Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 25, 1942
Place of Birth
Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Credits
52 titles
Margarita Terekhova
Biography
Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996. From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined. After that she enrolled to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre. After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre. From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group "The Puppet Show" organized by her and Igor Talkov. Terekhova's acting debut was in 1965 in the film Hello, That's Me!. Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s, after the release of a costumed musical TV films The Dog in the Manger and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor, in the second - the treacherous Milady. Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh (Monologue, 1972) as well as the dual-role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed Mirror (1975). And more international co-productions came after, including George Cukor's The Blue Bird (1976) and Konrad Wolf's Mama, I'm Alive (1977). Terekhova's subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work. Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov. They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective "Balaganchik". In 2005 she made her debut as a director, shooting the film The Seagull based on the work of Anton Chekhov. Since then, Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public events
Known For
Filmography
Journey to the Mother
Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Self
Islands: Georgy Rerberg
Self
The Seagull
Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
The Trail
The Forbidden Fruit
Sledovatelkata
To Remember
Narrator
For Crazies Only
Rita
Broken Light
In the Middle of the World
Green Goat Fire
Our Father
Ono
Anelka Lyadokhovskaya
Dissident
Achisai
Primary Russia
Theodora
I Don't Want to Be Unhappy
жена
За синими ночами
Everything Could Have Been Otherwise
Dorina
Let's Get Married
Елена Дмитриевна Воронова
Santa Esperansa
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Helena Landless
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Helena Landless
Marta the Pious Woman
Doña Marta
No Peace for Me in Love
Клеопатра / Дездемона / Офелия / Катарина / леди Анна
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
Манон Леско
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Milady de Winter
Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow
Антонина Сергеевна
Players
Ordinary Children
Vera, Olya's mother
Who Will go to Truskavets?
The Dog in the Manger
Diana
While the Mountains Still Stand...
Катя Шалагина
Mama, I’m Alive
Swetlana
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Margaret Louson
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Vera
Daylight Train
The Blue Bird
Milk
Trust
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai
Mirror
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
Sergeev Seeking Sergeev
Tanya
Monologue
Тася, дочь Сретенского
Childhood. Boyhood. Youth
Natalia Nikolayevna (Mama)
The Fourth
My Life
Byelorussian Station
Natasha Shipilova
Family Happiness
Masha
Angel Pavement
Lena Golspie
The Wave Runner
Biche Seniel / Frezi Grant