
Margarita Terekhova
Born
August 25, 1942 (82 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Turinsk, Sverdlovsk region, USSR [now Russia]
Margarita Borisovna Terekhova (Russian: Маргари́та Бори́совна Те́рехова; born August 25, 1942 in Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her application was declined. After that she enrolled to study at the school-studio of Yuri Zavadsky at the Mossovet Theatre.
After her graduation in 1964 she worked for many years as an actress of the Mossovet Theatre. From 1983 to 1987 she acted in the theatre group "The Puppet Show" organized by her and Igor Talkov.
Terekhova's acting debut was in 1965 in the film Hello, That's Me!. Margarita became particularly popular in the late 1970s, after the release of a costumed musical TV films The Dog in the Manger and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. At first she played the capricious Countess Diana de Belflor, in the second - the treacherous Milady. Leading roles followed in films made by directors including Andrei Smirnov and Ilya Averbakh (Monologue, 1972) as well as the dual-role in Andrei Tarkovsky's acclaimed Mirror (1975). And more international co-productions came after, including George Cukor's The Blue Bird (1976) and Konrad Wolf's Mama, I'm Alive (1977). Terekhova's subsequent work in film proved her high level of acting expertise but did not attain the success as her earlier work.
Margarita Terekhova worked and was friends with Igor Talkov. They had a close relationship and worked for some time together at the musical theatre collective "Balaganchik".
In 2005 she made her debut as a director, shooting the film The Seagull based on the work of Anton Chekhov. Since then, Terekhova has retired from acting and almost never gives interviews due to her struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She rarely appears in public and hardly ever attends public events
Known For

Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Self
2012

Islands: Georgy Rerberg
Self
2007

Chayka
2005

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
1999

The Trail
1995

The Forbidden Fruit
Sledovatelkata
1994

To Remember
Narrator · (2 episodes)
1993

For Crazies Only
Rita
1991

Broken Light
1990

In the Middle of the World
1990

Зелёный огонь козы
1990

It
Anelka Lyadokhovskaya
1990

Our Father
1990

Dissident
1989

Achisai
1988

Primary Russia
Theodora
1986

I Don't Want to Be Unhappy
жена
1983

За синими ночами
1983

Everything Could Have Been Otherwise
Dorina
1982

Let's Get Married
Елена Дмитриевна Воронова
1982

Санта Эсперанса
1980

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Елена
1980

Marta the Pious Woman
Doña Marta
1980

The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
Манон Леско
1979

D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Milady de Winter · (3 episodes)
1979

Schedule for the Day After Tomorrow
Антонина Сергеевна
1979

Players
1978

Ordinary Children
Vera, Olya's mother
1978

Who Will go to Truskavets?
1978

The Dog in the Manger
Diana
1977

While the Mountains Still Stand...
Катя Шалагина
1977

Mama, I’m Alive
Swetlana
1977

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Margaret Louson
1976

Trust
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai
1976

Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Vera
1976

Daylight Train
1976

The Blue Bird
Milk
1976

Mirror
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
1975

Сергеев ищет Сергеева
Tanya
1974

Monologue
Тася, дочь Сретенского
1973

Childhood. Boyhood. Youth
Natalia Nikolayevna (Mama)
1973

The Fourth
1972

My Life
1972

Byelorussian Station
Natasha Shipilova
1971
Family Happiness
Masha
1971
Angel Pavement
Lena Golspie
1969

The Wave Runner
Biche Seniel / Frezi Grant
1967
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes
Joanie
1967

Hello, It's Me!
Tanya
1966