22 June 1950
Was born Svetlana KryuchkovaActress. Nelly Ledneva from "The Big Change," Zinulya from "It Can't Be!", Mrs. Barrymore from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
I don't know how to live halfway, work halfway, or love halfway.
Grew up in Chisinau, in the family of a SMERSH major. The children were raised in a strict and disciplined manner. Sharing emotional experiences with one another was not accepted, and she learned to make decisions independently early on.
After school, I went to Moscow. I planned to study philology, but instead went to the Shchepkin Theatre Institute.
I knew, I felt that I should have some special, unusual destiny
It took her third attempt to get into acting school—in 1969, she was accepted into the Moscow Art Theatre School. Before that, she worked for two years as a typist, mechanic, and preparator.
At the end of her first year, she married an actor and poet. Mikhail StarodubIn her fourth year, her husband was offered the role of Grigory Ganzha in "Big Change." He declined and asked his wife to return the script to Mosfilm. There, Kryuchkova happened to audition and played Nelli Ledneva.
I believe that what is said comes true. "The Big Change" was the title of my first film, which determined my entire future. And a great change occurred in my life: invitations from five leading theaters, numerous offers to act in films.
In 1975 she married a cameraman Yuri Veksler He filmed "The Eldest Son," almost all the episodes of "Sherlock Holmes," and "Winter Cherry." They left for Leningrad. There, she became an actress at the Bolshoi Drama Theater, playing leading roles in Tovstonogov's films.
Theatre is constant training. A dramatic artist without a theatre is like a ballet dancer without a barre.
In 1981, while filming "The Hound of the Baskervilles," Mrs. Barrymore was pregnant. They took care of her, allowing her to occasionally laugh instead of constantly crying, playing out the other side of hysteria. The result was incredible:
- So, the killer Seldon is your brother? - Yes, sir!
She was married three times and raised two sons. She wrote a memoir, "My Big Changes."
