Svetlana Nemolyaeva - 84: Loud and little-known names of the creative dynasty of the actress

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

April 18 marks 84 years of the famous theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Svetlana Nemolyaeva. Today she does not need any introduction; more than one generation of viewers has grown up on films with her participation. No less famous were her husband, actor Alexander Lazarev, and son Alexander, who followed in the footsteps of his parents. But these are far from all representatives of the gifted creative dynasty of Svetlana Nemolyaeva, but most of the viewers do not even know about their relationship.

Konstantin Nemolyaev

The creative dynasty of the Nemolyaevs appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. The surname came from the expression "not so praying" - their ancestors were Old Believers. In an ordinary Moscow family of a clerk and a housewife, four sons were born, and two of them became actors and founders of the artistic dynasty. His father passed away when Konstantin was 12 years old, and his older brother Vladimir was 15. To help his mother, Kostya worked wherever he could: at a factory for processing textile residues, at making shoe polish, at the production of ice cream, traded in newspapers, was an accountant and courier, a clerk and assistant financial inspector.

Only at the age of 25 he entered the theatrical college at the Moscow Theater of the Revolution, and at the age of 29 he first appeared on the stage of this theater. At the same time, he began acting in films. It was he who became the first actor in this large family. Both in the theater and in the cinema, he did not get big roles, sometimes his name was not even mentioned in the credits. His film career lasted 30 years, and during this time he played 33 roles. His most famous works were the films "A Case in the Taiga", "Mother", "Trappers", "Walking Through the Torment" and "Foma Gordeev".

Vladimir Nemolyaev and Valentina Ladygina

The elder brother of Konstantin Vladimir came to the cinema in the late 1920s, but chose the director's activity for himself. He graduated from the Lomonosov technical school, and then - the acting and directing department of the State Customs Committee. He was the second director in Ivan Pyriev's film "At six o'clock in the evening after the war", directed the films "Doctor Aibolit", "Happy Voyage", "Sea Hunter", "Old Yard".

Vladimir Nemolyaev was married to the sound engineer of Mosfilm Valentina Ladygina. They had two children, Nikolai and Svetlana. They grew up in a creative atmosphere, famous cinema figures of that time gathered in their house, among whom were Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Zharov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Rumyantsev (clown Karandash). Their uncle Konstantin often took them to the theater, talked a lot about working on performances and films. Not surprisingly, both of them continued the creative dynasty. Nikolai became a cameraman, and Svetlana became an actress, thanks to whom their surname became known throughout the USSR.

Svetlana Nemolyaeva

Svetlana Nemolyaeva played her first film role at the age of 8 in the post-war film "Gemini". But at the same time, her parents did not think that she would connect her life with this profession. In their opinion, she was too carefree, restless and impatient, and with such qualities it is very difficult to adapt to the discipline of rehearsals and filming. Fortunately, Svetlana's parents were wrong about this. She herself entered the Schepkinskoe School from the first time and at the age of 21 began performing on the theater stage.

Her acting role at the very beginning of her career was very precisely defined by the director Nikolai Okhlopkov, who told Svetlana: "". Eldar Ryazanov drew attention to the same feature of her creative talent, about whom Nemolyaeva said: "". Of all her film roles, the audience most fell in love with the touching Olya Ryzhova from "Office Romance" and the defenseless wife of Guskov from the movie "Garage". The actress was never afraid to look funny and ridiculous on the screens, but at the same time she always remained so charming that she overshadowed even the main characters.

At the Theater. V. Mayakovsky Svetlana Nemolyaeva met the actor Alexander Lazarev, who became her husband. Their union was the beginning of another acting dynasty - the Lazarevs. Son Alexander and his daughter Polina have already played many roles in theater and cinema.

Nikolay Nemolyaev

Svetlana's younger brother Nikolai became a successful cameraman. In the early 1960s. he graduated from the camera department of VGIK and began working at Mosfilm. In his filmography - more than 50 works, the most famous of which are "Old robbers", "An ordinary miracle", "Pokrovskie gates", "Courier", "Kazan Orphan".

For his work, he was awarded several prestigious awards, including the prize of the IFF in Madrid for the best cinematography in the film "Ladder" and the State Prize of the RSFSR. Vasiliev brothers for the film Courier, in which he worked with his daughter Anastasia.

Anastasia Nemolyaeva

The daughter of Nikolai Nemolyaev, the niece of the actress Svetlana Nemolyaeva, continued the famous dynasty. She played her first film role at the age of 11 and by the time she graduated from school she had already starred in 4 films. All-Union popularity came to her at the age of 16, when Anastasia played the main role in Karen Shakhnazarov's film "Courier". The father, who worked on this picture as a cameraman, brought her to the set himself and promised the director that no one but her would play this role better. Shakhnazarov did not remain disappointed, as did the thousands of viewers for whom this film became a cult.

After graduating from GITIS, the actress continued to act in films. The peak of its popularity came in the second half of the 1980s, when the films Time to Fly and Intergirl were released after Courier. In the 1990s. she performed on the stage of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya and continued to act in films, but she no longer had such vivid roles.

Anastasia Nemolyaeva played her last film role in 2011, after which she decided to leave the acting profession. She got married, gave birth to three daughters, and took up the design and painting of furniture. Together with her husband, they organized a whole enterprise, and today she not only develops the design of furniture and interiors, but also runs her own studio. Today she is a sought-after artist-decorator and designer, her works are exhibited in many galleries around the world.

Today Svetlana Nemolyaeva has every reason to be proud of her son and granddaughter: Secrets of the Lazarev dynasty.