Galina Polskikh, Russian actress. Biography

Galina Polskikh was born on November 27, 1939 in the Russian capital, lives and works in Moscow. From the age of eight, the artist was raised by her maternal grandmother Efrosinya Andrianovna. Father Polsky died at the front at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. And her mother was ill with tuberculosis and died of the disease a few years after the death of her husband.

From childhood, the girl's idols were young Soviet artists. Like many of her peers, she dreamed of starring in a movie. However, according to the actress, this desire was rather caused by a naive idea of the beautiful life of screen stars and the desire to help her grandmother.

Following her dream, Polskikh entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) on the course of Mikhail Romma, having only experience in amateur art. Then studied at the renowned masters Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, calling this opportunity a real gift of fate. Together with her studied Jeanne Bolotova, Lydia Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Nikolai Gubenko and other future popular artists.

After graduating from VGIK Polskikh was accepted into the troupe of the Theater-Studio of Film Actors, but the beginning of shooting did not allow her to devote much time to the theater. On the theater stage, she returned already established actress.

Polskikh's debut work in the movie was the role of a seventh-grader Tanya Sabaneevaya in the film "Wild Dog Dingo", directed by Julius Karasik at the studio "Lenfilm". The premiere of the movie took place in 1962. The movie instantly became popular and entered the collection of the "Gosfilmofond of the USSR". It also won several prestigious awards, including the Golden Bough at the Children's Film Festival in Venice and the Jury Diploma at the International Film Festival in Vienna.

A year later came out the film epic George Daneliya "I'm walking on Moscow," where the actress played the role of Alyona, record saleswoman in GUM. After this movie Polskikh woke up a star. Among her other famous works - the role of Claudia in "Shadows disappear at noon", Marusi in "White Dews" and Mrs. Maggie Thompson in the film "Man of Capuchin Boulevard".

Total on the account of Galina Polskikh more than a hundred movie works. In the 2000s, she began to actively star in TV series. Among them - "Border. Taiga romance", "My Fair Nanny", "Ranetki" and others.

In 1979, the actress was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. A year earlier, she became a laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasilyev brothers. The actress was also awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree.

Galina Polskikh was twice married, she has two daughters. As a freshman, she married third-year student of the directing department Faik Hasanov. A year later the couple had a daughter, Irada. She graduated from the film studies department of VGIK and works as a second director. When Rada was a child, the actress's husband tragically died.

The second time she married director Alexander Surin. In 1968 the couple had a daughter Maria, but soon the girl's parents separated. The youngest daughter of the actress graduated from the Russian University of Peoples' Friendship (RUDN) and married a citizen of Lebanon, giving birth to a son Philip. As a child, he went to school in Beirut, then continued his studies in London. He is now the owner of a small company.