Elena Yakovleva is a Russian film and stage actress known for the leading role in Intergirl (1989) and also as a lead of the popular Russian TV franchise ‘Kamenskaya’.
She was born Elena Alekseevna Yakovleva on March 5, 1961, in Novograd-Volynsky, Zhitomir province, Ukraine republic of the Soviet Union (now Novohrad, Ukraine). Her father, Aleksei Nikolaevich Yakovlev, was an Army officer. Her mother, Valeria Pavlovna, was a science researcher. Her great-grandmother was an actress. Young Yakovleva was fond of theatre, she participated in school plays. In 1978 she graduated from a secondary school and took a job as a librarian at public library in Kharkov, then worked at a local electronics industry. In 1980 she moved to Moscow and enrolled in the State Institute for Theatrical Arts (GITIS). In 1984 she graduated from the class of Vladimir Andreev as an actress, and joined the troupe of Sovremennik Theatre in Moscow.
In 1983, while still a student, Yakovleva made her big screen debut as Lera opposite Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy in Dvoe pod odnim zontom: Aprelskaya skazka (1983). From 1986-1989 she was a member of the troupe at Moscow Theatre named after M.I. Ermopova, however, she was not very busy on stage. In 1989 Elena Yakovleva shot to fame with the leading role as Tatiana, a medical nurse turned prostitute because of the grim life in the Soviet Union, in Intergirl (1989), a film adaptation of the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. She received numerous awards and nominations for the role, and was named the “Best Actress” of 1990 in the Soviet Union. Elena Yakovleva became a celebrity in Russia after her portrayal of a compassionate prostitute, but she managed to overcome the drawback of her popularity and departed from being typecast as a “femme fatale” of Russian cinema. After the success of Intergirl (1989), she demonstrated her range and multifaceted talent playing a string of leading and supporting roles in about 20 films. Her role as Kamenskaya, a criminal investigator in modern day Moscow, turned into a six-year gig, and brought Yakovleva a new wave of popularity, becoming her most acclaimed work on television.
From 1984 – 1986, and since 1989, Elena Yakovleva has been a member of the troupe at “Sovremennik” Theatre in Moscow, under directorship of Galina Volchek. There her stage partners has been such actors as Sergey Shakurov, Dina Korzun, Valentin Gaft, Inna Churikova, Sergey Garmash, Marina Neyolova, Chulpan Khamatova and other notable Russian actors.
Elena Yakovleva has been married to actor Valeri Shalnykh, and the couple has one son, Denis, born in 1992. Yakovleva is a popular TV show host in Russia. Outside of her acting profession she spends time playing tennis, or walking her two dogs; she is also involved in public activity related to social causes. Yakovleva is residing with her family in Moscow, Russia.
Elena Yakovleva Biography / Wiki
| Name | Elena Yakovleva |
| Also Know | Елена Яковлева, Yelena Yakovleva |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Novograd-Volynsky, Zhytomyr region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR, (now Ukraine) |
| Date of Birth | 1961-03-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 61 |
| Deathday |
Elena Yakovleva Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
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| Intergirl | Tatyana | 1989-01-21 | The action takes place in Leningrad n the time of “perestroika” during the 1980’s. Tatyana is a beautiful Russian nurse who is underpaid at her hospit… |
| Karasi | 2008-11-11 | Colonel Karas lives with his wife, Larisa, a gynaecologist and their son, Andrey in a large house in the city. Apart from his demanding job in the mil… | |
| Bringing Up Cruelty in Women and Dogs | Anna | 1992-07-27 | A single woman’s and her dog’s personalities are affected by tough life circumstances…. |
