Background
Nadezhda Rumyantseva was born in the Potapovo village (now Gagarinsky District) into a simple Russian family. Her father Vasily Ivanovich Rumyantsev was a war veteran. Her mother Olga Vsevolodovna Rumyantseva was a housewife.
Nadezhda Rumyantseva was born in the Potapovo village (now Gagarinsky District) into a simple Russian family. Her father Vasily Ivanovich Rumyantsev was a war veteran. Her mother Olga Vsevolodovna Rumyantseva was a housewife.
With the help of her teacher Olga Pyzhova she enrolled to the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and later — to Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography which she finished in 1955.
People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1991). People"s Artist of Russia (2005). Early years
He worked as a train conductor and later — as a forest guard.
After graduating from school Nadezhda entered theatrical courses at the Moscow Central Children"s Theater.
Very soon she became one of the leading actresses at this theater, although the courses were dismissed in just a year under a government initiative. In-between she acted in plays and movies.
Film career
Rumyantseva"s first breakthrough happened in 1959 with the comedy The Unamenables directed by Yuri Chulyukin where she was given the leading role, along with her fellow-student Yuri Belov, Alexei Kozhevnikov and Yuri Nikulin. The film turned so successful (10th place at the Soviet box office with 3183 million viewers) that Chulyukin invited her to act in his second movie — Devchata that was finished in 1961.
The movie hit the 5th spot with 34.8 million viewers and brought international fame to Nadezhda who was named the best actress at the March del Plata International Film Festival in 1962.
Same year she reunited with Belov and Kozhevnikov in the comedy The Queen of Gas Station shot at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. Once again, it turned into one of the box office leaders (5th place with 343 million viewers) and remains among the most beloved Soviet comedy films up till these days. Rumyantseva was named Merited Artist of the Russian SFSR later on.
She appeared in her last leading role in the 1967 war comedy Tough Nut along with Vitaly Solomin.
lieutenant was well-received by the public, but criticised by the official press for turning the Great Patriotic War into a primitive parody. Around the same time Rumyantseva married a Soviet diplomat Villi Khshtoyan who worked at the Ministry of International Trade of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. After their return Nadezhda rarely appeared on the big screen.
By that time she was more interested in dubbing. She did voice overs for many foreign pictures and television series, as well as some of the Soviet movies and animated films.
She also became the main presenter of the popular children"s television show Alarm Clock.
Late years
In 1996 two burglars tried to rob Rumyantseva"s Moscow apartment. Her husband — a former boxer — managed to stop them, but she was hit on the head by one of the bandits which led to serious damages and regular pains. She was later diagnosed with brain tumor.
She died in 2008 and was buried at the Moscow Armenian Cemetery in the Khshtoyan family tomb.
A member of the Film Actors" Theater-Studio since 1955.