January 2, 1921
В Bogorodsk (now - Noginsk) Born in the Moscow region Evgeniya Khanaeva — theater and film actress.
The test took place after all. Only the problems weren't trigonometric, but moral ones. And you solved them incorrectly.
Father is a famous opera singer Nikandr Khanaev, Stalin's favorite. As a child, she lived in a five-room apartment, was well-off, and got around in a chauffeured car.
She studied music, but her parents opposed her acting interests. At their insistence, she enrolled in the law department at Moscow State University and secretly applied to the Shchepkin Theatre School. The war interrupted her studies at both universities.
In 1947, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School. During her studies, she received a personal Chekhov scholarship for outstanding achievements. Despite this, her teachers said:
With your looks, you can't count on being the main character.
She played on the Moscow Art Theatre stage her entire life, mostly in bit parts.
In 1966, she made her film debut in "A Man Without a Passport." Her role as postal worker Klavochka was a cameo, and Khanayeva's name wasn't credited.
In 1972, she played the role of housekeeper Elsa Ivanovna in the film "Monologue".
In 1976, she gained nationwide fame after the film Vladimir Menshov "The Prank." She played the role of teacher Maria Vasilyevna Devyatova, although she initially declined the role, feeling unprepared for the task. She received the Krupskaya State Prize and the All-Union Film Festival Award in Riga.
Her character proved so believable and relatable to audiences that they identified the character with the actress herself. After the film's release, the studio and theater received a huge number of letters asking for advice on raising children. The newspaper "Uchitelskaya Gazeta" invited the actress to a discussion on the public education system, and a teachers' congress asked her to sit on the presidium.
On screen, she had the role of a sharp, eccentric person, firmly believing in her own rightness and not tolerating arguments.
Among her famous works are the mother of cameraman Rachkov in the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears," cultural worker Anna Romanovna in the comedy "Old New Year," and mother and mother-in-law Izolda Tikhonovna in the film "For Family Circumstances."
Times are always the same! Before you can get something, you have to earn it!
In the mid-1980s, she was in an accident in her Zhiguli car and suffered a spinal injury. She continued to act in the theater.
She died in 1987, at 66, without regaining consciousness after spinal surgery. She received the title of People's Artist of the USSR while already in a coma.
