Yanina Melekhova: biography, creativity, career, personal life

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Yanina Vladimirovna Melekhova

(née
Buyko
; born March 9, 1985) is a Belarusian and Russian theater and film actress.

Biography[ | ]

Yanina on her father's side has Kazakh roots. Yanina’s grandfather Alimbay Shakhmukhambetov was born in Karaganda. In the 1950s, he served in Belarus, where he met her grandmother, and later they had a son. In 1954, Alimbay returned to Kazakhstan. The grandmother raised Yanina’s father alone and never remarried. In 2006 she graduated from the theater department of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts with a degree in theater and film actor.

In 2006-2007 she worked at the Theater on Pokrovka.

Since 2008, she has been an actress at the Moscow Musical Theater for children and youth “Improvt”.

Since 2009, he has been a choreography and acting teacher at the aesthetic education studio at the Moscow Musical Theater for Children and Youth “Impromt.”

Theater

Despite her graduate status, Yanina Melekhova has already earned a reputation as a serious actress, thanks to her film work while still a student. She pulled out her lucky ticket, getting the main role in the short story “War” as part of the film “Territory of Resistance.”

The film was released in 2004 and received rave reviews from critics. The lead actress, Yanina Melekhova, received especially high marks. She received the prize for best actress at the national film festival in Belarus. But that was not all; at the Gerasimov International Film Festival, the young actress also captivated the members of the strict jury, receiving another similar award.

This was an excellent start for the aspiring artist; leading Belarusian directors willingly invited Yanina to appear in their films. She herself decided not to linger in her small homeland and moved to Russia, where she became an actress at the Pokrovka Theater, whose artistic director was Sergei Artsibashev. Here Melekhova did not stay long, performing on stage from 2006 to 2007. She was involved in the plays “Marriage” and “Woe from Wit”.

In 2008, Yanina moved to the Impromptu Children's Musical Theater. Children, music - the actress liked all this, and she still serves here. Since 2009, a native of Borisov has also acted as a choreography and acting teacher in the children's studio at the theater.

Theater[ | ]

Theater on Pokrovka

:

• “Marriage” - girl, maid, dir. S. Artsibashev
• “Woe from Wit” - princess, dir. S.Artsibashev

Moscow musical theater for children and youth “Impromt”

:

• Maria Volkonskaya (“Winter Evening with Pushkin”)
• Lisa (Queen of Spades)
• Natalya (“Fellow Travelers”)
• Shura Azarova (“Once upon a time”)
• Nadezhda von Mack (“Italian Evening”)
• Fatima (Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves)
• Pinocchio (“Golden Key”)
• Bethchen (Cinderella's Shoes)
• Harlequin ("Golden Key")
• Girlfriend (“Masha and the Bear”)
• Ballerina (“The Tin Soldier”)
• Lizard (“Mistress of the Copper Mountain”)
• Lebeda (“Mashka’s Dreams”)
• Mossy Witch (“The Adventures of the Master Gnome”)

Melekhova (Buiko) Yanina Vladimirovna

Born March 9, 1985 In 2006 Graduated from the acting department of BelGAI (course of F. Voronetsky). In 2011 Graduated from the International Summer Theater School (STD RF, course by A. Kalyagin). From 2006 to 2007 - actress of the Theater "On Pokrovka". Since 2008 - actress of the Impromptu Theater. Since 2009 - teacher of choreography and acting skills at the Studio of Aesthetic Education of Children at the Impromptu Theater.

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Lawyer Ardashev. The Mystery of the Persian Convoy (2019, multi-part, directed by Anario Mamedov) (credited as Yanina Melekhova)

main role / Isabella Ivanovskaya

6.3/3

Soap drama (2018, multi-episode, directed by Ilya Kulikov)

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Family Affair (2018, multi-part, directed by Ilya Khotinenko) (credited as Yanina Melekhova)

/ Olga

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Territory (2016, multi-part, directed by Vano Burduli)

Between the Notes, or Tantric Symphony (2015, dir. Boris Grachevsky) (credited as Yanina Melekhova)

main character / Julia

4.7/3

Nurse (2015, TV series, directed by Mikhail Zhuravkin) (credited as Yanina Melekhova-Goryacheva)

supporting role / Ekaterina / hang glider

6.0/12

Diamond Hunters (2011, multi-part, directed by Alexander Kott) (credited as Yanina Buiko)

supporting role / girl in Boris Burets' apartment

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Wirth: A Game Not Like a Child (2010, dir. Dmitry Panchenko) main character / Tatyana Ivanova

Hipsters (2008, dir. Valery Todorovsky) (credited as Yanina Buiko)

main role / "Lizy" / dude

6.6/159

War (2004, short film, directed by Dmitry Los) main character

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Stranger (2002, short film, directed by Evgeniy Setko) main character

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• Performances
• Awards

• The Inspector General (N. Gogol) / Dobchinsky (dir. - F. Voronetsky / diploma)
• Makar Chudra (M. Gorky) / Radda (thesis)
• My poor Marat (A. Arbuzov) / Lika (thesis)
• Roof / Dasha (diploma)
• Marriage / Wench, Maid (dir. - S. Artsibashev / Theater "On Pokrovka")
• Woe from Wit / Princess (dir. - S. Artsibashev / Theater "On Pokrovka")
• Winter evening with Pushkin / Maria Volkonskaya (Impromt Theater)
• Queen of Spades / Lisa (Impromt Theatre)
• Fellow travelers / Natalya (Impromt Theater)
• Once upon a time / Shura Azarova (Impromt Theater)
• Italian evening / Nadezhda von Mack (Impromt Theater)
• Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves / Fatima (Impromt Theater)
• Shoes for Cinderella / Bethchen (Impromptu Theater)
• Golden Key / Harlequin; Pinocchio (Impromt Theatre)
• Masha and the Bear / Girlfriend (Impromt Theatre)
• The Tin Soldier / Ballerina (Impromt Theatre)
• Copper Mountain Mistress / Lizard (Impromt Theatre)
• Masha's dreams / Lebeda (Impromt Theatre)
• The Adventures of the Master Gnome / Mossy Witch (Impromptu Theatre)

• 2005 — Prize for best actress at the V National Festival of Belarusian Films for her role in the film “War”.

Cinema[ | ]

Actress Yanina Melekhova: Now even 60-year-old men don’t seem old to me!

Photo by Mikhail Ryzhov Yanina Melekhova became famous after Valery Todorovsky’s film “Hipsters.” The viewer knows the actress from her roles in such films and TV series as “Mylodrama”, “Rostov”, “Virt: a game not like children”, “War”, “Between the notes, or Tantric Symphony”, etc.

— Yanina, tell us about the new project where you play Marilyn Monroe!

— “The Tragedy of a Little Girl” is my author’s project, where I am a playwright, director, producer and actress playing Marilyn Monroe. It appeared several years ago and has been successfully operating for two years. Initially, I wrote a short play for jazz clubs, but gradually we entered the theater stage. We now have a director's decision, scenery, and a jazz orchestra. We started touring and recently returned from the Far East.

The performance is made in the genre of musical drama. In the eyes of the common viewer, Sinatra, and even more so Monroe, are positive, easy-going characters. However, their life outside the frame is full of pain. This is exactly what we want to show. I hope it works. The viewer leaves thinking. Many will learn previously unknown facts.

The plot is based on the diaries of Monroe, Sinatra and his valet George Jacob. Frank's songs are heard throughout the story. The action itself takes place shortly before Marilyn's death. We show her last days of life. And the most correct, in our opinion, version of what led Monroe to death.

I managed to find the key to the role through linguistic features. Dramatically complex scenes, monologues where you have to shed a tear, were not easy for me at first. I was afraid to go into heavy Russian drama! And it was important not to lose Monroe’s lightness. How?! And I found a way out - I began to think in English. Their language sounds easier intonationally. In our question “what” the sound goes down, in their “what” it goes up. And I spoke Russian, but with English intonations. It worked!

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— In the series “Rostov” you played an ideological security officer. What was fun about that filming?

— In “Rostov” I played the head of the Special Department of the local Cheka. According to the script, my heroine, comrade Orlovich, is shot in the leg. The director and I decided that I would limp on my right. We filmed several scenes, after which I injured my left knee on another project.

- How did it happen?

— I took part in the show “Russian Ninja”. At the qualifying round, I faced, at first glance, a simple obstacle. Three spinning cubes on a rope that you need to quickly run through. But I lost my grip and fell unsuccessfully on my knee. Because of the painful shock, I didn’t understand anything, and the doctors looked and let me go. I still managed to run the distance.

In the evening I went out of town. After two hours spent in the car, I could barely straighten my leg. But somehow they diverged again, or something. And at midnight I burst into tears from pain and went to the emergency room. I refused to go to the hospital, although the doctors insisted. A few hours later I was already on my way to Yaroslavl for the filming of “Rostov”. In the frame, she diligently limped on her right, healthy leg. And when the command “stop” sounded, she limped to the left, overcoming real pain.

— If you abstract from the pain and the role, are you in life for the ideas of the whites, or maybe you sympathize with the reds?

— I am far from politics, but I consider that time a mistake of history. There are no right and wrong there. I'm not for anyone. Today you are sentenced to death, tomorrow - you. Everyone has their own ideas. I understand perfectly well the intelligentsia who stood for the whites. But it was not for nothing that the Reds rebelled; life was hard for them. I am against any radical measures. No revolution can do without blood and violence. And I am against violence.

