Elena Vladimirovna Mayorova (; 30 May 1958 – 23 August 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989).Русский драматический театр: Энциклопедия / Под общ. ред. М. И. Андреева, Н. Э. Звенигородской, А. В. Мартыновой и др. — М.: Большая Российская энциклопедия, 2001. — 568 с.: ил.
Biography Her father worked in the depot, and her mother in a factory.Майорова Елена — Биография // rusactors.ru — Актёры советского и российского кино
At school, Elena worked with the third class in the Pioneers Palace Theatre Studio. After graduation, Elena Mayorova tried to get into a theater class at a few universities, but was not accepted. One year she had to study in vocational school building, she graduated with honors and received specialty. In 1976, Elena Mayorova entered Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, the course of Oleg Tabakov.
In 1982-1983, after graduating from GITIS, she played in the Sovremennik Theatre. Since 1983 Elena Mayorova actress Moscow Art Theater of the USSR. Gorky, and after its separation in 1987 Moscow Art Theatre Anton Chekhov. She had her first role in Could One Imagine? directed by Ilya Frez.
Elena Mayorova died under tragic circumstances; the official version is of an accident, although some say suicidal. Accidentally or intentionally, she set fire to her dress while on a staircase in the entrance of the house. With burns 85% of body surface actress was admitted to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where she died. She was buried at the cemetery Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
Personal life First husband a fellow student of GITIS Vladimir Chaplygin. Second husband the painter-hyperrealist Sergey Sherstuk (1951-1998), survived his wife for exactly 9 months, died of cancer on May 23, 1998. No children.
Filmography 1980 — An Uninvited Friend 1981 — Could One Imagine? 1981 — Express on Fire 1981 — Our Vocation 1982 — Whose You, Old Man? 1983 — Offered for Singles 1983 — The Last Argument of Kings 1984 — Parade of Planets 1984 — Alone and Unarmed 1986 — I Counselor Outpost 1986 — Zina-Zinulya 1987 — Forgotten Melody for a Flute 1987 — Lucky 1988 — Two and One 1988 — Fast Train (Prize for Best Actress at the Constellation Film Festival) 1989 — Was there Carotene? 1991 — Lost in Siberia 1993 — Makarov 1993 — Cloak Casanova 1995 — Little Demon 1996 — The Return of Battleship 1996 — Career of Arturo Ui. A New Version. 1998 — At Loggerheads 1998 — Chekhov and Co 1999 — Listen, If Rain Does Not Go...
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Site memory of Elena Mayorova Sergey Markov. Освобождение Елены Майоровой , «Коллекция Караван историй» No. 5 (35) 2011