Overview
Valentina Petrovna Telegina (; 1915 — 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress.
Biography
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. Since 1937 the actress of Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre, in 1940-1941 of the Baltic Fleet Theatre. In the cinema since 1934. She had her first big role as Motya Kotenkova in Sergei Gerasimov's film Komsomolsk.
After the war she moved to Moscow, working at the Gorky Film Studio from 1946.
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