Natalya Tenyakova

People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1994),[1] Laureate of the Golden Mask Award (1995) and the Stanislavsky Prize (2005).

Her fellow students were Olga Antonova, Lev Dodin, Victor Kostetskiy, Sergei Nadporozhsky, Leonid Mozgovoy, Vladimir Tykke, other masters of theater and cinema.

[2] After graduation she was accepted into the troupe of the Baltic House Festival Theatre, where she made her debut as Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera (1966).

In the movie debuted in 1966, one of the main roles in the Georgy Natanson's film Older Sister.

In 1988, at the invitation of Oleg Yefremov moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.