Alla Budnitskaya

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| birth_name = Alla Zinovievna Budnitskaya

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1937|7|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR (now Russia)

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1955-present

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Alla Zinovievna Budnitskaya ({{langx|ru|Алла Зиновьевна Будницкая}}; born 1937, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema.

Biography

Born July 5, 1937, in the family of the builder Zinovy Lazarevich Budnitsky.[http://www.jewish.ru/culture/events/2009/04/news994273208.php Алла Будницкая на сайте] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419130913/http://www.jewish.ru/culture/events/2009/04/news994273208.php |date=2009-04-19 }} jewish.ru

After graduating from secondary school in 1954, she attempted to enter the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and VGIK, but failed to pass the qualifying rounds at either university. From 1954 she studied at the Institute of Foreign Languages, which she did not finish, because in 1957 she managed to get in VGIK.{{Citation |title=Алла Будницкая: «Когда меня не взяли во ВГИК, я сутки пролежала, глядя в потолок». Сегодня. День начинается. Выпуск от 16.04.2019 |url=https://www.1tv.ru/shows/segodnya-den-nachinaetsya/zvezdnye-gosti/alla-budnickaya-kogda-menya-ne-vzyali-vo-vgik-ya-sutki-prolezhala-glyadya-v-potolok-segodnya-den-nachinaetsya-vypusk-ot-16-04-2019 |access-date=2024-01-31 |language=ru}}{{Cite web |title=Программа «Судьба человека. Алла Будницкая» (выпуск от 17 апреля 2018 года). |url=https://russia.tv/video/show/brand_id/62239/episode_id/1759470/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404224509/https://russia.tv/video/show/brand_id/62239/episode_id/1759470/ |archive-date=2019-04-04}} She studied with Grigory Kozintsev and graduated in 1962.[http://ruskino.ru/art/2751 Алла Будницкая на сайте RUSKINO.RU]

From 1964 to 2003 she was an actress of the National Film Actors' Theatre. In the cinema since 1960.

TV presenter, the author of programs on TNT, NTV, and REN TV.

Personal life

He husband is Alexander Orlov, the film director. Foster daughter Daria Drozdovskaya, daughter of the tragically dead actress Mikaela Drozdovskaya (1937—1978).[http://abudnitskaya.narod.ru/ Алла Будницкая на сайте narod.ru]{{Cite web|url=http://es-kiz.ru/alexander-orlov-and-alla-budnitskaya-uneasy-happiness-of-the-director-and-the-actress-who-knows-how-to-knit-sweaters-and-to-lead-the-restaurant/|title=Alexander Orlov and Alla Budnitskaya: Uneasy happiness of the Director and the actress who knows how to knit sweaters and to lead the restaurant|website=es-kiz.ru|language=ru-RU|access-date=2018-01-18}}

Selected filmography

1955: A Guest from Kuban ({{langx|ru|Гость с Кубани}}) as young collective farmer
1963: The Alive and the Dead (Живые и мертвые) as Masha's friend
1964: There Was an Old Couple (Жили-были старик со старухой) as fellow traveler
1969: King Stag (Король-олень) as Serendipist girl
1970: Sunflower (Подсолнухи) as bellhopper
1970: The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers (Корона Российской империи, или Снова неуловимые) as emotional lady
1972: Train Stop – Two Minutes (Стоянка поезда — две минуты) as Tamara Krasovskaya
1978: The Woman who Sings (Женщина, которая поёт) as Masha
1979: Nameless Star (Безымянная звезда) as Mrs. Ispas
1980: The Garage (Гараж) as secretary
1982: Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих) as Masha
1982: Simply Awful! (Просто ужас!) as Varvara Ivanovna
1988: Criminal Talent (Криминальный талант) as Ustyuzhanina
1989: A Bright Personality (Светлая личность) as guide
1993: The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (Тайна королевы Анны, или Мушкетёры тридцать лет спустя) as Duchess of Orleans
1994: La Piste du télégraphe as John's mother