Actress Lilia Tolmacheva died

In Moscow, at the 82nd year of her life, after a long illness, the actress of the Contemporary Theater Lilia Tolmacheva died, RIA Novosti reports. Three years ago, the actress suffered a stroke.

"Tolmacheva was among those who stood at the source of the contemporary theater, and for more than half a century went to its stage. For the troupe, this is really an irreparable loss," said the head of the literary part of Yevgeny Kuznetsova.

After school, Tolmacheva entered the Moscow Art Theater School, which she graduated in 1950. Since 1952 she worked in the Saratov Youth Theater, in 1955-1956-in the theater named after Moss council. In the "Contemporary" - since the foundation of the theater in 1956. She played in the legendary performance "Eternally Living" based on the play by Viktor Rozov, who was debuted by the studio of young actors, who made up the backbone of "Contemporary".

"Tolmacheva created a lot of brilliant acting works on the stage of" Contemporary "that have become a classic of the domestic theater. Among them are the deep, vivid images of Meshcherskaya in the" title "of Alexander Galina, Mrs. Higgins in the" Pygmalion "Bernard Show, Milds on the Cool Route of Evgenia Ginzburg," the theater said.

Tolmacheva as a director staged a performance based on the play by Edward Olby "It's all over" in the Moscow Art Theater. She also owns the production of Fantasies Farryev and Henry IV in contemporary.

In 1981, Tolmacheva was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.