Natalya Seleznyova

Soviet and Russian actress (born 1945)

Natalya Seleznyova
Наталья Селезнёва
Seleznyova in 2013
Born	Natalya Igorevna Seleznyova (1945-06-19) 19 June 1945 (age 78) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1953–present
Spouse	Vladimir Andreyev
Awards

Natalya Igorevna Seleznyova (Russian: Ната́лья И́горевна Селезнёва; born 19 June 1945) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.

Biography

She first took the stage at the age of six, participating in the Red Army Theatre plays. Her notable cinema work includes roles in films directed by Leonid Gaidai, like Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures and Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future.

In 1966 she graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (course of Boris Zakhava) and became an actress of Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire. In 1968, on the set of film "Caliph-Stork" met the actor Vladimir Andreyev, whom she married.

In the 1970s she became famous in the USSR as Mrs. Katarina, one of the main characters in "The 13 Chairs Pub" TV series.

In 2014, Seleznyova became an assistant to the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation (children's ombudsman).^[1]

Awards

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (30 September 1981)
People's Artist of Russia (2 May 1996)
Order of Friendship (1 December 2006)^[2]
Order of Honour (Russia) (16 July 2015)^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1953	Alyosha Ptitsyn Grows Up	Sashenka
1956	The Girl and the Crocodile	Katya Pastushkova
1961	Alenka	Elizabeta, sister Nyury
1965	Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (segment "Navazhdeniye")	Lida, student at the Polytechnic Institute
1966	Sasha-Sashenka	Sasha Krylova, painter
1966	Who invented the wheel?	Zoyka
1967	I Loved You	Lidia Nikolayevna
1969	Caliph-Stork	princess	TV
1969-1981	The 13 Chairs Pub	Pani Katarina	TV series
1970	Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase	Petya's mother
1970	As we were looking Tishka	nursery-governess
1972	Dot, dot, comma ...	district doctor
1973	Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future	Zinaida Mikhaylovna Timofeyeva
1974	One of the lads	Alya Malysheva
1975	It Can't Be!	Anatoly's wife
1978	In streets of dresser were taken ...	Driver's fellow-traveller
1979	The Theme	Svetlana, Yesenin's disciple
1979	Adventure Nuki	mama Alyoshi
1979	Seller birds	Countess	TV
1981	Caliph-Stork	Stork (voice)	TV Short
1982	Simply Awful!	Car repair worker
1982	Take care of men!	Alla, a colleague and a friend of Martha Petrovna
1985	City of brides
1995	House		TV series
1997	Old songs 2		TV movie
1998	Old songs 3	Zinaida Mikhailovna	TV movie
1998	Diva Mary	Inna
1998	Attorney Jubilee	neighbor, Attorney
2000	Agent in mini skirt	Natalya Ivanovna
2006	You will not leave me	mother Vera
2008	Swell mob	Aunt Sima, a neighbor Yuliya	TV movie

References

^ Вести
^ Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России № 1332 от 1 декабря 2006 года
^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 16 июля 2015 № 369 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»