Yevgeniya Konstantinovna Glushenko (russian: Евгения Константиновна Глушенко; born on September 4, 1952 in
Rostov-na-Donu
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East E ...
) is a Russian actress, best known for her role as Vera in the
Soviet
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melodrama ''
Love by Request'' (1983). This role brought her international recognition with the
Silver Bear for Best Actress at the
33rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 33rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 February to 1 March 1983. The festival opened with the out of competition film, ''Tootsie'' by Sydney Pollack.
The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film '' Ascendancy'' d ...
in 1983.
Glushenko was raised in
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the Eas ...
and graduated from the
Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
in 1974. Since her graduation she has worked for the
Moscow Maly Theater.
In
Pavel Chukhrai
Pavel Grigoryevich Chukhray (russian: Па́вел Григо́рьевич Чухра́й; Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, October 14, 1946) is a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He is the son of the prominent Russian film directo ...
’s psychological
perestroika
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drama ''Zina-Zinulya'' (1986), Glushenko plays a young and complex woman, working as a
dispatcher of
cement
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trucks for a construction firm, turning her apathetic and insensitive colleagues into socially conscious people.
She has had supporting roles in movies by
Nikita Mikhalkov, including ''A Few Days in the Life of
Oblomov'' (1979) and
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977).
Glushenko's most recent film release is ''Farewell'' in 2003.
Her husband is popular Russian actor and theatrical director
Alexander Kalyagin
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kalyagin (russian: Александр Александрович Калягин; born 25 May 1942) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director, member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, People's Artist of the ...
. Yevgeniya Glushenko became a
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an h ...
in 1995.
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Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Glushenko, Yevgeniya
1952 births
Living people
Actors from Rostov-on-Don
Soviet film actresses
Soviet stage actresses
Soviet television actresses
Russian film actresses
Russian stage actresses
Russian television actresses
Silver Bear for Best Actress winners
20th-century Russian actresses
21st-century Russian actresses
People's Artists of Russia
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates