Personal hell of Rosa Khairullina: As an actress in six months she lost her whole family and almost died herself

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

In recent years, Rosa Khairullina has become one of the most sought-after and popular Russian actresses. Viewers know her as the star of the series "Olga", "Kept Women", "Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes", annually there are 5 to 10 new projects with her participation. But once she thought not only about changing her profession, but also about voluntarily leaving life, because in just six months she lost all her loved ones. How she managed to survive these trials, and what role Konstantin Bogomolov played in her fate - further in the review.

Rosa Khairullina was born into a Tatar family in Norilsk. Her parents were the children of exiled collective farm chairmen, accused in the late 1930s. in the plundering of state property. The first to draw attention to the artistry of Rosa was the teacher Rosa Karlovna, an exiled German woman. She was an avid theatergoer and infected Khairullin with her hobby. Since childhood, she studied in a theater studio and dreamed of becoming an actress. "" - said Rosa. When she was 12 years old, the family was allowed to return home. After school, Rosa entered the Kazan Theater School and from the second year she began performing on the stage of the capital's academic theater.

Her relatives and friends were skeptical about her chosen profession. She more than once heard remarks about her small stature and external data, with which “they don’t take an artist”, but let it all go deaf and stubbornly towards her own goal. Of course, she understood that heroines would not be offered to her in the theater. Teachers recognized her talent, but warned that it would be very difficult for such an "actress without a role" to find her way in the profession.

When Rosa graduated from drama school, she was immediately invited to 5 Russian theaters, but she chose the Kazan Youth Theater, where she performed for 15 years. For her role in the play "Pogrom", the actress was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation. It was thanks to Rosa Khairullina that Chulpan Khamatova chose the acting profession, who said: "". Khairullina called the years spent in the Youth Theater a colossal experience, because children are the most demanding audience: you cannot deceive them, and they will not hide if they are not interested.

She called this period one of the happiest in her life - in Kazan she had relatives, friends, her beloved Youth Theater, her own home. And then her whole world collapsed overnight. First, in 1996, the Kazan Youth Theater was destroyed by fire, and the troupe disintegrated. And then misfortunes rained down one after another. Only years later, Rose found the strength to tell about this tragedy: "". Out of despair, Rosa began to drink and even thought about taking her own life. She was saved by her work - and by her confessor, who managed to stop her at the edge of the abyss.

In 1997, Rosa Khairullina moved to Samara and for the next 12 years performed on the stage of the SamArt Theater. Once Konstantin Bogomolov came to her performance, who played a significant role in her fate - he convinced her to move to the capital and arranged for her to meet with Oleg Tabakov. Later, the actress conquered the theater scenes in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Bogomolov entrusted her with leading roles in his performances, and then in serials. Khairullina says about him: "".

Rosa Khairullina was a popular theater actress, but her name was known only to avid theatergoers. Widespread popularity came to her only after she began acting in films. Her career was absolutely unique: Rosa Khairullina made her film debut at the age of 48! And at the age of 50, she made people talk about herself after her role in the film "Horde". Since then, directors have bombarded her with new proposals every year.

She never allowed herself to argue with the director and considered it an insult to his professional qualities, because he sees the play or the film as a whole, and the actor only sees his role. Perhaps that is why all the directors with whom she worked were pleased with this collaboration. Khairullina did not see anything shameful in remaining led and not putting herself above the director. And the fact that she was once an "actress without a role" later played into her hands: she could transform into any image, absolutely all genres were subject to her. In fact, there are very few actresses with such a range, and this also measures the level of acting.

Rosa is very calm about her current popularity, because success has never been an end in itself for her. Until the age of 50, she did not know what fame was, and did not suffer from it at all. Khairullina realizes that success in her chosen profession is a fickle quantity: today it exists, but tomorrow it may not. Its formula is very simple: you need to choose your own path and work daily, live here and now. Rose says: "".

After all the trials she experienced, the actress adopted several main rules for herself, according to which she existed both in the profession and in her private life: no one owes anything to anyone, it is foolish to make claims, expect gratitude, because this leads to disappointment. And if fate takes something, then in return it gives something else, so you can't live in the past - you just need to keep the memory of the valuable and move forward. "" - says the actress.

Her colleague also had to go through trials, however, they were of a completely different kind: What helped Chulpan Khamatova survive the mass condemnation.