Alla Maslennikova is a talented theater and cinematographer. By the age of 46, the artist managed to play at least 40 roles in TV series and films. The most famous projects with the participation of the actress are such films as “Aurora”, “Snowy Love, or a Winter Night’s Dream”, “Climber”, etc. The artist is also familiar to the public from the television projects “Women’s Intuition” and “Indirect Evidence”. The public is interested in many questions that relate to the biography of a celebrity: who is Alla Maslennikova’s husband, does she have children, how did her personal life turn out, as well as other details of her family and biography.
Alla Maslennikova: childhood years
The actress's hometown is Berdyansk, where she was born in January 1970. Alla Maslennikova spent the first 15 years of her life in this locality. It is known that the future star combined her studies at school with a visit to the ballet studio that worked at the City Palace of Culture. The actress still remembers with warmth her teacher Askold Dubin, thanks to whom she fell in love with the wonderful world of great art.
Of course, in the first years of her life, Alla Maslennikova dreamed of becoming a ballerina, but fate decreed otherwise, which the actress now does not regret at all.
Personal life
Having married in her youth, Alla maintained her union with her husband Oleg Maslennikov. Once in an interview, the actress said that she had been waiting for a year to meet her lover - it turned out that she dreamed of him in the form of a groom even before they met. When she saw her future husband in reality, she immediately realized that this was fate. They did not need a magnificent wedding - the lovers received a marriage certificate during a break between couples at the institute.
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Alla Maslennikova with her husband
The married couple works in the same field, but the actor prefers to work in cinema. After the birth of her daughter, who was named after her mother, no other children appeared in the family. Now home and loved ones are the main priorities in the performer’s personal life.
In her free time, the actress tends to her favorite garden and engages in a variety of hobbies. Alla Anatolyevna is not keen on social networks, therefore, unlike many stars, she does not post photos and news about work and family on Instagram.
Student marriage
Having received her certificate, Alla went to Voronezh to enter university. On her first try, the talented girl managed to become a student at the Institute of Arts; she chose the acting department. Within the walls of this university, Alla Maslennikova not only acquired a profession, but also found her love. Her chosen one was senior student Oleg, who also studied at the acting department. The actress claims that about a year before meeting her future husband, she saw him in a dream. Therefore, at the very first meeting, Alla realized that Oleg was her destiny.
The wedding of the loving students was not luxurious. It is known that they got married during the breaks between college couples. The future star skipped the history of music, and her chosen one skipped scientific communism. Alla Maslennikova is an actress who became a mother early. Daughter Ekaterina was born while the couple was living in a student dormitory.
Childhood and youth
Alla was born on January 1, 1967 in Berdyansk into an ordinary Soviet family. She is Ukrainian by nationality. Her parents had nothing to do with art, but encouraged her creative inclinations. Maslennikova spent the first 15 years in her homeland, studying in the ballet studio at the Palace of Culture. The girl’s first teacher gave her a deep love for choreography and art in general. It became more and more obvious that Alla’s biography would be connected with the creative profession.
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A career in ballet did not work out, but the girl already saw herself as an artist and was not going to give up the idea of shining on stage. Having received a school certificate, Maslennikova became a student at the Institute of Arts in Voronezh.
Work in the theater
In 1979, the family, already consisting of three people, settled in Kyiv, where Oleg’s parents convinced the newlyweds to move. Soon Alla became a regular at the “Theater on the Left Bank”; she was fascinated by Mitnitsky’s performances. The girl then set herself the goal of becoming an actress of this wonderful theater, which she achieved in 1989. Interestingly, Oleg did the same.
The Maslennikovs decided to change their beloved theater only once. They briefly got a job in Russian drama, but soon regretted their decision. Later, Alla told reporters that she and her husband did not find a common language with the new team, and also did not see any prospects for themselves. Fortunately for husband and wife, Mitkovsky agreed to take them back, refraining from fair reproaches.
Alla Maslennikova considers herself a theater actress. The star’s biography indicates that the most popular productions with her participation were the plays “Marriage”, “Eternal Husband”, “My Darlings”. Her husband later abandoned work in the theater for filming in films and TV series, but Alla remained faithful to her first place of work.
