Nina Gulyaeva

Nina Gulyayeva is a Russian actress of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). She was born Nina Ivanovna Gulyayeva on April 18, 1931, in the Soviet Union. From 1950 - 1954 she studied acting under S. Blinnikov and G. Gerasimov at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1954 as an actress. In 1959 she made her big screen debut in V stepnoy tishi (1959), by director Sergey D. Kazakov. Since 1954 Nina Gulyayev has been a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There her stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Tatyana Lavrova, Iya Savvina, Irina Miroshnichenko, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Raisa Maksimova, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Sergachyov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Aleksei Agapov, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. In the 1950s - 1980s Gulyayeva made her best known stage appearances in Anton Chekhov's classic plays 'Chaika' (aka.. The Seagull), 'Dyadya Vanya' (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and 'Vishnevy sad' (aka.. The Cherry Orchard). She also made acclaimed performances as Mitil in 'Sinyaya ptitsa' (aka.. The Blue Bird) by Maurice Maeterlinck, and as Countess-Grandmother in Aleksandr Griboyedov's 'Gore ot Uma' (aka.. Woe From Wit). Outside of her stage career Nina Gulyayeva made over a hundred voice-over works, including characters in many popular Soviet cartoons as well as imported foreign films. She was designated People's Actress of Russia, was awarded the Order of Honour, and received the State Prize of Russian Federation for her stage works. Nina Gulyayeva has been married to actor Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, and their son, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, is also an actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). She is living in Moscow, Russia.