Inna Makarova

Inna Makarova is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1985).

She was born in the city Tayga, Tomsk District of the Siberian Territory in a family of workers of the Novosibirsk Radio Committee Vladimir Makarov and Anna German. Inna spent her childhood and youth in Novosibirsk. The family lived in the House of Writers. In 1943-1948 she studied at VGIK in the workshop of Sergey Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. During her studies, she played the role of Carmen in the play of the same name staged by Tatyana Lioznova. During her studies, she met her future husband Sergey Bondarchuk, who came to the course after the front.

The significant role in the movie was Katya Petrashen in the film "Height" (1957), then - Varvara in the film "My Dear Man" (1958). Both main roles, according to Makarova, were written specifically for her with Alexey Batalov, and the actors were approved without samples. During the filming, she decided to divorce Bondarchuk. The separation was difficult, after this Makarova did not marry for a long time.

Later she performed vivid and memorable roles in the films "Girls", "The Marriage of Balzaminov", "Women", "Russian Field". In the late 1980s, she began to act less frequently, and then completely disappeared from the screens, devoting herself to concert activities. In the mid-2000s, she returned to her acting career, playing in various television series.