Natalya Tenyakova was a Soviet and Russian actress. Despite some early success as the lead of a few high-profile films, she quickly lost interest in the filmmaking process and focused her attention on live theatre, starring in dozens of plays on stage and television to great acclaim. Her signature roles in film include Lida in Elder Sister (1967) and Shura in Love and Pigeons (1985), where she formed a memorable comic duo with her husband and frequent co-star, Sergei Yursky.
Love and Pigeons
(Grandma Shura)
Uncle's Dream
(Mariya Aleksandrovna)
The Green Carriage
(Varvara Asenkova)
Forest
(Гурмыжская)
Outside the System
Elder Sister
(Lida)
The Cabal of Hypocrites
Colonel Chabert
(графиня Ферро)
The Light Shines in the Darkness
(Александра Ивановна Коховцева)
Banquet
(Vasily Petrovich's Wife (voice))
The Widow Steamer
Year When I Wasn't Born
(Nataliya Sudakova)
The Frenchman
(Mariya Kirillovna)
Chernov/Chernov
(Tanya, Chernov's wife)
Regarding the Bald Singer...
(Mrs. Smith)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(Фатима)
The Gamblers: XXI
Thunderstorm Over Belaya
(Sasha)
Our Friends
(Antonina Staroselskaya)
This Queen of Spades
The Wife
Swan Song
A Long Cat Tale
(Alice)
Fiesta
(Lady Brett Ashley)
The Death of Vazir Mukhtar
(Lenhen Bulgarina)
The Chairs
(la Vieille)
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
(The Dark Lady)
Prince Napoleon
The Golovlevs
Version
(Lyubov Mendeleyeva)
Handmade Clouds
(Old Woman (voice))
Ship of the Desert
(Turtle (voice))
White Hair Urgently Required
(Natasha Proskurova)
Heroines of Ostrovsky's Plays
(Фетинья Мироновна Епишкина / Акулина Гавриловна Красавина / Марфа Игнатьевна Кабанова / Пульхерия Андревна Гущина)
The Theater of I.S. Turgenev
(Наталья Петровна Ислаева / Анна Ильинишна Kaypoвa)
The Stove on Wheels
(Ефросинья Сидоровна)
To Remember
(Narrator)
Chekhov and Co.
(Даша)
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
(Евдокия Матвеевна Стольникова)
Fathers and Sons
(Arina Bazarova)