Yelena Vsevolodovna Safonova is a former Soviet and a Russian actress.
11 Facts About Yelena Safonova
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Yelena Safonova was made famous by the 1985 melodrama Winter Cherry and its two sequels.
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Yelena Safonova was born on 14 June 1956 in Leningrad, the daughter of the famous Soviet actor Vsevolod Safonov and the film director Valeriya Ivanovna Rublyova who worked at Mosfilm.
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Yelena Safonova made her debut in cinema in 1974, in the role of Lyuba in the film Looking for my destiny.
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Yelena Safonova became a household name in Russia with the role of the 30-year-old divorcee Olga in the romantic comedy Winter Cherry by Igor Maslennikov.
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Yelena Safonova acted in another picture by the same director, The Twentieth Century Approaches, which was Maslennikov's last Sherlock Holmes adaptation.
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In 1987 Yelena Safonova starred opposite Marcello Mastroianni in the romantic drama Dark Eyes by director Nikita Mikhalkov.
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In 1999 Yelena Safonova portrayed a teacher who falls in love with a young acting student in Dmitry Meskhiyev's romantic drama Women's Property.
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Yelena Safonova married for the first time at the age of twenty, to actor Vitaly Yushkov, whom she had met on the set of The Family of the Zatsepins.
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In 1991 Yelena Safonova gave birth to her son Ivan to whom she gave her own surname.
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Yelena Safonova was married to fellow actor Samuel Labarthe between 1992 and 1997.