Zhanna Andreyevna Bolotova (Russian: Жанна Рндреевна
Ð'олотова; October 10, 1941, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR) is a
Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s.
In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a
People's Artist of Russia in 1985. The actor and theatre/film director
Nikolai Gubenko was her husband.Zhanna Bolotova was born in the
Siberian resort Karachi Lake nearby Novosibirsk, on October 19, 1941.
She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live
In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated from the
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class
of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor
Studio Theatre. As a first year student she married Nikolai Gubenko;
the pair soon divorced but re-united several years later.Among Zhanna
Bolotova's best-known films were People and Animals (1962) and To Love
Somebody (1972), both by Sergei Gerasimov. In 1969 she received her
first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red
Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr.
Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the
Trieste Film Festival. She also starred in several films by Nikolai
Gubenko, among them Wounded Game (1977), Scenes from the Life of
Resort Visitors (1980), Life, Tears and Love (1984). In 1977 Bolotova
received the USSR State Prize for her part in The Flight of Mister
McKinley. In 1985 she was designated as a People's Artist of
Russia.Zhanna Bolotova appeared in 28 films. She stopped filming in
the 1990s but in 2005, after the 17 years absence, appeared in the
small role of a University professor in Zhmurki.
Ð'олотова; October 10, 1941, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR) is a
Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s.
In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a
People's Artist of Russia in 1985. The actor and theatre/film director
Nikolai Gubenko was her husband.Zhanna Bolotova was born in the
Siberian resort Karachi Lake nearby Novosibirsk, on October 19, 1941.
She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live
In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated from the
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class
of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor
Studio Theatre. As a first year student she married Nikolai Gubenko;
the pair soon divorced but re-united several years later.Among Zhanna
Bolotova's best-known films were People and Animals (1962) and To Love
Somebody (1972), both by Sergei Gerasimov. In 1969 she received her
first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red
Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr.
Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the
Trieste Film Festival. She also starred in several films by Nikolai
Gubenko, among them Wounded Game (1977), Scenes from the Life of
Resort Visitors (1980), Life, Tears and Love (1984). In 1977 Bolotova
received the USSR State Prize for her part in The Flight of Mister
McKinley. In 1985 she was designated as a People's Artist of
Russia.Zhanna Bolotova appeared in 28 films. She stopped filming in
the 1990s but in 2005, after the 17 years absence, appeared in the
small role of a University professor in Zhmurki.
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