Luchko Klara Stepanovna: biography, filmography, personal life

People's Artist of the USSR, the winner of the Stalin Prize - a woman in whom many men of our country were in love ... This is Luchko Klara Stepanovna, which viewers know from such films as "Kuban Cossacks" "Return of Budulay", "Profession - investigator" and many others.

Childhood

She was born near Poltava, in the Ukrainian small village of Chutovo. The father of the future actress was a gentle man and naturally intelligent. Some features of his character passed to his daughter. His father was very fond of Clara and extremely proud of her successes. She remembered her mother as an industrious, intelligent, strong-willed woman with a special sense of humor and a desire for art.

As a child, the girl did not even think about acting career, she did not even imagine that she would someday become the star of the screen. Moreover, as Luchko Klara Stepanovna herself remembered later, she looked very ridiculous, and for her incoherent long figure, her peers even teased her, giving her the nickname Giraffe.

Soon her family moved to Poltava. Here the girl entered the Ukrainian school. Clara's education was entrusted to her aunt - a strict illiterate woman. The future actress studied well. In 1941, when the war broke out, the family was evacuated to Central Asia, where she graduated from Clara's school.

Biography

Klara Stepanovna Luchko, an actress who later was recognized by the whole country, might not have been, had she accidentally fallen into the hands of a newspaper announcing that the VGIK was recruiting students. She immediately wrote a letter to the university to find out what documents to submit. The answer did not take long. Mom was against it at first. He and his father dreamed that their daughter would study for a lawyer or a doctor. However, Clara's persistence persuaded her parents. In 1943, she went to Alma-Ata, where at that time VGIK worked in evacuation.

Klara Luchko is an actress

The girl carefully prepared for the entrance examination: she learned a poem, a fable and a large excerpt from a poem called "Zoe." But she did not manage to read the home preparations. When the secretary read: "Lucha Klara Stepanovna," her, standing before the examination board, was panic-stricken. The girl could not say a word. B. Bibikov came to the aid of the confused entrant. It was he who headed the admission committee. The famous teacher, realizing that the girl is unable to read anything, suggested that she play a rather unusual sketch. He asked her to imagine what she would do if her beloved friend drowned in the river. The stupor immediately passed, and Clara "perfectly" performed the task, crying and wringing her hands so naturally that she was enrolled on the first course. At first she got into the workshop of Pyzhova and Bibikov. But when, after the end of the war, the VGIK returned to the capital, went on to study the course of Gerasimov and Makarova.

Creative career

For a long time Clara Luchko did not manage to really open up. She was not credited with either "gifted" or "talented" students. However, teachers really believed in their pupil. The very same girl, as an actress, in the years of training in the VGIK began to attract psychological, complex characters. It must be said that later Luchko Klara Stepanovna played more than one such role. In 1948, Sergei Gerasimov began to shoot the "Young Guard". Clara, who dreamed of the image of Ulyana, was invited to the role of Marina's aunt. Following the first picture, the girl starred in such films as "Three Encounters" and "Homeland of Captains". The pictures were frankly unsuccessful. It was so disappointing to the young actress that she even seriously thought about leaving the movie. And it would have happened if the girl had not smiled luck. When Clara found out that Pyryev was reading the script of his new comedy film in the theater, she just went to listen. Here she was noticed by the director and invited to the trial. "Merry Fair" turned her life around. It's hard to underestimate the contribution that Luchko Klara Stepanovna made to the development of our cinematography.

Husbands

In the galaxy of domestic splendid ministers of Melpomene, this woman took her place thanks to the infinite harmony with which she managed to get used to the role of her movie heroes. Klara Luchko, whose personal life is no less, and perhaps even more of her images in the cinema, is an example of kindness and dedication, first married to actor Sergei Lukyanov. They were married a year after the release of the film "Kuban Cossacks." Soon the couple had a daughter Oksana. With Sergei Luchko, Clara Stepanovna lived in marriage for fifteen years.

But in the sixties of the last century in her life there was a personal drama: her husband died of a heart attack. Klara Luchko experienced both loneliness, and uncertainty in the profession, and anxiety for the growing up daughter. After the noisy successes in the cinema, her life unexpectedly came to a lull. But the actress continued to work, though, now it was not such a big role, but she believed that her profession does not accept downtime.

Eight years after the death of Sergei Lukyanov Luchko Klara Stepanovna meets with journalist and writer Dmitry Mamleev, who later becomes her husband.

New take-off

Their marriage was so harmonious, not only in everyday life, but also intellectually, which was an example for many familiar couples. At the same time, there was a new rise in the acting career of Clara Luchko. Spectators and today are warm to Claudia - the heroine of the films about the gypsies Budulae. Filming in the movie Lucho did not stop until the mid-nineties. The only restriction it has established for itself is the refusal to participate in commercials.

In her personal life, the actress was incredibly active and undemanding. Until very old age, she kept an excellent figure and well-groomed appearance. At the same time she did everything herself: she washed, cooked, cleaned. The actress was very fond of messing around at the dacha. She did not need simulators, she was always in shape. Clara Luchko never complained about her health. Apparently, therefore, her sudden death was a huge blow to her family, friends and colleagues. Luchko Klara Stepanovna died on March 26, 2005, as a result of the separation of the thrombus.