Stars Not a sex symbol, but Baba Yaga: Soviet beauties who played old women and kikimor

In the cinema, the actress was given character roles, and often they were not the most positive characters – the stepmother in Frost, the bad weather aunt in Marya the Artisan. Fairytale characters in general in the late 1950s and 1960s became a characteristic image of the actress. For example, she played kikimora in the movie Golden Horns. Well, one of the most colorful roles of the actress was the image of the daughter of Baba Yaga in the film “Fire, water and … copper pipes.”

The actress was not afraid of changes on the screen. She could play countesses, prostitutes and even men – she just embodied such a funny role in the film Truffaldino from Bergamo, where she portrayed Beatrice, who tries to find her lover under the guise of her deceased brother.

In the filmography of Kosobutskaya there were also fairy-tale characters – in the film “The New Year’s Adventure of Masha and Vitya” she played the provocative Baba Yaga. And to recognize the elegant beautiful actress in this character at first glance is not so easy – here she is, acting talent.

Moviegoers remembered Tenyak in the form of a simple wrinkled village woman Shura from the movie “Love and Pigeons”, but in reality the actress looked completely different in reality! Unfortunately, the public had almost nothing to compare it to. The role in Vladimir Menshov’s film turned out to be the most stellar – Tenyakova did not play so much in the cinema, but became a star of the theater scene, because she worked in BDT, where she defiantly left when her husband, Sergei Yursky, was fired, and in the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and in the Mossovet theater.

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