Background
Rimma Afanasievna Manukovskaya was born on February 12, 1925, in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Saratov Governorate, Russian Federation.
Rimma Afanasievna Manukovskaya was born on February 12, 1925, in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Saratov Governorate, Russian Federation.
Rimma Afanasievna Manukovskaya studied at the Institute of foreign languages in Kharkov. There she also graduated from the Theatre Institute (1950, course of people's artist of the USSR A. Kramov).
Since 1949, Rimma Afanasievna Manukovskaya was the actress of the Kharkiv Russian drama theater named after A. Pushkin. Her debut was the role of Juliet ("Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare). She played the main role in the film "The fate of Marina" (The Dovzhenko Film Studios).
Since 1956 she played in the Voronezh drama theater, the first role there was Sofia Pitt in the historical drama by Ilya Selvinsky "From Poltava to Gangut". In the 1950-1970, her main roles were Nila Snizhko ("The drummer" by Afanasy Salynsky), Maria Stuart in the drama by Friedrich Schiller, Fenice ("A cunning lover" by Lope de Vega), the Commissioner ("Optimistic tragedy" by Vsevolod Vishnevsky), Polina ("The gambler" by Fyodor Dostoevsky), Emilia Marty ("The Makropulos Affair" by Karel Capek). Ten roles Manukovskaya performed in the plays by Alexander Ostrovsky.
In the 1970s, for two terms she ran the local branch of the All-Russian theater society, and was a board member of the Central Council of the all-Russian theater society. Starred in such films as "Looking for a man", "White Bim Black Ear" and other. In 1994 she toured in Moscow, Samara and Kharkiv in the program "|National heritage of Russia". Her latest roles were Savage ("The Curious Savage" by John Patrick) and Sophia Ivanovna ("The Canary Islands are in Spain, mum!" after the play "While she was dying" by Nadezhda Ptushkina).
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All her life she lived very modestly. When she entered the trolleybus to go home after the rehearsal (she never had any car), the passengers turned their heads in her direction and gave her a seat. When she came to the market and chose greens for dinner or a piece of liver for her red pet of recent years (a huge long-haired cat was called Ryzhik), some sellers called her by her name-patronymic and offered her products at a reduced price.