Valentina Telegina


Valentina Petrovna Telegina was a Soviet actress of theater and cinema.

Biography

Valentina was born on February 10, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks.
In 1937 she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts, workshop of Sergei Gerasimov. Since 1937 the actress of Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre, in 1940-1941 of the Baltic Fleet Theatre. In the cinema since 1934. The first big role — Motya Kotenkova played in the film by Sergei Gerasimov Komsomolsk. After the war she moved to Moscow.
Since 1946 an actress of the Gorky Film Studio.
The main theme of the art of the actress is the embodiment of the character of the Russian woman in all its diversity. Her work is marked by warmth, household reliability, naturalness. She was always the decoration of the films she was in.
Valentina Petrovna Telegina died on October 4, 1979. She was buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe Cemetery.

Selected filmography