Tatyana Konyukhova

Tatyana Konyukhova was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress.

She was born in Tashkent (Uzbek SSR). She had a brother, Igor, who died at an early age. In 1946, her father was sent to work in Latvia, and the Konyukhov family moved to Riga. She finished school in Liepaja. In 1949, she came to Moscow, where she entered VGIK. In 1955, she graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Theater Arts. After graduating from VGIK she worked at the Malyy Theater.

After the success in the film May Night (1952), the actress began to be regularly invited to act in films. In the 1950s, she played leading roles in the films Good Morning (1955) (driver foreman Katya Golovan), Raznye sudby (1956) (Sonya Orlova), Gori, moya zvezda! (1958) (Nelya Bulatova), Vremya letnikh otpuskov (1961) (Anna Gorelova).

She performed notably in Radunitsa (1984) (as Olga), Portret zheny khudozhnika (1982) (as Varya Nikitenko), Sitting on the Golden Porch (1986) (as Tsarina), Ssuda na brak (1988) (as Valentina), and Vsyo vperedi (1990) (as Zinaida Vitalyevna).

After leaving the theater, she worked with children at the Theater Studio at the Moscow Children's Academy of Folk Arts in Perovo. She also taught acting at the Moscow State Institute of Culture.