Galina Konshina

Galina Pavlovna Konshina (; born December 17, 1951, Barnaul) is a Soviet and Russian theater, cinema, television and stage actress

Biography Galina Konshina was born on December 17, 1951, in Barnaul. In fact, Galina was born on December 6, but because of forty-degree frosts, her father went to issue a certificate of her birth only on December 17.

In school years she was engaged in amateur art activities and went to drama school. Quite early, she began to parody neighbors, teachers, as well as popular pop singers Klavdiya Shulzhenko and Maya Kristalinskaya.

In 1974 she graduated from the acting department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) (workshop of Vsevolod Ostalsky).

Having received a diploma of theater and film actresses, together with her husband, director Yuri Nepomnyashchy, they created the Theater of Little Comedies, in which they played both one-act French plays and comedy and sharp-screen miniatures of Russian authors. The theater traveled the whole former USSR with a tour, but in 1987 it was closed.

In 1979 she took part in the All-Union Competition of Variety Artists, the main award (the third prize, since the first two prizes were not awarded), which she shared in the speech genre with Yan Arlazorov.

From 1988 to 1994 she starred in the comic TV show .

From 1990 to 2001 — Artist of the Moscow Concert Association Estrada.

Also in different years she starred in the programs , , The Cup of Humor, Grouse-Show. He actively acts in films, tours in Russia with entrepreneurial performances.

Selected filmography Blood for Blood (1991) as episode Wood Grouse (2008—2009) as Olga Alekseevna, Head of the International Bureau Daddy's Daughters (2009—2010) as Roza Lvovna Univer (2009) as teacher All Inclusive (2011) as woman who keeps repeating Yolki 2 (2011) as Natalya, Olya's mother Zhukov (2011) as Larisa, fashion designer (2011) as Irina Borisovna Lokteva Paws, Bones and Rock'n'roll (2015) as Nastya's grandmother (2018) as apartment owner

Personal life The first husband is a fellow student on GITIS, director Yuri Nepomnyashchy. From this marriage there is a son Anton. The second husband is musician Yuri Shumidub, 14 years younger than Galina.