Natalya Vavilova
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Natalya Dmitrievna Vavilova is a Russia
Russia
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n film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 actress.

Biography

Vavilova started her career as an actress at the age of fourteen. She appeared in several pictures in supporting roles.
In 1984, Natalya Vavilova graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, studying under Yevgeny Matveyev, an acclaimed Russian actor and director. Her classmate was Alim Kouliev
Alim Kouliev
Alim Kaisynovich Kouliev is a Russian-American actor and director. Kouliev was born in Nalchik — a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother Eldar Kuliev is a Russian film director and a screenwriter, living in Moscow. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev...

. Success and fame brought her the role of Aleksandra in the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 picture Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Moscow Does not Believe in Tears is a 1980 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Menshov's wife Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in...

.

While being filmed for the picture Nikolai Podvoisky
Nikolai Podvoisky
Nikolai Ilyich Podvoisky was a Russian revolutionary. He played a large role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and wrote many articles for the Soviet newspaper Krasnaya Gazeta...

, she fell from a horse and suffered a spinal trauma. Her last film was The Sukhovo-Kobylin Case. After she accomplished that work, Natalya Vavilova stopped pursuing her acting carrier. Since that time she has avoided all contacts with the press. She lives with her husband, Russian
Russians
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 film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

  Samvel Gasparov
Samvel Gasparov
Samvel Vladimirovich Gasparov is a Soviet/Russian film director and short story writer. He worked for some time at the Odessa Film Studio.Gasporov is one of the Russian filmmakers most interested in the Red Western form, having directed both Hatred and The Sixth One as well as the lesser known...

, in a house twelve kilometers from Moscow
Moscow
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. She is involved in floriculture
Floriculture
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 and philanthropy
Philanthropy
Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...

.

Filmography

  • The Sukhovo-Kobylin Case (1991) (TV)
  • Road Hawks (1990)
  • Nayezdniki (1987)
  • The Barman from "Golden Anchor"
  • The Time of Sons
  • Do Not Marry, Girls
  • Poyezd vne raspisaniya (1985)
  • My Elected (1984)
  • Goldfishes (1983)
  • The Doctor's Pupil (1983)
  • We Weren't Married in Church (1982)
  • The Driver for One Trip (1981) (TV)
  • Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
    Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
    Moscow Does not Believe in Tears is a 1980 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Menshov's wife Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in...

     (1979)
  • Polovodye (1980)
  • Invasion (1980)
  • Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street
  • Red Diplomatic Couriers
  • Practical Joke (1976)

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