Valentina Telegina | |
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Died | October 4, 1979 | (aged 64)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1934—1978 |
Valentina Petrovna Telegina ( Russian: Валенти́на Петро́вна Теле́гина; 1915 — 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress.
Telegina was born on February 23, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks (now the Rostov Oblast).[ citation needed]
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. She had her first big role as Motya Kotenkova in Sergei Gerasimov's film Komsomolsk. [1]
After the war she moved to Moscow, working at the Gorky Film Studio from 1946. [2]
She aimed to embody the character of the Russian woman in all its diversity.[ citation needed]
Valentina Petrovna Telegina died on October 4, 1979. She was buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe Cemetery. [3]