Irina Miroshnichenko. Photo credit: 1tv.ru
Actress Irina Miroshnichenko passed away, TASS reports. According to the Moscow Art Theater School, she died on Thursday, August, 3. The 81-year-old actress was hospitalized a few days ago. According to some reports, she did not feel well because of flu.
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theater reported that the date, place and time of farewell ceremony would be announced later.
The actress was born on July 24, 1942 in Barnaul. In the mid-1940s, the family moved to Moscow.
Irina Miroshnichenko became interested in theatrical art at school. In the tenth grade, she began attending a studio at the Lenin Komsomol Moscow State Theater.
In 1965 she graduated from the Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio, after which she worked in the Gorky Moscow Art Academic Theater of the USSR for many years. After the division of the troupe in 1987, she remained in the team headed by Oleg Efremov (now the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater), where she served until 2023. The audience saw her in performances based on plays by Lev Sheinin, Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorky, Tennessee Williams, Mikhail Bulgakov and many other authors.
In the cinema, the actress made her debut as a student - in 1963 she performed the episodic role of Katya in Georgy Danelia's ''Walking the Streets of Moscow''
She became famous thanks to ''We Knew Him Only by Sight'', A Soldier Came From the Front'', ''Love and Lies'', and others. Her filmography includes more than 40 films and series.
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