Galina Belyayeva

Galina Viktorovna Belyaeva (; born 26 April 1961) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress, best known for her leading roles in A Hunting Accident and Anna Pavlova (1983). Belyaeva, the Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003), has been one of the leading actresses at the Moscow Mayakovsky Theatre since 1983.

Biography Belyaeva was born in Irkutsk and spent her childhood years in Nevinnomyssk, Northern Caucasus, raised with her younger sister by a single mother, who worked at a local construction site. Yankovsky stated later that it was her presence that imparted the film its unique, haunting atmosphere. During the shooting, Belyaeva became romantically involved with Loteanu, who two years later married the 18-year-old actress.

Belyayeva's second son's father is the surgeon Levon Sakvarelidze, her partner in the mid-1980s. Platon (born 1985), a Moscow University's Law faculty graduate, appeared in two films his early years, Bembi's Childhood, Детство Бемби, 1985) and Lermontov (1986, as an infant poet). He studied at the Moscow University Law faculty and then Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, to become an independent film producer.

Selected filmography