Nadezhda Rumyantseva
| Nadezhda Rumyantseva | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Nadezhda Vasilyevna Rumyantseva September 9, 1930 Potapovo, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | April 8, 2008 (aged 77) Moscow, Russia |
| Years active | 1952–2008 |
Nadezhda Vasilyevna Rumyantseva (Russian: Наде́жда Васи́льевна Румя́нцева, September 9, 1930, Potapovo, Smolensk Oblast — April 8, 2008, Moscow) was a popular Soviet and Russian comedy actress. People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1991).People's Artist of Russia (2005).
Nadezhda Rumyantseva was born in the Potapovo village (now Gagarinsky District) into a simple Russian family. Her father Vasily Ivanovich Rumyantsev was a war veteran. He worked as a train conductor and later — as a forest guard. Her mother Olga Vsevolodovna Rumyantseva was a housewife.
After graduating from school Nadezhda entered theatrical courses at the . Very soon she became one of the leading actresses at this theater, although the courses were dismissed in just a year under a government initiative. With the help of her teacher Olga Pyzhova she enrolled to the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and later — to VGIK which she finished in 1955. In-between she acted in plays and movies.
Rumyantseva's first breakthrough happened in 1959 with the comedy The Unamenables directed by Yuri Chulyukin where she was given the leading role, along with her fellow-student Yuri Belov, Alexei Kozhevnikov and Yuri Nikulin. The film turned so successful (10th place at the Soviet box office with 31.83 million viewers) that Chulyukin invited her to act in his second movie — Devchata that was finished in 1961. Her partner was Nikolai Rybnikov. The movie hit the 5th spot with 34.8 million viewers and brought international fame to Nadezhda who was named the best actress at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 1962.
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