Zhanna Bolotova
Actor
Biography
Zhanna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s.
In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985
She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre.
In 1969 she received her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return. The Silence of Dr. Evens (1974) earned her another award in the same category, at the Triest Film Festival.
Filmography
Wings
as Tanya Petrukhina 1966
The Orphans
as Alla Konstantinovna 1977
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Nadezhda Andreyevna 1981
The Flight of Mr. McKinley
as мистер Мак-Кинли 1975
The House I Live In
as Galya Volynskaya 1957
The Secret Agent's Destiny
as Yulya 1970
Men and Beasts
as Tanya 1962
And Life, and Tears and Love
as Varvara Dmitriyevna 1984
The Roundabout
as Yuliya Vasilyevna 1971
A Dangerous Age
as Maria Vasilyevna 1981
The Journalist
as Nina 1967
Rudin
1977
The Love of Mankind
as Tanya Pavlova 1973
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976
24-25 Doesn't Come Back
as Mara 1969
If You Are Right
as Galya 1964