Margarita Terekhova
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.22 |
Birthday | 1942-08-25 |
Place of Birth | Turinsk, Sverdlovsk region, USSR [now Russia] |
Also Known As | Margarita Terekhova, Margarita Borisovna Terekhov, Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова, Margareta Terechova, |
1976
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
7.3/9
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
1975
Mirror
8/959
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet histor...
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Mirror
1976
Trust
3.5/4
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Trust
1972
My Life
0/1
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My Life
1980
Санта Эсперанса
0/0
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Санта Эсперанса
1973
Детство. Отрочество. Юность
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Детство. Отрочество. Юность
1990
Зелёный огонь козы
0/0
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Зелёный огонь козы
1990
Our Father
0/0
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Our Father
1977
The Dog in the Manger
6.8/22
A musical comedy based on classical play by Félix Lope de Vega.
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The Dog in the Manger
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Dissident
5/1
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Dissident
1980
Marta the Pious Woman
6/8
A musical comedy based on the classic play by Tirso de Molina.
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1973
Monologue
5.7/13
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Monologue
2005
Chayka
0/0
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Chayka
1976
Daylight Train
5.9/8
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1971
Byelorussian Station
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1967
The Wave Runner
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1966
Hello, It's Me!
5.2/4
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1977
Mama, I’m Alive
3.9/7
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1969
Angel Pavement
0/0
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The Trail
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1978
Ordinary Children
5.2/4
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1999
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
7/10
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
1979
Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow
4.8/6
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1967
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
9/1
Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend.
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Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
1976
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
3.5/6
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1972
The Fourth
5.3/7
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1976
The Blue Bird
5.3/28
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1986
Primary Russia
4.6/9
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1977
While the Mountains Still Stand...
6/1
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1974
Сергеев ищет Сергеева
8.5/2
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1990
In the Middle of the World
0/0
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1978
Who Will go to Truskavets?
4.5/3
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1983
За синими ночами
5/1
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
0/0
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1971
Family Happiness
0.5/1
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1991
For Crazies Only
4/4
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1978
Players
0/0
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1982
Everything Could Have Been Otherwise
0/0
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1980
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
0/0
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1979
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
0/0
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1983
I Don't Want to Be Unhappy
0/0
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1990
It
4.2/6
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1982
Let's Get Married
5/2
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1990
Broken Light
0/0
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Broken Light
1994
The Forbidden Fruit
0/0
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2007
Islands: Georgy Rerberg
5.3/3
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1988
Achisai
0/0
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