Galina Belyayeva
| Galina Belyayeva | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Galina Viktorovna Belyayeva April 26, 1961 Irkutsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1977 - present |
| Awards | Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003) |
Galina Viktorovna Belyaeva (Russian: Гали′на Ви′кторовна Беля′ева, born April 26, 1961) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress, best known for her leading roles in A Hunting Accident (1977) and Anna Pavlova (1983). Galina Belyaeva, the The Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003), has been one of the leading actresses at the Moscow Mayakovsky Theatre since 1983.
Galina Belyaeva was born in Irkutsk and spent her childhood years in Nevinnomyssk, Northern Caucasus, raised with her younger sister by a single mother, who worked at construction site for a meagre monthly salary of 100 rubles. An avid dancer, at 13 she went to Voronezh to study classical ballet at the Choreography College. It was there that she was spotted by the assistant of film director Emil Loteanu who was at the time looking for a teenage actress for the role of Olya Skvortsova in A Hunting Accident. Belyayeva's striking performance next to Oleg Yankovsky, made her an overnight sensation and earned her an epithed 'our Russian Audrey Hepburn' from the Soviet critics. Yankovsky admitted later that it was Galina's charming presence that imparted the film its unique, haunting atmosphere. During the shooting Belyaeva became romantically involved with 40-year-old Loteanu, who two years later married the 18-year-old actress.
In 1979 Belyayeva enrolled into the Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. After the graduation in 1983 she joined the Mayakovsky Theatre troupe and made her debut there as Vika in Tomorrow There Was War, after Boris Vasilyev's novel. While a Shchukin Institute student, Belyaeva appeared in several films. After her sparkling performance in the musical melodrama Ah, Vaudeville (1979) the actress was lauded as one of the brightest hopes of the Soviet film industry.
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