Nonna Mordyukova

Noyabrina Nonna Viktorovna Mordyukova November 25, 1925 July 6, 2008 was a Soviet actress and Peoples Artist of the USSR . She was the star of films like director Denis Yevstigneyevs Mama and Nikita Mikhalkovs 1980s hit Family Relations She costarred with the best actors of the Soviet era, among them Vasily Shukshin, Yuri Nikulin, Valentin Zubkov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov and others. The editorial board of the British Who Is Who encyclopedia has included Nona Mordyukova among the topactresses of theth century.

Nonna Viktorovna was born into a large family in the Cossack village of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Region, Ukrainian SSR. Nonna spent her childhood in a settlement where her mother worked as chairwoman of kolkhoz . In 1946 Nonna Mordyukova entered the Actors Faculty of VGIK and studied there under Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova. After graduating she played on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor and was often featured by film directors. In 1948, Nonna Mordyukova was married to actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov and had a son from him . The two were divorced in 1963.

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