Irina Muravyova

Biography

Irina Muravyova was born in Moscow. After graduating from the drama studio of the Central Children's Theatre in 1970, she joined the ensemble of the Central Children's Theatre (today known as the Russian Academic Youth Theatre), where she served for 7 years. Among her many works were Lyubka Shevtsova (The Young Guard by Alexander Fadeyev), Viola / Sebastian (Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare), Princess Lali (Chinrak by Georgy Nakhutsrishvili), Bonka (The Tale About Four Twins by Pancho Panchev), Galya (The Invisible Dimka by Vadim Korostylyov and Mikhail Lvovsky), The Tame Crow (The Snow Queen by Evgeny Schwartz), Shura Tychinkin (Sombrero by Sergei Mikhalkov) and Fedya Druzhinin (Year 2001 by Sergei Mikhalkov).

From 1977 to 1991 Irina Muravyova worked at the Mossovet Theatre. She starred in a legendary production of Next Was Silence, a stage version of Viña Delmar’s Make Way for Tomorrow along with Faina Ranevskaya and Rostislav Plyatt. Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky became one of her signature roles.

In 1982 she graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.

Since 1993 Irina Myravyova has been working in the Maly State Academic Theatre of Russia, where she performed a range of central roles, from comedy to drama.

In addition to her theatre accomplishments Irina Myravyova was one of the most famous actresses of the Soviet cinema. She is most well known for her performances in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Lyudmila, 1979), Karnaval (Nina Solomatina, 1981), The Most Charming and Attractive (Nadya Klyuyeva, 1985). She also starred in a popular TV series Not Born Beautiful.

Repertoire

Roles at the Maly Theatre:
Ranevskaya (The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, director Igor Ilyinskiy, 1994)
Kupavina (Wolves and Sheep by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1994)
Arkadina (The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, director Vladimir Dragunov, 1996)
Gurmyzhskaya (The Forest by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Yuri Solomin, 1998)
Mamaeva (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vladimir Beylis, 2002)
Matryona (The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy, director Yuri Solomin, 2007)
Esther (The Sacred Monsters by Jean Cocteau, director Anton Yakovlev, 2012)
Filumena Marturano (Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo, director Stefano de Luca, 2013)
Mamy (Eight Loving Women by Robert Thomas, director Vladimir Beylis, 2015)
Fyokla Ivanovna, the Matchmaker (Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, director Yuri Solomin, 2017)
Mrs. Dolly Levi (Always Call Dolly by Sergei Plotov and Vladimir Ivanov, based on The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder, director Vladimir Ivanov, 2019)
Korobochka (Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, director Alexei Dubrovsky, 2021)
Pavla Balzaminova (Balzaminov's Marriage by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Alexei Dubrovsky, 2022)