Evgenia Simonova

The "princess" of Soviet cinema, the heroine of classical productions, Yevgeny Simonova, still plays characters 20 years younger. And the fact that a creative biography develops like this, of course, is luck and luck. Age, the actress believes, is not a disaster, it just takes more time and money to maintain oneself over the years.

In the fate of an actor, everything is not decided by age, the main thing is to experience inner satisfaction, to look into the future without fear and not to be ashamed of what is left behind.

Simonova Evgenia Pavlovna was born on June 1, 1955 in Leningrad in the family of a scientist and teacher.

An interesting story is the origin of Zhenya's father Pavel Simonov. The girl's grandfather Stanislav Venediktovich Stankevich was arrested in 1937, and his wife was sent into exile. The boy was sheltered by the sculptor Vasily Lvovich Simonov, who later gave the child his patronymic and surname. Therefore, if we talk about the nationality of the actress, it is worth mentioning Polish roots.

Some time after the birth of the girl, the family moved to Moscow, where Pavel Vasilyevich's father got a job at the recently created Institute of Higher Nervous Activity.

Devotion to the cause was in the first place for the scientist, and he, without hesitation, accepted the invitation of his teacher to jointly develop the new institute, which Evgenia Simonova's father later headed for 20 years. Mother Olga Sergeevna Vyazemskaya taught English at the Pedagogical Institute.

As a child, Evgenia, according to her own memories, did not make particularly clear plans for the future. She liked studying foreign languages, and the future actress was seriously preparing to enter the Faculty of Philology, in order to later become an English teacher, like her mother. At the same time, Evgenia studied music and choreography. But in the 10th grade, everything changed.

The scientific research of Evgenia Simonova's father lay in an interdisciplinary field, and at that time he was busy studying the psychology of creativity. The Moscow Art Theater School-Studio invited the scientist to read a series of lectures for students on this problem.

Evgenia Simonova recalls that his father, being a talented scientist, also showed an interest in art. His lectures turned into small performances that captivated the audience. Then a new unknown world of theater opened up in front of Evgenia Simonova.

The girl decided to try to enter the theater institute. This step was also prompted by the fact that then the creative institutes recruited applicants in early June, and the rest of the "serious" universities held entrance exams at the end of August, which left Simonova time to enter the originally planned philological faculty, if it does not work out with the theater.

Clever Yuri Vyazemsky and the beautiful Evgenia Simonova. Brother and sister. :)

It so happened that the applicant was admitted to the Shchukin school. Zhenya applied to several theater schools, but everyone, except Shchukinsky, responded with a categorical refusal. During the years of study, the outstanding Soviet actor Yuri Vasilyevich Katin-Yartsev became the mentor of Evgenia Simonova.

The first years at the university were hard for the aspiring actress. She recalls that for a long time she was tormented by doubts about the correct choice of her life path. The realization that she was not mistaken came to Simonova much later.

Perhaps another teacher, less attentive to students, would have simply expelled a shy student who was embarrassed to go on stage and perform a small sketch, but Yuri Vasilyevich, already in those years, was able to discern abilities in the fragile Wife.

Evgenia Pavlovna has a friendly family. With warmth, the actress recalls her parents. The father outlived her mother for 11 years and helped her daughter to survive the loss of the closest person, with which she still has not come to terms. Simonova is sure that the lives of her children were also successful. She has two daughters from two husbands. There are grandchildren.

The personal life of the actress was rarely discussed in the media. It is known that the writer and TV presenter Yuri Vyazemsky ("Clever and Clever Men") is Evgenia Pavlovna's brother.

Different surnames are explained by the fact that Yuri Simonov decided to take his mother's surname as a creative pseudonym.

According to her elder brother, in his youth, while studying at the "Shchuk", the entire course of my sister visited her at home. And these are the well-known Leonid Yarmolnik, Algis Arlauskis, Yuri Vasiliev. The latter became the first serious hobby of Simonova. It even went to the wedding, if not for Zhenya's acquaintance with Alexander Kaidanovsky, whom, they say, it was impossible not to fall in love.

