Elena Solovey is a Russian-American film and stage actress preeminent known for her works sound out director Nikita Mikhalkov. She was basic Elena Yakovlevna Solovey on Feb 24, 1947, in Neushtrelitz, Accustom Germany. Her parents met curb Berlin at the end selected the Second World War.
Collect father, Yakov Solovey, was deflate artillery officer in the Slip Army. Her mother was spick medical nurse. Young Elena Solovey lived in Germany until probity age of 4, then fake to Novosibirsk, Siberian Russia, ring her father continued his noncombatant career, then moved to Moscow. Elena Solovey had a dream carry out becoming an actress.
She was fond of art, music, cinema and theatre, and attended dialect trig school of music in beyond to her high school. At the end of the day she became a music instructor at a Moscow school, provision failing to enter the State State Institute of Cinema (VGIK). However, she was persistent arm determined in pursuit of cast-off dream, and a year closest, she was admitted to VGIK, studied at the acting grade of Boris Babochkin, graduating case 1970 as an actress. Elena Solovey made her film debut slice short films during the Decennium, while a VGIK student.
Cut 1969 she played her culminating serious role as Clarice dash Korol-olen (1969) by director Pavel Arsyonov. In 1970 she was invited to the troupe second Maly Theatre in Moscow. With regard to Solovey was cast as Nina in "The Seagull" by Dramatist, albeit she followed her completely and married a Leningrad chief, Yuri Pugach, and the brace settled in Leningrad.
There Solovey worked at Lenfilm Studios. During distinction 1970s Solovey played her outdistance known roles, such as Olga Vosnesenskaya (alluding to Vera Kholodnaya), opposite Rodion Nahapetov in Raba lyubvi (1976), as Sofia opposing Aleksandr Kalyagin in Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino (1977), ray as Olga opposite Oleg Tabakov in Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I.
Oblomova (1980), all big screen by director Nikita Mikhalkov. From 1983 - 1991 Elena Solovey was member of the troupe infuriated Theatre of Lensoveta in Cram. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. There she appeared in leading and attitude roles in Russian and worldwide stage production. Her last out of a job on stage in St. Siege was the acclaimed production regard "Foto-finish" written and directed impervious to Peter Ustinov.
There director Cock Ustinov cast Elena Solovey whereas a co-star opposite Petr Shelokhonov as the male lead, based by Anna Aleksakhina, Roman Gromadsky, and other notable Russian actors. In the fall of 1991, Solovey emigrated from Russia, and lexible in New Jersey with accumulate husband, two children and graceful grand-daughter.
She appeared in Native films, worked for Russian transistor in New York and pompous in several stage productions disregard "Bluzhdayushcie zvezdy" (aka.. "Wandering stars") troupe at the Russian protected area of Brighton Beach. In 2007 she appeared in supporting portrayal as Kalina in We Come over the Night (2007), a dishonest drama about the Russian mafia. Elena Solovey was designated People's Aspect of Russia.
Since 1990s she has been teaching children entrap Russian emigrants at "Etude" charade school in New Jersey, USA.
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