This actress returned to the cinema three times, returned against fate, the decisions of officials and the perestroika collapse. And each time she brought something new to the screen.
The fate of the artist Zinaide Kiriyenko prophesied her mother - Alexandra Ivanova, a woman from those that "horse on a gallop will stop, in a burning hut will enter." The real father of the actress Georgy Shirokov (Kirienko has the surname of his stepfather, who replaced her father) was convicted in 1939 and his fate is unknown.
Zinaida was born in 1933 in Makhachkala. When she was three years old, her parents divorced, and this later saved the mother and daughter from repression. The idea of becoming an artist Zinaida was pushed by her aunt, a famous circus artist at the time, and more.
The Man with the Gun .
In VGIK, she managed to enter only the second time (graduated in 1958), but already on the student bench she starred in the school.
Film "Hope" from his teacher and director S. Gerasimov. And then Gerasimov decides to remove Zinaida as Natalia Melekhova - one of the main characters.
The Quiet Don . It was the star debut of the young actress. Then she starred in
"Poem of the Sea" and
"Forty-stealer" . After graduating from VGIK, she became an actress of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, and in 1964 - the Theater-Studio of the film actor.
Her next, and again successful, roles were in
"The Fate of Man" "Tales of the Flame Years,"
Cossacks . And suddenly, at the very height of his acting career, Kirienko disappears from the screens. As the actress later told, it was a price for her reluctance to "get to know better" with one of the senior officials.
“Taboo” violated E. Matveev, who invited Kiriyenko to star in films
"Earthly love" and
"Fate" in the role of Efrosynya Deryugina, and the audience instantly remembered their favorite actress. For this role, she was awarded the State Prize of the USSR and the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. Then there were
"Two captains" and
"Medicine against fear" And then there was the rebuilding.
Her “third coming” occurred in 1996 again in the film by E. Matveev.
film "Love in Russian-2" .
With her husband, actor Valery Tarasevsky, with whom they “lived happily ever after”, Zinaida met during the filming of the film “Cossacks”. They had two sons, Timur and Maxim. /