Irena Morozova is a famous Soviet and Russian actress who performed in theater and cinema. In 1995 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. The greatest fame and success was brought to her by participation in the gypsy theater "Romen". In total, she worked on his stage for more than half a century.
Actress Biography
Irena Morozova was born in 1938. She was born in Moscow. In early childhood, she began to get involved in sports, went to dances. Her main achievement of youth is the third category, won in gymnastics.
After school, Irena Morozova decided not to connect her life with sports. Instead, she entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. She received higher education in the French department. Around those years, she finally fell in love with gypsy art. Therefore, Irena Morozova became a student of GITIS, which she graduated in 1972.
At the Romen Theater, she successfully auditioned and was immediately accepted into the troupe.
Big screen debut
In parallel, her career as a film actress began to develop. In 1968, she made her debut in the drama of Vladimir Vengerov on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy's Living Corpse.
The protagonist of this work named Fedor Protasov, played by Alexei Batalov, comes to the conclusion that his whole life is permeated with falsehood and lies. He decides to break out of this vicious circle, forgetting himself about alcohol and partying with gypsies. Here the heroine of our article also appears in a small episodic role. Despite the fact that her character was not central, the image of a young gypsy woman, who turned 30 that year, was remembered by many Soviet viewers.
Concert activity
At the same time, concert activity continues to play a major role in the biography of Irena Morozova. She performs old Russian and gypsy songs, romances on stage, performs with the author’s novels of Isabella Yurieva, with whom she herself was closely acquainted.
Over time, the actress Irena Morozova herself becomes a poet and composer, begins to write poetry and music for her works. Her performance has always been distinguished by its plasticity, exceptional musicality, sophisticated style and inspired acting. She captivated the audience with her temperament, talent and generosity.
Theater "Romen"
Throughout her creative biography, Irena Borisovna Morozova’s Romen Theater and romances remain her main passion and love. For many years she is a member of the jury of the Romance Games contest, which was held under the auspices of the Central House of Art Workers, where she was a member of the presidium. She was a member of the popular club of the Russian ancient romance called "Chrysanthemum".
She performed with the Romen Theater not only throughout the Soviet Union, but also abroad. On her account a large number of music CDs with gypsy folk songs and old romances.
Actor career
In films, Irena Morozov during her acting career, performed about 80 roles. This works not only on the big screen, but also on television. Moreover, until the 90s she starred not so often, regularly proposals from directors began to come only after perestroika.
Many remember her roles in the multi-part drama by Alexander Baranov “Gromovs, ” where she appears as a gypsy in a train, in the detective action movie by Igor Korobeynikov, “Cursed Paradise”, one of the seasons of the comedy television series “Soldiers”, and the historical drama Yuri Popovich and Sergey Danelyan “Institute noble girls ", Vitaly Pavlov’s melodramatic television series Zoya.
Of course, her main role in the movie, which brought her the greatest success on the screen, is Carmelita Rubin Zadorozhnaya’s grandmother in the melodramatic series Rauf Kubaev and Yuri Popov “Carmelita”, which was broadcast on the channel “Russia 1”.
This is a story about the gypsy baron Ramir Zaretsky, who lives in a small Russian provincial town. A camp comes to the city with which his longtime friend named Beibut travels. It turns out that many years ago they agreed to marry their children as soon as they become adults.
Beibet has Miro cheese (played by Alexander Suvorov), and Ramir has charming Carmelita performed by Yulia Zimina. But to the displeasure and amazement of many others, especially the elders, the girl does not want to obey the traditions and treaties that were concluded many years ago. Instead, she falls in love with Russian guy Maxim Orlov (actor - Alexey Ilyin), which seems unacceptable to her relatives.
On the channel "Russia 1" 170 episodes of this series were released, which was long remembered by domestic viewers.
