Natalya Tenyakova
Natalya Maksimovna Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Laureate of the Golden Mask Award, and the Stanislavsky Prize.
Life and career
Natalya Tenyakova was born in Leningrad in 1944, graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography . Her fellow students were Olga Antonova, Lev Dodin, Victor Kostetskiy, Sergei Nadporozhsky, Leonid Mozgovoy, Vladimir Tykke, other masters of theater and cinema.After graduation she was accepted into the troupe of the Baltic House Festival Theatre, where she made her debut as Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera.
She was in Georgy Natanson's film Older Sister, released in 1966, in one of the main roles.
In 1967, Tenyakova became an actress of the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater.
As of 1979, Natalia Tenyakova worked at the Mossovet Theater, where she also became one of the leading actresses. In 1988, at the invitation of Oleg Yefremov, she moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
Personal life and death
Tenyakova was married to director Lev Dodin. She later married actor Sergei Yursky, with whom she had a daughter, Daria Yurskaya, in 1973.Tenyakova died on 18 June 2025, at the age of 80.