Nina Usatova - filmography and the family of the actress

Nina Usatova is familiar to the older generation of spectators and young people. She is a talented performer of the role of the gorgeous county-level matrons of the century before last, who came down to us from the pages of classic novels. Along with these rather complicated works, the actress perfectly plays our contemporaries. While other actors complain about the lack of demand, Nina Nikolaevna is so busy that she has no time to look at herself in the mirror. But when she was persistently unwilling to let her into a magical country called "cinema".

Childhood star

Usana Nina Nikolaevna was born in the Altai in a small steppe village with a very nice name Raspberry Lake. It happened in 1951 on October 1. Nina Nikolaevna's family was not rich, but she did not. Her parents were hardworking and responsible people, they led their farming properly and in a peasant way firmly. So there was always enough in the house.

This attitude to the cause and love of the native land were transferred to little Nina and remained in her forever. Having lived for some time in the village, the Usatovs moved to the regional city of Kurgan. There, Nina graduated from secondary school No. 30. She enjoyed playing in all school productions and already in the eighth grade she decided to become an actress.

Youth years

After passing the final exams, Nina Usatova went to conquer Moscow. The capital met the young provincial woman with the first setbacks and disappointments. Nina applied to the Shchukin school, but failed at the exam. She did not intend to return home with anything, she went to work for the cloth factory as a cricket. Standing at the machine, she did not cease to dream about acting, but at home she was preparing for new exams.

The following year, the stubborn girl again filed papers with Shchukinsky. And again she failed. In all, she had four unsuccessful attempts. Despite her strong-willed character, she was quite desperate. In order to somehow get closer to her favorite business, Usatova got a job as a director in the House of Culture. Watching the actors play, for their rehearsals, for the production process, Nina Nikolayevna plunged into her acting life.

At some point, she again felt self-confidence and again, for the fifth time, submitted documents to Shchukinsky. Finally, fate smiled at her. In 1974, she became a student of the director's faculty, hitting the Ter-Zakharova and Zakhava classes.

Work in the Youth Theater

Having graduated from Shchukin and received a diploma, Nina Usatova went to practice at the Kotlas Theater, where she played more than a dozen roles. In Kotlas she lived for about a year and already in 1980 she left for Leningrad. There, the new Youth Theater under the leadership of Vladimir Malyshchitsky was just starting to work. Young actress perfectly fit into the team. She worked in the theater for almost 10 years and in 1989 moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Tovstonogov. On the stage of the Youth Theater Usatova played many roles. She was attracted by filmmakers and invited to try their hand at cinema.

Her first work was the role of dressmaker in the comic tape Vadim Gaussner "Where Fomenko disappeared." Her partners were Liya Akhedzhakova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Rolan Bykov and other stars of Soviet cinema. Unfortunately, the debut role of Nina Usatova was voiced by another Nina - Ruslanova. But all the same, the debutante's game was appreciated and started to be invited to other projects.

The first 10 years in the cinema

Nina Usatova in her youth, as now, had a magnificent figure and a peculiar appearance of a simple Russian peasant woman. That is why the directors defined creative frames for it and invited them to roles that corresponded to its external image. As a rule, these were small works in episodes. But that the picture turned out bright and memorable, every actor playing even the smallest role should lay out one hundred percent. As did Nina Usatova, whose filmography at the beginning of her career consisted almost entirely of episodic roles.

So, in the film about the film "The Voice" she played a kind and sympathetic patient in the hospital, where they put the main character. The tape was released in 1982. Bright and memorable was the work of Nina Usatova in the comedy "Nebyvalchina", filmed in 1983. In this tape, the actress played a peasant woman, the wife of the main character.

Queen of episodes

Time goes fast. For ten years that have passed since the debut work, Nina Usatova, whose filmography had 20 roles, fell in love with the audience. Especially bright was her heroine in the famous movie "Cold Summer of the fifty-third". Usatova played a mute woman, so the main emphasis was not on replicas, but on the game with gestures, facial expressions, eyes. The actress brilliantly coped with this extremely difficult task. The spectators with a sinking heart watched as the unfortunate mute runs out to the pier and, as can, screams to save people on the boat. And the scene where she mourns the murdered bandits daughter, in general it is impossible to look without shudder. This film was recognized as the best in 1988, received the "Nika" award, the Grand Prix and several awards. Much credit for this and Nina Usatova.

Main roles

Usatova Nina - the actress is very talented, beautifully embodies on the screen any image offered to her. Nevertheless, the main role was entrusted to her only in 1991. She invited her to her film "Oh, you, geese", the beginning screenwriter and the beginning director Lydia Bobrova. And she was not mistaken. The tape entered the top 100 films of Russia, and Bobrova herself received several prizes and the Grand Prix.

Usatova in the picture played the wife of one of the main characters. The image of Dasha turned out to be very lyrical and characteristic. In many scenes, the actress excellently conveyed the feelings of her character, her complex psychological state through facial expressions, facial expressions, and looks. After this film, Nina Usatova's popularity increased even more.

Perestroika began in the country. Many actors in this difficult period were left without work, only not Nina. Now she was invited to crime films born of a new era. So, she starred in the popular film "Next", in the films "Muslim", "Caucasian Roulette" and many others.

Awards

Nina Usatova, whose filmography currently has more than 70 works, was awarded the Pushkin Medal for his contribution to Russian art and the Medal "For Services to the Fatherland." She was twice awarded in 1995 and 1999 with "Nika" in nominations for the best performance of female roles, and twice with the "Golden Eagle" award for the best performance of episodic female roles. So, her work was noted in the film "Pop", where she played Mother Alevtina, and in the tape "Legend №17".

In addition, Nina Nikolaevna repeatedly became a laureate of various awards and festivals. She combines work in films with the service in the theater. Tovstonogov. Particularly popular is the play "Man, Wait!", Where she plays paired with Igor Sklyar. Here the highest reward for her is a flurry of applause.

Personal life of an actress

In everyday life, our heroine is the most ordinary woman, who does not think that she is the famous actress Nina Usatova. Her family consists of a son, named after his father Nicholas, and her husband. Usatova is married to a fine man, a linguist, and concurrently a film actor Yuri Lvovich Guriev. They are of the same age. By nature and spiritual values - ideal partners. Yuri Guryev graduated from the Pedagogical University in the city of Tula, speaks French and German. Since 1972 he worked as an actor of the Tula Theater "Dialogue". In the movie, Yuri Lvovich is actively withdrawn only since 2008.

As the actress admits, her family lives a simple life. She does not have a housekeeper, so all has to manage herself. Fortunately, her men always help in everything. Rassnosolov she also does not have time to prepare. Nobody complains, they eat what they eat. Very much Nina Nikolayevna loves a Russian bathhouse with a park and rest at her dacha, it's a pity she does not have enough time for these pleasures.