Biography
One of the most beautiful Soviet actresses Elsa Lenzhdey, known to millions of senior and secondary generation television reviewers, the role of Expert-Crime Zina Kybrit in the cult series "The investigation is conducted by experts," triumphantly started in cinema. But the star cinema, as it often happens, brought not only fame, but also made the actress by the hostage of one role. The lyzhdey, which was referred to the triumphal career in the cinema, went out of television screens and life imperceptibly, leaving behind the ecliping light of the faded star.Childhood and youth
The star of the best Soviet detective of the 1970-80s was born in the southwest of the Crimea, in the washed waves of the Black Sea Sevastopol. There were no actors in the family of lyzhdey: father - sailor. But this circumstance did not prevent young Elsa to dream of a career in the cinema from an early age. In the 5th grade, the purposeful girl went to "hire in actresses" to the Sevastopol touring association, where the 5th grade, smiling, refused.
However, Elsa Lezhdej did not change the dream. After graduating from school, went to conquer Moscow. The capital accepted the charming and artistic daughter of a sailor with open arms: Lezhdey took place in Schukinskoye and Shchepkinsky school at the same time. The girl chose a "sofk", which he graduated in the mid-1950s. Elsa immediately took the actress of the theater studio of the film actor.
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Films
The cinematic biography of the artist started when Elsa studied in the penultimate course of "sinters". In 1954, the premiere of Kinodramma on Pomoras, which made fishing fish on the harsh Belomih, in the XVIII century. The director of the tape "Sea Studech" Yury Egorov gave a student the role of a Pomeranian girl of Barbara.
The image of the bride of the missing fisherman in the scenario was registered weakly, but Ledzhda invested the maximum of the efforts. Spectators and colleagues noticed the birth of an asterisk. People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Kryuchkov said in the press about the appearance of a promising colleague.
In the year of release in the theater Elsa, Lezhdey was starred in Mikhail Kalazozov "First Eshelon" with Oleg Efremov and Tatiana Doronina in high roles. And in 1956, the cultic historical and heroic drama of the director's duet of Alexander Alo and Vladimir Naumova about Pavel Korchagin, where Vasily Lanovova played the screens to the screens. Elsa got a vivid role of Rita Ustinovich.
Naumov, at that time a husband actresses became her Pygmalion. Each role that the director gave Elsa was worked out by spouses to the smallest details and became starry. As in the drama "Wind", in which the future "Schurik" Alexander Demyanenko made his debut: in the painting of Lekhody played a prostitute Marie, so that the work became a pearl in her filmography.
In 1958, Elsa Lezhdey played the sister of mercy in the heroic-revolutionary film "Soldiers". The key characters of the tape are Sergey Bondarchuk and Andrei Petrov.
In the military melodrama Grigory Chukhray, which became a cult, Elza, too, called. In the "ballad about a soldier", the director gathered the color of the Soviet cinema: Vladimir Ivashova, Jeanne Prokhorenko, Evgenia Urban. The episodes appeared lying, George Yumatov, Evgeny Evstigneev, Lev Borisov. In a small role, the artist has invested such a passion that he doubted in her professionalism was left.
In 1964, two pictures came out with the participation of Elsa Ledzhdey: tape "Goodbye, boys!" And the sports drama "Hockey players" with Vyacheslav Shahalevich in the lead role.
The first picture with Evgeny Stem, Nicholas, and Mikhail Kononov, starring in Evpatoria, after emigration in the early 1970s director Mikhail Kalik to Israel lay down on the shelf. The picture was remembered in the late 1980s. Ledzhdey got a secondary role - the spouses of a tinsmith, and he himself embodied Efim Copelian.
Taking a great start, Elsa Lezhdey confidently promoted to the top. She played a guerrilla in the Soviet-Italian drama "They walked to the East", French-revolutionary Jeanne Lyabourg in the adventure tape "The squadron goes to the West", Nina Jodghina in a military detective "Special Opinion". Divided the main role with Rodion Nakhapetov in the Drama "Direct line".
