Background
Zhanna Bolotova was born in the Siberian resort Karachi Lake nearby Novosibirsk, on October 19, 1941.
Zhanna Bolotova was born in the Siberian resort Karachi Lake nearby Novosibirsk, on October 19, 1941.
In 1964 she graduated the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the class of Sergei Gerasimov and Tatyana Makarova, to join the Cinema Actor Studio Theatre.
She is a Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize laureate (1977) and was designated The People"s Artist of Russia in 1985. She debuted on screen while still at school, in The House That I Live In by Lev Kulidzhanov and Yakov Segel. Among Zhanna Bolotova"s best-known films were People and Animals (1962) and To Love Somebody (1972), both by Sergei Gerasimov.
In 1969 she"s got her first international award, for The Best Female Role, at the Varna Red Cross film festival, for 24-24 Does Not Return.
She also starred in several films by Nikolai Gubenko, among them Wounded Game (1977), Scenes from the Life of Resort Visitors (1980), Life, Tears and Love (1984). In 1985 Bolotova was awarded the title The People"s Artist of Russia.
Zhanna Bolotova appeared in 28 films. She stopped filming in the 1990s but in 2005, after the 17 years" absence, appeared in the small role of a University professor in Zhmurki.