— What did you study for this or that role?

— I have excellent training: I dance professionally, including on pointe shoes, I know acrobatics and gymnastics. I'm great at cycling. I can perform tricks: walk on a wire, stand on my hands. I play volleyball well. And for the filming of the new film “Non-football” I learned to play this sport. In principle, a couple of months of any training is enough for me, and physically I will be at a good level. This is enough for an actress.

— In the film “Between the Notes, or Tantric Symphony,” your heroine is in love with a man much older than her. How do you feel about such misalliances in life?

- I’m generally for love. Let everyone fall in love with anyone and however they want. It's their business. When we filmed “Between the Notes...” five years ago, I was 29. Then I thought: falling in love with a 40-year-old is normal, but what about a man who is 50? A year later, it began to seem that the 45-year-old was quite okay. And a year later - 50 years old. Now men 60 plus seem to me to be quite in their prime! The main thing is that there is love.

- What if a poor woman marries a rich man, and without love?

“Let this girl do this better than get drunk, go on a spree and disappear.”

— How do you feel about kept women? Nowadays this is a fairly common type of relationship between a man and a woman.

“I always feel sorry for women and am always on their side.” Probably, since she came to this way of life, something brought her to it. Poverty, difficult childhood, problems with parents. Maybe a girl, like Marilyn Monroe, looks for a dad in every man. Monroe called all her chosen ones daddies. After all, she didn’t have a father, and her stepfather raped her...

- Maybe you will start justifying prostitutes?

- There is none of them. I'll explain why. When I first moved to Moscow, I worked in a dance show, and we had one dressing room with strippers, most of whom were engaged in prostitution. They seem to be normal, ordinary girls. They made good money. And one evening, when there were no guests at all in the club, one of the girls, about 19 years old, began nervously walking around the room and repeating: “Well, at least someone would come, at least someone would come!” I couldn’t stand it and asked: “Do you really need money?” She turned and answered: “No, I just really want sex!”... I was stunned. The girl is in the right place! She just wants it, she’s cool! She doesn’t care with whom!.. So I won’t justify prostitutes.

— Let's return to higher topics. Which old school actors did you act with? What did they teach you, how did they impress you?

— In the same film “Between the Notes, or Tantric Symphony” I starred with Emmanuil Gedeonovich Vitorgan, who played the father of my adult chosen one. I remember he came to the set tired, but he had to play an energetic, life-loving hero. And Boris Yuryevich Grachevsky, the director, says to someone, looking at Vitorgan: “What will I do with him, how will I shoot?” Emmanuil Gedeonovich was doing makeup at that time. We went and rehearsed the scene. Vitorgan is all peace. The signal sounds: “Camera! Motor!”...And then it was as if he had been replaced. In one second, so much energy splashed out of him that it simply blew us all away... From Emmanuel Gedeonovich, I learned to conserve my strength and release it only when necessary.

ALEXANDER MALYUGIN

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Yanina Vladimirovna Melekhova was born in Borisov, in Belarus, in 1985. She was lucky to grow up in a family closely connected with art. Mom worked as a choreographer, dad worked as a director in a local theater. It goes without saying that the Melekhovs raised their daughters in a certain way; their entire childhood was associated with music and dancing. Yanina’s sister, Svetlana, followed her mother’s path and became a choreographer; now she lives and works in Moscow.

Ioannina also developed in this direction, attending theater clubs at the local House of Culture. Borisov is not such a big city, according to Yanina, she did not part with her bicycle, riding it from home to school and to the city recreation center. Gradually she got involved in her studies, and by the end of school she set herself the firm goal of becoming a real actress.

To make her dream come true, Yanina Melekhova left her hometown and moved to Minsk, where she entered the State Academy of Arts. There she began to diligently study the noble art of drama and comedy. In 2006, the girl completed her education, receiving an official diploma as a theater and film actor.

Films with Yanina Melekhova

The first years of her career, Yanina starred in films by Belarusian directors, the most famous of which was her triumphant “War”. Later, the talented girl began to conquer Russian film sets. In 2008, she starred in the acclaimed film “Hipsters,” appearing as one of the hipster girls.

In 2010, Yanina Melekhova received her first leading role in a Russian feature film. She took the risk of starring in the rather frank film “Virt: A Game Not Like a Child,” which included many scenes with nudity. However, despite her conservative upbringing, Yanina takes such moments quite calmly and works freely on camera, both clothed and naked. But the film was never released, and the next explicit scenes with Yanina had to wait until 2020.

During this period, she starred in a number of casual films, mostly focusing on work in the theater. In 2020, Yanina played the main role in the film “Between the Legs, or a Tantric Symphony,” directed by Boris Grachevsky. Here, as in “Virt,” there were many sex scenes, but the actress brilliantly worked all the episodes on camera.