Anna Semyonovna Kamenkova is a renowned Soviet and Russian theater, film, and dubbing actress, who has been honored with the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1985. Her journey in the world of cinema began at the tender age of six, when she played her first film role in the 1959 movie "Devochka ishchet otsa," based on the novel by Evgeniy Ryss about the daughter of a Belarusian partisan.
For her outstanding performance, Anna received her first award at the II International Film Festival in Argentina (Mar del Plata, 1960),where she was recognized as the best performer of a children's role. Although her parents initially did not allow her to pursue a career in acting, they eventually allowed her to hone her craft at the artistic word studio in the Palace of Pioneers under the direction of Galina Khatsrevin.
Anna even had the opportunity to perform on the stage of the Bolshoy Theater, and later entered the Higher Theater School named after M. Shchepkin in 1970, where she studied under the guidance of M. Tsarev. As a student, she made her debut on the stage of the Malyy Theater in the play "The Means of Makropoulos" based on the play by Karel Capek.
After receiving her diploma in 1974, Anna was accepted into the troupe of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where she served until 1992. Some of her most notable works in the theater include her role as Verochka in the play "A Month in the Village" (Ivan Turgenev, director A. Efros).
After a long hiatus from film, Anna returned to the big screen in 1975 with the movie "Lesnyye kacheli" (1975),followed by the army melodrama "Vesenniy prizyv" (1978) the following year. Her breakthrough role came in 1979 as Manya in Leonid Menaker's melodrama "Molodaya zhena," which earned her the Prize for Best Actress at the XIII All-Union Festival in Dushanbe and recognition as the actress of the year.
Anna's subsequent roles in films such as "Vizit k Minotavru" (1987) and "Sofya Petrovna" (1989) further solidified her reputation as a talented actress. In the 1990s, she worked with foreign directors, including Pawel Pawlikowski in the film "The Stringer" (1998),and took an active part in dubbing foreign films.