Theater and films
In 1979, being married and having given birth to a daughter, Alla and her husband moved to Kyiv, where there were more prospects and opportunities for artists. The path to the stage became long. The actress was able to realize herself 10 long years after the start of her career. Her debut took place at the Theater on the Left Bank. The first performance with her participation was the production of Bonna Fide. This was followed by a cameo role in the “Police” project. The audience liked Maslennikova, and the actress herself finally felt in demand.
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Alla Maslennikova in the film “Former”
As Ukrainian channels developed, the actress began to be offered roles in various projects. In 1992, she starred in the film “You’re a Witch.” Two years later, the short film “The Sixth Hour of the Last Week of Love” was released. In 2000, the film-play “The Sorceress” was released, in which Alla Maslennikova played the main character.
Alla was often involved in the creation of television projects. She embodied the femme fatale in the series "Lady Mayor". In 2002, the artist’s filmography was supplemented by the Austrian-Swedish production project “Blue Moon”.
The interest of the audience was attracted by the melodrama “Women’s Intuition”, which later received a continuation, and the series “Idlers”. The artist worked on her first project together with director Oksana Bayrak. Co-creation continued during the creation of the film “Snowy Love, or a Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
2006 marked a new stage in the actress’s career. She was in demand in films and starred in various films. The premiere of the project “Aurora, or What Sleeping Beauty Dreams” brought new fans. Filming the film “The Mountaineer” allowed the actress to become a partner of the then popular performers Alexei Chadov and Grigory Antipenko.
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Alla Maslennikova in her youth
The artist combined her work in cinema with performances on the theater stage. She remained faithful to her native stage and only once decided to collaborate with the Russian Drama Theater, which was not crowned with success.
From 2021 to 2021, the actress acted less frequently. Maslennikova prefers working in the theater. She is selective about offers to participate in new television and film projects, but she shines on the dramatic stage.
In 2019, the actress participated in the creation of the film “Just Believe.” The premiere took place in December on the Ukraine TV channel. The family saga “Nothing Happens Twice” with the participation of Alla Maslennikova was also very popular among viewers. The project was broadcast on Channel One.
First roles in films and TV series
Few people know that actress Maslennikova starred in her first film while still in her first year. Of course, in the action movie “Trap for the Jackal” she got a cameo role, which did not give the future star popularity. This was followed by a long break in filming, during which Alla played in the theater.
Only in 2002 Maslennikova began acting again. The then little-known actress received a small role in the crime television project “Idlers.” This was followed by filming in the series “Lady Mayor”, in which Alla brilliantly embodied the image of the femme fatale Monastyrskaya. Then she was invited to the Austrian comedy “Blue Moon”, entrusted with the role of a teacher.
Alla Maslennikova loves to play extraordinary characters
Actress Alla Maslennikova shared about a new interesting project, experiments in the profession and the role of a grandmother behind the scenes of the filming process.
– Alla, tell us about your character, who will you play in the detective melodrama “Three Sisters”?
Lucia is a very interesting character. Reading the script, I even thought that she had some strange logic of behavior... strange... but it was also interesting.
Although this strangeness attracted me, for a long time I could not find the key to the person: why he behaves this way, why he speaks this way. Until I got to this final scene that we will be filming now. And then, as they say, everything came together (this is ironic, since I didn’t have the whole script; I received the final scene the day before).
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– It became very interesting! And yet, what is she like?
This is a person who has experienced a personal drama... unhappy love, pregnancy... forced abortion. She enters medical school and becomes a gynecologist... He sees this as his calling, to help others avoid fatal mistakes... good intentions...
But, as they say, the road to hell is strewn with good intentions. She wanted to help - to protect from evil, but at the same moment, she became a destroyer and an avenger. This is a complex person with internal conflict. Will she later realize that this path was wrong and that it did not bring her happiness? Unknown, ellipsis. I would like this person to experience catharsis... to understand that the thirst for revenge destroys the avenger.
