Actors of your favorite children's films then and now (23 photos)

We remember the actors of Soviet films for children as you saw them in films, however, more than a dozen years have passed since then, and they have all changed significantly. Everyone's fate turned out differently, many ended up acting, some went abroad, others stayed in Russia. Let's remember our favorite heroes, see what they look like now, and find out what they do.

"Mary Poppins, goodbye!", 1983

Michael and Jane: 9-year-old Philip Rukavishnikov and 12-year-old Anna Plisetskaya

Neither was interested in a film career, but both continued the traditions of their famous artistic dynasties. Philip became a sculptor, Anna became a ballerina (Maya Plisetskaya is her aunt).

Natalya Andreichenko played Mary at the age of 27. Now she lives in Mexico, but says that she feels at home and is happy absolutely everywhere.

Michael and Jane's parents: Larisa Udovichenko (28 years old) and Albert Filozov (46 years old)

People's Artists Today

"In Search of Captain Grant", 1985

Absent-minded scientist Paganel: 38-year-old Estonian actor Lembit Ulfsak (aka the charming dunce Mister Hey in Mary Poppins). Now the People's Artist of Estonia lives in Tallinn and continues to act in films. The 2013 film Tangerines, starring Lembit, was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

The son of Captain Grant Robert is 14-year-old Ruslan Kurashov. Now a professional dancer, choreographer, choreographer, artist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Director Stanislav Govorukhin gave the role of Lady Glenarvan to Tamara Akulova, who was then 28. Since the early 2000s, she has starred in a dozen TV series and received the title of Honored Artist of Russia. Teaches acting at VGIK.

The young captain of the yacht “Duncan” was played by 26-year-old Oleg Stefanko. 7 years after the release of the film and shortly after the collapse of the USSR, he emigrated to America, where he lived for 11 years without leaving a place, mastering a number of professions far from cinema. And in 2003, while passing through Moscow, he immediately received several offers from Russian directors and has been acting very actively since then. The main role in the popular TV series “Forester” is one of the most recognizable.

"Adventures of Electronics", 1979

Twins Yura and Volodya Torsuev, at the age of 13, brilliantly portrayed Syroezhkin and Elektronika. In their case, it is always difficult to figure out who is who, but we will help.

According to the plot, Gusev is Syroezhkin’s classmate, but in life Vasily Skromny is 2 years older than the Torsuev brothers. He preferred real adventures to on-screen adventures: he became a sailor.

Funny Chizhikov “Ryzhikov” - 10-year-old Zhenya Livshits. Having abandoned his further acting career as a teenager, Evgeniy devoted himself to music. Now he lives in Germany and plays in a symphony orchestra.

They say that after the role of Kukushkina, her peers disliked Valeria Soluyan, deciding that she really was like on the screen - a sneak, a mischief and a vile cunning. It is not surprising that the pretty girl, having suddenly lost her friends, chose a completely different profession. Now she is a respected Moscow doctor.

However, the impeccably smart and beautiful Maya Svetlova also did not become a ticket to the big cinema for Oksana Alekseeva, who played her. After graduating from the Polytechnic Institute in Odessa, she moved to Minsk, and now lives and works in France, the homeland of her second husband.

"Guest from the Future", 1984

Another childhood love of all Soviet boys is Alisa Seleznyova, played by 12-year-old Natasha Guseva. Absolutely recognizable today, Natalya is absorbed in science: she is a biotechnologist, managing the production of vaccines and other medical products based on biomaterials.

The mysterious Polina, who takes Alice back to the future, is professional fashion model Elena Metelkina, who got into the movies thanks to her “alien” appearance. In the “dashing 90s,” when the country had no time for fashion or cinema, she worked as a secretary for a Moscow businessman and almost became an accidental victim of an assassination attempt. The boss and another secretary were poisoned with a neurotoxin, and Elena, having escaped death, became deeply religious.

"The Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin", 1983

“Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin”, 1984

12-year-old Dima Barkov (Petrov) and Yegor Druzhinin (Vasechkin) grew up, respectively, into a stock exchange expert and a famous choreographer, a favorite of Russian pop stars.

“Eh, Masha... Okay, okay!” A beauty, then and now: a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School and a former student of the Lee Strasberg acting school in New York, theater actress and art critic Inga Ilm.

"The Adventures of Pinocchio", 1975

Dima Iosifov played the sharp-nosed and witty prankster at the age of 10. And in his adult life he preferred to work behind the scenes as a director and cameraman.

Tanya Protsenko is only 7 years old in this film. She became Malvina completely by accident - she was traveling on the same train with the director’s assistant and caught her eye. Then she could play Little Red Riding Hood instead of Yana Poplavskaya (the script was even written specifically for Tanya), but after falling off her bike, she received a concussion and was banned from filming by doctors. She graduated from the film studies department of VGIK, then studied computer layout and is now engaged in editing.

"Pippi Longstocking", 1984

Despite her perky appearance and funny antics, at times it seems that Pippi is played by an adult actress. But Sveta Stupak in this film is only 13 years old, and she, without knowing it, very accurately fell into the image of an orphan pushed by everyone, who escapes from troubles in the world of her own fantasies. Svetlana dreamed of becoming a circus acrobat, but she was not accepted due to curvature of the spine, and she herself refused to act in the “new Russian cinema”. Since then he has worked in the most ordinary “earthly” jobs and still loves sports.

Well, Pippi’s friend was played by 12-year-old Fedya Stukov. By that time, he was already a real star, having starred in 6 films and becoming the most recognizable face of Yeralash. Now he is a director, one of his recent works is the series “Fizruk” with Dmitry Nagiyev, which Afisha magazine named among the best in Russia in 2014.