Career
Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser born into the family of the well-known actor Ivan Pelttser first took the stage at the age of nine. Initially she played in provincial theatres, and then was engaged in MGSPS Theatre (Moscow) and in Moscow Theatre of Miniatures subsequently. From 1947 she was a leading actress of the Satire Theatre.
Her first remarkable film role was that of Plaksina in Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’son
The actress gained enormous popularity with her role of Lukerya in the stage play Bride with a Dowry (Svadba s pridanym) (1953), which was filmed and demonstrated in the country"s cinemas on a large scale. lieutenant was followed by another successful film, namely Soldier Ivan Brovkin (Soldat Ivan Brovkin) (1955), where she played the main character’s mother.
Her first role in the Satire Theatre was that of Mistress Jacobs in Evgeny Petrov"s pamphlet "Island of Peace".
In the same manner she performed Marselina in the play Crazy Day, or Marriage of Figaro.
Later the actress followed the stage director Mark Zakharov who shifted to the Lenkom Theatre. In the late years of her life Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser started losing her memory. Specially for her Mark Zakharov staged the play A Funeral Prayer after the scenario by Grigori Gorin, who made up the character of the old Jewish woman Berta for Tatyana Pelttser.
In 1992 after a nervous breakdown Tatyana Ivanovna found herself in a hospital and died on 16 July 1992.
Tatyana Pelttser was buried at Vvedenskoe Cemetery nearby her father’s grave.
