Natalia Belokhvostikova was born on July 28, 1951 in Moscow. In 1965, she appeared as an extra in a crowd scene in Mark Donskoi’s film A Mother’s Heart. This was her cinematic debut. In 1968, she enrolled at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography to join a group supervised by Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. While still a student, she worked in a film by her instructor Gerasimov, By the Lake. For her role of Lena Barmina, Belokhvostikova was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, becoming its youngest winner. Upon graduation from the institute, she joined the Film Actors’ Studio Theater. She was featured in such well-known films as The Red and the Black, Little Tragedies, The Legend of Thyl, Teheran-43, The Shore, and Ten Years Without the Right of Correspondence. Her role in Teheran-43 made her nationally famous. In 1984, she was given the title People’s Artist of the RSFSR. She married film director Vladimir Naumov, whom she met at a festival in Yugoslavia. In 1977, they had a daughter. Natasha. Belokhvostikova continues to work in cinema and on television. Since 2000, she has acted in the films Clock Without Hands (2011), The Year of the Horse: The Scorpio Constellation (2004), and La Gioconda on Asphalt (2007).
