Tamara Syomina

Tamara Syomina is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. She was born in the family of a serviceman, commander of a tank platoon Pyotr Bokhonov. In the childhood of Tamara, the Great Patriotic War broke out tragically - the father was killed at the front. In 1942, her mother, Tamara Vasilyevna, was evacuated with two young children, later came to her grandparents in Bryansk, where Tamara went to school. In 1946, Tamara Vasilyevna met with Pyotr Syomin, who adopted children and became a loving father and a true friend for them. As a token of gratitude, Tamara bears his name. Soon the family moved to Kaluga. Tamara studied here in school until the 8th grade. Tamara really wanted to study to enter the university, and decided to go to the school of young working people. At the school of working youth, she became both a student, a librarian, and a secretary. Tamara was lucky with teachers: literature, for example, was taught by Bulat Okudzhava. The mentors taught Tamara a pedagogical path, but in her heart she dreamed of another. She goes to the Kaluga Pedagogical Institute, but after she takes the documents and leaves for Moscow, having made a decision to become an actress. She graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (1961, acting studio of Olga Pyzhova). Acquaintance with the movie happened quickly - already on the first year Syomina was shot in graduate pictures of young directors and cameramen. She played in A. Sakharov in the eccentric comedy 'Man Overboard'; on the second course she met with a young but already famous Marlen Khutsiev in the film Dva Fyodora (1958); at the third year, Tamara excellently coped with a complex dramatic role in the film Vsyo nachinayetsya s dorogi (1960) by Villen Azarov. While studying at the VGIK, almost all teachers predicted Syomina's a beautiful future in the comedy field. And she made a career primarily as a dramatic actress. She was opened in this role by director Mikhail Shvejtser, who in 1959 invited Syomina for the role of Katya Maslova in the film Voskreseniye (1960). For this role, readers of the magazine 'Soviet Screen' recognized Syomina as the best actress in 1961. The film was successfully shown in different countries of the world, and in 1962 at the XV International Film Festival in Locarno Syomina, as the best actress, was awarded the prize of FIPRESCI. She was recognized as the best actress at the film festival in Mar del Plata in Argentina. In the same years on the wide screens came three more films in which Syomina played women with a dramatic fate. They are: Bezottsovshchina (1977) by Vladimir Shamshurin, Traktir na Pyatnitskoy (1978) by Aleksandr Faintsimmer and Mater chelovecheskaya (1975) by Leonid Golovnya.