Ekaterina Durova
{{Short description|Russian actress (1959–2019)}}
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| birth_name = Ekaterina Lvovna Durova
| birth_date = 25 July 1959
| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SSR
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2019|12|13|1959|07|25}}[http://nd.m-necropol.ru/durova-ekaterina.html Могила Екатерины Дуровой на Новодевичьем кладбище] (in Russian)
| death_place = Moscow, Russia
| nationality = Russian
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| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1977–2019
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Ekaterina Lvovna Durova ({{langx|ru|Екатери́на Льво́вна Ду́рова }}; 25 July 1959 – 13 December 2019) was a Russian actress.{{cite web|url=https://rg.ru/2019/12/13/umerla-doch-lva-durova-aktrisa-ekaterina-durova.html|date=13 December 2019|work=rg.ru|language=Russian|title=Умерла дочь Льва Дурова, актриса Екатерина Дурова }} She was honored as a Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/22346|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 09.05.2005 г. № 536|date=9 May 2005|work=President of Russia|language=Russian}}
Biography
Durova was born on 25 July 1959 in Moscow. She was born into a family of actors, as her father was famed Soviet theatre actor Lev Durov, and her mother, Irina Kirichenko, was also an actress. In 1976, she enrolled in the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and obtained her degree in 1984. After her education, she was an actress who starred in theatrical performances at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow. She then worked at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where she would stay until her death.
In addition to her theatrical performances, Durova appeared in numerous films. She made her debut on screen playing a student in the teen melodrama School Waltz in 1977. She would then receive a starring role in Faratyev's Fantasies (1982).
Durova married two actors, with her first husband being Sergei Nasibov,{{cite web|url=http://prosestars.ru/673.html|title=Екатерина Дурова: Всё своё детство я провела в интернате…|date=September 2010|work=Caravan of Stories|language=Russian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827091640/http://prosestars.ru/673.html|archivedate=27 August 2016}} and her second being Vladimir Ershov.{{cite web|url=http://www.levdurov.ru/show_arhive.php?id=819|title=Лев Константинович Дуров|date=20 August 2015|work=levdurov.ru|language=Russian}}
Filmography
- School Waltz (1978)
- Faratyev's Fantasies (1979)
- Dulsinea del Toboso (1980)
- Phenomenon (1983)
- The Green Van (1983)
- The Admirer (1999)
- Yuri's Day (2008)
- Crush (2009)
- Widow 's Steamer (2010)
- One Particular Pioneer (2013)
- 23.59 (2016)
- Bloody Mistress (2018)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0244302|Ekaterina Durova}}
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Category:Soviet stage actresses
Category:Soviet film actresses
Category:Russian stage actresses
Category:Actresses from Moscow
Category:Russian film actresses
Category:20th-century Russian actresses
Category:21st-century Russian actresses
Category:Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni