Actress Elena Kostina: roles, facts, biography and filmography

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Elena Kostina is a film actress from Russia. The track record of a native of the city of Moscow includes 30 cinematic roles. She starred in such popular films as "Sunday, half past six", "Vertical Racing". She began her film career with the role of Alice in the film "Flights in a Dream and Reality", where such famous actors as Oleg Yankovsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Tabakov acted as her partners. In 2015, she starred in the feature film Jafaron.

Biography

Elena Kostina was born on July 31, 1964. In 1986, she successfully passed the final exams at the Moscow Art Theater School. Studied with Oleg Efremov. In 1992, the actress was admitted to the Yermolova Theater, where she would work for four years. In 2000, she became an actress at the Impromptu Children's Musical Theater, where she still works. In 2009 she received the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Movies, genres, roles

You can see the heroines of Elena Kostina in the films of the following cinematic genres:

• Action: "Destroy the thirtieth!","Zero option".
• Drama: "Around the second circle", "Zig Zag", "Love conquers everything", "Unequal marriage", "Gentlemen artists", "Flying in a dream and in reality", "Capablanca", "Temple of the Air", "Siberian Spas", "Anecdote", "A Little Favor".
• Comedy: "Love.ru", "Comrade Stalin's Journey to Africa".
• Melodrama: "Matchmaker", "If I want to, I'll fall in love".
• Thriller: Hellfire.
• Detective: "Vertical Racing".
• Story: "Fiend of Hell".
• Crime: Airport Incident.
• Adventure: "A Man from Team Alpha".

Elena Kostina starred with actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Andrey Myagkov, Andrey Stepanov, Igor Livanov, Valentin Gaft, Cesar Evora, Sergei Bondarchuk, Galina Belyaeva.

In 1994 she starred in the American film "Inferno" by David Tausik.

In the movie she played a secretary, the governor's wife, a singer, a mistress, a nurse, an airport dispatcher. In the films "Love conquers everything", "Gentlemen artists", "Bigfoot" played the main characters.

This is interesting

Elena Kostina from an acting family. Her great-grandfather worked with the famous director Eisenstein, and her great-grandmother played in silent films. Elena Kostina's grandfather portrayed Theophan the Greek in the projectTarkovsky "Andrei Rublev". The uncle of the actress played the role of the director in "We'll Live Until Monday." Despite this, Elena did not want to be an artist.

Elena Kostina's mother worked as an engineer, but she always dreamed of playing on stage. According to the actress, her mother would support her if she applied to a theater university. But in childhood and youth, Lena saw herself as a biologist. She even helped zookeepers clean the animals' cages.

Once a good friend of Lena's mother, actress Lyudmila Ivanova, called her and offered to bring her daughter to audition for a film directed by Balayan. A few months after this call, tenth grader Yelena Kostina went to Vladimir to star in her first film.