Elena Kostina

A young inexperienced girl with naive eyes appeared on the Soviet screen in the film "Flights in Dreams and in Reality". Having played the role of the mistress of a forty-year-old man performed by the star of Soviet cinema Oleg Yankovsky, an unknown Moscow schoolgirl became famous.

The biography of the actress starts counting from July 31, 1964, when little Elena Kostina was born into a family of Moscow engineers. Despite the fact that the girl's parents did not face work on stage, the artist's relatives come from a creative environment.

Elena's great-grandfather played with the legendary Eisenstein, her great-grandmother was successful in silent cinema. The grandfather of the future actress, Nikolai Sergeev, did not lag behind in popularity. People's Artist of the RSFSR played the role of a Greek in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev.

The girl's mother, who played the violin professionally and had excellent vocals, in her youth performed on the same stage with Maya Kristalinskaya. However, the career of a singer and musician did not work out. However, the woman did not speak out against her daughter following the acting path. With her light hand, Lena attended a music school at the Gnessin School.

But Elena herself did not even think about a career in cinema or theater at first. The schoolgirl dreamed of becoming a biologist. Preparing for admission, Lena attended courses at Moscow State University, started a home menagerie of snakes, rabbits, hedgehogs. In her free time, the girl helped take care of the animals under her care at the Moscow zoo.

As often happens in life, fate intervened in the events taking place and rapidly changed the plans for the future of a young talented girl. In the apartment of the Kostins one evening, a call rang from a friend of Lenin's mother, Lyudmila Ivanova.

As an actress, the woman was aware of the events in the cinema. She said that director Roman Balayan is unsuccessfully looking for a young girl for a role in the new film. Ivanova invited Lena to come to meet the director.

Balayan liked the seventeen-year-old schoolgirl, still a child, naive, open, but charming and beautiful in her untouched youth. Soon the girl, with the approval of the main character of the film, Oleg Yankovsky, was approved for the role of Alice in the film "Flights in Dreams and in Reality".

Balayan's drama, filmed in 1982, became not only the debut, but also the most successful in Kostina's acting career. A tenth grader with no experience on the site was surrounded by famous stars of Soviet cinema - Oleg Yankovsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov. Working with masters has become an invaluable experience for a young girl.

The parents of the aspiring actress were madly worried sending their daughter to shoot in Vladimir. Elena recalled that the group, despite the heterogeneity and stardom of some of the actors, was friendly and often threw parties and gatherings.

One of the birthdays was celebrated in Kostina's room. And in the morning, the actress's mother unexpectedly appeared, finding a picture with the remnants of the night's fun of the team. Only the charming Oleg Yankovsky could change the woman's decision to immediately take her daughter away.

After the resounding success of the tape at the box office, the girl's plans for a job as a biologist were revised. On the first attempt, Elena entered the Moscow Art Theater School for the course of Oleg Efremov, which she graduated in 1986. In her student years, she starred in small roles in the mini-series "Vertical Race" and the drama "A Little Favor" with Nikolai Karachentsov.

Having received the diploma of a professional actress, Kostina appeared in several Soviet films - "Love wins everything", "The incident at the airport", "The investigation is conducted by experts: without a knife and brass knuckles." Work on the site, according to Elena's recollections, made it possible to visit dozens of cities in the country.

As the artist shared, she did not know how to walk over the heads and elbows to punch the road to fame. Perhaps that is why the recession in Russian cinema that occurred in the crisis 90s influenced Elena Georgievna's career. Nevertheless, Elena Kostina appeared on the screen in the action films "Destroy the Thirtieth", "A Man from the Alpha Team", in one of the first films of Russian eroticism "Daphnis and Chloe".

The actress sadly recalled the period of lack of worthy roles. As a result, in the 90s, Kostina practically disappeared from the screens, and in 1996 she completely went into business, leaving the cinema. However, over time, the longing for the set and the camera played a role, and Elena returned to the cinema, appearing in the melodrama "Lyubov.ru", then in the drama "Bigfoot", the TV series "Unequal Marriage". In the latter, the actress reincarnated as a Muslim woman Leila.

During joint filming with Oleg Yankovsky, the rumor persistently attributed to the young girl an affair with a venerable actor and conqueror of ladies' hearts. Many years later, in an interview with the "7 Days" portal, the woman told the story of her relationship with an older colleague.

The young girl really looked at the movie star with adoration, and Yankovsky liked the charming beauty. However, no amorous relationship in the distant 1982 between them began. Only the characters played by the actors on the screen remained lovers.

More than ten years later, colleagues collided on a plane en route to filming in Athens. After talking, the couple realized that mutual sympathy has not disappeared anywhere, and a rapid summer romance broke out between them. The relationship did not develop upon her return to the capital, but the actress remembers these days with warmth.

The actress has two official marriages. The first husband, a legal adviser, died tragically in the dashing nineties, leaving the young woman a widow. According to Elena's stories, once at a business meeting, the man picked up a grenade brought by one of his opponents. Bursting in the hand, the weapon cut short the life of Kostina's husband.

Elena met the second wife, having driven a new car for service. For several years the race car driver and mechanic secretly loved the client, and then their fates merged. The son Paul was born in marriage. After 12 years of marriage, the couple broke up. Former spouses maintain friendly relations and continue communication.

Unfortunately, 2018, like several previous ones, did not bring the actress new movie roles. Kostin has not appeared on the screen for several years. The woman does not maintain pages in social networks, there is no photo of her on Instagram or VKontakte, so it is rather difficult to trace the life of the actress.

It is known that Elena works at the Moscow Children's Musical Theater "Impromptu", where she teaches acting to children and adolescents. By the way, son Pavel attends theater classes and is making progress in mastering the creative profession.

1982 - "Flights in dreams and in reality" 1982 - "Vertical races" 1987 - "Love wins everything" 1987 - "The incident at the airport" 1988 - "The investigation is carried out by experts: Without a knife and brass knuckles" 1989 - "Temple of Air" 1990 - "If I want - I will love" 1992 - "Destroy the thirtieth" 1992 - "In the beginning there was a word" 1993 - "Daphnis and Chloe" 1998 - "Siberian Savior" 2010 - "Bigfoot" 2012 - "Unequal marriage"

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