Margarita Terekhova

Known for ActingBorn 1942-08-25 (age 83)Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996. From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined. After that she enrolled to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre. After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre. From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group "The Puppet Show" organized by her and Igor Talkov. Terekhova's acting debut was in 1965 in the film Hello, That's Me!. Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s, after the release of a costumed musical TV films The Dog in the Manger and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor, in the second - the treacherous Milady. Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh (Monologue, 1972) as well as the dual-role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed Mirror (1975). And more international co-productions came after, including George Cukor's The Blue Bird (1976) and Konrad Wolf's Mama, I'm Alive (1977). Terekhova's subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work. Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov. They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective "Balaganchik". In 2005 she made her debut as a director, shooting the film The Seagull based on the work of Anton Chekhov. Since then, Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public eventsRead more

Movies & web series

Green Goat Fire

Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes

Sergeev Seeking Sergeev

Our Father

While the Mountains Still Stand...

Mirror

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich

Dissident

The Dog in the Manger

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

The Forbidden Fruit

To Remember

Everything Could Have Been Otherwise

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Let's Get Married

Byelorussian Station

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Daylight Train

Marta the Pious Woman

Hello, It's Me!

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Ordinary Children

Monologue

Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow

Islands: Georgy Rerberg

The Blue Bird

The Fourth

Ono

The Wave Runner

Primary Russia

За синими ночами

For Crazies Only

Who Will go to Truskavets?

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Mama, I’m Alive

Trust

Journey to the Mother

Family Happiness

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky

The Seagull

The Trail

In the Middle of the World

Broken Light

Achisai

I Don't Want to Be Unhappy

Santa Esperansa

No Peace for Me in Love

The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut