Yelena Solovey

Elena Solovey is an actress of Russian cinema, the muse of Nikita Mikhalkov, who starred in most of his cult films. Feminine, a little cutesy and unlike anyone else, the artist could be liked or not liked, but there were no indifferent to her and her images in the cinema. Being at the peak of fame, she was not afraid to give up everything and leave for her husband and family in order to start everything from scratch in another country.

Elena Yakovlevna Solovey was born in German Neustrelitz in February 1947. According to the sign of the zodiac, the girl turned out to be a Pisces. The place of birth gave the actress's ill-wishers a reason to talk about her nationality, but she always considered herself a Soviet citizen.

The parents of the actress met in Germany at the very end of the war. My father was a political worker in the Soviet garrison, and my mother was a nurse. 3 years after the birth of the girl, the family returned to Russia and settled in Krasnoyarsk. There the early childhood years of Elena Solovey passed.

When the daughter was 13 years old, the family changed their place of residence again, moving to Moscow. Here Elena went to a music school and began to dream of a stage. This happened after the girl enrolled in one of the theater circles.

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Soon she saw in a magazine an advertisement for a recruitment to a theater studio that had opened at one of the capital's theaters. Elena decided to try her hand and went to the studio. There were many who wanted to get there, but she was accepted.

After graduating from school, Elena Solovey failed to enter the theater institute on her first attempt. At the Moscow Art Theater School, the applicant managed to go through three rounds. Failure did not break the girl: she went to work in order to audition for the acting department the next year, but already at VGIK. And the attempt was successful: Nightingale entered the course of Boris Babochkin, known for his starring role in the film "Chapaev". In 1970, Elena received an actress diploma.

The actress recalls her personal life before marriage as a series of loves that had no prospects. Nightingale was carried away by director Rustam Khamdamov, but their relationship developed at a distance. Then she also fell unrequitedly in love with another person. According to Elena, only Yuri Pugach was able to understand her.

The actress met her future husband in 1971, when she starred in the film "Drama from an Ancient Life". Yuri Pugach was involved in this film as an assistant artist. The short-lived artist (Nightingale's height - 165 cm, weight - 62 kg) with a memorable appearance and gentle voice attracted the attention of a young man. The romance that broke out ended in marriage. For the sake of her husband, the actress left the legendary Maly Theater and moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

Elena Solovey's personal life was happy. In a strong marriage of the actress and the artist, two children were born - daughter Irina and son Pavel.

Nowadays grown children live their own lives. Irina got married and moved to Germany, Pavel, who is engaged in microbiology, also has a family, he lives in America.

Elena Nightingale lived with her husband in the town of Fairview, near New York. Their home was located in a picturesque area surrounded by forests.

In 2013, it became known that the actress's husband had health problems. Yuri Pugach was ill - he needed a kidney transplant. The artist was looking for a donor all over the world. She was even ready to sacrifice her organ for the sake of her husband's recovery, but Yuri refused.

An operation was performed in 2019. Despite the fact that the surgical intervention was successful, after a while, Pugach died at the age of 74.

Elena Solovey's cinematic biography began when she was a 1st year student. The aspiring actress played the role of the baker's daughter in the short film “My Heart is in the Mountains”. This tiny character was the first step in the career of an actress. A year later, the Nightingale starred in another film, "Pravdokha".

The artist began to embody the bright central images on the screen at the very end of the 1960s. The audience noticed and remembered Elena Solovey after the release of the wonderful films "Late Flowers" and "The Deer King". In the last film, the actress played with the rising stars of Russian cinema, such as Yuri Yakovlev, Oleg Efremov, Sergey Yursky and Oleg Tabakov. She eagerly absorbed the skills of her older colleagues.

When Elena found out that the director Vitaly Melnikov was beginning auditions for the film “Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev,” she immediately rushed to the director with a stack of photos of her fellow students: there were many female roles in the comedy. Melnikov, seeing the perseverance of the young performer, decided to use her in his project at all costs.

Three Helens and me. Elena Proklova, Elena Kamburova and Elena Solovey.

After graduating from VGIK in 1970, Innokenty Smoktunovsky gave the actress a recommendation to the Maly Theater, and she was accepted into the troupe. Soon it was decided to stage the play “The Seagull” specially “for Elena Solovey”. However, the married actress unexpectedly left the theater and left for Leningrad, where her husband-artist lived and worked.

In Leningrad, Elena Solovey's career also developed rapidly. She was accepted to the Lenfilm studio and the Lensovet troupe. On the stage of this theater, St. Petersburg spectators with bated breath watched the play of the actress in the play "Winner". And although Nightingale was very critical of her performance in this production, the theatergoers had a different opinion. Their joint duet with Mikhail Boyarsky turned out to be brilliant.

Elena Yakovlevna's career in the cinema also did not stand still. In her youth, she shone in the films "Children of Vanyushin", "About Love", "Yegor Bulychov and others." In 1976, the performer took part in the scoring of the Italian film Dedicated to Stella, where Pamela Villoresi spoke in her voice.

35 years of the film "Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano" Elena Solovey - Sofya Yegorovna Voinitseva Nikita Mikhalkov - Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky Evgeniya Glushenko - Sashenka Platonova

In 1978, the artist was invited to play the role of Milady in "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers." But she had to refuse because of the proposal of Nikita Mikhalkov, who invited her to the project "A few days in the life of II Oblomov" for the role of Olga. In the adventure film, she was replaced by Margarita Terekhova, who originally planned to star with Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich.

