Natalya Fateyeva

Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva (Russian: Наталья Николаевна Фатеева; born 23 December 1934) is a Soviet and Russian film actress and television presenter. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1956. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980).^[1]

Natalya Fateyeva
Born	Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva (1934-12-23) 23 December 1934 (age 90) Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actress, television presenter
Years active	1956–2013

Biography

Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva was born and brought up in Kharkiv. Her father was a Soviet military officer, and her mother was manager of a local fashion shop. She studied acting at Kharkiv Acting College during the 1950s and was briefly married to a student classmate, but soon she divorced the student and moved to Moscow. There, after meeting Sergei Gerasimov, Fateyeva was admitted to the graduate year at VGIK acting school.

She was voted "the most beautiful Soviet actress" in the early 1960s by readers of the Soviet film magazine Sovetsky Ekran and other publications.^{[citation needed]}

Natalya Fateyeva was married, and divorced, three times. She has two children, a son and a daughter. She lives in Moscow, Russia.^{[citation needed]}

Political position and social activity

Natalya Fateyeva was awarded Medal "Defender of a Free Russia" by president Boris Yeltsin for her active position defending democracy in Russia.^[2] In 1999, Fateyeva was awarded Order of Honour for her achievements in the art of cinema^[3]

Natalya Fateyeva was member of People's Freedom Party (Russia) and also was associated with the leadership of United Democratic Movement Solidarnost until both political parties were banned and dissolved in Russia.^[4][5]

In 2014 and 2022, she condemned both the annexation of Crimea and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[6][7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	The Variegateds Case	Lena
1963	Three Plus Two	Zoya Pavlovna
1965	Children of Don Quixote	Marina Nikolayevna
1965	Hello, That's Me!	Lyusya
1970	Songs of the Sea	Nina Denisova
1971	Gentlemen of Fortune	Lyudmila Maltseva
1973	Moscow-Cassiopeia	Antonina Alekseyevna
1974	Teens in the Universe	Antonina Alekseyevna
1974	Countermeasure	Nina Vasilyevna Pavlova
1975	You will find it in battle	Alla Grebenschikova
1976	Practical Joke	Kaleriya Georgiyevna
1977	Bag of the Collector	Kseniya Nikolayevna Kovalyova
1978	A moment decides everything	Elena Pavlovna Ryzhova
1979	The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed	Ingrid Karlovna Sobolevskaya
1981	Syndicate-2	Lyubov Efimovna Derental
1983	From the Life of a Chief of the Criminal Police	Tatyana Georgiyevna
1983	Anna Pavlova	Mathilde Kschessinska
1987	A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines	Squaw, Comanche chief's wife
1991	Anna Karamazoff	Poisoned general's wife
1998	Day of the Full Moon	Railroad inspector
2007	Korolev	Sergei Korolev's mother