| Полет птицы | 1989-03-06 | … | |
| Retro Threesome | Rita | 1998-05-09 | Set in contemporary Moscow, this comedy drama from 72-year-old director Pyotr Todorovsky is a remake of Abram Room’s controversial silent film Bed and… |
| Russian Roulette | 1990-12-01 | Two youngsters are leading not so law abiding life and the consequences are tragic…… | |
| Rita | 2010-06-05 | This is a love story of two people who for … Life experience does not allow them to fully believe each other, they are afraid of something, they can… | |
| An Outrageous Woman | 1992-05-01 | … | |
| Мать ИиÑуÑа | 1991-07-10 | … | |
| Naydyonish | Ðнна КраÑнова | 2012-04-21 | … |
| Lestnitsa | 1989-06-06 | Герой фильма Владимир Пирошников в поиÑках выхода из жизненного тупика мучительн… | |
| Own Cross | Olga | 1989-02-01 | A historian is looking for police agents stories from before the revolution. After his sudden death the search is continued by his wife…. |
| Faithfulness We Pledge | 1989-03-27 | Story of Sergio Rodriguez, commissar of an International Battalion in the Spanish Civil War… | |
| Юкка | 1998-01-01 | … | |
| Naydenysh 2 | Ðнна КраÑнова | 2011-03-07 | Ðнна и Ðикита воÑпитывают чужого ребенка, но теперь у них поÑвилÑÑ ÑˆÐ°Ð½Ñ Ð½Ð° рождени… |
| Naydenysh | Ðнна КраÑнова | 2010-02-28 | Двое воÑпитанников детÑкого дома влюблÑÑŽÑ‚ÑÑ Ð´Ñ€ÑƒÐ³ в друга, и их Ð¾Ñ‚Ð½Ð¾ÑˆÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¾Ñ‡ÐµÐ½ÑŒ бых |
| A Diary of a First-grader Mom | 2014-10-30 | A year from the life of a first-grader and his parents…. | |
| I’m Staying | Natalya Tyrsa | 2007-04-19 | Many people assume that life does not end after death. Not Dr. Tyrsa, practical and skeptical man, who never believed in this nonsense. However, thank… |
| Nobody Knows Sex | Kesha’s mother | 2006-03-15 | A young guy from province arrives to Moscow and his life turns upside down…. |
| Dominika | Dominika (43 years) | 2018-07-05 | An unusual baby, a girl named Dominica, was dumped off to a perspective architect Kostia. Every time Kostia gets angry – the baby grows up…… |
| Seven Dinners | mother-in-law | 2019-02-14 | After five years of marriage, their relationships have come to a dead end – no kids, no common interests, almost no more love is left… When the wi… |
| Чернов | 1990-10-06 | … | |
| Ada’s Family | 2007-12-01 | Until her unexpected death, grandma Ada was the head of the entire family. But even after death, the business-like old woman does not leave her relati… | |
| Plumbum, or The Dangerous Game | Mariya | 1987-01-19 | A young teenage boy zealously tracks down criminals in this allegorical drama. Using the code name of Plumbum, Ruslan Chutko (Anton Androsov) delights… |
| Black Square | 1992-01-01 | While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government…. | |
| The Woman in the Window | 1993-01-26 | A juggler Valerian from a circus does not recognize his classmate, but she still loves him, and his son named Valerian …… | |
| A Step | Tatyana | 1988-06-08 | Romantic love story of Russian physician Gusev and Japanese woman Keiko takes place in time of fighting of Russian and Japanese scientists against pol… |
| Encore, Once More Encore! | Anya Kryukova | 1992-06-06 | A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers dri… |
| The Last Six Degrees of Celebration | Andrey’s mother | 2018-12-27 | “The Last Six Degrees of Celebration” will be the most touching, kind and magical of all, because your favorite characters will say goodbye to the aud… |
| The Last Warrior: Root of Evil | Baba Yaga | 2021-01-01 | Peace and tranquility have set in Belogorie. The evil was defeated and Ivan is now enjoying his well-deserved fame. He is surrounded by his family, fr… |
| The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness | Baba Yaga | 2021-12-23 | Now that Ivan is about to turn 21, he is now grown up and finally old enough to marry the beautiful Vasilisa. But when Vasilisa is kidnapped and trapp… |
