Natalya Tenyakova
Born: 1944-07-03 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Died: 2025-06-18
Known For: Acting
Biography
Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she formed a memorable comic duo with her husband and frequent co-star, Sergei Yursky.
Filmography
2019
- The Frenchman as Mariya Kirillovna
2015
- Handmade Clouds as Old Woman (voice)
2013
2010
- The Chairs as la Vieille
2009
- Regarding the Bald Singer... as Mrs. Smith
2008
- Fathers and Sons as Arina Bazarova
2006
- Forest as Гурмыжская
2004
1998
- Chekhov and Co. as Даша
1993
- To Remember as Narrator
1992
1990
- Chernov/Chernov as Tanya, Chernov's wife
- Swan Song
1989
1988
- The Cabal of Hypocrites
- The Light Shines in the Darkness as Александра Ивановна Коховцева
1986
- The Theater of I.S. Turgenev as Наталья Петровна Ислаева / Анна Ильинишна Kaypoвa
- Banquet as Vasily Petrovich's Wife (voice)
1985
- The Stove on Wheels as Ефросинья Сидоровна
- Ship of the Desert as Turtle (voice)
1984
- Love and Pigeons as Grandma Shura
1983
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Фатима
- Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays as Фетинья Мироновна Епишкина / Акулина Гавриловна Красавина / Марфа Игнатьевна Кабанова / Пульхерия Андревна Гущина
1981
- Uncle's Dream as Mariya Aleksandrovna
1980
- Version as Lyubov Mendeleyeva
1978
- Colonel Chabert as графиня Ферро
1977
1971
- Investigation Held by ZnaToKi as Евдокия Матвеевна Стольникова
- Fiesta as Lady Brett Ashley
1970
- White Hair Urgently Required as Natasha Proskurova
1969
- Our Friends as Antonina Staroselskaya
- The Death of Vazir Mukhtar as Lenhen Bulgarina
- The Golovlevs
1968
- Prince Napoleon
- Thunderstorm Over Belaya as Sasha
1967
- Elder Sister as Lida
- The Green Carriage as Varvara Asenkova
1966
- The Dark Lady of the Sonnets as The Dark Lady
1965
- A Long Cat Tale as Alice