Childhood and youth
Kornienko was born on January 11, 1943 in the provincial city of Solikamsk, located in the Perm region. The girl’s childhood was not easy, and the reason was not only because of the difficult times for the country and people. The family raised three daughters, but when Nina was 5 years old, her mother fell ill with meningitis and died.
After some time, my father got a new wife, who gave birth to three more children. In the program “The Fate of a Man,” the elderly actress recalled that the stepmother had a difficult character and raised her hand against her stepdaughter for unfulfilled assignments.
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Nina Kornienko in her youth
From a young age, Nina felt creative in herself and dreamed of becoming an artist. Relatives had nothing to do with art and were skeptical about the child’s hobbies. The girl found an outlet in the film club of her hometown, which in an interview she called “the wilderness.” Having received a certificate in 1960, Kornienko joined the troupe of the Perm Drama Theater.
At that time, there were no strict restrictions requiring a higher education to work on stage. Nina knew that she was in the right place, but did not have sufficient knowledge. The ambitious girl understood that it was necessary to learn the basics of the profession and learn from mentors in the field of acting.
Kornienko went to Moscow, where she entered the Moscow Art Theater School. Classmates of the future celebrity were Tatyana Itsykovich, Anatoly Vasiliev, Ekaterina Gradova. In 1969, the artist received a diploma.
Biography of the actress
Nina Kornienko’s birthplace is the Perm region, the city of Solikamsk. She was born on January 11, 1943 and, as long as she can remember, she always saw herself as an actress in her dreams. After working at the Perm Theater, the girl still decides to go to Moscow and enter the Moscow Art Theater School. Alexey Levinsky (son of the theater director), Tatyana Vasilyeva (Itsykovich) and other fellow students studied with her on the course and also entered the Satire Theater.
Having received the role of Suzanne thanks to Valentin Pluchek, Nina Kornienko immediately joined the team and began playing with such venerable actors as Vera Vasilyeva, Alexander Shirvindt and, of course, Andrei Mironov.
Theater and cinema
While still studying at the Moscow Art Theater School, Kornienko’s talent was appreciated by Valentin Pluchek. The director invited the graduate to work at the Satire Theater. The creative life of the actress is connected with this place. The first character on the professional stage was Suzanne in the play “The Marriage of Figaro.”
The role made Nina Kornienko popular in a matter of days. Tickets sold out quickly, and the girl was called a star. The new prima maintained friendly relations with those around her and won the support of her colleagues and the public.
Among the productions in which Nina Grigorievna managed to shine are the plays “Tartuffe”, “The Threepenny Opera”, “Rise and Sing!”, “Running”. Despite the love of the audience, directors rarely invited the actress to plays. Today the performer has about 2 dozen stage images. True, performances with her participation went on for many years. The artist never found a director who could reveal the full depth of her talent and offer interesting projects.
Nina Kornienko
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There were rumors in the theater that Kornienko’s brilliant career was hampered by the heightened sense of justice for which Nina Grigorievna was famous. At troupe meetings, the celebrity often defended other people's interests and fussed over her colleagues. I didn’t dare ask for myself, so when the good roles were distributed, the star was bypassed. In adulthood, work became even less.
Cinematography also did not give Kornienko the opportunity to rest on his laurels. A film career began in the 1970s and could have developed. The actress starred in minor and episodic roles, but films with the participation of Nina Grigorievna were released on the screen with enviable regularity. She starred in the films “The Day Ahead” and “City Romance.” In 1975, Kornienko was invited to star in the movie “Eccentric from 5 B.”
In 1979, Kornienko appeared in Stanislav Govorukhin’s film “The meeting place cannot be changed.” Nina Grigorievna had the opportunity to choose her own image. The actress chose to play Sharapov's neighbor in a communal apartment. The project turned out to be successful. The heroes found their way into Soviet folklore, and popular phrases became catchphrases. But after the premiere of the detective story, the performer did not receive significant offers from directors.
Nina Kornienko - “Rise and Sing.”
