Natalya Tenyakova

Acting

Natalya Tenyakova

Born July 3, 1944 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

Died June 18, 2025 · aged 80

Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she fo…

Known For

This Queen of SpadesThis Queen of Spades · 2004
This Queen of Spades
2004
MovieDrama
Love and PigeonsLove and Pigeons · 1984
Love and Pigeons
7.61984
MovieComedyRomance
In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.
Ships in LissaShips in Lissa · 1965
Ships in Lissa
1965
MovieDramaTV Movie
A television play based on stories by Alexander Grin. Five sailing ships are blocked in the port of Lissa by an enemy privateer. The captains of four of these ships gather around a hotel table, pondering how to set sail and outsmart the privateer's vigilance...
Explosions in the ClassroomExplosions in the Classroom · 1969
Explosions in the Classroom
1969
MovieFamilyTV Movie
About a friendly class and their new teacher, Dina Borisovna, who breaks the rules of teaching, making it much more interesting for the children to learn...
One-Two… And King Me!One-Two… And King Me! · 1968
One-Two… And King Me!
1968
MovieComedyTV Movie
Based on the pamphlet "They Don't Talk About It" by Finnish writer Martti Lärni.
Thunderstorm Over BelayaThunderstorm Over Belaya · 1968
Thunderstorm Over Belaya
8.01968
MovieDramaWar
The film is set in 1919. The film tells about an episode of the Civil War, when the troops under the command of M. V. Frunze took the city of Ufa away from the White Guards.
BanquetBanquet · 1986
Banquet
6.81986
MovieAnimation
A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.
Heroines of Ostrovsky's PlaysHeroines of Ostrovsky's Plays · 1983
Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
1983
MovieDramaTV Movie
The film is dedicated to the heroines of Ostrovsky’s plays—wives, cooks, actresses, matchmakers. For the most part, these are composite characters, but many of them have real-life prototypes. The author was a keen observer and recorded everything interesting in his diary. This is how the gallery of images from his native Zamoskvorechye, where Ostrovsky was born, came into being. Later, after traveling along the Volga, portraits of residents from small towns along the river were added. Alexander Nikolaevich never overlooked the details. When the playwright described daily life, the details of clothing, or the manner of speaking of a character, the hero would literally come to life.

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Heroines of Ostrovsky's PlaysHeroines of Ostrovsky's Plays · 1983
Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
1983
MovieDramaTV Movie
The film is dedicated to the heroines of Ostrovsky’s plays—wives, cooks, actresses, matchmakers. For the most part, these are composite characters, but many of them have real-life prototypes. The author was a keen observer and recorded everything interesting in his diary. This is how the gallery of images from his native Zamoskvorechye, where Ostrovsky was born, came into being. Later, after traveling along the Volga, portraits of residents from small towns along the river were added. Alexander Nikolaevich never overlooked the details. When the playwright described daily life, the details of clothing, or the manner of speaking of a character, the hero would literally come to life.

Фетинья Мироновна Епишкина / Акулина Гавриловна Красавина / Марфа Игнатьевна Кабанова / Пульхерия Андревна Гущина