Acting

Natalya Tenyakova

Born 1944-07-03 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR

Died 2025-06-18

Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she formed a memorable comic duo with her husband and frequent co-star, Sergei Yursky.

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UNWRITTEN PLAY. One day in the life of a playwright
as (voice)
2025
The Frenchman
as Mariya Kirillovna
2019
Handmade Clouds
as Old Woman (voice)
2015
Outside the System
2013
The Chairs
as la Vieille
2010
Regarding the Bald Singer...
as Mrs. Smith
2009
Fathers and Sons
as Arina Bazarova
2008
Forest
as Гурмыжская
2006
This Queen of Spades
2004
Chekhov and Co.
as Даша
1998
To Remember
as Narrator
1993
The Gamblers: XXI
1992
Chernov/Chernov
as Tanya, Chernov's wife
1990
Swan Song
1990
The Widow Steamer
1989
The Light Shines in the Darkness
as Александра Ивановна Коховцева
1988
The Cabal of Hypocrites
1988
The Theater of I.S. Turgenev
as Наталья Петровна Ислаева / Анна Ильинишна Kaypoвa
1986
Banquet
as Vasily Petrovich's Wife (voice)
1986
The Stove on Wheels
as Ефросинья Сидоровна
1985
Ship of the Desert
as Turtle (voice)
1985
Love and Pigeons
as grandma Shura
1984
Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
as Фетинья Мироновна Епишкина / Акулина Гавриловна Красавина / Марфа Игнатьевна Кабанова / Пульхерия Андревна Гущина
1983
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
as Фатима
1983
Али-Баба и сорок разбойников
as Фатима
1983
Uncle's Dream
as Mariya Aleksandrovna
1981
Version
as Lyubov Mendeleyeva
1980
Ball
1979
Colonel Chabert
as графиня Ферро
1978
A Robbery at Midnight
as wife
1978
The Wife
1977
Fiesta
as Lady Brett Ashley
1971
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
as Евдокия Матвеевна Стольникова
1971
White Hair Urgently Required
as Natasha Proskurova
1970
The Golovlevs
1969
Our Friends
as Antonina Staroselskaya
1969
The Death of Vazir Mukhtar
as Lenhen Bulgarina
1969
Explosions in the Classroom
as Dina Borisovna
1969
Thunderstorm Over Belaya
as Sasha
1968
Prince Napoleon
as Julie
1968
One-Two… And King Me!
as Ламелла
1968
The Green Carriage
as Varvara Asenkova
1967
Elder Sister
as Lida
1967
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
as The Dark Lady
1966
Ships in Lissa
1965
A Long Cat Tale
as Alice
1965
Year When I Wasn't Born
as Nataliya Sudakova
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