– With your character and wisdom in life, were you able to understand such actions of hers? Are you making excuses for her?
In general, I am a person who always justifies my character. I feel more comfortable working with the material when I understand the motivation. I’m not making excuses here, but I understand the person, so it’s easier for me to work not on denial, but on acceptance. I myself am such a person, and I don’t know whether it’s the strength of my profession or the human, internal one that leads to this - everything is mixed up.
But it still seemed to me that Lucia was experiencing some kind of bitterness, that, in fact, she did not receive happiness from revenge.
– Tell me, what guides you when choosing a role?
I am not guided by anything. I rarely refuse something, except if I see that it’s not my material at all, it’s written poorly, primitively – then it doesn’t work out. But, again... I'm the kind of person who's quite curious about people, so I'm curious about my characters to begin with. But what did I like about Lucia, that she is a person - a mystery, a person with a question... This interested me! I love playing such extraordinary characters – I just love it!
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– Do you draw parallels between yourself and your characters? Do you have any common traits?
No, absolutely! I am an open person, I would never be able to go to my family for so long, make friends, endure humiliation, only to then take revenge and punish. It's not in my human nature. And in this we are completely different.
– In roles, actors often change their images and appearance... What was the biggest transformation in your career?
I didn't have that. Except that in the last season of “Never Say Never Again,” directed by Oksana Bayrak, I played a person much older than myself. This is a woman who is also an opera diva, and for me this was something completely new. But for there to be a transformation... I like to change my appearance, I am one of the actors who loves difference.
– So, are you ready for such experiments?
I’m ready, but, unfortunately, I don’t have many such experiments and proposals. I love poking around in people, and when I come across human nuances that may be completely opposite to me... it's always very curious. But, unfortunately, the scriptwriters don’t spoil me with such variety. But I don’t “suffer” about this and don’t “sprinkle ashes on my head.” In general, I treat my profession like any other. Sorry, I don’t like the words “mitets” and everything else. I believe that the acting profession is simply a profession, a craft that you just need to love... like a doctor, a cook, you need to love and treat it professionally. I have a rather cold view of my profession.
– What achievements are you proud of – personal or professional?
It's a secret. I won’t tell anyone this, I’m afraid I’ll jinx it. Seriously! I'm one of those people who don't say things out loud.
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-Are you superstitious?
This is not superstition. It's like they say: "Tell God your plans." You see, there are certain elements of vanity in this, which I don’t like in people, and in myself too. Therefore, excuse me.
– You talk practically nothing about your personal life. Do you have a daughter, is she also a representative of the creative profession?
Yes, she is a director, a reality show.
– Do you give her any advice?
God forbid, she doesn’t tolerate any advice from us! It’s not that she doesn’t tolerate it, she just doesn’t ask, unless speech arises during communication, then she can share something... She graduated from the Faculty of TV Directing and Spanish Philology (Foreign Language). For some time I thought that directing was not for her (you have to be loud and tough). But, however, as it turned out, you can be not very loud, and tough, and cope with dignity... she is smart.
– Your husband is also from the film industry; you met back in your student years...
Yes, we met in our student years, we played together for a long time - we were just partners in the theater, then it so happened that he was offered an interesting project, to try himself as a director. He got busy with it. And when it was impossible to combine it with the theater, he left, and although he is a wonderful artist and sometimes acts in films when time allows. That is, he is both an actor and a director. We now discuss some professional things much less than before, but of course we share…. We look at many things through the same “optics”. But still, a home is a center of peace. We love to travel together, and if we succeed, we do it with great pleasure! There is an opportunity to feel like those students who live outside the rules and outside the framework. I mean, when you need to get up at five in the morning and... be in time here, have time there, and repeat the text, because there are still a lot of plans for later. That is, when you fall outside these boundaries, it’s wonderful! It gives us great pleasure to communicate with children and, naturally, with our little granddaughter, who is already three years old. we live an ordinary life... we try to see the interesting and beautiful in ordinary things...