Eugene met her first husband while working on the film "The Lost Expedition". Kaidanovsky played the role of officer Zimin in this picture. World fame was brought to the artist by the main role in the film "Stalker" by Andrey Tarkovsky. In a marriage with Alexander, Evgenia Simonova had a daughter, Zoya Kaidanovskaya, who later also became a recognizable film actress.

Now Zoya performs on the same stage with her mother at the Mayakovsky Theater, she is familiar to the audience for her roles in the films "Ivan the Terrible", "Where the Motherland Begins", "Sklifosofsky". Zoya is the mother of three children, the son of Alexei and the daughters of Varvara and Sophia.

According to her passport, Zoya - Simonova, took her father's surname as a pseudonym so that in the theater she and her mother would not be called Simonova, the elder and the younger.

After a divorce from her first husband, Simonova's chosen one became a colleague in the acting workshop Dmitry Polonsky. This marriage lasted a little over a year. Today the artist is known as the voice of Woody Harrelson: Polonsky is successfully dubbing foreign cinema.

The third husband of Evgenia Simonova is director Andrei Eshpai, the son of the famous composer and author of the song "Muscovites". In 1985, the couple had a daughter, pianist and actress Maria Eshpai. She now lives in Denmark and toured the world a lot. In 2019, she made her debut as the author of the music for the film Tell the Truth, which was shown on the Russia-1 channel.

In the early 90s, Evgenia Pavlovna became the guardian of a 13-year-old girl Daria Korshakova. Dasha's mother is actress Lyudmila Korshakova, a colleague of Simonova in the theater, known to the public for her role in the film "Kalina Krasnaya".

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She died suddenly at 42. The question arose about the design of the room for her daughter. In order to settle this issue, Simonova decided to take on the legal side of the case. The actress hid her adopted daughter from fans. However, on the air of Andrey Malakhov's program "Hello, Andrey!", Which was released in February 2020, the girl told a story to the audience.

In 2020, the actress celebrated her 65th birthday. Fans are surprised that Evgenia Pavlovna looks no worse than in her youth. With a height of 160 cm, its weight does not exceed 53 kg. Simonova never resorted to plastic surgery, but age had practically no effect on her appearance, and this is despite her health problems.

In the late 2000s, the artist was diagnosed with oncology. The theater and film star has been bravely fighting lung cancer for over 10 years. On the eve of her 65th birthday, Simonova underwent an operation to remove one lung.

Despite this, the artist continues to smoke, she is known for her addiction to tobacco. The disease affected the woman's working schedule: Simonova began to travel less often on creative business trips and to shoot in other cities. Now the state of health of Evgenia Pavlovna remains stable.

The Internet has firmly taken its place in the everyday life of people, but Evgenia Pavlovna prefers traditional, lively ways of communication. Simonova has no accounts on Instagram or Facebook, and fans can easily find a photo of her favorite actress on the Web.

Colleagues assisted in adaptation to the acting profession of Simonova. Evgenia Pavlovna said that she tried to make friends with Svetlana Nemolyaeva, in whom she saw an example and a senior mentor.

Other actors were also warm to the young artist. Igor Kostolevsky became a close friend, and not just a colleague.

Evgenia Simonova is one of those actresses on whom the repertoire of the Mayakovsky Theater is based. For four decades, she has played many performances. In addition to her native theater, Simonova has repeatedly performed on other stages. The most fruitful was the alliance with the head of Sovremennik Galina Volchek.

Simonova played in the productions of Five Evenings, Enemies. Love Story ”and others. In addition, the actress performed at the Sphere theater venue, at the Yablochkina Central House of Artists, and at the Malaya Bronnaya Theater. Today Eugene enters the stage of the School of Dramatic Art in the image of the wife of the writer Heinrich Ibsen, who became a recluse after her husband's death.

