Biography

Svetlana Svetlichnaya is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR. Even in kindergarten, she began attending a drama club, and later continued to study in a theater studio during her school years. Her mother played a huge role in her becoming an actress. Her mother herself dreamed of becoming an actress in her youth, but she married a military man and tried to realize her dream through her daughter. In her youth, Svetlana was actively involved in sports - she played volleyball, basketball, did athletics, gymnastics, and swam well.

In 1958, at the insistence of her mother, Svetlana entered VGIK, which she graduated from in 1963, taking the course of Mikhail Romm. Andrei Konchalovsky, Galina Polskikh, and Valeriy Nosik studied with her on the course. After graduating from university, she joined the troupe of the Film Actor's Studio Theater.

She made her film debut in 1960 in Mikhail Kalik's film Kolybelnaya (1960). And she played her first big role - Nadya Kolchina - in Tatyana Lioznova's film Im pokoryaetsya nebo (1963) in 1961, while still a student at VGIK. She received widespread love from viewers after her role as the fatal temptress Anna Sergeevna in the comedy The Diamond Arm (1969). She is also remembered for many of her other roles - the lady in Father Sergius (1979), Gabi in Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973), the flight attendant in the drama Nepodsuden (1969).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa