
Natalya Tenyakova
Acting
Born 1944-07-03 · Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR · Died 2025-06-18
Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she formed a memorable comic duo with her husband and frequent co-star, Sergei Yursky.
Acting

The Frenchman
Mariya Kirillovna

Handmade Clouds
Old Woman (voice)

Outside the System

The Chairs
la Vieille

Regarding the Bald Singer...
Mrs. Smith

Fathers and Sons
Arina Bazarova

Forest
Гурмыжская

This Queen of Spades

Chekhov and Co.
Даша

To Remember
Narrator

The Gamblers: XXI

Chernov/Chernov
Tanya, Chernov's wife

Swan Song

The Widow Steamer

The Light Shines in the Darkness
Александра Ивановна Коховцева

The Cabal of Hypocrites

The Theater of I.S. Turgenev
Наталья Петровна Ислаева / Анна Ильинишна Kaypoвa

Banquet
Vasily Petrovich's Wife (voice)

The Stove on Wheels
Ефросинья Сидоровна

Ship of the Desert
Turtle (voice)

Love and Pigeons
grandma Shura

Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
Фетинья Мироновна Епишкина / Акулина Гавриловна Красавина / Марфа Игнатьевна Кабанова / Пульхерия Андревна Гущина

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Фатима

Али-Баба и сорок разбойников
Фатима

Uncle's Dream
Mariya Aleksandrovna

Version
Lyubov Mendeleyeva

Ball

Colonel Chabert
графиня Ферро

A Robbery at Midnight
wife

The Wife