Video: How was the fate of the star of "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin": Inga Ilm's short film career
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In the 1980s. Inga Ilm became the most popular schoolgirl in the USSR after she played the role of Masha Startseva in the film "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin." It seemed that after this early triumph, a bright future awaited her in the acting profession. Until the age of 25, she really continued to act in films, played several main roles, but then suddenly disappeared from the screens. There were many rumors about her future fate: she married a foreigner, left for the USA, lost her job on television due to candid photo shoots, and took up science. What is the truth of this?
Inga Ilm was born and raised in Leningrad. Her mother was a hairdresser, her father was a doctor who defended her Ph. D. thesis at the age of 28. Many guests always gathered in their house, including actors. One of them once suggested taking Inga's photographs to Lenfilm. There they lay for several years, until her fate was turned upside down by a lucky chance.
When the director Vladimir Alenikov started filming the film "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Ordinary and Incredible", he found boys for the main roles rather quickly. In real life, Yegor Druzhinin and Dima Barkov turned out to be friends and looked incredibly organic in a pair. The director invited them to independently choose a girl for the role of Masha Startseva - it was important for him that they really felt sympathy for her. He laid out the photographs in front of them, and both boys chose Inga Ilm's photo without saying a word.
Filming in "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin" and in the sequel - "Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin" really became for them an adventure, ordinary and incredible. Later Inga said: "".
In the 1980s. she became one of the most popular Soviet schoolgirls. Thousands of boys were in love with her and sent bags of letters. Before filming the film, Inga dreamed of becoming a biologist, studied in the youth circle at the Palace of Pioneers, participated in Olympiads and studied for "fours" and "fives". And then she left for the shooting for 2 years, during which she, Druzhinin and Barkov were engaged only on Saturdays and were far behind the school curriculum. As a result, Inga had very bad grades in her certificate, and she did not even dream of entering a university.
Ilm also did not seriously think about her acting career. She said: "".
Nevertheless, after graduating from school, Inga Ilm went to enter the Moscow Art Theater School, and she was accepted on the first try. True, she did not show great success during her studies and admitted: "".
During her studies, Inga continued to act in films. Of course, the teachers were against it, and she had to come up with various reasons for which she missed classes. During this period, she played the main roles in the films "Running on the Sunny Side", "Eyes", "You Are …", the TV series "Goryachev and Others", as well as supporting roles in the films "Ladder of Light", "Luna Park", "The Musketeers Twenty Years Later" and the TV series "The Musical Forecast."
Shooting in the film of the joint production of Ireland and Russia "The Ladder of Light" became fateful for her: Irish director Gerard Michael McCarthy, after the completion of the film, proposed to her. They got married, the couple had a son. International marriage did not stand the test of long-distance relationships and did not last long.
After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, Inga Ilm left for the USA, where she took a course at the famous acting school of Lee Strasberg. In parallel, she worked as an administrator in one of the restaurants. Inga did not plan to stay in America forever. "" - said the actress.
In 1995 Inga Ilm was admitted to the troupe of the Moscow theater named after I. A. Pushkin. She performed on the theatrical stage until 2001, starred in two more films, in one of which she played the role of Lily Brick, and then got a job on television, where, together with Dmitry Maryanov, she hosted the theatrical program “I don’t believe” and the youth program “Open Project” and was also a news anchor on M1. After in 2002, she starred in a candid photo shoot for a glossy magazine, she was fired from the channel. Then a real scandal broke out - in all editions they published devastating articles with the headlines "The country's main excellent student showed her charms", "Pioneer Masha Startseva is now a star of men's magazines." Later, about this episode of her biography, Inga said: "".
The second time Inga Ilm married her friend's classmate, designer, artist and architect Igor Severtsev. Together with her husband, they opened a publishing house, published newspapers and magazines in Russian and English. In 2003, Inga played her last role in a movie at the moment - the main character in the comedy Tea, Coffee, Let's Dance, and after that she radically changed her field of activity and went into science!
In 2008, she entered the Moscow State University, Department of Art History, Faculty of History, wrote several scientific articles on architecture and a book about the court architect Catherine, in 2018 published a popular science book "My Italy". Today, 48-year-old Inga Ilm considers herself primarily an architectural historian and is not going to return to the acting profession.
Behind the scenes "The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin" many interesting facts remained: for example, few viewers knew that the film had not been released for a long time, and the director was advised to change his profession.
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