Inna Churikova

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Inna Mikhailovna Churikova (Russian: И́нна Миха́йловна Чу́рикова) is a famous Russian film and theatre actress.

Biography

She was born on October 5, 1943, in Belebey, near Ufa. In the early 1950s her mother and she moved to Moscow. Inna was bent on becoming an actress from an early age: as a schoolgirl she studied at the drama studio attached to the Stanislavsky Theatre and later, after a few failures, entered Shchepkin Drama School. She debuted in filming when a first-year student already, yet those were minor episodic roles. Inna Churikova became famous thanks to the films "V ogne broda net" ("No Path Through Fire") (1967), and especially the triumphal "Nachalo" ("The Debut") (1970) by the then beginning film director and her future husband Gleb Panfilov.

Her other most remarkable works were in the films: "Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen" ("That Munchhausen") (1979) written by Grigory Gorin and directed by Mark Zakharov, "Voenno-polevoy roman" ("War-Time Romance") (1983) by Pyotr Todorovsky, "Rebro Adama" ("Adam's Rib") (1990) by Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, "God sobaki" ("The Year of a Dog") (1993) by Semyon Aranovich, "Plashch Kazanovy" ("Casanova's Raincoat") (1993) by Aleksandr Galin, and "Kurochka Ryaba" ("Ryaba My Chicken") (1994) by Andrei Konchalovsky.

Inna Churikova is also a renowned stage actress, mainly working in LENKOM theatre with director Mark Zakharov, as well-as a non-repertory theatre star.

Together with her husband and son, Churikova was a co-screenwriter for the historical feature "" ("The Romanovs: An Imperial Family") (2000), in which rather than appear on screen, she dubs the English actress Lynda Bellingham starring as the tsarina Aleksandra Fyodorovna.

External links

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* [http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/theatre/566/ Inna Churikova - Baba Yaga and Joan of Arc]