Biography
Yulia Borisova is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, artist of the Vakhtangov Theater. Actresses like her are born once every hundred years. Yulia Konstantinovna is called a legend, a separate planet. At 90 years old, she still appears on the stage of her favorite theater. The long and successful creative biography of the actress brought Yulia Borisova both the love of television and theater audiences, and a number of honorary state awards: the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and the title of People's Artist of the USSR, as well as the Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR and the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
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- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 29, 1995 No. 537
- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of October 28, 2020 No. 525 “On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation”
- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 6, 1995 No. 240
- Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 14, 2010 No. 308
- Seagulls in the city. Chekhov medals were awarded at the Moscow Art Theater // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. — October 28, 2010.
Childhood and youth
Yulia Borisova was born on March 17, 1925. Her parents were simple people, although the family lived in Moscow.
Since childhood, Yulia was prone to being overweight, but did not have any complexes about it. In one of her rare interviews, she said that in their house they had a treasure trove of useful tips at hand - the book “Your Home.” Parents used recipes, their family had a cult of healthy eating, and foods were divided into permitted and prohibited. Yulia Konstantinovna still remembers what this list looked like.
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Yulia Borisova in her youth
She was reserved and never talked about her personal experiences or problems. Yulia Borisova remained like this throughout her life. Acquaintances and colleagues characterize her as a modest, intelligent and independent woman with an iron character who does not conflict, but if someone quarrels with her, then the friendship ends forever. The actress does not advertise herself, so she refuses interviews and filming in television shows. Since childhood, she has hated pathos and lies.
The girl’s character was formed under the influence of her mother, who was a highly moral woman and tried to raise her daughter as an integral person. Julia had an almost monastic upbringing, maybe that’s why she was always attracted to the stage where she could try on different images and live other people’s lives.
By the end of school, Yulia Borisova knew for sure that she would enter the Shchukin School. Her studies coincided with the difficult war and post-war periods, but everyday difficulties and hunger did not break the future actress. In 1947 she graduated from drama school.
Personal life
Yulia Konstantinovna was married once. She met her future husband at the Vakhtangov Theater, where the man worked as deputy director. Isaiah Spector was married twice. The man was not handsome, but he was smart and noble, which captivated the actress. The future husband saw the rosy-cheeked Julia in the play “Much Ado About Nothing.” We met, and soon the girl became pregnant. The actress did not choose between her career and her child, gave birth to a son and continued to work in the theater. Sometimes Yulia Borisova had to take her son Alexander on tour.
In 1974, Yulia Borisova's husband died. The actress was then only 35 years old - a beautiful woman at the dawn of her strength. But the actress remained faithful to her husband for the rest of her life and never married again, depriving journalists of the opportunity to gossip about the husbands of the famous artist. The actress quickly discouraged numerous fans. Borisova locked herself in her room for two days after Isaiah’s death, did not eat or drink. Then she came out and said that we need to move on with our lives. The actress raised and raised her only son alone. Then Alexander had children: the actress has two granddaughters - Maria and Daria.
Today, Yulia Borisova’s life is a cozy home, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The actress, as before, does not allow strangers into her world. A person of a public profession has the right to be non-public outside the theater, especially an actress of such stature as Yulia Borisova.
Theater
Immediately after college, Yulia Borisova got a job at the Theater. Evgenia Vakhtangova. She devoted her entire life to his stage. Her first roles revealed her as a lyrical actress. She played Magda in "Conspiracy of the Doomed", Julia in "Two Gentlemen of Verona", Galya in "Makar Dubrava". Her heroines captivated viewers with their youth, naivety and charm.
For the first time, people started talking about Yulia Konstantinovna’s unique talent after the premiere of the play “On a Golden Bottom,” in which she brilliantly played Anisya. This was in 1955. The performance was conceived as an ordinary melodrama, but it turned out to be a tragedy of a delicate, tormented soul. From that moment on, viewers and critics perceived all of Borisova’s roles with delight. Each new performance revealed another facet of her talent. She played many roles and many characters. One of the iconic ones was Nastasya Filippovna in The Idiot.
Yulia Borisova as Nastasya Filippovna (still from the film “The Idiot”)
The actress turned out to be virtuoso in the role of Cleopatra, furious and desperate in the image of Mary in “Mary Tudor”, smart and extraordinary in the role of Nefedova in the production of “Alone”, lost and lonely in the image of Gitel in the play “Two on a Swing”.
Yulia Konstantinovna is a laureate of two dozen awards, Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1969, the actress was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. In 2020, the actress received another award - the Russian National Acting Award named after A. Mironov "Figaro" in the category "Legend of the Russian Theater."
