewife who was raising four children, of whom Nina played the role of the first-born. Life in the village at that time was very difficult, you had to help your parents and do housework.

Mom dreamed that the children would have a decent education; for this, the family first moved to the town of Oktyabrsky. Here Ninochka went to school, enjoyed running to the Oilmen's Club, studied in a drama club and took her first tiny steps onto the big stage.

Since childhood, she dreamed of becoming an actress, although her parents were very opposed to this. Then the young star announced that she would become a ballerina, which upset them even more. They had to come to terms with and watch how the little fragile daughter would soon conquer cities and countries.

Childhood of a future star

The future star was born on December 22, 1937 in the city of Leningrad. She belonged to a famous family. Olga’s father was a famous Soviet prose writer (some of his books were published in millions of copies), and her grandfather was an opera singer. The actress inherited the talents of her relatives.

Olga's childhood years were not absolutely happy. When she was six years old, the parents of the future actress decided to divorce. Olga Antonova stayed to live with her father, and her older brother and her mother moved to another city.

The girl's father was a very busy man and she saw him quite rarely. A creative atmosphere always reigned in their house: their father’s friends came, had conversations on literary topics and read poetry. Olga loved to sit under the table and listen to the conversations of adults. The future actress spent her childhood and adolescence in a communal apartment above the services of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater.

During her childhood, Olga was seriously ill. She had a serious spinal disease and the future actress did not get out of her hospital bed for several months.

Become an actress

Like many other applicants who came to Moscow from the outback, Nina Antonova was amazed by the scale of the capital and was afraid to cross the road or ride an escalator. The girl looked modest against the backdrop of relaxed and free Muscovite beauties, but she boldly walked toward her goal and applied to three Moscow universities connected with the world of theater and cinema.

She did not pass the selection at GITIS and VGIK, but she won the examination committee at the Boris Shchukin Theater School, the famous “Pike”. She performed in a dress sewn by a home-grown seamstress - modest, blue. I read an excerpt from M. Aliger’s poem about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, she looked very sincere and pure.

At the school she had a very bright, eventful life - sketches and rehearsals, learning the basics of craftsmanship and immersion in the world of real art. The role of this fragile, petite girl is a drag queen; the list of roles includes children, teenagers, and even a prince in the play “Three Fat Men.”

Olga Antonova, actress: personal life

A blonde with blue eyes and a graceful figure aroused increased interest among male representatives. In her younger years, Olga Antonova had delightful novels, but they did not lead to a serious relationship.

Olga's first husband was a young and talented writer. They got married immediately after receiving higher education. After some time, Olga gave birth to a daughter, who became a joy for her parents. The young couple found happiness in marriage and loved each other passionately.

However, over time, family relationships began to crack. The husband, according to the actress, was a good person, a talented writer and loved freedom very much. After eleven years of marriage, Olga made a deliberate decision to divorce her husband. Together with her daughter, taking some of her things with her, she set out for an independent life and filed for divorce.

For some time after separating from her husband, Olga Antonova experienced difficulties. She was left without a livelihood and a roof over her head, living with friends.

Everything changed dramatically when she met Igor Ivanov, who worked as an artist at the Comedy Theater. Olga and Igor soon realized that they could not live without each other, and entered into a legal marriage. After the wedding, Olga Antonova only regretted that on her life’s path she had not met such a magnificent male representative earlier.

The second husband raised the singer’s daughter, he treated her like his own child.

Great cinematic life

Since 1958, Nina Antonova has worked as an actress at the Lenfilm film studio, and since 1964 at the A.P. Dovzhenko film studio in Kyiv, where she moved for family reasons. In 1958, she began working in films, her first role was Natka Shaganova in the film “Military Secret”, based on the story by Arkady Gaidar.

Nina Vasilievna recalled that at the same time she met the writer’s son, Timur, and the writer’s wife. They became close friends. Timur Arkadyevich was once very upset when he learned that the actress had problems getting into the theater due to lack of registration, and she did not want to bother him.

Nina Antonova had leading and supporting roles in films. For example, in the famous comedy “Chasing Two Hares” Antonova played a maid, although she auditioned for the main female role – Khimki. After the auditions, it became clear that she had the wrong type and flavor, Ninotchka was cheerful and fiery, and Khimka was mannered and flirtatious. In 1969, she played the main role of Varya Kravets in the film “Varkina Land”, in the 1970s. - already age roles: mother of schoolchildren Tolya Simagin and Petya Solnyshka, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Klokov and teacher.

