Natalia Petrovna Saiko - Soviet and Russian actress, known to viewers for his roles in the films "How the Steel Was Tempered", "Voice", "Crazy Day Engineer Barkasova". Now from the actress's popularity, the audience favorite in the 70-80s, was gone - she leads a reclusive life, can not be removed and does not play in a theater. From this article you can find a biography of Natalia Saiko.
early years
Natalya Petrovna Saiko was born on January 12, 1948 in Tallinn (Estonia). On the career of actress Natasha Saiko dreamed of 13 years - at this age in the school holiday trips to Leningrad for the first time she visited the Bolshoi Drama Theater. After school, she went to Moscow to enroll in any theater school - "which will take", but in the first year of arrival has not taken place. The following year, luck smiled at Natalia, and she was enrolled in the first year of the Schukin Theater School.
Actor career
Acting debut of Natalia Petrovna Saiko role was in the 1968 film "Village Detective". The film starred Natalia, a student of second year. She played the role of Zina Aniskina, the daughter of the main characters. In 1969, Natalia starred in one of the main roles in the film "Ten Winters in One Summer." Then several main roles immediately followed: Masha Skvortsova in the film “My Street” (1970), Tony Tumanova in “How Steel Was Tempered” (1973) and Nadi in the television play “Letters of the 12th Century” (1976). For the role of Skvortsova, the actress was awarded the prize for Best Actress at a festival in Prague. In the photo below, Natalya Petrovna Saiko in the film "How Steel Was Tempered."
In addition to the main ones, during this period, Natalya had several notable roles in such films as “Different People” (1973), “Absolutely Missing” (1973), “Birds of Our Hopes” (1976). Basically heroines actress became feminine, delicate girl with an angelic look, but at the right time are able to demonstrate the power and strength of character.
The actress first played a more adult female role in 1978, playing the main character - Valentina Zhigulina - in the television play "Moscow. Chistye Prudy". Natalya Petrovna Saiko embodied similar and again leading roles in the films "Foreman" (1979) and "Zigzag" (1980). One of the most notable in the whole career of Saiko was the role of the great Russian actress Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya in the 1980 biographical film "I Am an Actress." In the next film - “The Voice” of 1982, Natalya Petrovna appeared before the audience in a completely new role, playing the role of a dedicated artist Yulia Martynova, risking her life for the sake of creativity and art.
Also notable in the filmography of the actress are the paintings “Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov” (1983), “Moon Rainbow” (1983), “Testament of Professor Dowell” (1984), “Mikhailo Lomonosov” (1984), “Sunny Day at the End of Summer” (1992). Over the course of her career, Natalya Petrovna Saiko has starred in 38 films, in many of them playing the main roles. The last tape with the participation of the actress was the 1993 Ukrainian film “Wild Love”.
Theatre
In 1970, after graduating from the institute, Natalya Petrovna was enrolled in the troupe of the Taganka Theater, and since 1993 she became an actress in the "Taganka Commonwealth of Actors". At what point Saiko no longer appear in the performances of the troupe, is not known.
Since Natalya Petrovna devoted a lot of time in her profession to film roles, she had almost no time left for the theater. Despite this, she for a long time was a participant in the performances "Three Sisters", "At the Bottom", "Hamlet" (played the role of Ophelia), "Boris Godunov", "And the Dawns Here Are Quiet."
