Nightingale biography actress

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Devoted fans also remember her as a literature teacher Tatyana Koltsova from the picture “You never dreamed ...”, Regina from the “blonde around the corner”. In the year, the brilliant artist of the generation of the seventies and eighties turned 75 years old. Childhood, youth, family Elena was born in the winter of the year in the family of Zinaida Shmatova and Jacob Solovya in the German city of Neushtrelitz.

The girl’s parents went through the entire World War II: Yakov Abramovich - officer, artilleryman, gentleman of two orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. Born in the Belarusian place Kuleshovka, his father - Pole. Zinaida Ivanovna was a junior lieutenant of the medical service, the gentleman of the Order of the Red Star.

Born at the state farm "Bolshevik" of the city of Syzran in the Samara region.

In childhood, Elena Nightingale met at the very end of the war, in Berlin. Yakov Abramovich, as a political worker, was left in the Soviet garrison of Neushtrelitsa, where they got married with Zinaida Ivanovna. When the daughter was three years old, the nightingale was appointed to Krasnoyarsk. The younger brother of Lena Vladimir was born there and her childhood passed.

Remembering that time, the actress warmly talked about her school years: in Krasnoyarsk I had a completely amazing school, in which I had my own brass band, a luxurious choir, we even put children's operas and operetta. Teachers arranged holidays for children right at home. My parents also often gathered children at home, arranged puppet theaters, showed diaphyls.

This is generally a special type of art: the orders that voiced to us, baby, the credits, had to be such that the children not only became interested, but also remembered something. This is an amazing way to communicate between children and parents. In the year, Lena's father was reduced, and the family moved to Moscow. Yakov Abramovich got a job as the seller of Soyuz Print, and Zinaida Ivanovna worked in the hospital.

The nightingale recalled that the capital made a huge impression on her, although at first she missed friends and teachers from the Krasnoyarsk school. The girl, as before, studied diligently, read a lot. Once she fell into her hands, which practically determined her future fate: ... in one magazine I read the announcement that under the Stanislavsky Theater there is a children's theater studio and a set is being held there.

For some reason, I decided to enter it, although before that I had no special interest in the theater. Exams were conducted as a theater institute, I went through all three rounds and entered. Once Mikhalkov came to classes. We were told: "And here Nikita Sergeyevich came." I still thought: I wonder who it is? It turned out that he was already a famous director.

It was, of course, about Nikita Mikhalkov. So the first meeting of the director and actresses took place, who later created several cult Soviet paintings together. The nightingale did not immediately enter the theater university, but in the year luck smiled at her: she became a student at VGIK. She studied on the course of the famous "Chapaeva" - Borisa Babochkina.

Acting career studies at a cinematic university contributed to the fact that already in the first year, Elena Solovy was invited to star in a short diploma tape “My Heart in the mountains”. Lena appeared on the screen in the image of the daughter of a bakery of Kozak. A short film “In the Mountains of My Heart” a year later, she starred in the romantic musical picture “King of the Role”, where the most talented actors gathered on one site: Sergey Yursky, Oleg Efremov, Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Yakovlev.

The main female role was played by Valentina Malyavin, and Elena got the role of Claric, the daughter of the main villain of the film of Tartalia. She could become the new ascending star of the theater, specially for her planned the production of Seagulls, but preferred to go to her husband in Leningrad. Elena Nightingale in her youth in the same period Elena began to actively act in films.

She played the nurse Rimm in the film “Seven Brides of the Corporal of Zbruev”, the serf actress Lyuba in the “Drama from the Old Life”, Vera Nikolaevna in “Inadvated Joy”. The first of them was the melodrama of “Slave of Love”, the main female role in which was rewritten specifically for the nightingale. Elena Nightingale in the film “The Slave of Love” initially Elena played her heroine, Olga Voznesenskaya, whose prototype was the actress of silent cinema Vera cold, in the picture of directed Rustam Hamadova “Unaccounted Joy”.

But Hamadov’s film was never completed. When Mikhalkov got down to business, he decided to rewrite the script and change the cast and name. But in the role of Olga Voznesenskaya, he saw only a nightingale. Elena Solovye and Nikita Mikhalkov on the set of the film “Slave of Love” The composition of the picture was truly starry - Rodion Nakhapetov, Oleg Basilashvili, Yuri Bogatyrev and many other popular actors starred in it.

The film won the prize of the International Film Festival in Tehran for the best directing. The next joint work of the director and actress was the painting "Unfinished play for a mechanical piano." According to Elena, this is one of the best films in her filmography.She played an enthusiastic Sophia Wojnitsev. Elena Nightingale in the film “The Unfinished Play for a Mechanical Piano” at first the actress abandoned this role, since shortly before the filming she became a mother, but Nikita Sergeyevich gave Elena the opportunity to take the baby and her mother Zinaida Ivanovna, who helped her daughter and her child while she was filming.

