Zhanna Andreevna Bolotova (Russian: Жанна Андреевна Болотова; October 10, 1941, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She is a USSR State Prize laureate (1977) and was designated The People's Artist of Russia in 1985. She is married to the actor and theatre/film director Nikolai Gubenko.



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Zhanna Bolotova was born in the Siberian resort Karachi Lake nearby Novosibirsk, on October 19, 1941. She debuted on screen while still at school, playing plucky Galya Volynskaya in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. In 1964 she graduated Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre. As a first year student she married Nikolay Gubenko; the pair soon divorced but re-united several years later.

Among Zhanna Bolotova's best-known films were Humans and Animals (1962) and To Love Somebody (1972), both by Sergei Gerasimov. In 1969 she's got her first international award, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return (best female role). Another award in the same category brought her the Silence of Dr. Evens (1974), at the Triest Film Festival. She also starred in several films by her husband Nikolai Gubenko, among them Wounded Game (1977), Scenes from the Life of Resort Visitors (1980), Life, Tears and Love (1984). In 1977 Bolotova received the USSR State Prize for her part in The Flight of Mister McKinley. In 1985 Bolotova was awarded the title The People's Artist of Russia.

All in all Zhanna Bolotova appeared in 28 films. In the 1990s her film career virtually ended. Only in 2005, after 17 years' pause she appeared in the small role of a University professor in Zhmurki.



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