Biography of Jana Poplavskaya - Soviet Little Red Riding Hood

One can say with certainty: who in childhood did not see the amazing Soviet children's philosophical film "About the red cap", he lost a lot. The cinematographic biography of Yana Poplavskaya, the famous Russian actress and TV presenter, essentially began with the role of Little Red Riding Hood. Young Yana even became a laureate of the State Prize of the Soviet Union for this role in 1978.

Biography of Jana Poplavskaya: childhood

The girl was born on June 28 in 1967 in Moscow in the family of creative people - actress Yevgenia Yurievna (Georgian roots) and journalist Yevgeny Vasilyevich (Jewish). As a child, she was a terrible hooligan, was friends only with boys, loved to triple all the disgrace in the school, for which she often had to blush to her parents.

In order to somehow ease the violent temper of her daughter and direct her energy flowing over the edge, her parents gave Yana to a sports school, and she began to engage in artistic gymnastics. And here she reached certain heights, became a candidate for master of sports.

The future actress and TV presenter always wanted to become a neurosurgeon, and precisely because her grandmother, who was herself a doctor, said that there are very few female neurosurgeons. Yana often visited her grandmother and watched her do her job. Once the young surgeon even performed the operation herself - she sewed the ear to the hamster, which the cat had torn off it, and it was very well established. But the dream was not destined to come true, the actor's genes still won.

Biography of Yana Poplavskaya: debut in the cinema

Together with her mother, Yana was on the set at the age of 4, but the wayward girl did not want to act. For the film "Remember your name," when Poplavskaya was 6 years old, the director Kolosov was looking for an actor for the role of a boy. He suggested Iana to play, but she categorically refused, said that she only wants a girl. The director agreed, but during the editing the episode with Poplavskaya was cut out, at the premiere the girl did not see herself and was very upset.

Her debut as an actress took place when Jan was 10 years old. At that time, her mother worked in the Taganka Theater, and the girl played a role in the play "Crossroads". But the real success came to her with "Little Red Riding Hood", this is the first bright event that contains the cinematic biography of Yana Poplavskaya.

The director of the film searched for the actress for the main role for more than a year, and all this time he was advised to shoot screen tests with Poplavskaya, but, having looked at the photos of the girl, he refused. And only finally desperate, he still agreed. When the girl finished her "introductory" performance, he grabbed her in his arms, began to circling with the words: "Finally I found you!" After the premiere of the film, the real actress was struck with real glory. The whole country learned about who Jana Poplavskaya is.

Biography: private life

She married an actress at age 17 for the actor Sergei Ginzburg. But 25 years later they separated. Poplavskaya has two sons - Klim and Nikita. "I do not see the point of maintaining an invalid relationship and calling them a family," Yana Poplavskaya said about the reason for the divorce . Children now live with it.

Little Red Riding Hood today

In the arsenal Poplavsky more than 15 roles in the cinema, successful work on the stage. Now she works as a teacher at the Higher School of Cinema and Television "Ostankino" and at the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University, and Jana Poplavskaya is a successful radio and television presenter.