Valentina Talyzina

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| birth_name = Valentina Illarionovna Talyzina

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| birth_place = Omsk, RSFSR, USSR

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1958–present

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Valentina Illarionovna Talyzina ({{langx|ru|Валентина Илларионовна Талызина|Valentina Illarionovna Talyzina}}; born 22 January 1935) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985).{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20150122/1043610007.html|publisher=RIA Novosti|title=Биография Валентины Талызиной}}{{Cite web|url=https://uznayvse.ru/znamenitosti/biografiya-valentina-talyzina.html|publisher=uznayvse|title=Валентина Талызина, биография, новости, фото - узнай все!}} Awarded the Order of Honor (2005) {{Cite web |url=http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?843581 |title=Указ Президента РФ|access-date=2015-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724022315/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?843581 |archive-date=2015-07-24 |url-status=dead }} and the Order of Friendship (2010).[http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1286091 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 14 июня 2010 года № 713 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»] She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1964.

Biography

=Early life=

Valentina Talyzina was born on January 22, 1935, in Omsk. Valentina's father was Illarion (Ильшат) Grigorievich Talyzin, a Russified Tatar, and her mother was Anastasia (Асылгюль) Trifonovna Talyzina. When Valentina Talyzina was an infant, her family moved to Baranavichy.[http://mossoveta.ru/truppa/actors/talizina/ Валентина Талызина на сайте Театра им. Моссовета]

=Career=

Between 1952 and 1954, Talyzina studied at the Omsk Agricultural Institute.

In 1954, she was admitted to the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, where she graduated in 1958. That same year, she became part of the Mossovet Theatre troupe.

She made her film debut in 1963 in the detective film The Man who Doubts, where she played the role of Inna. But, it wasn’t until the late 1960s that she began to actively act in film. One of her first big acting successes was the role of Nadya in the adventure film Road to Saturn.[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/w/sov/4216/bio/ Биография Валентины Талызиной]

Valentina Talyzina had a minor role in the film The Irony of Fate and also dubbed over major character Nadia because her regular actress, Barbara Brylska, had an obvious Polish accent.

For her performance in the television series Lines of Fate, Valentina Talyzina received the Golden Eagle Award as Best Television Actress in 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.newsru.com/cinema/29jan2005/orel.html|publisher=newsru|title=На "Мосфильме" вручены кинопремии "Золотой Орел"}}

In March 2014, Talyzina signed a letter in support of the controversial 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.[http://m.glavcom.ua/news/170894-rossijskie-artisty-podderzhali-agressiju-putina-protiv-ukrainy-spisok.html Russian artists supported Putin's aggression against Ukraine (LIST)], Glavkom (11 March 2014) As a result, she was banned from entering Ukraine along with many other Russian artists and entertainers.[http://www.unian.info/society/1608241-sbu-issues-entry-ban-against-140-russian-artists.html SBU issues entry ban against 140 Russian artists], UNIAN (5 November 2016)
[http://tass.com/world/910576 Ukraine’s State Security Service bans 140 Russian cultural figures from entering country], TASS news agency (5 November 2016) In 2023, she stated her support for the infamous Russian invasion of Ukraine in an interview; during this, she also made several anti-semitic statements.{{cite news |last1=Petrovskaya |first1=Irina |title=Вагончик тронулся, или Пробить дно у бездны |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2023/08/17/vagonchik-tronulsia-ili-probit-dno-u-bezdny |work=Novaya Gazeta |date=17 August 2023 |language=ru}}

Family

Father — Illarion Grigorievich Talyzin, from Russified Tatar.
Mother — Anastasia Trifonovna Talyzina.
Ex-husband — painter Leonid Nepomnyashchy.
Daughter — Ksenia Khairova (also an actress), granddaughter Anastasia (1998).[http://slovari.yandex.ru/~книги/Кто%20есть%20кто%20в%20культуре/Талызина%20Валентина%20Илларионовна/ Валентина Илларионовна Талызина — Кто есть кто в культуре]

Selected filmography

Talyzina starred in over 138 movies, including:

1968 The Road to 'Saturn' ({{langx|ru|Путь в «Сатурн»}}) as Nadya
1968 Zigzag of Success (Зигзаг удачи) as Alevtina Vasilyevna
1971 Grandads-Robbers (Старики-разбойники) as Fedyaev's secretary
1972 Big School-Break (Большая перемена) as school chemical teacher
1974 Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России) as hostess in the hotel
1974 Agony (Агония) as Aglaia
1975 Afonya (Афоня) as Vostryakova
1975 The Irony of Fate (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!) as Nadya (voice) / Valya
1979 The Luncheon on the Grass (Завтрак на траве) as Anna Petrovna
1981 Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (О бедном гусаре замолвите слово...) as Anna Speshneva
1983 Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov (Безумный день инженера Баркасова) as Kobylina
1984 TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...) as Pilar (voice)
1985 Guest from the Future (Гостья из будущего) as Mariya Pavlovna
1985 After the Rain, on Thursday (После дождичка в четверг) as Varvara
1989 Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (Следствие ведут ЗнаТоКи)
1991 Genius (Гений) as Lubov Smirnova
2000 Old Hags (Старые клячи) as cleaning woman
2003 Lines of Fate (Линии судьбы) as Rosa Sergeevna
2007 The Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония Судьбы. Продолжение) as Nadya (voice) / Valya
2009 Attack on Leningrad (Ленинград) as Valentina
2015 Kitchen (Кухня) as Elizaveta Genrikhovna