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Nina Kornienko in the play “Awake and Sing”
The actress starred in film versions of the Satire Theater’s plays. Thanks to them, viewers in different cities of the country learned about Kornienko’s talent. In films, Nina Grigoryvna usually played everyday characters. It was rare for a woman to try her hand at playing the role of charming romantic beauties. With age, celebrities began to offer cameo images of mothers, grandmothers, secretaries, cleaners, and healers.
In 1982, Kornienko received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In her mature years, the star continued her career in television, working on TV series. Nina Grigorievna was invited to the background in such projects as “Impostors”, “Korolev” and “Close Your Eyes”.
The actress's filmography includes several dozen films. One of the last striking works is a minor role in the comedy film “Raya Knows Everything!” The press was not so much attracted by the plot as by the romance that broke out on the set between the performers of the key characters - Anastasia Vedenskaya and Sergei Gubanov.
Personal life of celebrities.
Despite the fact that this actress is recognizable and loved by many theatergoers, Nina Kornienko’s personal life is under a veil of secrecy - there is very little information about her. Nina Grigorievna comes from Solikamsk, where she was born on January 11, 1943. To fulfill her dream of becoming an actress, Nina Kornienko came to Moscow and entered the Moscow Art Theater School. The actress’s creative biography began at the Satire Theater, where she came in 1969 and worked there all her life.
The role of Suzanne in the comedy “The Marriage of Figaro” became a real calling card for the actress and gave her enormous popularity. All the spectators of the Soviet Union who watched the television interpretation of this production fell in love with her other heroine, Karela from the play “Awake and Sing.”
In the photo - Nina Grigorievna Kornienko
It was impossible to get tickets for these performances with the participation of Nina Grigorievna. A separate page in Nina Kornienko’s personal life was her relationship with Andrei Mironov, with whom she worked within the walls of the Satire Theater. You can only learn about their love story from people who witnessed this relationship - the actress did not seek to use this romance to increase her popularity. They say that she was even pregnant from Mironov, but got rid of the child.
In the photo - Nina Kornienko and Andrei Mironov
Nina Grigorievna always had a keen sense of justice - she was never afraid to openly express her own opinion and stand up for one of her colleagues offended by her superiors. Kornienko’s biography included film work, but there were much fewer of them than her acting talent allowed. The most notable role for the actress was the image created in the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed,” in which she played the role of a simple woman Shura, Sharapov’s neighbor in a communal apartment.
When the actress moved into another age category, they stopped offering her roles - there were no directors who could reveal her talent in a new capacity, and the actress never knew how to ask for herself. Fortunately, Nina Kornienko has been pleasing us in recent years, although very rarely, with her work in cinema and theater - one of her last film roles was the role of Ortensia in the film “Hotelkeeper”, Olga Nikolaevna in “Quiet Outpost”, Valentina Komarova in the painting "Run".
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Personal life
A distinctive feature of Kornienko is modesty. The celebrity did not like and does not like publicity, so her personal life always remained secret. For a long time, few people knew whether Nina Grigorievna had a husband and children. A servant of the Melpomene temple got married in the 1970s. Husband: TV cameraman Lev Streltsin. The marriage turned out to be happy, and the couple lived together until Streltsin’s death in 2015.
In 1983, a daughter, Alexandra, was born into the family. The heiress continued her mother’s work and, after graduating from the Shchukin School, joined the ranks of Russian artists. Today Streltsina is an actress at the Theater named after. E. Vakhtangov.
Nina Grigorievna’s isolation in personal matters did not prevent the theater community and viewers from discussing a possible connection with Andrei Mironov. Colleagues and acquaintances have repeatedly said that they have information about a secret romance. Kornienko did not comment on the possible intimacy for decades, only hinting at tender feelings in an interview in 2021.
Andrei Mironov and Nina Kornienko in the foyer of the Satire Theater, 1980s
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Nina Kornienko and Andrei Mironov
Having arrived at the Satire Theater, the young artist played in the play “Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro,” in which Valentin Gaft and Andrei Mironov shone. The latter was in a relationship with Tatyana Egorova, and then with Ekaterina Gradova, but this did not stop him from paying attention to Nina Grigorievna. It is easy to assume that the loving actor made signs of attention to the beauty. Colleagues even whispered that Kornienko was expecting a child from her lover, but the rumors were not confirmed.
In 2020, Egorova’s confessional novel “Mironov and I” was published, where Tatyana Nikolaevna described in detail the adventures of her ex-man. The lady claimed that Kornienko was Mironov’s mistress, who served as the wife of the public’s favorite on tour.
But the theater gave Nina Grigorievna not only fame and bright feelings, but also friendship with Tamara Murina. The artists met as soon as they joined the troupe. The girls got one dressing room for two. Kornienko did not leave her friend even years later, when Murina, forgotten by others, suffered from alcohol addiction.
Nina Kornienko: her secret affair with Mironov and the reasons for the lack of film roles
The brilliant actress Nina Kornienko, unfortunately, did not have many film roles. And even those are small. Some will remember her Lena, Zhenya’s mistress, from “City Romance”, others Shura, Sharapov’s neighbor, from “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed”. And it was rather her television performances that made her famous throughout the country. Of course, everyone remembers Suzanne from Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro.
As they say, either for joy or for misfortune, after graduating from the theater institute in 1969, Nina ended up in the scandalous Satire Theater that thundered throughout Moscow in those years. Yes, brilliant actors played here, but more than once in interviews they called their place of work “a ball of snakes.”
Then they will write banal things about Nina, that she did not fully reveal her acting talent in cinema, she did not meet the director who would help her do it. Or maybe, in reality, everything turned out to be simpler and more cynical?
Nina Kornienko in the films “City Romance” (1970) and “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed” (1979)
A mysterious affair with Mironov, about which Kornienko remained silent for almost 50 years
Andrei Mironov and Nina Kornienko in the television play “Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro” (1974)
Nina shone on the theater stage quite early and met Andrei Mironov there.
He was her partner in “...the marriage of Figaro.” At that time, The Diamond Arm had not yet been released, and Mironov was, of course, famous, but national fame had not yet come to him.
For many years there were rumors that after some time they began an affair. This was confirmed by quite a few people. Tatyana Egorova, then Mironov’s former lover, later wrote about Kornienko like this in her book:
She, out of all his many women, loved him without demands and without pretensions and always filled the pauses of his unsettled life.
But Nina never mentioned or confirmed this affair. Mironov was at that time married to Ekaterina Gradova, they had a daughter, and Kornienko had no plans either to break up the family then or to stir up the past after Andrei’s death. They say they broke up completely because of the scandal his wife caused. But these are all also things of the past, and the direct participants are either silent or will not say anything.
However, Nina recently confirmed many years later that the affair really took place, calling it “mutual attraction” and admitting that she would not have fit into Mironov’s life then. But for many years after, they continued to play on the same stage and Nina was nearby when Andrei played his last performance, during which he fell into a coma and never woke up.
Successful marriage and reasons for failure in cinema
Nina Kornienko and her daughter Alexandra Streltsina
Among the reasons for Nina Kornienko’s failure in cinema are also her character. It is clear that there was a struggle for Mironov in the theater and Nina was treated with caution, which also intensified professional competition. But she was one of those who would never go and ask for herself. But Kornienko always stood up for others who were undeservedly offended. This is how she earned herself the title of a lady with a keen sense of justice. And of course, the directors were afraid of such people.
But Nina’s personal life turned out quite well. She married cameraman Lev Streltsin and lived with him until his death in 2015. At the age of 40, she gave birth to a daughter, Alexandra. She also became a theater actress, plays at the Vakhtangov Theater and sometimes appears in films and TV series.
Nina Kornienko turned 75 this year and she still appears on the theater stage. In the new Russian cinema, small roles were also found for her.
We wish her health and many more years on her favorite stage!
