Valentina Petrovna Telegina (Russian: Валенти́на Петро́вна Теле́гина; February 23, 1915 — October 4, 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress.
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Biography
Valentina Petrovna Telegina was born on February 23, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks (now the Rostov Oblast).
In 1937, she graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts, workshop of Sergei Gerasimov.
In 1937 she became an actress of Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre, moving to the Baltic Fleet Theatre in 1940, until 1941.
She started acting in films in 1934. She had her first big role as Motya Kotenkova in Sergei Gerasimov's film Komsomolsk, released in 1938.
After the war she moved to Moscow, working at the Gorky Film Studio from 1946.
She aimed to embody the character of the Russian woman in all its diversity.
Telegina died on October 4, 1979. She was buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe Cemetery.
Selected filmography
Komsomolsk (1938) as Motya Kotenkova
The New Teacher (1939) as Stepanida Ivanovna Lautina
Member of the Government (1939) as Praskovya Telegina
The District Secretary (1942) as Darya
Springtime (1947) as Researcher
The Train Goes East (1947) as Pasha
The Precious Seed (1948) as Varvara Stepanovna Kurochkina
Cossacks of the Kuban (1950) as Avdotya Khristoforovna
The Village Doctor (1951) as medical orderly
Sporting Honour (1951) as Vetlugina
The Frigid Sea (1954) as Terentyevna
World Champion (1954) as aunt Polya
Sailor Chizhik (1955) as Avdotya Petrovna
The Drummer's Fate (1955) as aunt Tanya
Pavel Korchagin (1956) as moonshiner
It Happened in Penkovo (1957) as Alevtina
The House I Live In (1957) as Klavdia Kondratyevna Davydova
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as Old woman truck driver
Resurrection (1960) as Korablyova
Awards
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
