14 Facts About Klara Rumyanova

Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova was a Soviet and Russian actress, voice actress and singer.

Klara Rumyanova was born on 8 December 1929 in Leningrad.

In 1947, Klara moved to Moscow and on the first attempt she entered VGIK, where she studied at the course of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova.

In childhood and adolescence, Klara Rumyanova had a completely different voice, a contralto.

Sergei Gerasimov showed her to a phoniatrician, but he explained that Klara Rumyanova has very rare vocal cords and he does not guarantee that she will be able to properly practice vocal after recovery.

For half a year Gerasimov forbade Klara Rumyanova to talk even in a whisper, and they communicated through writing.

When her voice recovered, Klara Rumyanova suddenly discovered that she could now speak in a very high voice, which came to be familiar to millions of moviegoers.

In 1953, Klara Rumyanova graduated from VGIK and became an actress of the National Film Actors' Theatre.

However, in the future Klara Rumyanova played only supporting or episodic roles, never playing the main ones.

For six years, Klara Rumyanova did not act in film at all, until the Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva dismissed Pyryev from the post of the general director.

Gradually during this period, Klara Rumyanova began to cooperate more actively with Soyuzmultfilm, and as a result, at a time when she was no longer shooting, she became very popular as a voice actress and began to record on the radio and perform on the stage with children's songs and romances.

Klara Rumyanova became the only actress of the USSR to be awarded Honored Artist of the RSFSR for her work in animation.

Klara Rumyanova negatively spoke about Gorbachev's perestroika, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the policies of President Yeltsin; remained a convinced supporter of communism for the rest of her life.

Klara Rumyanova died at the age of 74 on 18 September 2004 in Moscow from breast cancer.