Valentina Malyavina


Valentina Aleksandrovna Malyavina is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema. She is an best known for roles in Ivan's Childhood and King Stag.

Biography

Valentina Malyavina was born in Moscow on June 18, 1941.
In 1962 she graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute was accepted into the troupe of the Lenkom Theatre. In 1965-1979 she served in the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 1979, she moved to the National Film Actors' Theatre, where she worked until 1983. Since 1988 at the Moscow Theatre Artist.
first husband — actor Aleksandr Zbruyev.
In 1978 she was held as a suspect in the murder of her civil husband, actor Stanislav Zhdanko, but the case was closed. In 1983, at the request of the relatives of the deceased, the case was reviewed, and the court sentenced her to nine years in prison. She did not admit her guilt at the trial, she continues to insist on her innocence in an interview given after her release.
In 1988, she was released under an amnesty under the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 18, 1987, in connection with the seventieth anniversary of Soviet power.
In 1993 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
In 2001, as a result of the trauma, she lost her sight, she lives in a specialized boarding house.

Selected filmography