Margarita Terekhova

Margarita Borisovna Terekhova Russian ????????? ????????? ???????? born August 25 1942 in Turinsk Sverdlovsk Oblast Russian SFSR is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress She was awarded the title Peoples Artist of Russia in 1996 From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961 After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined After that she enrolled to study at the schoolstudio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group The Puppet Show organized by her and Igor Talkov Terekhovas acting debut was in 1965 in the film Hello Thats Me Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s after the release of a costumed musical TV films The Dog in the Manger and DArtagnan and Three Musketeers At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor in the second the treacherous Milady Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh Monologue 1972 as well as the dualrole in Andrei Tarkovskys acclaimed Mirror 1975 And more international coproductions came after including George Cukors The Blue Bird 1976 and Konrad Wolfs Mama Im Alive 1977 Terekhovas subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective Balaganchik In 2005 she made her debut as a director shooting the film The Seagull based on the work of Anton Chekhov Since then Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimers disease She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public events