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Filmography
- 1970 – “Urban Romance”
- 1970 – “The Day Ahead”
- 1972 – “The eccentric from the fifth “B”
- 1973 – “Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro”
- 1974 – “Wedding as a wedding”
- 1974 – “Rise and Shine!”
- 1976 – “Slap”
- 1979 – “The meeting place cannot be changed”
- 1991 – “Moscow Beauties”
- 2002 – “Secretaries”
- 2007 – “Korolev. Chief Designer"
- 2008 – “Crazy Angel”
- 2011 – “Quiet Outpost”
- 2014 – “Temptation”
- 2016 – “Close your eyes”
- 2019 – “Raya knows everything!”
Creativity[edit | edit code]
Roles in the theater[edit | edit code]
- 1969 - “Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro” by P. Beaumarchais - Suzanne
- 1969 - “Don Cristobal’s Showroom” by F. G. Lorca - Donna Rosita’s mother
- 1970 - “Awake and Sing” by M. Dyarfash - Carola
- 1970 - “Captive of Time” by Alexander Stein - Olga
- 1972 - “The Inspector General” by N. Gogol - Fevronya Petrovna Poshlepkina
- 1976 - “Woe from Wit” by A. Griboyedov - Sofya Pavlovna
- 1977 - “Tartuffe” by Molière, staged by Antoine Vitez - Dorina
- 1977 - “Running” by M. Bulgakov - Lyuska
- 1979 - “We, the undersigned” by A. Gelman - Alla Ivanovna Shindina
- 1980 - “The Threepenny Opera” by B. Brecht - Polly Peachum
, later
Celia Peachum - 1989 - “The Tribunal” by V. Voinovich - Green
- 1993 - “The Youth of King Louis XIV” by A. Dumas - Anna of Austria
- 2001 — “Andryusha”
- 2002 - “The Game” (based on the play “Krechinsky’s Wedding” by A. Sukhovo-Kobylin), dir. Mikhail Kozakov - Atueva
- 2005 - “Homo Erectus” by Yu. Polyakov - Irina Markovna
- 2008 - “The Hostess of the Hotel” by C. Goldoni - Ortensia
- 2011 - “Hello! It's me! Andryusha is 70!”
- 2013 - “Unforgettable Acquaintances”, based on the plays by N. Sadur “Go” and E. Albee “What Happened at the Zoo”, dir. Sergey Nadtochiev - Grandma in Boots
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Lady with an Umbrella - 2018 - “Where are we?!...” Rodion Ovchinnikova, Dir.: Rodion Ovchinnikov (February 7, 2021 - premiere) - third mother
Film roles[edit | edit code]
- 1964 - Convent
- 1970 - City romance - Lena, Zhenya’s mistress
- 1970 - The Day Ahead - Nina
- 1972 - The eccentric from the fifth "B" - mother of Bori Zbanduto
- 1973 - Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro - Suzanne
- 1974 - Wedding as a wedding - Rita, daughter of Capa
- 1974 - Rise and Shine - Carola
- 1974 — Benefit performance of Vera Vasilyeva
- 1975 - Return - Emerence
- 1976 - Slap in the Face - Sonya
- 1979 - The meeting place cannot be changed - Shura, Sharapov’s neighbor
- 1980 - Appointment - Lyubov Vladimirovna Nikulina
- 1982 - Inspector - Poshlepkina
- 1992 - Moscow beauties - Maria's mother
- 2002 - Secretaries - secretary with a letter
- 2004 - Dear Masha Berezina - cleaning lady
- 2007 - Korolev. Chief Designer - Lebedeva
- 2008 - Crazy Angel - Margarita Tikhonovna Tokarskaya
- 2011 - Quiet Outpost - Olga Nikolaevna, teacher
- 2011 - Hotelkeeper - Ortensia
- 2011 - Run - Valentina Arkhipovna Komarova, witness to the murder
- 2014 - Temptation - Sophia
- 2016 - Close your eyes - Grandma Nina
Voice acting for cartoons[edit | edit code]
- 1984 - Night Flower
- 1986 - Who?
- 1987 - Martynko - Princess Raiska
