Maya Bulgakovа | |
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Born |
Maya Grigoryevna Bulgakovа May 19, 1932 country side Buki, Skvyra Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR |
Died | October 7, 1994 Moscow, Russia |
(aged 62)
Occupation | actress |
Years active | 1955–1996 |
Spouse(s) | Anatoly Nitochkin (divorce) Alexey Gabrilovich (divorce) Peter Dobias (died) |
Maya Grigoryevna Bulgakovа (Russian: Ма́йя Григо́рьевна Булга́кова) (May 19, 1932 – October 7, 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Bulgakova was born May 19, 1932 in the village of Buki (now the Kiev Oblast, Ukraine). In 1941 the Bulgakov family moved to Kramatorsk, to this place they later returned from evacuation. In Kramatorsk Maya successfully graduated from high school and decided after graduation try to become an actress. In 1955 Maya Bulgakova graduated from VGIK (Bibikov and Pyzhova course) and started working in the National Film Actors' Theatre. In the movie, she made her debut in the Grigori Roshal film The Libertine after which she was referred to as a very gifted actress. However, the directors did not hurry up with new proposals. Bulgakova began to sing on stage with the Utesov orchestra and even won a prize for World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957. The actress has become the first in the USSR to perform on the stage the songs of Edith Piaf.
After a decade of inactivity episodic roles, the first major work of the actress in cinema was the film Wings. After that Bulgakova began to have a high output of roles in film, but mostly in small roles and episodes.
Maya Bulgakova married for the second time to the son of the prominent screenwriter Yevgeny Gabrilovich - Aleksey Gabrilovich (her first husband was cinematographer Anatoly Nitochkin). Bulgakova played a huge role in Alexey becoming a director. During their life together she was the most strict and harsh critic of her husband's work.