For the role of Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy, the artist was awarded the "Golden Mask". In the play by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya "The Moscow Choir" about the Khrushchev thaw, Simonova is reincarnated as the head of the family living in a cramped communal apartment. One of the memorable performances with the participation of Simonova is the play “August. Osage County ”, where Evgenia Pavlovna plays the mother of the heroine Anna Ardova.

Evgenia Pavlovna - People's Artist of Russia (1995), winner of many theater and film awards. An example to follow, according to the actress, for her was Natalia Gundareva, with whom they performed on the same stage. In an interview, Simonova called Gundareva a "great actress" and the scale of her personality was "cosmic." Simonova is happy that she had a chance to work with her idol.

Already from the 1st year of school, Evgeny Simonova begins to act in films. The first serious work of the actress was participation in the film by Leonid Bykov "Only old men go to battle", which was released in 1973. The appearance of the girl in the film "Afonya" directed by Georgy Danelia, where Simonova played the role of nurse Katya, and Leonid Kuravlev played the main character, did not go unnoticed.

In the film industry of that time, Evgenia Simonova was firmly entrenched in the role of a lyrical heroine. The artist learned the taste of fame: they began to recognize her on the streets, the mailbox was filled with letters from fans. The naive girlish characters performed by Evgenia Simonova easily found a lively response in the audience.

However, this popularity turned into a tight framework for young Eugene. The actress, of course, felt a sense of gratitude to Danelia and Bykov for revealing their talent, but nevertheless she was firmly convinced that she would definitely overcome the narrowness of her role.

The actress recalls how, in her student years, she desperately fought the prevailing stereotype. Once, when the students were given the task to stage an excerpt of a work of their own choice, Zhenya took a fragment of a rather dark story by Vsevolod Garshin, where she played a prostitute. On stage, she tried so hard to convey the gestures and manners inherent, in her opinion, of a fallen woman, that the director of the school, Boris Evgenievich Zakhava, could not stand it and ordered the curtain to be pulled.

However, despite the absence of the roles of negative heroines in the creative heritage, the lyrical characters of Simonova were remembered by the viewer and entered the golden fund of Russian cinema.

Another striking role for the artist was the disclosure of the character of the princess in the film-fairy tale "An Ordinary Miracle", which was filmed in 1974. In the film by Mark Zakharov, based on the play of the same name by Evgeny Schwartz, Simonova had a chance to play along with the stars of Soviet cinema Andrei Mironov and Alexander Abdulov, Evgeny Leonov and Yuri Solomin, Irina Kupchenko and Oleg Yankovsky.

The drama School Waltz, in which Evgenia Simonova played together with Elena Tsyplakova, could lie on the shelf for several years: the director of the project, Pavel Lyubimov, raised a too bold topic. In the film, it was about youthful love, betrayal, cowardice. Despite criticism of the plot, the Komsomol organization insisted on renting the film.

The filmography of the actress includes over 80 films and television performances. The most memorable roles of Simonova are far in the past. After significant success at a young age, the artist left the big screens, focusing on a theatrical career.

Alexander Kaidanovsky and Evgeniya Simonova

The return of the actress took place in the early 2000s, when she appeared in the popular TV series Children of the Arbat by Andrey Eshpai. Then Evgenia Pavlovna starred with her husband in the film "Ellipsis", as well as in the film "Event" based on the work of Vladimir Nabokov, where she played the mother of the heroine Chulpan Khamatova.

Of the large number of projects, the actress herself singles out 2 not most popular with the viewer. This is participation in the film by Vytautas Zhalakevičius "The Story of an Unknown Person", which did not have popular love, but attended the Venice Film Festival. And also the role of Anna Snitkina, the second wife of Fyodor Dostoevsky, in the film "Twenty-six days from the life of Dostoevsky."

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the actress, her husband's series "Adult Daughters" was released. In the film, 3 representatives of the Simonov-Kaidanovsky family played at once. Evgenia Pavlovna and Zoya Kaidanovskaya got small roles, and the grandson of the actress Alexey played the only son of the main characters of the television story.

