Little is known about this actress, because she does not give interviews and no longer appears on the set. Many years ago, she rethought her life and her profession and came to the conclusion that she would no longer enter the stage. She had a deep reappraisal of values. In recent years, she is the dean of the acting department of the academy. So, we get acquainted, Kalinovskaya Irina - a beauty, clever, star of Soviet cinema of the 70-80s of the twentieth century.
The path to art
Irina Borisovna Kalinovskaya was born on the first day of October 1946 in Moscow. She in childhood firmly decided that she would only be an actress. And so it happened. Having become older, she realized a childhood dream. Kalinovskaya Irina became a student at the Moscow Theater School named after Shchukin, which she successfully completed in due time. Later she worked in the troupe of the Mossovet Theater for four years: from 1969 to 1973, and in the troupe of the Mayakovsky Theater for eleven years, from 1973 to 1984 (she came to these walls after leaving the previous theater collective).
Debut role
Irina Borisovna played her first role in the movie, while still a student at a theater school, in 1967. It was the film "Little Runaway", the young actress was offered a small role as a nurse. The background turned out to be simple: they came to the institute from the film studio and were invited to shoot.
Then there was another role of a nurse - in the film "Big Break." She played the role of Alla Stukalina in Yurkin Dawn, Rimma Pazhitnova in Easy to Be Kind. There was another interesting picture - “We Didn’t Pass It” by the famous director Ilya Frez. Irina Kalinovskaya, an actress at that time a beginner, was very surprised to receive an invitation to these shootings. Her cinematic character was a young trainee, an English teacher. Irina was very worried because she studied German at school, and French at a theater institute. So I was thinking about how to play the Englishwoman correctly, because she didn’t know this language at all, and the script had to say at least some minimum of phrases. Ilya Abramovich Frez suggested putting a teacher to her so that she could learn the necessary text. For him, the main thing was not knowledge of the language, but the fact that Kalinovskaya was suitable according to the parameters he had invented. She very well understood who she was filming from. But at that time she already had a couple of significant roles on the stage. Therefore, in her opinion, they paid attention to her in the capital and offered to work in the cinema.
On the same set with the "star"
In the mid-seventies of the twentieth century, Irina Kalinovskaya found herself on the same set with Andrei Mironov, super popular at that time. It was a painting by George Natanson "Popular Wedding". She remembers that period of her life with special warmth. Mironov was a very cheerful, mischievous, incredibly creative person. They were waiting for him on the set as a huge gift, because in parallel he starred in several more tapes.
Once, Irina Kalinovskaya was an actress whose personal life always aroused certain interest, especially after a long romance with the actor Alexander Fatyushin, said that, apparently, Andrei did not manage to read the script, therefore, having looked at the material, he was very upset, repeating all the time how it was he who could play the villain and not understand it. He was reassured by the whole team, and he was worried, thinking about what kind of hack-worker he was.
"Schukiners" will always understand each other
It was very easy to work together with Irina Mironov. Andrei was quite mobile, easy person. Irina Kalinovskaya, the actress, explained such creative contact and mutual understanding by the fact that both of them are “Schukins”, therefore, they spoke the same professional language. He sympathized with her, but always behaved very correctly, not allowing anything superfluous. And Irina enjoyed this charming relationship.
It was hard for Mironov to act in film because he was very busy at that time: he came to one city in the morning, worked off, and flew off to another in the evening. And so every day. Irina also had several paintings in parallel, and in the evenings she also worked in the theater. But she was young and tireless: tired, went to bed, woke up and ran to work.
Mossovet Theater, about which legends were composed
She was invited to these walls when Irina was still a student. She played her first role on this scene in 1969 with Vadim Beroev (known for his main role in the film "Major Whirlwind") and Tatyana Bespalova. It was a wonderful performance "Spring Water". The director was Galina Sergeevna Anisimova-Wulf, and the curator was Zavadsky.
The young actress was surprised that before stepping on the stage and ending the play, Zavadsky himself came up to her and kissed his hand. It was very moving. She was always shy, because she was just a novice actress, and he was a master. But this theater has always had such a beautiful relationship.
Maretskaya, Ranevskaya and others …
Irina Kalinovskaya, whose biography is not very well known to a large audience, went on the same stage with the legendary actresses and actors of the twentieth century: Rostislav Plyatt, Faina Ranevskaya, Lyubov Orlova, Vera Maretskaya … She had a chance to work with Maretskaya in the performances Petersburg Dreams and Million for the smile. " She and Plyatt Kalinovskaya simply idolized. They were excellent theater partners of the Vakhtangov school. Working with them was surprisingly easy and interesting. They had amazing improvisation, there was a firework of jokes on the stage. For a young actress, every appearance on the stage was like the first time. Vera Martskaya admired Irina with her manner of working and preparing for the play. Despite the vast experience and quite a serious age, she was always very worried. Running up to the Kalinovskaya dressing room before the performance, she constantly repeated everything and clarified where, what, and how to say it.
Irina Kalinovskaya also remembered Ranevskaya, that she always kept a little apart, was upset if on her first appearance on the stage the audience did not greet her with applause. Then she played the performance with a completely different state of health.
Kalinovskaya left the Mayakovsky Theater after Zavadsky and Anisimova-Wulf passed away. Because the Mossovet Theater lacked a strong director's hand.
The legendary Lighthouse
When Irina Kalinovskaya, whose personal life attracted admirers of her talent from the very first appearance on the screen, went to Mayakovka, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Mark Zakharov played on the stage of this theater, Natalia Gundareva and Andrei Goncharov began their career. Her husband then laughed kindly at her: an artist of academic theaters rushed to the great stage.
But Irina really wanted to see all the ins and outs of work in these walls. Mark Zakharov at that time staged a rout. The theater was full of emotions and moods. Gundareva came two years earlier than Irina. They had friendly relations, because Natalya studied with her husband Kalinovskaya, was even busy in his graduation performance.
