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Elena Vladimirovna Mayorova (Russian: Еле́на Влади́мировна Майо́рова; 30 May 1958 – 23 August 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989).
Biography
Her father worked in the depot, and her mother in a factory.
At school, Elena worked with the third class in the Pioneers Palace Theatre Studio. After graduation, Elena Mayorova tried to get into a theater class at a few universities, but was not accepted. One year she had to study in vocational school building, she graduated with honors and received specialty. In 1976, Elena Mayorova entered Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, the course of Oleg Tabakov.
In 1982-1983, after graduating from GITIS, she played in the Sovremennik Theatre. Since 1983 Elena Mayorova actress Moscow Art Theater of the USSR. Gorky, and after its separation in 1987 Moscow Art Theatre Anton Chekhov. She had her first role in Could One Imagine? directed by Ilya Frez.
Elena Mayorova died under tragic circumstances; the official version is of an accident, although some say suicidal. Accidentally or intentionally, she set fire to her dress while on a staircase in the entrance of the house. With burns 85% of body surface actress was admitted to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where she died. She was buried at the cemetery Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
Personal life
First husband a fellow student of GITIS Vladimir Chaplygin.
Second husband the painter-hyperrealist Sergey Sherstuk (1951-1998), survived his wife for exactly 9 months, died of cancer on May 23, 1998.
No children.
Filmography
1980 — An Uninvited Friend
1981 — Could One Imagine?
1981 — Express on Fire
1981 — Our Vocation
1982 — Whose You, Old Man?
1983 — Offered for Singles
1983 — The Last Argument of Kings
1984 — Parade of Planets
1984 — Alone and Unarmed
1986 — I Counselor Outpost
1986 — Zina-Zinulya
1987 — Forgotten Melody for a Flute
1987 — Lucky
1988 — Two and One
1988 — Fast Train (Prize for Best Actress at the Constellation Film Festival)
1989 — Was there Carotene?
1991 — Lost in Siberia
1993 — Makarov
1993 — Cloak Casanova
1995 — Little Demon
1996 — The Return of Battleship
1996 — Career of Arturo Ui. A New Version.
1998 — At Loggerheads
1998 — Chekhov and Co
1999 — Listen, If Rain Does Not Go...
References
External links
Elena Mayorova at IMDb
Site memory of Elena Mayorova
Sergey Markov. Освобождение Елены Майоровой, «Коллекция Караван историй» No. 5 (35) 2011