The actress recalled in an interview: it really looked completely unrealistic. But next to me was my mother, who took care of all. And I was calm because the baby is under the supervision of my mother. But it seems to me that if I had not torn between the shooting and the baby, I could play this role much better. For this role, she was awarded the Oxford Silver Shield at the International Film Festival in Britain.

Elena Nightingale in the film “Several Days of the Life of I. Oblomov” in parallel with this film, the adventure comedy of Evgeny Tatar “The Adventures of Prince Florisel” was released, in which the nightingale appeared in the image of the general wife of Lady Clara Wendeler. An excerpt from the film “The Adventures of the Prince of Florisel” another role, remembered by the audience, is the former theater actress Tatyana Koltsova, who became a teacher at school, in the drama of Ilya Fras “You never dreamed ...”.

Her partner in the picture was Leonid Filatov, and Tatyana Aksyuta and Nikita Mikhailovsky played the roles of schoolchildren in love. The film collected many prizes and awards and became the leader of the rental in the year. The actress was supposed to play Anna Karenina in the production of Roman Viktyuk of the same name, but did not work out. In the walls of the theater, Elena Yakovlevna served seven years, parallel to star in the cinema.

Her filmography totaled more than fifty roles when the actress decided to move to America. Emigration in the United States, according to Nightingale, to move with her family to another country forced her fear for children and her husband's illness. It was a year, dramatic times have come in Russia. Together with her husband, children and brother Vladimir, Elena Yakovlevna settled in a suburbs of New York, taking all the care of the house.

Later, Yakov Abramovich, who was 86 years old at that time, joined them. In addition, the actress became the leading author’s program “Culisa” on the radio in New Jersey, and later organized the creative studio “Study” for the children of emigrants. In the year, she starred in a joint Russian-American project “P. When I tried to explain that there are no such names in Russia, the director only waved: this, they say, doesn’t matter.

I played a role with pleasure. The smells in the pavilions were the same as in the Union, and people are surprisingly friendly. Everyone works a lot and productive, like cars. One thing has changed: thanks to new technology, directors and operators lead the filming process from the remote control, so you do not see the director’s native eyes, always ready to support and direct.

Then the actress appeared on the screens with Igor Kostolevsky, Elena Korikova, Alexander Porokhovshchikov in the series “Spy Games”, and with Oleg Taktarov - in the American criminal drama “The hosts of the night”. The role of Kalina Buzhaeva was offered to her by director James Gray, an American of Russian origin, who really liked the nightingale as an actress.

Elena Solovye in the series “Clan Soprano” with the same director Elena Yakovlevna worked in a detective drama about Polish immigrants “Fatal Passion”. Her role of Rosie Hertz was marked as one of the best secondary roles. Elena Nightingale in the film “The Lost City Z” in the film about the expedition of a member of the Royal Geographical Society of Colonel Fosset, who was missing in the jungle, she played Madame Kumel, after which she stopped acting in films.

In the year, the nightingale came to Russia, where in several television programs she gave an interview about her life. The personal life of Elena Nightingale with the future husband, the leading artist then the assistant of the Lenfilm film studio, Yuri Pugach, the actress met during the filming of the film “Drama from the Old Life”, where she played the serf actress Lyuba. The novel on the set grew into a deep feeling, a wedding took place in the year, and the nightingale moved to her husband in Leningrad.

In their friendly and strong family, two children were born - Irina and Pavel Elena Solovye and her husband and children are now a daughter, who has become an evolutionary geneticist, lives with her husband in Germany, gave birth to three children: Sofu, Agrafena and Fedor. The nightingale already has a great -grandson of Leopold from the older granddaughter. The son of the actress became a virologist and immunologist, lives with his family in the United States, called Ivan his son.

Elena's beloved husband died in the year after a long illness, which was discovered by doctors six years earlier. He needed a kidney transplant, but refused the operation, although his wife was ready to give him her own. Elena Nightingale now in the year of the beloved actress of thousands of fans is 75 years old. She lives in America, is happy to engage in home and grandchildren, but does not stop working: he teaches the Russian language and literature to young Americans, teaches their acting.Elena Nightingale in the year, although Elena Yakovlevna considers herself a happy person, in an interview with that year she admitted that sad thoughts sometimes visit her: “I am tormented by the question, where did my life go?

Where did my time go? After all, it should be somewhere. ” With this director, she starred in the film "Life and Love of Alexander Blok", where she played the Silver Age poet Zinaida Hippius. Barschevsky invited her the role of Mary Gradovo, the wife of the protagonist, and the actress spoke about her impression of the novel by Vasily Aksenov and the film industry as follows: when I read the book, I realized how difficult the task was facing the director.

The character of my Marychka still needs to be understood. Inwardly, it seems to me that I can do this, but I am also ready for the fact that I may not take it. I am still grateful for calling that they just remembered about me. The role in the end went to Inna Churikova.