Tatiana Vasilyevna Doronina[a] (born 12 September 1933) is a popular Soviet and Russian actress who has performed in movies and the theater.[1][2] She is generally regarded as one of the most talented actresses of her generation and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.[3]
The films she starred in, though few, are now considered Soviet classics. Many directors at the time believed she was too theatrical for film and refused to hire her. Georgy Natanson reversed that judgment by giving her the lead parts in Older Sister and Once More About Love. Both films had a significant success and made Doronina a noteworthy film star. Young women in the Soviet Union imitated her bouffant hair-do and her manner of speaking, and fans queued up for hours to get tickets. For her role for Once More about Love in which she played a flight attendant, she earned the Best Soviet Actress title in 1968 from the Soviet Screen. "Doronina's profoundly romantic heroines could sacrifice everything for love. She rendered the love theme the way no actress did. In almost every of her films she would sing a song, which in her presentation turned into a small drama", says Russian Cultural Navigator.[4] In Three Poplars in Plyushcikha she plays a plain country woman who, although married, has never experienced love and puts the anguish tormenting her heart into a song called "Tenderness”.
Tatiana Doronina in 2008
At present Doronina is artistic director of the Gorky MKhAT [ru], a job she accepted when MKhAT split into two independent troupes.
3rd class (11 June 2003) - for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art[5]
4th class (23 October 1998) - for many years of fruitful work in the field of theatrical art, and in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Moscow Art Theatre
Order of Honour (8 September 2008) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic arts, many years of creative activity
