Klara Mikhailovna Rumyanova

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Klara Michailowna Rumjanowa ( Russian Клара Михайловна Румянова ; born December 8, 1929 in Leningrad , † September 18, 2004 in Moscow ) was a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. In the Soviet Union , she achieved fame as the speaker and singer of numerous cartoon characters from the Soyuzmultfilm studio , including the character of Cheburashka and the hare in the series Hare und Wolf (Nu, pogodi !; dt. Well wait! ).

At the end of the 1940s, Klara Rumjanowa began studying acting in Moscow at the film school, at that time the State All-Union Institute for Cinematography , which she graduated in 1953. As a 21-year-old student, she received her first role in a movie in 1951, that of Lena Sujewa (Russian Лена Зуева) in Sjelskij Wratsch (German country doctor ; released in January 1952). She also gave her voice to the baby of this character.

From the mid-1950s, Klara Rumjanowa was a busy film actress who got a role in a movie almost every year until the late 1970s. At the same time she worked as a voice actress for children's voices in movies. In the 1960s she became the voice of numerous cartoon characters because she could sing and speak with expression and charm in a high-pitched peeping voice. From the end of the 1960s onwards, a number of these cartoons achieved lasting fame, which has continued over the period of the Soviet Union to the present. Her last cartoon character was in 1999 - in her 70th year of life - the Never-Wise in the film Never-Wise Journey to the Moon .

She dubbed a total of 300 cartoons. In 1979 she received the Award of Honored Artist of the Russian Socialist Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union .

She died of breast cancer a month and a half before her 75th birthday .

Literature and films

In 2000, Klara Rumjanowa published the book "My Name is Woman" (original title Имя мне - женщина ) with portraits of important women in Russian history.

In 2005, an episode of a television series with portraits of personalities was dedicated to her (director: Wladislaw Wetrow).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Russian film database kino-teatr.ru.Retrieved on March 2, 2013
  2. ^ Note in the Russian film database kinopoisk.ru.Retrieved on March 2, 2013
  3. ↑ Biography about Klara Rumjanowa on narod.ru (russ.)
  4. ↑ Entry on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Rumyanova, Klara Mikhailovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Румянова, Клара Михайловна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet and Russian singer and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2004
Place of death Moscow