Alla Pokrovskaya is a Russian actress and acting coach at the Moscow
Art Theatre (MKhAT).
She was born Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya on September 18, 1937, in
Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Her father,
Boris Pokrovskiy, was a legendary Russian
opera director of Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Her mother was director of
the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow. Her parents named Alla in
honor of the legendary Russian actress
Alla Tarasova. Young Alla Pokrovskaya was
brought up in a highly intellectual environment of her family and her
parents' circle. From 1955 - 1959 she studied acting and directing
under Viktor Stanitsyn, graduating in
1959 as an actress.
She made her big screen debut n 1964, opposite
Aleksandr Demyanenko in a popular
Soviet film
Der Staatsverbrecher (1964),
by director Nikolai Rozantsev. From
1959 - 2003 Pokrovskaya was member of the troupe at Sovremennik Theatre
in Moscow. There her stage partners were such actor as
Oleg Efremov,
Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Galina Volchek, Viktor Sergachev,
Anatoliy Romashin,
Andrey Myagkov,
Oleg Tabakov,
Oleg Dal,
Igor Kvasha,
Valentin Gaft and other notable Russian
actors. Her most memorable stage performances at Sovremennik were in
such plays as 'Starshaya sestra' (aka.. The older sister), 'Valentin i
Valentina', and 'Krytoi marshrut' (aka.. Tough road).
Since 2004 Alla Pokrovskaya has been a permanent member of the troupe
at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT) named after A. Chekhov. There her stage
partners are such renown Russian actors as
Oleg Tabakov,
Kira Golovko,
Iya Savvina,
Elena Panova,
Darya Moroz,
Olga Litvinova,
Natalya Rogozhkina,
Ekaterina Semyonova,
Olga Yakovleva,
Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya,
Anastasiya Voznesenskaya,
Irina Miroshnichenko,
Kristina Babushkina, Aleksei Agapov,
Andrey Myagkov,
Stanislav Lyubshin,
Vladimir Kashpur,
Viktor Sergachyov,
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy,
Evgeniy Kindinov,
Vladimir Krasnov,
Dmitriy Nazarov,
Sergey Sazontev,
Avangard Leontev,
Igor Vasilev,
Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky,
Mikhail Porechenkov,
Konstantin Khabenskiy,
Valeri Khlevinsky,
Valeriy Troshin,
Mikhail Trukhin,
Eduard Chekmazov,
Aleksey Kravchenko, and
Evgeniy Mironov among others. Her best
known stage appearances include her roles in such classic plays as
Saltykov-Shchedrin's 'Gospoda Golovlevy' and in
Maxim Gorky's Meshchane opposite
Andrey Myagkov and Kristina Babushkina,
among other actors.
Alla Pokrovskaya was designated People's Actress of Russia. She is
professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, as well as at
Stanislavski acting school at Kembridge, UK, and at post-graduate
course at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, USA. In 1998 she
received the Stanislavski Award for excellence in teaching. Alla
Pokrovskaya was married to actor
Oleg Efremov; their son,
Mikhail Efremov, is an actor.
Pokrovskaya is living and working in Moscow, Russia.