In 1989, Nina Antonova, for the first time in her cinematic life, had the opportunity to try on the role of a grandmother (the film “Green Fire of the Goat”). Then in her acting life there were the chairman of the regional executive committee (“Personal Weapon”), Baba Zoya (“Bridges of the Heart”), Baba Katya (“When the Cranes Fly South…”), Baba Ganya (“Black Cats”).

Nina Vasilyevna played in Russian films, took part in the American project “Sex in the USSR” and in the German film “Twilight Times”. In 2014, when she was just under eighty years old, she played the role of an elderly nurse in the film Poddubny, dedicated to the famous Russian strongman.

Antonova Nina Vasilievna

Antonova Nina Vasilievna Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1979) Born on December 2, 1935.

Nina Antonova was born in the village of Bakaly, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, into a family of a military man and a housewife, and was the eldest child of their four children. Then it was a quiet, calm place in which life went on at its leisurely pace. But each of its residents found something to do that helped make their modest leisure time more varied and interesting. Growing up Nina studied at school, studied in the drama club of the Oil Workers' House of Culture, and was very fond of cinema, especially films with the participation of Vera Maretskaya. All this together greatly influenced the choice of her future profession, so immediately after graduating from school, Nina decided to go and become an artist. Arriving in the capital, I applied to three universities at once - GITIS, the Moscow Art Theater School and the B.V. Theater School. Shchukin. Having passed the entrance examinations, she was accepted into the latter, the course of Joseph Matveevich Rapoport. She studied with ]Liliana Aleshnikova[/anchor], Albert Burov, Dmitry Goshev, Olga Dzisko, Kyuna Ignatova, Vasily Livanov, Vyacheslav Shalevich, each of whom, to varying degrees, was successful in the acting profession.

In her last year of college, Nina Antonova was called to the Yalta Film Studio to audition for the role of the pioneer leader Natka in the upcoming film adaptation of Arkady Gaidar's story "Military Secret", the writer's son Timur and his wife really liked it, so the question of her approval did not take long to come. This picture gave Nina Antonova not only a ticket to the profession of a film actress, but also immediately, at once, changed her personal life. On the set, she met acting assistant Anatoly Sergeevich Bukovsky (1925–2006), who soon became her husband. In 1960, the couple had a son, Sergei, who later became a documentary director.

After graduating from the Theater School named after B.V. Shchukin, in 1958 Nina Antonova went to join her husband in Kyiv, who worked at the A.P. Film Studio. Dovzhenko. She devoted almost ten years of her future life to raising her son, only occasionally allowing herself to appear in small roles and episodes. By that time, Anatoly Sergeevich had graduated from the directing department of KGITI. I.K. Karpenko-Kary and in the early 1960s began directing films on his own, in each of which he found a role for his wife. Thus, the actress’s track record included Yaroshko in “Among Good People,” where she starred with the idol of her youth Vera Maretskaya, teacher Luiza Kalashnikova in “A Bag Full of Hearts,” and Hrystya Motuzka in “Weeds.” Finally, in 1969, Nina Antonova played Bukovsky’s most famous role - Varka Kravets in the four-part television film “Varka’s Land”. And although she, a thirty-three-year-old actress, had to play a young girl who had just graduated from school, she coped with her task perfectly. Her Varka turned out to be cheerful, mischievous, reasonable, with the right life guidelines. The film was a great success with audiences and was subsequently repeated several times by Central Television. However, the collaboration between the actress and director did not end there. Nina Antonova starred in all subsequent films of her husband, playing heroines of different character and dramatic content: Princess Maggot (“Lada from the Land of the Berendeys”), Maria Besarab (“The Underground Regional Committee is Active”), Irina Strelnikova (“Visit to Kovalevka”), Maria Shevchuk (“Failure of Operation Ursa Major”), Ekaterina Plesova (“Volodka’s Life”), Natalya Razinskaya (“Personal Weapon”) and others.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Anatoly Bukovsky's directorial career came to an end. He could not adapt to the new conditions of film production, did not know how to look for sponsors and was very upset about his lack of demand. When television series began to go into production in the early 2000s, some hope arose, but Anatoly Sergeevich was already unwell and did not have time to implement any of his ideas.

For Nina Vasilievna, everything turned out completely the opposite. Since the mid-2000s, she was suddenly unexpectedly picked up by the flow of television series being filmed, into which she very quickly joined. The actress happily plays the roles of all kinds of old women, which she turns out to be very bright and colorful. Antonova herself likes her work in the films “Come in - don’t be afraid, come out - don’t cry” and “A good reason for murder”, in which, in her opinion, she was offered interesting dramatic material.

