Nina Ruslanova
Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.
She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia.
Early life
Ruslanova was orphaned at two months old in late winter 1945 in Bohodukhiv. Her surname comes from the orphanages in the Kharkiv Oblast. She lived in five children's homes. She graduated from college with a degree as a construction plasterer. She then entered the Kharkiv Theatre Institute, where she studied for one term.She moved to Moscow in 1969 and graduated Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. Thereafter Ruslanova worked in Vakhtangov Theater, and from 1985 to 1988 in Mayakovsky Theatre. She debuted in movies in 1967. Her first role was Nadezhda in Kira Muratova's film ''Brief Encounters.''
Death
Ruslanova died from a long illness complicated by COVID-19 and pneumonia on 21 November 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. She was 75.Selected filmography
- 1967 — Brief Encounters as Nadezhda, housekeeper
- 1975 — Afonya as Tamara
- 1980 — Do Not Shoot at White Swans as Haritina Makarovna
- 1982 — Tears Were Falling as Dina, girlfriend Vasin's
- 1982 — Find and Neutralize as Nyura
- 1982 — The Train Has Stopped as Maria Ignatyevna, party secretary
- 1982 — Be My Husband as Albina Petrovna
- 1983 — Among Grey Stones as housekeeper
- 1983 — Twice Born
- 1984 — My Friend Ivan Lapshin as Natasha Adashova
- 1985 — Do Not Marry, Girls as Anisa Ilinichna
- 1986 — Kin-dza-dza! as Galina Borisovna
- 1987 — Tomorrow Was the War as Comrade Polyakova
- 1987 — She with a Broom, He in a Black Hat as Vasilisa
- 1988 — Heart of a Dog as Darya Petrovna Ivanova
- 1991 — Promised Heaven as Jeanne's aunt, dressmaker from Tver
- 1991 — Afghan Breakdown as Tatyana
- 1992 — Trifles of Life as Natalia Yevdokimovna
- 1997 — Poor Sasha as Beryozkin's ex-wife
- 1998 — The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone as Toma
- 1998 — Mama Don't Cry as Tanya's mother
- 1998 — Khrustalyov, My Car! as wife of General
- 2002 — Chekhov's Motifs as woman
- 2004 — The Tuner as Lyuba
- 2004 — My Fair Nanny as aunt Faya
- 2006 — My Love
- 2007 — The Irony of Fate 2 as neighbor
- 2010 — What Men Talk About as hotel administrator
- 2011 — Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman as Kryachiha
- 2014 — Viy as wife Yavtukh's