Photo in the text: press service of the channel “Ukraine”
Notable roles
“Women’s Intuition” is a television project thanks to which Alla Maslennikova became a star. It was after this that films and TV series with her participation began to arouse increased interest among viewers. "Women's Intuition" is a fascinating love story between a successful entrepreneur and an unemployed loser.
The actress met again with director Oksana Bayrak, who worked on “Women’s Intuition,” on the set of the film “Snowy Love, or a Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The plot of the film revolves around the romantic relationship between a hockey player and a journalist. Together with Alla, her husband Oleg starred in this film. Bayrak also invited the star couple to her other project, called “Two kilometers from the New Year.”
“Aurora” is a drama that gave Maslennikova new fans. This film tells the story of an orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballet star until a serious illness interferes with her plans. Alla in this film embodied the image of Doctor Larisa Ivanovna. The drama “The Mountaineer” with the participation of the actress, who united many stars on the set, for example, Grigory Antipenko and Alexei Chadov, was also successful. You can see Maslennikova in other successful TV series: “Devil from Orly, Angel from Orly”, “Phantom House in Dowry”.
Alla Anatolyevna Maslennikova was born in Ukraine, in the city of Berdyansk on January 1, 1970. She lived there until she was 15 years old. Afterwards, the girl moved to Voronezh, where she entered the Voronezh Institute of Arts. Within the walls of the university, first-year student Alla met her future husband, Oleg Maslennikov, a 4th year student at the acting department. “When I first saw him, I was dumbfounded,” Alla admits. – The fact is that I dreamed about him a year before the meeting. And then, when I saw him on the steps of the institute, I recognized him immediately!” Soon the lovers got married. In the student dormitory, the newlyweds had a daughter, Ekaterina.
In 1979, the acting family moved to Ukraine, where husband and wife began working at the Kiev Academic Drama and Comedy Theater “On the Left Bank”.
Alla made her screen debut while still a freshman. Her first film was the action movie “Trap for the Jackal,” where she was entrusted with a small episode. Then followed a long pause in his film career. Alla Maslennikova began to appear actively on television only in 2002, when she got a small role in the Ukrainian crime series “Idlers.” In the same year, she played in the Russian television project “Lady Mayor” (2002), where she played the role of the femme fatale Monastyrskaya. Interestingly, Maslennikova even managed to get a role in foreign cinema: in 2002, she played a teacher in the Austrian comedy Blue Moon.
Her role as Olga in the Ukrainian TV series “Women’s Intuition” (2003), which tells the story of the love of a thirty-year-old unemployed woman for a successful businessman, brought her massive popularity.
The film was directed by Oksana Bayrak. The director liked the actress Maslennikova so much that she then cast Alla in her new project – “Snow Love, or a Winter Night’s Dream” (2003). This is a love story between a famous journalist and a hockey player. Alla took part in this film together with her husband. Then Maslennikova, together with her husband, again appeared in Oksana Bayrak’s next New Year’s project, “Two kilometers from the New Year” (2004).
In 2005, Alla played an episode in the Russian TV series “Indirect Evidence,” where the main role was played by Sergei Makovetsky and Sergei Chonishvili.
In 2006, Alla appeared again in the film by Oksana Bayrak. The film “Aurora” (2006) tells about a girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina from an orphanage in Pripyat, who receives a dose of radiation and is forced to be sent to America for treatment. There she meets a former ballet star, whose meeting changes both of their lives. Maslennikova plays Doctor Larisa Ivanovna in the film.
Next, the actress appears in the Ukrainian drama “Mountaineer” (2008), where the main roles are played by Andrei Chadov, Agniya Ditkovskite, Grigory Antipenko. The film tells the story of a passionate climber who, on the eve of his next ascent, proposes to his girlfriend. However, soon a disaster occurs in the city that completely changes his world. Alla Maslennikova plays in the film the mother of the main character, a girl climber.
And in other projects the actress also gets small roles. But the theater audience is familiar with Alla Maslennikova for her leading roles in the plays “Eternal Husband”, “Marriage”, “My Darlings”, “The One My Soul Loves”. She continues to live in Kyiv with her family.
