Actress Nina Zotkin Biography

Is there news? Send ”Soviet actress Nina Zotkin was found in her apartment two weeks after death. This was announced by director Mikhail Degtyar on his Facebook. The news of the death of the main role in the film “Two on the Way” at the age of 69 shocked many fans and lovers of Soviet cinema. Unfortunately, little is known about the life of the actress. Nina Zotkin was born in Penza’s creative path, but she did not remain to study in her hometown.

Dreams of the stage pulled the girl to Moscow, where in the year she graduated from the famous theater school named after B. a year before the release of Zotkin played one of her most famous roles - Olya Chumakova in the film “Two on the way”. The black name of the tape "Olya is ugly." According to the director of the film Leonid Maryagin, the castings for the main role did not give the desired results for a long time.

However, once he met the young actress Zotkin, who possessed both strong acting data and a characteristic textured appearance. We held samples in which we confirmed our assumptions, and the picture did not go, but rushed. The natural organic of Nina allowed her to accurately embody the proposed pattern of scenes, ”Maryagin wrote in his memoirs. This role brought a young acting of several significant awards, including at international and all -Union festivals.

Zotkina received two awards - a prize for the best female role and a prize of criticism of the film festival in Prague in the year, as well as a prize for the best female role at the Donetsk Film Festival in the year. The frame from the film “Late Berry”, however, after such an impressive acting debut, the girl had to return to Penza, since during the USSR, nonresident students who were trained in Moscow had to return to the small homeland on distribution.

This incredibly upset the young actress, but there was nowhere to go. Of the trips, she brought, besides everything else, a heap of enthusiastic reviews. Then - a prize for the best female role at the All -Union Festival in Donetsk ... What next? Then it was necessary to go to his native Penza, to the theater, to improve skills, to develop a profession. To take such a step after triumph is not easy.

Now I can't go home! I have to stay in Moscow! She left, disappeared from sight, ”the director of“ two on the way ”recalled this. Taking a short break, Zotkina returned with new forces to conquer the capital. The actress played roles in such ribbons as “we didn’t go through it”, “what the stands are not recognized about”, “The schedule for tomorrow”, “Wild hops” The last work in the cinema fell on the peak of the crisis in Russian film production.

Zotkina played in one of the episodes of the series “The split” and forever left the screens of cinemas and TVs. Since then, nothing was heard of her. In the year, the couple had a son Yegor, but now little is known about his whereabouts and kind of activity. Presumably, he followed in the footsteps of his parents and graduated from VGIK. Yegor Pankin even had a small role - he played the baby in the film “Horses at the crossing” with his father.

Alexey Pankin died in the year. An undeservedly forgotten, not fully revealed her talent, the actress passed away in complete solitude. Previously 5-TV.