Nataliya Evgenyevna Murashkevich is a Soviet and Russian actress, who became well known in the Soviet Union for the leading role of Alisa Selezneva in Guest from the Future.
13 Facts About Natalya Murashkevich
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Natalya Murashkevich graduated from Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology in 1995.
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Natalya Murashkevich's father was Evgeni Alexandrovich Gusev, a worker, and her mother was Galina Maksevna Guseva, a physician-therapist.
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In 1979 Natalya Murashkevich went to the first class of the Moscow Secondary School No 692.
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Natalya Murashkevich was one of the children selected and received an invitation to a tryout.
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When meeting Arsenov, Natalya Murashkevich was so excited that when she was asked for her year of birth she mistakenly said 1872 instead of 1972.
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Natalya Murashkevich was not ready for such fame, and for a while developed a problem with her posture: she walked with her head bowed low so that her fans would not recognize her.
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Natalya Murashkevich starred in three other films during her career: The Race of the Century, Lilac Ball and Will of the Universe, but these films did not achieve the success of Guest from the Future.
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Lilac Ball was a sequel to Guest from the Future, but took a darker tone: Natalya Murashkevich again played Alisa Selezneva, but she was 14 years old during filming, and the character had moved on from that in Guest.
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Natalya Murashkevich later received several further offers of film roles, but refused them all, as the films contained, as she put it, "New Russian" scenes.
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Natalya Murashkevich never intended to become a professional actress, having been fond of biology since childhood and often took many pictures of nature as a child.
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Natalya Murashkevich became one of the leaders in a company developing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test systems for the diagnosis of a number of infectious diseases.
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Denis had proposed naming the child Zabava, or Alice, but Natalya Murashkevich rejected both names.