Biography

Anna Semyonovna Kamenkova is Soviet and Russian theater, film and dubbing actress. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1985). For the first time in cinema, the actress played at the age of six in the film Devochka ishchet otsa (1959), based on the eponymous novel by Evgeniy Ryss about the daughter of a Belarusian partisan. For this film, Anya received her first award - for the best performance of a children's role at the II International Film Festival in Argentina (Mar del Plata, 1960). After that, the parents, although they did not allow the daughter to continue the career that had begun at such a young age, did not let her abilities fade. The girl visited the artistic word studio in the Palace of Pioneers under the direction of Galina Khatsrevin and even performed on the stage of the Bolshoy Theater. In 1970, Anna entered the Higher Theater School named after M. Shchepkin, on the course of M. Tsarev. As a student, she made her debut on the stage of the Malyy Theater in the play "The Means of Makropoulos" based on the play by Karel Čapek. After receiving a diploma (1974), the actress was accepted into the troupe of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Anna Kamenkova served in the Malaya Bronnaya Theater until 1992. Among her most significant works in the theater is the role of Verochka in the play "A Month in the Village" (Ivan Turgenev, director A. Efros). After 1992, the actress went into a reprise. Collaborated with theaters 'Benefis', 'School of modern play', 'Theater named after Ruben Simonov'.

After a long break in the movie, Anna Kamenkova returned in 1975 (Lesnyye kacheli (1975), Belarusfilm, Svetlana). The following year, the shooting of the army melodrama Vesenniy prizyv (1978) (Irina) took place. Real recognition came to the actress after the role of Manya in Leonid Menaker's melodrama Molodaya zhena (1979). At the XIII All-Union Festival in Dushanbe she was awarded the Prize for Best Actress, and then recognized as an actress of the year. In 1987, she partnered with Sergey Shakurov in the film Vizit k Minotavru (1987). In 1989, the film Sofya Petrovna (1989) was released, which was based on the eponymous novel by L. Chukovskiy. For this difficult role, the actress received a prize at the All-Union Television Film Festival (Dushanbe). In the 1990s, Anna Kamenkova worked with foreign directors, in particular, in 1998 she starred in Paweł Pawlikowski's film The Stringer (1998), took an active part in dubbing foreign films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa