Biography of Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

It is difficult to imagine another actor or actress, whose every word - by role or in the course of life - immediately became an aphorism. Life and biography of Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna is one big quotation.

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A great actress was born on August 27 (15), 1896, in Taganrog to a simple Jewish family of petty bourgeois Feldman. In addition to Fanny, the couple had three more children - two sons and a daughter. She was not supposed to have any other way than acting, she had been interested in theater since childhood, graduated from the Taganrog gymnasium for women, then studied at a private theater studio. And at the age of 18 she was already in Moscow, renting a room in a communal apartment on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. Not a single theater studio was accepted. Good friends helped to play episodic roles in extras. There was nothing to pay for tuition at a private theater school. This was in 1915.

Acting debuts

Biography Ranevskaya-actress was not simple, to fight for his place under the sun, she had a very long time. In Moscow, she did not work, she signed a contract with the cast of Madame Lavrovskaya and left for Kerch. After wandering around the provincial theaters - in Rostov, Smolensk, Kislovodsk, Arkhangelsk, Baku, in the suburbs. And only then, already in 1930, in Moscow - in the Chamber, in the theater of drama (now Mayakovsky), him. Pushkin, the Moscow City Council, the years of her work in which remained in history and in anecdotes due to the legendary conflicts with the director Yuri Zavadsky. They had different vision of the theater, and indeed, a kind of tragicomic manner of the actress sometimes shocked the director. But it was necessary to put up - this was the whole Faina Ranevskaya. Biography, quotes from her roles were already in the public domain. It was well known that she was addicted to sharp words, sometimes unprintable. Perhaps many of the existing winged expressions are attributed to her. But her wit and propensity for parody were vividly manifested in life, on stage, and even in the literary genre. Many of her letters are parodies, in which Faina Georgievna imitated the famous writer T. Tess under the pseudonym of the provincial Kafinkin. Irony is a great gift, to which the actress was fully endowed.

Faina Ranevskaya: biography in the cinema

It's amazing how great artistic talent can manifest without a single main role in his entire career. Yes, Ranevskaya remained a lifelong actress for the rest of her life. But her appearance in episodic roles promised success to any film. Serious roles were not offered to her, not by lack of talent, but by order from above. The Minister of Cinematography at the time was a certain Bolshakov, whom few people now remember. And he did not even in words, and in the official letter "pripechatal": Semitic features of the actress are too noticeable to do with it close-ups. Biography Ranevskaya nevertheless was forever associated with Soviet cinema. Paradoxically, it is this actress, who has not played a single role from the repertoire of world significance, the British Encyclopedia entered into the list of the greatest actors of the twentieth century.

In 1934, her film debut took place, it was a picture of "Pyshka" (directed by Mikhail Romm). She acted reluctantly, preferring a theatrical scene. But then there were more movies: "Error Engineer Cochin", "The Duma about the Cossack Golota" and many others. Her most favorite role was Faina Georgievna called the role of Pani Skorokhod in M. Romm's film "The Dream" (1940). Then followed the film-musical "Wedding", where she starred in the bright role of Mamasha, the role of stepmother in "Cinderella" and many more many star characters. But most of the others remember her playing in the comedy film "The Foundling". Her famous phrase "Mulia, do not worry me" is still walking around the world. Or this: "And what do you want more, girl: go to the country, or to tear your head off?" Needless to say, every word, like the entire biography of Ranevskaya, is worthy of daily quoting and admiration. And even the phrases dropped by her entered the history of cinema. They say that the aged actress somehow fell in the street and could not get up. And then she said to passers-by: "Well, raise me, the people's artists do not lie on the road!"

Life and loneliness

Faina Ranevskaya never had a personal life. She never married. Her family emigrated during the years of the revolution. From Friedman she was lucky enough to see again only sister Bella, who came to her homeland to die. Only in this short time with a sick relative Ranevskaya was not alone. By the way, she changed her surname back in 1915, when she first saw Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" in Moscow. Since then, she became Ranevskaya.

Faina Georgievna passed away in 1984. A year before her death, she refused to play, citing old age and illness.

In Taganrog, a monument to the actress was presented in gratitude to her great countrywoman.