Childhood and family. First roles
Natalya Selezneva (Polinkovskaya) was born on June 19, 1945 in Moscow. Her mother Elena Semenova was a popular artist, and her father Igor Nikolaevich was a photographer in demand in the USSR. Born into such a creative family, Natasha has always been obsessed - in a positive way - with creativity. Since childhood, she composed poems, sang songs and performed impromptu concerts in front of her family.
Childhood photo of Natalia Selezneva
However, the main role in the fate of the future actress was played by His Majesty Chance. Walking one day near the walls of the Soviet Army Theater, little Natasha met the famous actor Mikhail Mayorov, who took her by the hand and took her to an audition for the upcoming play “30 Pieces of Silver.” The artistic director liked the 6-year-old girl, and Natasha received one of the roles in the theater production, in which she subsequently played for three years.
But this happy occasion was not the only one in the fate of the young star. In 1953, at one of the performances, the girl was noticed by the writer Agnia Barto, who subsequently insisted that Natasha Selezneva play in the film adaptation of her book “Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character.”
Natalya Selezneva’s first film role (“Alyosha Ptitsyn”, 1953)
Despite the lack of filming experience, little Natasha did an excellent job with her role and subsequently began to often receive offers from famous Soviet directors. So, in 1956 she starred in the film “The Girl and the Crocodile”, and five years later - in the film “Alenka”. By the time she graduated, the girl had no doubt what she wanted to become in the future. In 1961, she successfully passed the entrance exams to the Shchukin Theater School and became a student in the workshop of Boris Zakhava.
Young Natalya Selezneva
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Childhood and family
Natalya Selezneva was born in the year of the Great Victory, in Moscow, into a family imbued with the spirit of creativity: mother is an artist, father is a photographer.
In 1951, a miracle happened in the biography and personal life of Natalya Selezneva - in the Soviet Army Theater they were looking for a girl for a role in the play “Thirty Pieces of Silver”, they looked at the photos of thousands of children, and everything was not right. And then one of the famous theater actors saw a girl playing hopscotch on the street.
Natalya Selezneva in childhood
Natasha went to see the theater, and they said: “This is her, our little Gloria!” In this role, she appeared on stage for three seasons in a row. It was there that members of the film crew of the film “Alyosha Ptitsyn Develops Character” noticed her, and in 1953 Seleznyova played her first film role, and the film was a huge success among both adults and children.
As a child and teenager, Selezneva took part in two more films:
- "The Girl and the Crocodile"
- "Alenka"
Experience in the theater and on the film set helped Selezneva enter the famous “Pike” in 1963 without any problems.
Natalya Selezneva in the film “The Girl and the Crocodile”
The best films with Natalya Selezneva
While still a theater student, the girl began acting in new films by Soviet directors. The most successful in this regard was cooperation with Leonid Gaidai. Their acquaintance began with the film “Operation “Y” and other adventures of Shurik,” which instantly brought the “good girl Lida,” the object of obsession of the hero Alexander Demyanenko, enormous success.
Natalya Selezneva in “Operation Y”
Over the next five years, Natalya starred in many sensational films: “Caliph the Stork”, “I Loved You...”, “Sasha-Sasha”. However, the cooperation with Gaidai turned out to be the most fruitful.
Sex symbol of Soviet cinema
In 1973, Natalya appeared in the comedy “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession,” playing the role of the sexy wife of engineer Timofeev, whom he suspects of infidelity.
Still from the film “Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession”
And in 1975, Natalya Selezneva was seen in the film “It Can’t Be” in the role of Tanyusha from the novel “A Funny Adventure” along with Oleg Dal, Svetlana Kryuchkova and Mikhail Kokshenov.
Natalya Selezneva in the film “It Can’t Be” (1975)
Among the outstanding films with her participation are the films “They carried a chest of drawers along the street”, “Take care of the men”, as well as the humorous program “Zucchini 13 Chairs”, on the stage of which Natalya Selezneva appeared in the image of Mrs. Katarina.
In 1981, the actress received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR for her contribution to Soviet cinema. Looking ahead a little, we note that in 1996 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Natalya Selezneva – “The January Blizzard is Ringing” (1977)
Childhood
The future artist was born on June 19, 1945 in Moscow. The parents named the girl in honor of Natalie Rostova, the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.
Natasha’s mother, Elena Semenovna Selezneva, was a fairly successful artist, and the head of the family, Igor Nikolaevich Polinkovsky, was a sought-after photographer in Moscow. The creative atmosphere in which little Natasha grew up predetermined her future fate. Selezneva's family encouraged creative self-expression, so from a very tender age she loved to sing, dance and participate in scenes from famous fairy tales.
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