| Привет, Киндер! | Светлана, мама Тёмки | 2009-10-24 | Romance, Comedy in Russian… |
| Distant Close | Nadejda | 2022-09-29 | Boris works as a geography teacher in an ordinary Khabarovsk school. His life is pretty routine. In addition to the school and the garden, Boris has a… |
| Crime & Punishment | 2007-12-03 | Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above th… | |
| Traveled | 2023-03-08 | A road movie about a girl who decides to drop everything and ride a bike from Moscow to Magadan…. | |
| My Step Brother Frankenstein | Rita | 2004-10-21 | One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. … |
| Space Dogs | Strelka (voice) | 2010-03-18 | Belka, the amazing flying dog is unexpectedly hurdled into the streets of Moscow when the rocket she is in malfunctions during one of her circus routi… |
| УÑлышь мое Ñердце | 2010-06-06 | ÐŸÑ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ð½Ñ†Ð¸Ð°Ð»ÑŒÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð´ÐµÐ²ÑƒÑˆÐºÐ° Ð¢Ð°Ð½Ñ ÐšÐ»Ð¾Ñ‡ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð° работает официанткой в кафе, раÑположенном … | |
| Friends of Friends | 2013-10-10 | New Year’s Eve stories intersect promoter for the first time to stay home with five years old, three musicians from the Philharmonic, dared to rob ste… | |
| What a Wonderful Game | 1995-05-15 | In a dormitory in 1951 four students prefer pranks to studying…. | |
| The Best Day Ever | 2015-12-24 | For a successful Road Patrol Service officer time to start a family, but he lives with his mother. When Petia decides to propose Olya marriage, his o… | |
| The Wonderland | Люба (жена Семёна) | 2016-01-01 | The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, h… |
| Сердце не камень | 1989-01-02 | … | |
| Two Under One Umbrella | Лера | 1983-12-20 | ‎Juggler Dan is beautiful and carefree and not too eager to become the circus main star. However, the meeting with Olga, who has no doubts about his… |
| Peppermint Gingerbread | 2022-02-26 | “Peppermint Gingerbread” is two stories – two lives. One is extremely sweet and cloying, like a Christmas fairy tale, the second is scary to the poi… | |
| In Jazz Style | 2010-10-04 | A successful young man meets a disappointed in love 26 years old girl. She fails for him and so her younger sister and still beautiful mother…. | |
| ПÑÑ‚ÑŒ звёзд | 2012-08-13 | … | |
| Flight Crew | Irina | 2016-04-21 | A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force … |
| The Last Warrior | Baba-Yaga | 2017-10-19 | Ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. In this parallel universe where characters of Russian fa… |
| Cheburashka | 2023-01-01 | What if Cheburashka really exists? What if he is not a plush toy, but quite a real furry animal that lives in an orange grove in a distant country? Wh… | |
| Cosmoball | Anton’s mother | 2020-08-27 | Cosmoball is a mesmerizing intergalactic game of future played between humans and aliens at the giant extraterrestrial ship hovering in the sky over E… |
| A Strong Personality from 2 “A” | Lena | 1984-01-01 | Once a second-grader Dima Kruglikov learned that all the great people became so because they did not waste time on trifles, they had a clear regime of… |
| Six Degrees of Celebration 6 | мама ÐÐ½Ð´Ñ€ÐµÑ | 2017-12-21 | As the new year celebrations approach, a bunch of characters throughout Russia experience diverse situations that eventually get interconnected toward… |
| Time to fly | 1987-01-18 | Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according to the authors of the film-parable, this tragicomi… | |
| A Rough Draft | 2018-05-25 | Young Muscovite Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kiril… | |
| The Spot | 2005-12-01 | A story about the life of several girls who came from outskirts of Ukrainian provincial town Makeevka to Moscow…. | |
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