Background
Rosa Trofimovna Balashova on August 8,1927 in the village of Gostiya of the Meshchevsky County of the Kaluga province, USSR (now Gostiya, Kaluga region, Russian Federation).
Rosa Trofimovna Balashova on August 8,1927 in the village of Gostiya of the Meshchevsky County of the Kaluga province, USSR (now Gostiya, Kaluga region, Russian Federation).
In 1948 Rosa graduated from the Moscow City Theater School (the course of N. K. Svobodin, V. V. Gotovtsev).
In 1948-1953 Rosa Balashova was the actress of the Voronezh Drama Theater (worked under the surnames Matyushkina, Engel'). In 1953-1961 she was an actress of the Odessa Academic Russian Dramatic Theatre. Since 1962, the actress of the Leningrad Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin (now - Alexandrinsky Theater). On this stage she played about 100 roles. Among them were Elizabeth (A Common Story by Ivan Goncharov), Melanja, Vasilisa (Children of the Sun, The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky), Feona (It's Not All Shrovetide for the Cat by Alexander Ostrovsky) and others. Since 1962 she was an actress of dubbing at Lenfilm production studio (voiced more than 100 films).
Balashova was acting in such movies as Dreams Come True, The Way Home, The Shadow at the Pier. Rosa also worked on radio and television. She was twice on tour in Voronezh with the Leningrad Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.
