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Ekaterina Gradova

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Ekaterina Gradova is a Soviet theater and film actress. Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR. She studied at the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages and the Moscow Art Theater School, where she studied under Vasiliy Markov. Her first major audience recognition came in 1969, when, as a fourth-year student at the Moscow Art Theater School, she played the lead role in the play 'Talents and Admirers' at the Mayakovskiy Moscow Academic Theater. She then worked at the Moscow Academic Satire Theater, where she appeared in numerous performances.

The actress gained widespread recognition in 1973 after the release of the famous television film Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), in which she played the role of radio operator Kat. In 1979, another film was released in which she played a memorable role - the series The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979) (Svetlana Volokushina).
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 26, a daughter Mariya Mironova on May 28, 1983. Child's father is her now ex-1st husband, Andrey Mironov.
Adopted her 2nd child, a son Aleksei Timofeyev (b.1992), with her 2nd husband Ilya Timofyev.
Her film debut was in the movie Osenniye svadby (1968).

It was love; I always felt like he was my child; I wanted to care for him and feed him. There are so many such connections on Earth, ones that last even a moment, but are cherished and endure forever. Andrey and I had such a connection. [re Andrey Mironov]
My parents were hard workers. My father was a corresponding member of the Academy of Architecture. A doctor of science and professor, he headed a major research institute and wrote a huge work on architectural theory. My father served throughout the war as a guards major, commanded a sapper regiment, and accomplished numerous feats, preserving every last soldier. My mother was a dramatic actress.
In spiritual life, it's like war: you're wounded, you fall; if you realize you're alive, get up or crawl to where they'll bandage and heal your wound, and then get back into the fight, don't linger. And bandaging and healing can only be done in church, of course, if you're sincere.
I was raised very strictly. I worked all day, learning German from the age of four, then English from the age of seven, piano, and drawing lessons. My favorite activity was conducting. From the age of five, I would stand in my father's red wooden chair and conduct for hours, shedding tears. It was the music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. I loved music very much, and I would recount the meaning of every symphony or concerto I heard, as I understood it.

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