And the melodrama "Slave of Love" helped Elena Solovey, famous throughout the vast country, to wake up. In this film by Nikita Mikhalkov, the actress played the main role. The star cast in the person of Alexander Kalyagin, Rodion Nakhapetov, Yuri Bogatyrev and Oleg Basilashvili turned this project into a movie masterpiece. Fans are still watching the film, and interesting shots periodically appear on Instagram.

It is interesting that earlier in the film about Vera Kholodnaya (namely, she became the prototype of the heroine Olga Voznesenskaya), Elena began to appear with director Rustam Khamdamov. But the shooting was stopped due to the director's disagreement with the approved script. Then Nikita Mikhalkov got down to work, who proposed to completely change the text. Nightingale did not immediately agree to cooperation, but after reading the new script, she gave her consent.

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After "Slaves of Love" the attention of directors to the person of Elena Solovey was unprecedented. In the 1980s, she starred in a number of striking films, which even today viewers watch and revise with great interest. The brightest of these films are “The Blonde Around the Corner”, “The Life of Klim Samgin”, “Look for a Woman” and “You Never Dreamed of”.

All the roles played in these films are diverse. The incomparable Leonid Kuravlev, Mikhail Boyarsky, Yuri Bogatyrev became her partners. In the musical film "Extra Ticket", the actress performed several songs. The extraordinary charm and the author's manner of playing by Elena Solovey have always remained unchanged.

In the early 1990s, which are not for nothing called the dashing 90s, the situation in the country and in the cinema was such that the actress's family decided to immigrate to America. Elena Yakovlevna, who was very popular in her homeland, did not create illusions about her career in the United States. And so it happened.

Today Elena Solovey lives near New York, where she moved with her husband and children in the early 90s. 1987 year. Photo: Valery Plotnikov

For a long time the actress was unemployed, but after a few years she still took the stage. It happened at the Alexander Zhurbin Theater in Brighton Beach. In addition, Elena Solovey got a job on radio in New Jersey and hosted the author's program "Kulisa".

In 2001, Elena Yakovlevna created a children's studio "Etude", where young Americans and children of immigrants are introduced to the world of art. In the same year, Nightingale was invited to Russia, where she starred in the popular film "The Moscow Saga".

At the same time, Elena Solovey played the main role in the Russian-American television series "P.M.Zh.", which told about Russian migrants who moved to America. The plot of the TV movie is based on the story “Come to Marry” by the Russian writer-emigrant Anna Levina.

For reliability, the main roles in the film were played by former Soviet émigré actors, as well as non-professional actors. Of the 16 planned episodes, only two were filmed and shown, after which the series was closed.

Then there were several more small roles in the cinema, which did not make the actress famous in America. In the new millennium, the actress's filmography was not even replenished with a dozen projects, but these were Hollywood films, famous all over the world.

In 2002, the actress appeared in the supporting role of Branca Libinski, nurse of Corrado Junior Sopranos, in the cult American drama series The Sopranos. The project was created by director David Chase and aired on HBO. Like other products of the channel, it is intended for an adult audience and contains uncensored scenes of sex, violence, smoking, alcohol and drug use.

The show began in 1999 and immediately became a cult hit. This status brought the Sopranos an innovative approach to portraying the mafia, criminals, and the problems of American and Italian families. The television series raises complex topics about the boundaries of morality and the consequences of violence. Also, the mafia is shown here as living people with their own characters and problems, and not schematic villains.

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The protagonist Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) tries to maintain a balance between the demands of the criminal world and solving personal and family problems. In addition, Mafia hero and boss Tony suffers from panic attacks and is forced to visit a psychoanalyst.

In 2007, Elena Solovey played the role of Kalina Buzhaeva in the crime thriller "Masters of the Night", dedicated to the fight between police and drug dealers, in the center of which are two brothers - a police officer and a night club manager.

In 2013, the actress performed a minor role in the film Fatal Passion, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Elena Nightingale played the role of Rosie Hertz. The film follows 1920s America and two Polish immigrants who face deportation attempts, false accusations of crimes and the lies of the men they are in love with.

Elena Solovey in the film "You Never Dreamed of"

In 2016, the actress returned to the screens after a 3-year hiatus. Elena Solovey played the role of Madame Kumel in the adventure drama "The Lost City of Z".

The plot of the film is based on the expedition of the early 20th century, led by a British explorer. The scientist discovers an unknown, but advanced civilization in the Amazon. The scientific community calls the found inhabitants savages and does not support research, but a group of scientists returns to the Amazon to prove their own case. The researchers mysteriously disappear.

The first screening of the film took place on October 15, 2016 at the New York Film Festival. In Russia, "The Lost City of Z" was released in 2017.

In early 2020, Elena Solovey returned to Russia from emigration. First of all, the actress visited the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery, where her mother's grave is located. The news of the arrival of the muse Nikita Mikhalkov was enthusiastically received by journalists.

The artist has already visited the "Hello, Andrey!" from Andrei Malakhov and "The Fate of a Man" by Boris Korchevnikov, where she gave a detailed interview about life abroad and about her work. This is not the first appearance of Nightingale on Russian television after moving to the United States. In 2018, with her participation, the release of the TV show Let Them Talk “I gave up everything for my husband's sake” was shown.

1969 - "The Stag King" 1971 - "Drama from an Old Life" 1975 - "Slave of Love" 1977 - "Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano" 1980 - "You Never Dreamed ..." 1982 - "Look for a Woman" 1984 - "Blonde for corner "1987 -" Once I Lied "1988 -" The Life of Klim Samgin "2002 -" The Sopranos "2007 -" Masters of the Night "2013 -" Fatal Passion "2016 -" The Lost City of Z "

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