Background
Elena was born on December 24, 1952, in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation.
Elena was born on December 24, 1952, in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation.
She graduated from the acting faculty of LGITMiK (course I.P. Vladimirov).
The actress of the theater Lenkom. Famous Conchita in the play "Juno" and "Avos" (1981). Works on the radio - Heroine in the radio play "Tenderness" according to the letters of A. Barbusse.
Theater “Lenkom”:
• Nele, Betkin, Anna ("Til" by GI Gorin according to S. de Coster),
• Her Highness, the beautiful princess ("Troubadour and his friends" VB Livanov and Yu. S. Entin)
• Mirra ("In the lists did not appear" according to BL Vasilyev)
• Janet ("Horia") IP Druta),
• Beauty ("The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta" by P. Neruda, music by AL Rybnikov)
• Mike ("Meetings in the Sretenka" according to VL Kondratiev)
• A girl who looks like an angel ("The Cruel Game" by AN Arbuzov),
• Conchita ("The Juno and Avos" by AA Voznesensky, music by AL Rybnikov),
• Zeitl (Gorin's "Memorial Prayer" for Sholom Aleichem),
• Natalia Petrovna ("Two women" based on the play "The Month in the Village" by IS Turgenev),
• Rechid ("Eclipse" based on the novel "Above the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kizi).
Entreprise
From the early 1990's she also plays in entertaining performances:
• Widow ("Banana" based on the play "Widows" by S. Mrozek)
• A woman at the telephone ("Pocket Theater" J. Cocteau),
• Nina ("Nina" by A. Russsen),
• Stella ("The Pinter Collection" based on the play "Collection" by G. Pinter).
Cinema
• 1975 - Concerto for two violins - circus Sandi
• 1976 - Aty-bats, soldiers were walking ... - Kima Velenstovich
• 1976 - Twelve Chairs - Ellochka the Ogress
• 1979 - Camerton
• 1980 - According to the criminal investigation ... - Zoya, an employee of the Moscow Police Department
• 1981 - Our Vocation - Varya Kulish, a beginning journalist
• 1982 - Princess of the Circus - Mary
• 1983 - Location
• 1983 - Juno and Avos (telecast) - Conchita
• 1990 - Death in the cinema - Lena
• 1991 - Anna Karamazoff
• 1991 - And the wind returns ... - Katya, Misha's wife
• 1993 - Memorial Prayer (TV show) - Tseitl
• 2002 - Everything you love - Barbara
• 2003 - The Fifth Angel - Galina
• 2007 - Temptation - the doctor of the donor blood donation point
• 2007 - Sasha, my love - Vera Dmitrievna
• 2008 - Shades of Faberge - Elena Pavlovna Sanina
TV
In the early nineteen hundred and eighties Elena acted as the host in the children's program Alarm. Currently she works on television, among roles in television productions:
• Nastenka ("The trouble from the tender heart" of VA Sollogub),
• Dorimen (Moliere's "forced marriage").
In the '70s was married to the actor Mikhail Polyak (1948 - 1995). We were happy until Mikhail was carried away by alcohol. As a result, the marriage broke up. While working in Lenkom, the actress had an affair with his colleague Alexander Zbruev, who at that time was married. In 1992, Elena Shanina and Alexander Zbrueva were born a daughter Tatiana. Recognition and rewards.