Creativity[edit | edit code]
Roles in the theater[edit | edit code]
- 1949 - “Conspiracy of the Doomed” by N. E. Virta - Magda
- 1949 - “Much Ado About Nothing” by W. Shakespeare - Gero
[3] - 1949 - “Makar Dubrava” by A. E. Korneichuk - Galya
- 1950 - “Les Miserables” by V. Hugo - Eponine
- 1952 - “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” by W. Shakespeare - Julia
- 1955 - “On the Golden Bottom” by D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak; production by A. Remizova - Anisya Molokova
[3][4] - 1956 - “Alone” by S. I. Aleshin - Nefedov
- 1957 - “City at Dawn” by A. N. Arbuzov; production by E. Simonov - Natasha
[3] - 1957 - “Two Sisters” by F. F. Knorre - Lucy
- 1958 - “The Unwritten Law” by A. Pistolenko - Banat
- 1958 - “The Idiot” by F. M. Dostoevsky; production by A. Remizova - Nastasya Filippovna
- 1959 - “Coronation” by L. G. Zorin - Anya
- 1959 - “Irkutsk History” by A. N. Arbuzov; production by E. Simonov - Valka the Cheap
[5] - 1959 - “The Cook” by A. V. Sofronov - Pavlina Kazanets
[4] - 1960 - “The Twelfth Hour” by A. N. Arbuzov - Anna
- 1961 - “The Married Cook” by A. V. Sofronov - Pavlina Kazanets
- 1963 - “Two on a Seesaw” by W. Gibson - Gitel
- 1963 - “Princess Turandot” by C. Gozzi; production by E. Vakhtangov, resumed by R. Simonov - Turandot
[3] - 1964 - “Millionaire” by B. Shaw; production by A. Remizova - Epiphany
[3][4] - 1964 - “Truth and Falsehood” by M. A. Stelmakh - Mavra Pokitchenko
- 1965 - “My Mocking Happiness” by L. A. Malyugin - Lika Mizinova
[3][4] - 1966 - “Cavalry” by I. E. Babel; production by R. Simonov - Maria
[3][4] - 1967 — “Virineya” by L. N. Seifullina — Virineya
- 1967 - “Warsaw Melody” by L. G. Zorin; production by R. Simonov - Gehlen
[3] - 1971 - “Antony and Cleopatra” by W. Shakespeare - Cleopatra
[3][4] - 1974 - “From the life of a business woman” by A. B. Grebneva - Anna Georgievna
- 1979 — “Leshy” by A. P. Chekhov — Elena Andreevna
[3] - 1985 - “Mary Tudor” by V. Hugo - Maria Tudor
- 1988 - “A Glass of Water” by E. Scribe - Queen Anne
- 1988 - “The Ides of March” by T. Wilder; production by A. Katz - Kifarida
[3] - 1993, 2005 - “Guilty Without Guilt” by A. N. Ostrovsky - Kruchinin
[3][4] - 1994 - “Dear Liar” by J. Kielty; production by A. Shapiro - Patrick Campbell
[3] - 2011 - “The Pier” based on the works of B. Brecht, I. A. Bunin, F. M. Dostoevsky, F. Dürrenmatt, A. Miller, A. S. Pushkin, E. de Filippo - Clara Tsakhanassyan
(“The Lady’s Visit” F. Dürrenmatt) - 2013 - “Eugene Onegin” (scenes from the novel) based on A. S. Pushkin - “Tatyana’s Dream”
[3] - 2015 - “Take an umbrella, Madame Gaultier!” I. Plo - Madame Catherine Gautier
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Film roles[edit | edit code]
- 1948 - Three meetings - Oksana
- 1958 - Idiot - Nastasya Filippovna
- 1969 - Ambassador of the Soviet Union - Elena Koltsova
(prototype of
Alexander Kollontai
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Film-plays and television plays[edit | edit code]
- 1956 - “Much Ado About Nothing” - Gero, daughter of Leonato
- 1958 - “City at Dawn” by A. Arbuzov - Natasha
- 1960 - “Virgin Soil Upturned”, based on the novel by M. Sholokhov
- 1960 - “The Amber Necklace” by N. Pogodin (television play) - Ira
- 1962 - “Interview with Spring” - Pavlina Kazanets
- 1966 - “Theatrical meetings of the BDT in Moscow” - presenter
- 1969 - “Warsaw Melody” - Helena
[6] - 1971 - “Princess Turandot” - Turandot
[6] - 1973 - “Irkutsk Story” (film-play) dir. B. Nirenburg, E. Simonov[7]
- 1974 - “Millionairess” - Epiphany
[6] - 1975 - “Cavalry” - Maria
[6] - 1977 - “Man with a Gun” - Katerina Shadrina
- 1977 - “The Situation.” Teleplay directed by Mikhail Ulyanov at the Theater named after. Evg. Vakhtangov - Tamara
- 2011 - “Pier” - Clara Tsakhanassyan
[6] - 2013 - “Eugene Onegin” - “Tatiana’s Dream”
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Radio plays[edit | edit code]
- “The Importance of Being Earnest” by O. Wilde
Movies
Yulia Borisova appeared in few films. In 1958, the actress again played Nastasya Filippovna in the film adaptation of Fyodor’s novel. Dostoevsky's "Idiot". The picture was released in the same 1958. Until now, the actress’s performance and the film itself are considered brilliant; there has never been a better film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novels.
In 1969, viewers saw the film “Ambassador of the Soviet Union,” in which Borisova played the main role - Elena Koltsova. The prototype of the heroine was Alexandra Kollontai, the famous female diplomat.
The director of the film, Georgy Natanson, categorically refused to film any other actress. He spent a long time persuading Borisova. Georgy Nathanson succeeded when the director briefly and succinctly described the heroine of the film: smart, beautiful, daughter of a general, participant in the revolution and theorist of love. After the last words, Yulia Konstantinovna laughed and agreed.
Yulia Borisova’s last film work was the film “The Irkutsk Story,” in which the actress played the walking Valka. The film was released in 1973. The directors offered Yulia Borisova different roles, but the actress refused because there was no human scale that could interest the artist.
Yulia Borisova as Kruchinina (still from the film-play “Guilty Without Guilt”)
This did not mean at all that the actress stopped appearing on television. Yulia Borisova played in films and plays. The very next year, television viewers saw the actress in the title role of Epiphany in the film adaptation of the Vakhtangov Theater's play "The Millionaire" based on the play of the same name by Bernard Shaw. This was followed by the television plays “Cavalry” and “My Mocking Happiness.”
In 1977, the actress again played the main role. Yulia Borisova played the role of Anisya in the film-play “On the Golden Bottom” based on the play by Mamin-Sibiryak, staged by the same State Academic Theater named after Vakhtangov.
Then there was the main role in the television production of the play “Antony and Cleopatra” by William Shakespeare. Two plays in which Olga Borisova shone in the theater also did not go without a television adaptation. Television viewers soon also saw the actress in the drama “Guilty Without Guilt” by Ostrovsky in the role of provincial actress Elena Kruchinina, and in the play “Dear Liar” based on the play by Kilty in the role of Patrick Campbell.
After that, the actress disappeared from television screens for ten years, but in 2012 she returned in the film-play “Pier”, and two years later in “Eugene Onegin”.
Biography[edit | edit code]
Born in Moscow in the family of employees Konstantin Ivanovich and Serafima Stepanovna Borisov.
In 1947 she graduated from the Shchukin Theater School and in the same year she was accepted into the troupe of the Vakhtangov Theater, on whose stage she made her debut while still studying [2]. Yulia Borisova has been serving in this theater for 70 years; for decades she was its leading actress, playing mainly leading roles.
In total, she performed more than 60 roles, including Princess Turandot in the legendary play based on the play by Carlo Gozzi, Nastasya Filippovna in the dramatization of the novel “The Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra” based on William Shakespeare and Stella Patrick Campbell in the play by Jerome Kealty[en ] “Dear Liar”[2].
In many performances, her partner was Mikhail Ulyanov, who said about Yulia Borisova: “Actresses like her are usually called stars, but Yulia Konstantinovna is not a star of the Vakhtangov Theater. She is his great planet”[2].
Yulia Borisova was highly valued and loved as an actress by the artistic director of the theater Ruben Simonov, who staged several performances especially for her. His son, Evgeny Simonov, also staged performances for Borisova. Alexandra Remizova, one of Evgeniy Vakhtangov’s students, studied with her for many years.
The actress always preferred the theater and acted in few films. Yulia Borisova is known to the general public mainly for her role as Nastasya Filippovna in the film “The Idiot” (1958) by Ivan Pyryev and for those performances of the Vakhtangov Theater that were shown on television.
Since 1963, the actress was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and a member of the Presidium of the Central House of Actors named after A. A. Yablochkina.
Yulia Borisova (standing, second from right) at the birthday party of Lyudmila Zykina
On March 17, 2005, the actress’s anniversary creative evening took place at the Vakhtangov Theater. Yulia Borisova appeared on stage as Kruchinina
in the play “Guilty Without Guilt” (directed by Pyotr Fomenko).
On March 17, 2020, she celebrated her 90th birthday on stage - in the play “The Pier”.
Yulia Borisova now
Today, the actress continues to play in the theater, but does not appear on television. After the role of “Tatyana’s Dream” in “Eugene Onegin,” which was the last one seen by television viewers, Yulia Borisova received another new role in the theater. The actress plays the title role of Madame Catherine Gautier in the play “Take an Umbrella, Madame Gautier!” based on the play by Yves Plo.
And Yulia Borisova celebrated her 90th birthday on the stage of her native Vakhtangov Theater, playing in the play “Pier.” And it turned out to be a non-standard production. The ending of the play was specially changed in honor of the birthday girl.
In the same year, Yulia Borisova received the Gold Medal named after N. D. Mordvinov “For outstanding contribution to theatrical art” of the International Slavic Arts Forum “Golden Knight”.
In 2020, the artist celebrated her 95th birthday.
