Trivia

On March 17, 2015, she celebrated her 90th birthday on stage - in the play "Pier" directed by Rimas Tuminas .

One of the most notable roles that she played was that of Nastasya Filippovna in the film adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot.

She was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.

Borisova was awarded with the "State Prize of the Russian Federation" in the field of literature and art (in the field of theatrical art) in 1994 (May 29, 1995) - for playing one of the main roles in the performance of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater " Guilty Without Guilt " based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky director Pyotr Fomenko.

In 2016 she became laureate of the Russian national acting award named after Andrei Mironov "Figaro" in St. Petersburg in the honorary nomination "Legend of the Russian Theater" (March 8, 2016) - for many roles that have become the standard of performing art.

She was also a politician, being member of the Supreme Soviet of Russia from 1963.

She received the highest title " Hero of Socialist Labor " (March 21, 1985).

In 1947 she graduated from the Higher Theater School named after B. V. Schukin in Moscow (artistic director of the course - Vera Konstantinovna Lvova ), and in the same year she was accepted into the troupe of the State Academic Theater named after E. B. Vakhtangov.

She played in the Vakhtangov Theatre for more than sixty years.

Yuliya Borisova was the first winner of the first theater award of Russia " Crystal Turandot " in the nomination " For long-term and valiant service to the theater ".