Natalya Fateyeva

Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva is a Soviet and Russian film actress and television presenter. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1956. People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Biography

Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva was born and brought up in Kharkiv. Her father was a Soviet military officer, and her mother was manager of a local fashion shop. She studied acting at Kharkiv Acting College during the 1950s and was briefly married to a student classmate, but soon she divorced the student and moved to Moscow. There, after meeting Sergei Gerasimov, Fateyeva was admitted to the graduate year at VGIK acting school.
She was voted "the most beautiful Soviet actress" in the early 1960s by readers of the Soviet film magazine Sovetsky Ekran and other publications.
Natalya Fateyeva was married, and divorced, three times. She has two children, a son and a daughter. She lives in Moscow, Russia.

Political position and social activity

Natalya Fateyeva was awarded Medal "Defender of a Free Russia" by president Boris Yeltsin for her active position defending democracy in Russia. In 1999, Fateyeva was awarded Order of Honour for her achievements in the art of cinema
Natalya Fateyeva was member of People's Freedom Party (Russia) and also was associated with the leadership of United Democratic Movement Solidarnost until both political parties were banned and dissolved in Russia.
In 2014 and 2022, she condemned both the annexation of Crimea and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.