Years active 1956 – presents Name Galina Volchek | Role Theater Director Children Denis Yevstigneyev | |
Full Name Galina Borisovna Volchek Born 19 December 1933 (age 90) ( 1933-12-19 ) Moscow, USSR Occupation actress, theater director Awards USSR State Prize
People's Artist of the USSR
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (full cavalier) Spouse Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev (m. 1957–1964) Parents Vera Maymina, Boris Volchek Movies King Lear, Autumn Marathon, Beware of the Car, Don Quixote Similar People Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Marina Neyolova, Boris Volchek, Denis Yevstigneyev, Eldar Ryazanov | ||
Galina volchek
Galina Borisovna Volchek (Russian: Гали́на Бори́совна Во́лчек; born December 19, 1933) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film director, actress and teacher.
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Biography
Galina Volchek is a daughter of the cameraman and director Boris Volchek. After finishing the Moscow Art Theatre School (1955, Karev course) she co-founded the Sovremennik Theatre, together with Igor Kvasha, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov and Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev. Since 1972 she has been the chief director of the theater, and since 1989 its artistic director. Volchek has directed over thirty productions. Among them are Russian and world classics, works of contemporary domestic and foreign authors.
She was repeatedly invited to productions in theaters in Germany, Finland, Ireland, the USA, Hungary, Poland and other countries. She was engaged many times in theater pedagogy activities abroad.
Volchek was elected a deputy into the State Duma in 1995, where she became a member of the Committee on Culture. In 1999 Volchek left the parliament.
Personal life
Galina Volchek said: I had two husbands, several romances and one fallacy. She was married twice: