Biography

Svetlana Nemolyaeva is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the Russian SFSR (1980). Since 1959 - leading actress of the Moscow Academic Theater named after Vladimir Mayakovsky.

The filmography of the actress opens with the episodic role of Svetochka in the Soviet comedy film Twins (1945) directed by Konstantin Yudin, in which she starred at the age of eight. From childhood, Svetlana fell in love with the theater - she went to all the performances of the Vladimir Mayakovskiy Theater, the actor of which was her father's brother, Konstantin Nemolyayev.

In 1954, she entered the acting faculty of the Higher Theater School named after Mikhail Shchepkin in Moscow (course leader - Professor Leonid Volkov), which graduated with honors in 1958. In 1958-1959 - actress of the Moscow Drama Theater.

She began acting in films in early childhood. The first fame was in 1959 thanks to the role of Olga Larina in the feature film Yevgeni Onegin (1959). Nemolyaeva was widely known for her roles in the films of Eldar Ryazanov: Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1980), O bednom gusare zamolvite slovo (1981) and The Promised Heaven (1991).

On the stage of the theater, she played the leading roles in more than 50 performances, including: Ophelia in "Hamlet", Masha in "Irkutsk History", Negina in "Talents and Fans", Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire".

Svetlana Nemolyaeva is a member of the Union of Theater Workers (since 1962), the Union of Cinematographers (since 1980), and the Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts "Nika" (since 2002).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa