Popularity, demand, a huge number of leading roles in cinema … And how do these factors affect the income of famous Russian film actors? For example, how and how much does the beloved Elena Yakovleva earn?
Elena Alekseevna Yakovleva is one of the most popular and demanded Russian theater and film actresses. Her creative piggy bank has experience of working in 5 theaters and enterprises, roles in more than 20 TV series and more than 60 films. How much did she manage to earn over the entire period of her active filming and performances on the stage of theaters? How else does actress Elena Yakovleva make money?
Who is Elena Yakovleva - biography
The future Russian theater and film star Elena Alekseevna Yakovleva was born in the city of Novograd-Volynsky, Zhytomyr region, then the Ukrainian SSR. The girl's parents were far from art in any of its manifestations - her mother worked at a research institute, her father was a career soldier.
The Yakovlev family moved frequently. Elena changed 2-3 schools during the academic year, she was always "new". The girl had few friends, her leisure time consisted of helping her mother around the house and raising her younger brother Dmitry. Lena's only outlet was rare trips to the cinema. They shaped her dream - to become an actress.
The first attempt to enter a specialized university was a failure for Elena - the members of the commission did not see "acting infectiousness" in the applicant. A year later, having managed to work as a librarian and collector at a radio plant, Elena again tried to enter an acting university, and immediately to the Moscow GITIS. She was accepted there on the first try.
Success story of actress Elena Yakovleva
The first role of Elena Alekseevna was the circus artist Lera in the film "Two under one umbrella". The debut took place in the third year of GITIS. The work did not bring much money, but the fact that I managed to work in a team of eminent colleagues - Smoktunovsky, Andreichenko, Kalnysh - made Elena more self-confident, helped to believe in her own strength and acting talent.
The debut role was followed by other proposals from the directors. Already a couple of years after the release of the first film with the participation of Elena Yakovleva on screens, she starred in 2-4 films every year. Money came along with the demand. If in the first year Elena sometimes spent the night at the train stations, now she could afford to rent a "corner", and even a room. The income from filming, albeit small, also gave independence. Lena left her first spouse, with whom they got married, according to her own confession, not out of great love, but more in order to get a room in a hostel.
In 1985, Elena met her second husband, Valery Shalnykh. After 5 years, the couple formalized their marriage, and after another 2 years they had a son, Denis. The family was an actor's, at that time the stage and film attendants earned little, but neither Elena nor Valery was burdened by this.
Filmography of the actress Elena Yakovleva
For a long time, Elena Alekseevna was considered a supporting actress in the cinema. This did not hurt or embarrass her, she received her "portion of fame" on the stage of theaters, where she was trusted to perform significant or main characters. But cinema has always attracted the actress more, and her patience was rewarded - she played the main role in the film "Intergirl". It was a real explosion, a breakthrough, a tremendous success. The specifics of the picture did not bother the actress, it was much more important for her to convey the feelings and emotions of her heroine, to show that people like her also have a soul and motivation for actions and decisions.
“Intergirl” was followed by other high-profile works in cinema - “Kamenskaya”, “More important than love”, “Karasi”, “Rita”, “Curious Barbarian”, “Vangelia”, “Sklifosovsky”, “The Last Hero” and many others.
New times have made changes in the world of cinema - it has become commercial. The actors' fees have become more significant, including those of Elena Yakovleva. Now she chooses the scripts and names the amounts, and not the directors choose her. Despite her age, Elena Yakovleva remains in demand both in the theater and in the cinema.
How much does actress Elena Yakovleva earn?
The first "big" money Elena Alekseevna received for the role of Zaitseva Tanya in "Intergirl" - it was 30 thousand rubles. The amount was given to her in cash, there was no suitable bag, and the actress had to carry the fee in a regular plastic grocery bag. She did not manage to successfully invest the money she received for the role - it was almost impossible to buy something, for example, a car, an apartment, at that time. And then there was a default, and the amount literally zeroed out, as it was stored in cash.
Elena was not going to worry for a long time, and money in the then Soviet country was not as important as for her contemporaries. Yakovleva simply continued to work, not for the sake of income, but in order to bring joy to her fans, to get satisfaction from this.
Then came the "era" of advertising. High earnings became available to the actors - from $ 10,000 and more - for shooting short videos about household chemicals, cosmetics and other goods. Elena Alekseevna did not want to appear in advertising, and when she was offered a "role" to promote one of the brands of washing powder, she named the fabulous cost of her "services". To her surprise, the director agreed. This was her first highest income. What was the amount, the actress still does not say, but claims that she literally stunned her.
Elena Alekseevna Yakovleva is not the last in the income rating of Russian actors. The cost of one day of her shooting ranges from 2 to 5 thousand dollars, depending on the type of project - a series, film or TV program. The actress herself never gives exact numbers, and this is her right
