It turns out that beauties: what actresses we know only from the roles of star grandmothers looked like in their youth

See what these actresses looked like when they were young.

The actress is loved by everyone for her roles in the Harry Potter saga and the Downton Abbey series, which came out already in the 21st century, but she started acting in the late 1950s and then joined the company of the Old Vic Theatre. In addition, in the 1980s she already had two Oscars – in 1970 – for the best actress in the film The Rise of Miss Jean Brodie and in 1979 for her supporting role in the film California Hotel.

The actress was remembered by the Soviet and Russian audiences primarily for her role as Nadia’s mother in the cult film Irony of Fate or Enjoy a Bath. She was 54 years old at the time of filming. In general, Sokolova often played the role of mothers, for which she earned the unofficial title “All-Union Film Mom”. But she made her film debut at the age of 20 in 1941 – and in her youth she was very spectacular and looked a bit like Hollywood actress Vivien Leigh.

Sokolova had a long relationship with George Danilia, they had a son Nikolai, who died at the age of 26. But the actress left her granddaughter, who later became her closest person. Sokolova herself died in 2001 at the age of 79.

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The British actress is best known for her role as M in the James Bond spy saga. For the first time in this picture, she appeared in the film “Golden Eye” in 1995. At the same time, in 1957, Dench’s debut on the professional stage took place – she played Ophelia in Hamlet. But she didn’t succeed with the film right away. The actress admitted that they did not want to shoot her because her appearance was inappropriate.

Another mother from Irony of Fate or Enjoy the Bath, this time Zhenya Lukashin, was played by actress Lyubov Dobzhanskaya. Few people knew that this simple Soviet woman was played by an aristocrat – Dobzhanskaya was born into a noble family before the revolution (according to some sources in 1905, according to others – in 1908). She played more than 120 roles in the theater and was also a talented singer. The actress was married four times, but never gave birth to children. She died in 1980 in Moscow at the age of 75.

The most famous grandmother of Russian cinema, known for the films “Christmas trees”, advertising and the TV series “Univer”, made her debut in the film “Girls” in 1961, where she played the episodic role of Gali. Stakhanov did not study acting, but she played in a drama club from a young age, and then she was accepted into the troupe of the student theater of Moscow State University. In parallel, she worked in the most ordinary positions: from administrator at Mosfilm to head administrator of the Sports Palace in Luzhniki. Stakhanova has more than 200 roles to her credit – not every star can boast such a list. Today, the actress is 82 years old and continues to actively act and remains the queen of the episode.

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