Actress Tonunz Biography

Dad, an officer of Morflot, instilled in Elena, the need for daily physical exercises, a love of sports. Until the fifth grade, the girl was seriously engaged in rhythmic gymnastics. In addition, she spent a lot of time in the ballet studio, and already there the physical training is cleaner than the sports! Thanks to her sports past, Elena Tonuntz and today retains excellent shape.

Elena successfully combined sport and ballet with her studies at school. The girl studied “excellent”, regularly occupied the first places in mathematical, chemical, physical olympiads.

Therefore, when the turn came to choose a future profession, she, first of all, turned her gaze to technical universities ... The failed geologist to storm universities Elena came to Moscow. It so happened that at Moscow State University, exams took place earlier than at other institutions, and the girl decided to rehearse admission. Well, how to miss such a chance!

Elena remained to study at Moscow State University. Already during the years of study, Elena began to realize that geology is not her. She recalls: “Apparently, in my soul I was always a humanitarian, eagerly reached for humanitarian knowledge. In those years, young specialists were sent to distribute on various institutions and enterprises of the country, where they were obliged to work for three years.

Elena fell out of the All -Union Institute of Material Raw Materials in the city of Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Despite the beautiful name of the city, the living conditions there were terrible: the hut stood in the clean field, it was necessary to get to the institute on foot, and in the evening - dark. Elena simply did not go to work, the girl naturally wanted. In the meantime, she, having registered with her relatives in Gorky, remained living in Moscow, got a job on the limit and was preparing to enter the theater university.

Already in the first year, she made her debut in the cinema - in the melodrama of Pavel Arsenov “Confusion of feelings”. Until the end of the Institute A GITIS, Elena graduated in the year, she also starred in the science fiction film “The Loop of Orion” Eya, the melodrama “Portrait of the artist’s wife” Varya, who is resting in the boarding house, the musical comedy “Carnival” of the guest at the party.

The first great success of the actress was the role of Gali - the sailor of the women's tugboat “Cyclone” in the musical comedy of the directors of Viktor Makarov and Alexander Polynnikov “Take care of the women”. The partners of the actress on the film were Marina Shimanskaya, Andrei Gradov, Igor Sklyar, Algis Arlauskas, and all the action of this cheerful story took place accompanied by wonderful songs by Yuri Antonova.

The actress admits that during the filming, her sports training was very useful to her: “I, a kind of reckless sailor, had to rush along the ladders, like a real sprinter. And in order not to stand out among their more tall girlfriends, to wear high-heeled shoes under the pants-coat. And do not lag behind them, although they ran in sneakers. In the same film, it was necessary to show the ability to use hand -to -hand combat techniques - I specially went to the karate section.

” In years, Elena Tonuntz actively starred in the cinema. The audience remembered it, first of all, by the role of charming Scheherazada in the films “And another night of Shaherezada ...”, “New Staulus Stashes” and “The Last Night of Shaherezada”. Her characters did not go unnoticed by Kinopobia “Find to the horseshoe for the horseshoe” Anna Andriesh and Annushka, the fantastic comedy “Chance” Wanda Savich in his youth, “Alien” Igor’s colleague, “When the echo will respond” Leila Badalova.

The actress herself admits that it gives special pleasure to work in paintings shot according to the masterpieces of world literature: "After all, all great creations are based on spiritual values, speak of love, devotion, sacrifice." There were such roles in her biography. Another vivid role is Bayka in the Tevye - Milk Tevom. Russian, Ukrainian, a Jew - each in his own way, from the inside, from the core of folk suffering, folk aspirations speaks of a man who does not lose his face in the most difficult minutes, remains kind, patient.

” Directive work as an actress, Elena Tonuntz faced the problem of creativity in cinema. Everyone’s plans are brilliant, all insanely talented, and as a result it turns out to be darkened. Sometimes you think: well, what can come from such a nonsense scenario, and the film comes out well. It is very difficult to determine what a masterpiece depends on or at least such a picture, after which the viewer thinks about what he saw about how he lives, ”says Elena Konstantinovna.

Being a man of believers, she had the need to convey her vision to the viewer. Having entered the director's department of the All -Union State Institute of Cinematography, the workshop of Yuri Ozerov, she put her first film in her own script - a short film “One evening”. This story narrated about a young village girl who asks the arrogant poet to “give” her a child, because she is in her wilderness, with a sick mother in her arms, will hardly find her husband and create a family.

The film was highly appreciated by specialists, having received numerous prizes and bonuses at student festivals in France and Germany.In the year, Elena Konstantinovna graduated from the director's Faculty of VGIK, and in the year her second picture saw the light - “I won’t let you go anywhere”, like the first, at the turn of X and X. The viewer at the trial was presented with the drama of a summer girl who leaves the guardian and decides to live independently.

Elena Konstantinovna says: “She returns to the communal apartment, where the empty room remained - her mother died, her father on forced treatment from alcoholism. The girl hopes that her life will not be like her parents. She will end the vocational school, will work, get married, we see not only a chain of dramatic events, but also the attitude of the heroine surrounding the heroine who pushes her to suicide ...

”Both paintings leave a difficult impression and, at the same time, make the viewer think about life. Elena Konstantinovna herself admits that she showed somehow the picture “I won’t let you go anywhere” to the familiar priest. He, looking, remained shocked and said that he would put a word from the Bible to him with an epigraph: "The whole creature is aggravated and tormented by the bottom." The path to God is thinking, looking for his place in this world, sooner or later finds the way to God.

From childhood, Elena could sit at the window for hours, looking at the sky, stars, and think for which a person was created for what he lives. And the answers came to her implicitly: a person was created for improvement, he should be better, kinder, more condescending, more tolerant. So, gradually, step by step, she gained faith. Elena Konstantinovna was baptized already in adulthood, when she felt a true need for this.

In recent years, Elena Tonuntz has been in small roles in the last years in recent years. She played episodic roles in the series “Pautetina-3”, “Paths-2”, “Garages”. Conversations with scientists, priests, creative intelligentsia.