The real taste of glory of the actress felt in 1971, when the first series of detective tapes about Soviet law enforcets were released on the screens. Their impeccable images on the screen embodied Elsa Lekredey in the role of an expert-criminalist and elegant racks of Ziniki Kybrit, Georgy Martynyuk, who played Mura Znamensky, and Leonid Kanevsky, reincarnated in the Inspector of the Criminal Investor of the Thin.
After the first series, the editorial office received thousands of letters demanding to continue history. The series was removed until the end of the 1980s. The name Elsa Ledzhdey Harrely, the movie designer was recognized on the street, but they were almost never called to other projects. The actress is firmly associated with his heroine, and neither the director nor the audience saw it in another role.
The roles about which Elsa dreamed - Nastasya Filippovna in the drama of Ivan Pyryev based on the story of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dzemmeon in the adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy of Sergey Yutkevich, got other actresses. Sometimes even the roles that gave lyzhdi, had to defend.
The creators of the film "Scadre goes to the West" there was an idea to replace the artist of the incoming "fashion" Barbara Brylskaya, and if it were not for the threat of Vyacheslav Shalevich to leave behind Elsa, Zhanna Layabr would play a Polish star. Having learned about the "intercession" of colleagues, Lezhdey reported Shalevich: the artist never reached the "raking" roles, did not suit anyone and did not intrigue.
Personal life
Soon after the end of the theater university, young artist married a novice director Vladimir Naumova. In 1962, the Son Alexey was born at the pair. Lezhddey and Naumov broke up after the appearance of the firstborn: Elsa met on the set of "hockey players" Handsome Vyacheslav Shalevich, who was acutely experiencing a personal drama.
The actors became friends, and then lovers. Marriage with Naumov collapsed. After 10 years, the director married Natalia Belochvostova. A two-year-old Roman with Shalevich was not crowned with marriage: the pair broke up, but there were warm friendships.
The second and last official marriage of the actress - with a handsome, intellectual and the movie star in Vsevolod Safonov. Having visited the top of Glory, the actor was difficult to survive half-breed. The problem "TOPIL" in alcohol.
When the novel with Elsa Ledzhdey broke out, the woman put an ultimatum: will remain together only in the event of a complete abandonment of alcohol. Safonov will overcome dependence for the sake of beloved. In 1971, two stars got married. The happy 20 years have lived together.
Safonov died from cancer in 1992. Elsa Ladzhdey was seriously worried about the death of her husband. The tragedy aggravated by unclaimed and loneliness. Colleagues, viewers, journalists remembered the star.
Death
The problems with health from the actress began in the late 1980s, when the final series of a cult detective was shot. Elsa Ivanovna appeared in the episode - a woman left forces, and also at home I was waiting for a sick husband.
Ledzhdey survived Vsevolod Safonov for 9 years. She died at the June 2001 night in a Moscow apartment, where Alexei's son was visited by her granddaughter.
About the disease Actress - she was given the same diagnosis as her husband - the proud Elsa Lekdey did not tell anyone. The idol of millions of television viewers lived on a modest pension and help guild of film actors.
The autopsy showed that the artist, painful lung cancer, died from a heart attack. She was buried on the metropolitan Khovansky cemetery, where the mother and her husband had previously found. Documentary tape "ROCK ROLE" was removed about the fastest star.
Filmography
- 1954 - "Sea student"
- 1955 - "First Echelon"
- 1956 - "Pavel Korchagin"
- 1957 - "Storm"
- 1958 - "Soldiers walked"
- 1958 - "Wind"
- 1959 - "Soldier Ballad"
- 1961 - "On the way"
- 1964 - "They walked to the East"
- 1964 - "Goodbye, boys!"
- 1964 - "Hockey players"
- 1965 - "The squadron goes to the West"
- 1968 - "Straight Line"
- 1971-89 - "The investigation is conducted by experts"
- 1993 - "Wolf"