The drama "Memory of Autumn" is a film adaptation of the novel "The Last Idol" by Andrey Zvyagintsev, made by Andrei Sokolov. The film revealed the relationship between family members of a high-ranking official.

The death of the head of the family exposes hidden conflicts between loved ones. The character of Evgenia Simonova, a quiet woman at first glance, a friend of the family, turns into a tough and unforgiving new mistress of the dacha, from which the former guests are evicted. For the first time, the actress had a chance to work on the same site with Inna Churikova, who played the main role.

Sergei Ashkenazi's painting "The Gourmet Case No. 1" is based on the history of the investigation of a criminal case on corruption in the elite Moscow store "Eliseevsky". Evgenia Simonova played the role of the first wife of the director of the grocery store Berkutov, who was accused of bribery and sentenced to capital punishment - execution.

The filmmakers did not pretend to be accurate in presenting the facts, since at the time filming began, the case had not yet been cleared.

In 2017, Evgenia Simonova got the main role in the melodrama "Wasp's Nest". The actress appeared as the head of a family in which there are no men. The screen daughter was played by Maria Kulikova, the granddaughters - Irina Antonenko, Elizaveta Arzamasova and Ksenia Lukyanchikova.

Having played the Bear in Mark Zakharov's "Ordinary Miracle", Alexander Abdulov woke up famous. Evgenia Simonova, who played ...

The heroine Simonova once leaves home, leaving a will, according to which the property goes to a stranger. The house contains a rare painting by Van Gogh. The painting is hunted by the character of Andrei Chernyshov pretending to be an art critic. In reality, the man is the owner of the brothel.

The Lancet series presented Evgenia Pavlovna as a hospital doctor, a colleague of Pavel Trubiner and Boris Kamorzin. Trubiner plays a surgeon who, due to personal problems, is unable to operate and agrees to head the department of internal investigations.

In the fall of 2018, the shooting of the second season of the detective "Method" was completed, in the first part of which Konstantin Khabensky played the main role. An investigator with pathological inclinations admitted that he had killed the mother of the heroine Paulina Andreeva, for which he paid with his own life. In Method 2, as the actor said in an interview with blogger Yuri Dudyu, Meglin's story continues.

The picture gave Simonova the unexpected and difficult role of a maniac teacher. In the same role, Eugene starred in the sequel.

The series "Secrets of Mrs. Kirsanova" immerses the viewer in the atmosphere of Russia in the 19th century. The plot of the film revolves around a girl who came to a provincial town with 2 goals - to stay with her beloved aunt, whose role was played by Simonova, and to find the groom who escaped from the crown. "Secrets" is considered a prequel to the mystical film "Anna the Detective" and tells the background of why the math teacher took up the investigation of crimes.

Cinema news testifies to the continuation of Evgenia Simonova's career in cinema. In 2019, the actress starred in the short film "I Cry With You", which was included in the film almanac "Russian Short". The film was presented at Kinotavr, where it won the main prize. The performer also appeared in the detective story "Anatomy of a Murder - 2" and the melodrama "Tell the Truth".

In 2020, the thriller Identity, directed by Vladlena Sandu, was shown at the Berlin Film Festival, in which one of the roles was played by Evgenia Simonova. Previously, the film was presented at several festivals, including the Moscow International Film Festival.

1973 - "Only" old men "go into battle 1978 -" An ordinary miracle "1990 -" Demon in the rib "1993 -" Russian ragtime "2001 -" Don't leave me, love "2003 -" Evlampiya Romanova. The investigation is being conducted by a dilettante-1 "2004 -" Children of the Arbat "2007 -" Confidence Service "2009 -" Ivan the Terrible "2010 -" Elysium "2011 -" Case of the deli "1" 2013 - "Kuprin" 2015 - "Adult daughters" 2016 - "Wasp's Nest" 2018 - "Secrets of Mrs. Kirsanova"

2019 - "Tell the Truth"

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