Lyudmila Smirnova Actress Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Her childhood was marked by the stormy beginning of the century, the whole family had to go through a lot. After the revolution ended, Lydia’s father became no longer a tsarist officer, but Kolchakovsky. Soon he went missing. The childhood of actress Lydia Smirnov was difficult, Lydia's mother lost not only her husband, but also her younger son.

Unable to withstand grief, she got into a psychiatric hospital, where she soon died. A orphaned girl could remain a street woman, but her father’s older brother, her uncle, took a little Lidia to his family. The youth of Lidia Smirnova further was the same as many at that time: hungry youth, the ideas of the Komsomol, the norm of the TRP, polar explorers, chips, flags and demonstrations.

Lidia Smirnova, as they say, was a Komsomol and beauty, the headman and chairman of the sports organization. The girl was visited by a career athletes, but she chose a different way. Immediately after school, she left for Moscow to enter the industrial and economic college. Having received an economist’s diploma, she went to work in the Main Directorate of Air Industry by distribution.

But from a typical Soviet biography, Lidia Nikolaevna saved a sincere passion for theatrical art. At that time, the head of the department, who was an avid theater, looked after the girl. He introduced the young talent to the theater. Having threw the beginning of the creative way in the second year, Lidia Smirnova submits documents simultaneously to the Vakhtangov School, the All -Union State Institute of Cinematography and to the School of the Chamber Theater.

To her surprise, she successfully copes with introductory trials in all three educational institutions. The choice falls on the studio school at the chamber theater, because it was located closest to her house. Lidia Smirnova threw the aircraft institute in the year Lidia Smirnova becomes a graduate of the school, and immediately falls into the main cast of the Chamber Theater. Of the entire group of similar honor, only two graduates were awarded.

However, the glory of the movie star prevented the career of the theater actress Smirnova. The film career when Lydia was still studying at a studio school, representatives of film studios often came to them in search of young talents. If I needed a blonde with blue eyes, the choice often fell on her, but they affirming her extremely rarely. Lidia Smirnova. She was offered the main role in the film “My Love”.

It was this role that brought Lidia Smirnova all -Union love. She became an idol of millions of ordinary Soviet girls and guys. And how could you not love a sincere girl Shurochka, assuring that “you don’t need to wait for love, it will be unexpectedly ...” War time and personal life of Lidia Smirnova, accompanied by the actress after the role in the film “My Love”, was absolutely deserved.

But the Great Patriotic War began. Many directors, artists, artists and operators went to the front. Lidia Smirnova did not leave the screens of Lydia for several decades, journalist Sergei Dobrushin did not wait for the agenda, went to the draft item as a volunteer and only a month later died heroically near Smolensk. The second spouse of the actress was the film operator Vladimir Rapoport the fate of a few idols of the screen of that time formed differently.

Someone stopped acting, someone went to the front, someone could not withstand all the weights and sorrows of wartime. Lydia Smirnova was lucky a little more. She will forever remain in the memory of the viewer with a certain symbol of that difficult era. The role was so that Lidia Nikolaevna Smirnova became an actress of several generations. After the war, she successfully played both comic and tragic roles, both positive and negative: the matchmaker in the film “Marriage of Balzaminov”, the doctor in the film “Welcome, or outsiders are forbidden”, the seller Duska from the films about Aniskin.

The personal life of Lydia Smirnova: the first husband died at the front, she did not leave the screens in E and e years, and then continued to act in post -Soviet cinema: the melodrama "Shelter of comedians", the television series "Heiress" ... At the end of the path, even despite the elderly age, Lidia Smirnova lived an unusually active and active life.

She traveled a lot around her native country, engaged in social activities. She was a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. The hobbies of Lydia Nikolaevna were not limited to cinema. She collected dolls in national outfits of the world. Her collection has hundreds of dolls. Lidia Smirnova died in the year, among other things, the actress was fond of ballet and classical music.

Throughout her life, she carried the principle: "The more difficult the role, the more interesting to work on it." She adhered to a similar principle in life, she never plucked to difficulties. Lidia Nikolaevna passed away in a year in one of the Moscow hospitals. The actress was buried in the Vvedensky cemetery. Lidia Smirnova: The latest news and articles.