During the entire period of living in Ukraine, Nina Vasilievna never mastered the Ukrainian language perfectly, which is why she was unable to get a job in any of the Ukrainian theaters. She worked most of her life on the acting staff of the Kyiv Film Studio named after A.P. Dovzhenko, traveled a lot with creative meetings in Ukraine and abroad. He prefers to spend his free time reading. He does not like television series; he only enjoys watching films with the participation of his favorite actors: Inna Churikova, Evgeny Mironov and others.

Films and roles:

1958: “Military Secret” (Natka), “Poem about the Sea” (friend of Varya and Olesya); 1959: “Unpaid Debt” (Lelya Konyushkova); 1961: “Chasing Two Hares” (Fimka), “Happy Birthday” (Glasha), “An Incident at the Hotel”, film (girl); 1962: “Among good people” (Yaroshko); 1964: “Bag Full of Hearts” (Louise Kalashnikova); 1965: “No unknown soldiers” (Galya, Chumak’s wife); 1966: “Weeds” (Khristya Motuzka), “Two Years Above the Abyss” (a girl who works as a messenger in a church); 1967: “In the Kiev direction” (military doctor); 1969: “Varka’s Land”, TV (Varka Kravets); 1971: “Lada from the land of the Berendeys”, TV (Maggot); 1972: “We should live here” (Katerina Bogorad); 1974: “Blue Patrol”, TV (Simagin’s mother); 1975: “Have you seen Petka?” (Sunny’s mother), “Ralph, hello! Chip", TV (neighbor); 1976: “Aty-baty, the soldiers were marching” (Lyusya), “Heaven-earth-sky” (Galya Gai), “The Vacation That Didn’t Take Place” (Antonov’s Mother), “Equilibrist”, TV (Lyuba); 1978: “I See the Goal”, TV (Varvara Klokova), “The Underground Regional Committee is Acting”, TV (Maria Besarab); 1980: “Visit to Kovalevka” (Irina), “Long days, short weeks”, TV (Irina Nikolaevna, secretary), “Waiting and Hope”, TV (peasant woman from Grunichy), “Time for summer thunderstorms”, TV (Ksenia Barysheva ); 1981: “Autumn Road to Mom”, TV, film (Varvara); 1983: “Failure of Operation Ursa Major” (Maria Shevchuk); 1984: “Volodka’s Life”, TV (Ekaterina Plesova), “The Best Years” (Kabin’s wife); 1985: "Men are men" (librarian), "The Wedding is Blamed" (mother of the bride); 1986: “Zhmenaki”, TV (wife Petrichka); 1987: “Return”, TV (Rogacheva), “Fulfill all truth” (Zimina); 1989: "Green Fire of the Goat" (grandmother); 1990: "Disintegration" (evacuation organizer); 1991: “Personal Weapon” (Razinskaya), “The Last Bunker” (wife of Ilya Shitov); 1992: “The game is serious” (Stepanida); 1995: “Caution! Red mercury! (neighbor Denisenko), 2004: “I love you”, TV (witch doctor), 2005: “The Return of Mukhtar 2. Apartment”, TV (old woman), “Golden Boys”, TV (ep.); 2006: “Dead, Alive, Dangerous”, TV (Baba Marusya), “Bridges of the Heart” (Baba Zoya), “Theater of the Doomed”, TV (cleaning lady in the theater), 2007: “The Return of Mukhtar 2. Married Couple”, TV ( Antonina Sazonovna), “Everyone Must Die” (ep.), “The Year of the Golden Fish” (guest), “Sign of Fate” (Varvara Kuzminichna, Vanya’s grandmother), “Death to Spies”, TV (nurse in the hospital), 2008: “ Return of Mukhtar 2. Coincidence of circumstances", TV (grandmother), "Life for two" (old lady with a saber), "Come in - don't be afraid, come out - don't cry" (neighbor), "Attraction" (grandmother at the bus stop), "Hand for luck" (neighbor), 2009: "A good reason for murder", TV (Baba Vera), "The Abduction of the Goddess", TV (Terehov's neighbor in the country), "Bullfinch" (Oli's mother), "Territory of Beauty", TV ( Gavrilovna), “Bread Day” (Demyanovna); 2010: “When the cranes fly south”, TV (Baba Katya, healer), “Smile when the stars cry” (hospital nurse); 2011: “The Ballad of the Bomber”, TV (ep.), “White Roses of Hope”, TV (ep.), “The Return of Mukhtar 2. Angel of Lieutenant Pushkov”, TV (Maria Vasilyevna Pushkova), “Grandfather” (Aglaya Petrovna Kononova ), “Deliver at any cost”, TV (on duty at the hospital), “The Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka 3”, TV (ep.), “Hello, Mom!”, TV (Nikitichna), “Island of Unnecessary People”, TV (Baba Kapa ), “Seven miles to heaven” (Aunt Ksenia), “Urgently looking for a husband” (Leokadia Vladimirovna); 2012: “Brother for Brother 2”, TV (grandmother with a dog), “The Return of Mukhtar 2. Sequins”, TV (Khrulev’s neighbor), “Defender”, TV (Klavdia Fedorovna), “Love with a weapon”, TV (neighbor) , “Dreams from Plasticine” (trade), “Paternal Instinct”, TV (Valentina Fedorovna Katsurova), “Poddubny”, TV (nurse), “Flight of the Butterfly”, TV (Alevtina Grigorievna), “Dragon Syndrome”, TV (neighbor Avdeeva); 2013: “1943”, TV (ep.), “Agent”, TV (Erokhin’s mother), “Dasha”, TV (Grandma Vasya), “Two Ivans”, TV (Olga’s grandmother), “Sniffer”, TV (resident Zuevki), “Polar Voyage” (patient), “Divorced Neighbors” (apartment buyer), “Happy Family Tariff” (dorm guard), “Kill Twice”, TV (Kuzminichna), “Black Cats”, TV (Baba Ganya), “I’m near” (peasant woman); 2014: “Brotherly Ties”, TV (neighbor), “Wind in the Face”, TV (Vera), “House with Lilies”, TV (cleaning lady), “Personal Matter”, TV (ep.), “Husband for an Hour” , TV (passerby), “Lonely under contract” (cashier), “Ambulance”, TV (Lyubov Grigorievna Markina); 2020: “Officers’ Wives”, TV (Baba Marfa), “Three Roads”, TV (Irina Petrovna Zvonareva); 2020: “Volyn”, Poland (Babulina), “The best week of my life”, TV (grandmother), “Maestro”, TV (Sofya Iosifovna), “Foundlings”, TV (Ostrovskaya’s mother), “Relatives”, TV (ep .); 2020: “I say goodbye for the last time” (Vera’s grandmother), “Choosing fate”, TV (Natasha’s grandmother), “Dog 2. The bets are made”, TV (grandmother), “Child in a Million”, TV (role).

