Galina Stakhanova: biography, creative activity, family

Perhaps not everyone knows her name, but her face certainly knows everyone. Ironically, the peak of its popularity fell at a very mature age, when in the early 2000s, 60-year-old Galina Stakhanova in one of the commercials said "Oh, fox." After this, the actress played a variety of characters in a huge number of films and serials (more than 200).

Childhood

Galina Stakhanova was born in Moscow on an autumn day (October 12), 1940. Her family was no different from a million of the same Soviet families with a modest income. During the war, their father throws the heaviest hungry time. Little Gala did not understand why her beloved dad left, and even at the time when her mother had only given birth to a younger brother. After a while another misfortune: Galina's grandmother dies of starvation. At the end of the war, her mother, trying to survive in these difficult years, grabbed for any work. The death of his younger brother, who was poisoned by accidentally eating bleach, shocked Galina. But, she strongly supported her mother, who, in order to feed her daughter, worked as a cleaner and a laundress, grabbing for any opportunity to get some money.

Dramatic Circle

In school years little Galina was fond of dancing and was engaged in the drama club of the Moscow State University. Her mother worked as a janitor at the university, so the little girl often spent time there. She was a Grandmother-Bee in Much-Tsokotukha, a Jester in the fairy tale Love for Three Oranges. She wanted, of course, to play the main role of some beautiful princess, but even then she got the non-standard roles of characteristic characters. However, her acting career seemed so incredible to her that she had never dreamed of seriously thinking about her. It should be said that her family's relatives and friends celebrated her dramatic talent, always amazed at the reality of her reincarnations.

Youth

Galina Stakhanova (photo in her youth, see below) studied at the evening school of working youth and at the same time worked as a telephone operator. At the age of twenty she, always secretly dreaming about drama, got a job as a pupil of the make-up artist in one of the most famous theaters. This is the Mayakovsky Theater. And after 2 years she was the head of the supply department at GITIS. When Galina was 25 years old, she combined the work of a dresser in the house of culture of the Moscow State University and administrator at the film studio Mosfilm.

Lucky case

So Galina Stakhanova would work for the benefit of culture in auxiliary work, if not for the case. Mama Stakhanova was busy fixing the order in the apartment of actress Vera Pashenna, and Galina sometimes helped her in this. One famous actress heard that the cleaning lady's daughter dreams of becoming an actress and asked her to read something. Galya stopped the choice on the monologue of Katerina from "Storm". Surprised Paschen praised Stakhanov for his spiritual good play and advised him to go on amateur performances and try his hand at acting. After that, Galina decided to change her life. She was taken to the Student Theater of Moscow State University, which at that time was run by a young Mark Zakharov, where she played her first roles on stage. At the age of 33, Stakhanova worked in the supply department of the Central Stadium . Lenin and worked in the theater of Roman Viktyuk, which was located in the house of culture "Moskvorechye." It was Viktyuka Stakhanova who played the first major role in the play "Music Lessons".

First roles

The first role in the movie was played by Galina Stakhanova in 1979. It was a small episode in A. Gordon's film Scenes from Family Life. So, at the age of 39 Galina Stakhanova tried on herself as a movie actress.

Four years later, she played one of the leading roles in Yevgeny Yevtushenko's film "The Kindergarten". She perfectly conveyed to the viewer the image of the grandmother of a boy overcoming the numerous obstacles to the war to get to her grandmother's house.

Closer to 50 years, Stakhanov increasingly appears in Soviet films. Most of her roles are compassionate kind women of mature age. The most vivid and memorable works of that time can be called Baba Grusha from the drama of Alexander Kaidanovsky "The Wife of the Kerosene" (1988), the head teacher from the sports drama "Doll" directed by Isaac Friedberg (1988). But there were also negative characters. For example, in 1988, Galina Konstantinovna starred in the role of a harmful granny ("Love with privileges").

Queen of episodes

Galina Stakhanova is an actress who played a huge number of episodic roles, but these were very vivid works. The spectator saw how talented, believable and always sincerely he plays his heroines Stakhanov. Her work was highly appreciated by such famous directors as Kira Muratova in the film "Asthenic Syndrome" (1989), Nikolai Dostal in the film "The Petty Devil" (1995), Timur Bekmambetov in the film "Night Watch" (2004).

After the collapse of the USSR, Stakhanov continues to withdraw. Now she is often invited to work on TV shows that have become so popular. Grandmother, nurse, fortune teller, conductor. Who did not play Galina Stakhanova. In her youth she was not given the chance to experience such popularity. But now there is hardly anyone in our country who does not see Galina Konstantinovna in the movie.

One of the most famous recent works of this talented actress can be called the role of funny woman Mani in the movie "Firs."

Galina Stakhanova: personal life

Galina Konstantinovna was not lucky enough to meet on the path of life a great love. There were fans, boyfriends, gentlemen. But the person with whom I would like to live life, as the actress admits, was not.

In the late 60's, Rolan Bykov took care of Stakhanov . At that time he was already very popular as an actor and director. And she was an actress from the crowd. They met in the student theater of Moscow State University, in which Stakhanov played. Bykov headed the theater before she came there. Beautiful courtship ended in a novel. They even lived together for a while. But the loving Rolan Bykov often changed Stakhanov, which was the reason for the gap.

In 1975, Galina Konstantinovna gave birth to a daughter. She never talked about who her father was. She only said that she gave birth to her child, but she does not need to remember who helped her to do it. In those days, a single mother was a rare phenomenon. Galina was subjected to bullying of neighbors, many of whom openly called her daughter Masha unsociable. But Galina Stakhanova, a strong spirit, whose children were always a guarantee of happiness, was able to protect herself and her daughter from attacks.

Masha even acted in film (in the film Viktyuka "Long memory"), she played the role of pioneer Gali Galanina. But, having matured, Stakhanova's daughter chose her own way of life. She went to medicine. Now Maria works as a teacher in a medical institute.

Galina Konstantinovna does not like her soul in her granddaughter Lisa and tries to spend more time with her.

The creative destiny of Galina Stakhanova proves that one must never say goodbye to a dream. We need to go to meet her, and then all the most desired will certainly come true.