Evgenia Uralova is a famous Soviet film and theater actress. Honored (1994) and People's (2000) artist of the Russian Federation. Winner of the Zhukov medal. In this article, you will be presented with her short biography.
Childhood and study
Evgenia Uralova (photo below) was born in 1940. Together with her mother she was taken out of the besieged Leningrad. But they were surrounded and began to live in a partisan detachment.
After school, the girl entered a technical school. Eugene was to become a draftswoman and has already received distribution to the plant. But fate decreed otherwise. Uralova went to enter the theater with her friend. And she did it. The girl studied in the evening, and worked in the morning. Eugenia had to work in different places: as a cleaner, and a laboratory assistant, and a janitor.
In 1964, she successfully graduated from Leningrad University of Cinema, Music and Theater. And a year later she became an actress of the Moscow Drama Theater named after Ermolova.
July rain
The everyday hectic life of the metropolis came to life on the screen; crawled, boomed, moved along the noisy streets of the capital business, a crowded stream. But in the crowd she turned around a couple of times and the young girl looked at the audience with a wary, searching look. Thus, she drew all attention to herself. And to look away from her was simply impossible …
Her appearance on the big screen was waiting in advance. The script for the July Rain film, written by Marlene Khutsiev and Anatoly Grebnev, was published long before the premiere of the film. He made the reader think, aroused emotions. Therefore, interest in the picture was quite high. The press regularly published articles about the filming, photographs of the actors and the details of their biography.
Director Talent
Khutsiev’s ability to convey the rhythm of modern life, as well as his precise, sensitive reaction to the spiritual atmosphere of that time, made every director’s film memorable. We can say that his paintings were a reflection of the biography of not only Khutsiev himself, but also the surrounding reality. Maybe that's why they caused such a public outcry.
The debate about his previous film, where the heroes were twenty, has not yet subsided. In the new picture, he shot thirty-year-old characters. As a rule, at this age, a person has already chosen his path and formed in a civil and human sense.
Search for a heroine
Grebnev and Khutsiev wanted the main character of their picture to be a complex person, with serious requests, requirements for themselves and others. And under these criteria, very few actresses fit. Therefore, the search for the main character took so long. As a result, the actress Evgenia Uralova was approved for the role of Lena.
The girl was barely 24 years old, and she just graduated from studies, joining the Yermolova Theater. But Uralova has already managed to play her debut role in the play “The Time and the Conway Family”. Meanwhile, Eugene got the role of Kay.
Uralova had several years of work in production, a number of acquired professions and relevant skills (she was involved in amateur art, studied at the radio technical college, worked as a designer and laboratory assistant). Now the girl had to do serious meaningful work in the cinema and theater.
Role matching
Evgenia Uralova, or rather, her natural data, fully consistent with the director's concept of Khutsiev. The critic L. Anninsky perfectly explained the reason why this actress got the role: “Look at her nervous, sharp, moving face - it fits very easily into the type of urban modern woman. How flashes of feelings are quickly inhibited on this face, how skillfully the nervousness hides behind laziness of speech. This woman easily enters the crowd, accepts her rhythm, but at any moment she can leave her. The director periodically brings the actress’s face closer to us, and behind a careless lock of hair we see a terrible longing in her eyes. ”
Best Role of the Year
In 1968, Evgenia Uralova, whose biography is presented in this article, received the title of best performer of the year. It was assigned to the actress by the magazine "Soviet Screen", which interviewed leading critics of the country.
The role of Elena in the film “July Rain” became a success, principled and reflecting the tremendous work done by the cameraman, screenwriters and director. The art of Uralova was elevated to the rank of the intellectual. At the same time, it was impossible not to notice the emotional richness of thought. It turns out that the creative manner of the artist, the nature of her art were laid down in the first film.
Difficulty finding roles
And then the actress Evgenia Uralova, whose personal life was regularly discussed in the media, began to experience difficulties in finding roles suitable for her. The artistic embodiment of Lena from the July Rain was so strong that there were simply no such heroines in other projects. And to agree to the embodiment of a character of a smaller scale would be dangerous and imprudent.
The actress turned out to be far-sighted and decisive, striving to be a creative person, capable of solving the most diverse and complex tasks. She patiently waited for her role, where it would be possible not to repeat the character, but to rediscover it.
Therefore, the list of her movie roles is so small. Evgenia Vladimirovna always looked for a path that was unspoilt among the difficult roads of artistic truth and left a bright mark on it. Today it is already obvious to everyone that the actress has repeatedly proved her commitment to the art of subtle and deep psychological analysis.
"Wedding day"
In 1968, Evgenia Uralova, whose personal life is described below, played Claudia in the film "Wedding Day". She held her first dialogue with the main character, which became the prologue of the film, expressively and restrained. In her short “no need” one can feel not only the sharpness of the refusal, but also the respect for their previous relationships. Explanations and conversations would be humiliating and redundant. In this frame, which lasted several seconds, the actress was able to tell without further words about a new, not very happy love. At the same time, she managed to maintain her dignity without hiding the pain from her own powerlessness and the inability to influence the situation.
Cooperation
Uralova happened to work with various creative personalities - L. Malevannaya, A. Dzhigarkhanyan, O. Efremov and other actors of different schools and directions. But more confidently, Evgenia Vladimirovna feels herself in the framework of a psychological school. As well as in the films that were created by the directors of this direction.
Personal life
Evgenia Uralova got married three times. Almost nothing is known about the first spouse, since this girl’s marriage took place in the pre-actor period of her life. The second husband of the artist was Vsevolod Shilovsky. Young people sincerely fell in love with each other and thought that they would live together until the end of their lives. But fate turned out differently. On the set of another picture of Uralov, I met the poet and bard Yuri Vizbor. He devoted many beautiful poems and songs to Eugenia. Parting with Shilovsky became inevitable. However, a few years later Vizbor left Uralova to another woman, leaving her with her daughter Anya. But until the end of his life he was warm with his ex-wife and did not lose touch with her.