Interesting appearance is the artist’s specialty

Many film actors carefully monitor their appearance, carry out procedures and undergo plastic surgery. Nina Antonova is not one of those, as she herself recalls. In her youth, the actress made egg and sour cream face masks, and in adulthood she used ordinary cosmetics. I was going to have plastic surgery to be in trend, but I was afraid of divorce, my husband protested.

Now that the actress is well over eighty, she is very popular among Russian directors. Her appearance is appropriate for her age, she herself laughs that such a “face” is difficult to find, there are youthful faces all around, tightened dozens of times. But she, unprepossessing at first glance, small and modest, is remembered from the first moment of her appearance on the screen.

Main cinema award

Sixty years passed before actress Nina Antonova received the biggest cinematic award of her life. The main prize – “Golden Duke” – was awarded to her at the eighth Odessa Film Festival for her role in the documentary. It is interesting that the film was called “The Main Role”, and in it the actress had to play herself. The film was directed by Antonova’s son, director Sergei Bukovsky, well-known in Ukraine today.

The film is dedicated to the life of Nina Vasilievna Antonova, talks about her cinematic fate and personal life. The director had to persuade his mother to star in this film for a long time, and until the very end she doubted whether she was worthy of becoming the main character. Answering questions from journalists, Antonova emphasized that her main role is to be a loving mother and wife, a good person, and only then an actress.

Love at first sight

Finding happiness in your profession is a good thing, but when happiness comes into your personal life, this world becomes completely different. Probably, Nina Antonova, whose personal life is connected with only one man - Anatoly Bukovsky, could say something like this. At one time, the girl was not accepted into the Moscow theater due to the lack of capital registration and she had to return to Kyiv. But it was there that fate awaited her in the form of a handsome student at the Karpenko-Kary Institute.

They met on the set of her first film, “Military Secret,” where Anatoly worked as an assistant director, and never parted. Family life was difficult financially; the young couple huddled in a rented tiny apartment. Overcoming his own pride, Bukovsky, a former front-line soldier, turned to Sidor Kovpak, deputy. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.

Thanks to the patronage, the young family received their own one-room apartment, and later they changed it to a two-room apartment. Nina Vasilyevna Antonova still lives in this apartment on the Lesnoy massif, continuing to act and delight fans with new roles and new films.

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