Svetlana Vladimirovna Nemolyaeva (Russian: Светла́на Влади́мировна Немоля́ева; born 18 April 1937, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress of film and theatre. She is the widow of Alexander Lazarev.
Svetlana Nemolyaeva was born in Moscow in 1937. Her father Vladimir Viktorovich Nemolyaev (1902-1987) was a film director, her mother Valentina Lvovna Nemolyaeva (née Ladygina, 1907-1988), a sound engineer at the film studio. Among the family friends were renowned Soviet actors Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Zharov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, a star circus comic Rumyantsev. Parents were often filming their little daughter in mass scenes; Nemolyaeva's first feature film was Konstantin Yudin's Twins (1945), starring Tselikovskaya and Zharov, where the 8-year old played Svetochka.
In 1958, after graduating the Shchepkin's Theatre College, Nemolyaeva joined the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, then, after just one season moved to the Mayakovsky Theatre where she remained for the rest of her life. One of her first successes there was the part of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, produced by the then theatre's director Nikolai Okhlopkov. Later, as Andrey Goncharov came to become the head of the theatre, she created several outstanding characters, notably Blanche in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and the Mayoress Anna Andreevna in Nikolai Gogol’s Revizor.
Svetlana Nemolyaeva's first success on screen came was the part of Olga Larina in Roman Tikhomirov's Evgeny Onegin (1958). She had to wait several years for another big part, in Konstantin Khudyakov's Such a Short Long Life (1975), co-starring Alexander Lazarev, fellow Mayakovsky Theatre actor whom she married in 1960. Her real breakthrough came when Eldar Ryazanov invited her to play Olya Ryzhova in his highly successful intellectual comedy Office Romance. Later he filmed her again, in The Garage. In 1980 Svetlana Nemolyaeva was awarded the prestigious title of the People's Artist of Russia. In the 1980s and 1990s Nemolyaeva continued to appear on screen regularly; critically acclaimed were her parts of Madam Zizi (Say a Word for a Poor Hussar), actress Nina Ossovskaya (The Intrusion), Irina in The Relatives (TV play) and Matilda (The Dame’s Visit). She was awarded (twice) Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th and 3rd class (2007, 2012).
Awards
1980 - People's Artist of Russia
1998 (February 3) - Order of Honour (Russian Federation) - for his contribution to the development of theatrical art
2007 (January 31) - Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (Russia) - for her contribution to the development of the national theater, and many years of creative activity
2012 (April 5) - Order For Merit to the Fatherland 3rd class (Russia) - for her contribution to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic art, many years of creative activity
Literature
Кино: Энциклопедический словарь. М., 1987. (in Russian) — P.296.
Дубровский В. Серебряный шнур: А. Лазарев, С. Немоляева, А. Лазарев-младший. М., 2001. (in Russian)
Filmography
Actress
2023
Ne dozhdyotes (TV Series)
2023
Chizhik-Pyzhik vozvrashchayetsya as
Bella Yakovlevna
2023
Sansara (TV Series)
2022
Zolotyye sosedi as
Valentina Ivanovna
2022
Sindrom zhizni
2021
Gogol Mogol (Short) as
Mother
2020
Staryye kadry (TV Mini Series) as
Valentina Dmitrievna
2020
Ishchu kozla (Short)
2019
Mosgaz: Formula mesti (TV Mini Series) as
Generalsha
- Pyataya seriya (2019) - Generalsha
- Vtoraya seriya (2019) - Generalsha
- Pervaya seriya (2019) - Generalsha
2019
The Diplomat (TV Series) as
Zhanna Borisovna
2018
Dinozavr (TV Series) as
Iraida
2018
Odisseya Petra
2018
Van Goghs as
Toma
2017
Meshok bez dna as
Lady-in-waiting
2017
V zone dostupa lyubvi (TV Movie)
2016
Sledovatel Tikhonov (TV Mini Series)
- Film 9. Eshchyo odno delo Tikhonova. Chast 2 (2016)
- Film 9. Eshchyo odno delo Tikhonova. Chast 1 (2016)
2015
Oskolki khrustalnoy tufelki (TV Movie) as
Alla Nikolaevna
2014
Feliks i ego lyubov (Short)
2014
Zemskiy doktor. Lyubov vopreki (TV Series) as
Ninon (2014)
2012
Protest Day
2012
Lastochkino gnezdo (TV Series)
2011
Kak possorilis...
2011
Dove (TV Series)
2011
Potseluy skvoz stenu
2010
Tsvety ot Lizy (TV Mini Series) as
Klavdiya Livitina (2010)
2010
House Without Address as
Mather
2009
Osenniye tsvety (TV Series)
2008
XIII. Trinadtsat mesyatsev as
Sergei's Mother
2007
Idealnaya zhena (TV Movie) as
Mama Olega
2007
Artistka
2006
Pervyy doma (TV Movie) as
Guskov's Wife
2006
Reklamnaya pauza (TV Mini Series) as
Inna Ivanovna
- Episode #1.4 (2006) - Inna Ivanovna
- Episode #1.3 (2006) - Inna Ivanovna
- Episode #1.2 (2006) - Inna Ivanovna
- Episode #1.1 (2006) - Inna Ivanovna
2006
Blyuz opadayushchikh listyev (Video) as
Kseniya's mother
2004
Balzakovskiy vozrast, ili Vse muzhiki svo... (TV Series) as
Svetlana Modestovna
- Devushki po vyzovu, ili Solnechny udar v nojabre (2004) - Svetlana Modestovna
2004
Sestry (TV Mini Series) as
Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.7 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.3 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.9 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.12 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.5 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.4 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.1 - Galina Alekseyevna
- Episode #1.2 - Galina Alekseyevna
2003
Evlampiya Romanova. Sledstvie vedet diletant (TV Series) as