Actress Elena Alekseevna Koreneva twice changed the course of her life. The first time, after waiting nine rejections in the OVIR, she managed to go to the United States to live with her American husband. The second was when I returned to Russia – to freedom, creativity, and native culture. Both decisions were given to Elena not easily, but she, as a persistent person, did not pass before the difficulties. Since childhood, Lena Koreneva tried to avoid limits, restrictions, conventions - all this
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Actress Elena Alekseevna Koreneva twice changed the course of her life. The first time, after waiting nine rejections in the OVIR, she managed to go to the United States to live with her American husband. The second was when I returned to Russia – to freedom, creativity, and native culture. Both decisions were given to Elena not easily, but she, as a persistent person, did not pass before the difficulties.
Since childhood, Lena Koreneva tried to avoid limits, restrictions, conventions - all this was not for her. The future actress was born on October 3, 1953 in a family of filmmakers. Her early and cherished dream of becoming a ballerina did not come true, but at the age of 16 she first starred in films with her father.
"A romance about lovers" In which Elena Koreneva played the main role, he elevated her to the height of fame. This picture was followed by "Asya" by Joseph Heifitz,
Yaroslavna, Queen of France Director Igor Maslennikov, where Koreneva played the main roles. Elena was charming in the role of Elizaveta Potapovna ("Matchmaking of the hussar"), created an inimitable image of Martha (
"The very Munchausen" ), was defenseless and touching in the image of the beloved hero of the famous "Pokrovsky Gate". But the success and demand in the USSR did not keep the actress in her homeland: she sought to go to the West, like many of her friends, since everyone who was dear to her or interesting, sooner or later became immigrants. Koreneva married American Kevin and flew overseas.
Eleven years in the U.S. have been hollow, at least creatively. It was impossible to continue a career as an actress in America. Polyglot and intellectual Kevin, although he tried, did not become the person who would fill the void formed in his wife’s life. She learned English, worked in a cafeteria, and during her emigration, she visited her homeland twice - in 1987 and 1988. For the second time, Elena lived in Russia for a year, and during this time she played in four films:
"Comedies about Lysistratus" "Trap for a Single Man", "Chernov / Chernov", "Anne Karamazoff". Gradually, the decision to return home for good, and in 1993, after divorcing her husband, Elena again became a Muscovite.
The choice turned out to be right: as if not losing eleven years, Elena Koreneva again found herself in her element. For ten years after her return, the actress played in eleven films, two of which she created as a director. Contemplating these works ("Nocturne Chopin", "Lucia and Grisha"), one can involuntarily recall the words of Zhukovsky: "And the soul, and poetry win." /