1. Natalya Bondarchuk is the daughter of Soviet director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and Russian actress Inna Makarova.
10 Facts About Natalya Bondarchuk
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Natalya Bondarchuk's half-brother is film director and actor Fyodor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is actress Yelena Bondarchuk.
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Natalya Bondarchuk was born in Moscow to Soviet director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova.
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Natalya Bondarchuk made her film debut in 1969 in Sergei Gerasimov's By the Lake, followed by the 1971 productions You and Me, by Larisa Shepitko, and A Soldier Came Back from the Front, by Nikolai Gubenko.
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Natalya Bondarchuk became internationally famous for her role as "Hari" in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris in 1972.
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Natalya Bondarchuk was Tarkovsky's favorite of the film, as he wrote in his diary that "Natalya B has outshone everybody".
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Natalya Bondarchuk played princess Mariya Volkonskaya in the 1975 historical film The Captivating Star of Happiness by Vladimir Motyl.
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Natalya Bondarchuk directed the Nikolai Leskov adaptation Lord, Hear My Prayer.
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Natalya Bondarchuk has always acted in her own films, as have her longtime husband, Nikolai Burliaev, and their son, Ivan Burliaev.
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Natalya Bondarchuk leads a child opera theater on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow.