Actress

Natalya Yershova graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography named after N. Cherkasov (professor I.Gorbachev’s class) in 1987. After graduation, she was accepted to the troupe of the Leningrad Academy Drama Theater named after A. Pushkin, where she debuted in the role of Donna Anna in the tragic comedy “Don Juan” by H. Figeiredu (1987). In the years of service at the theater, Natalya Yershova plyed about 30 roles, among which are Lyolya (“Mashenka,” A. Afinogrnov, 1987), Khesya (“Pany Dulaskaya’s Moral,” G. Zapolskaya, 1988), Akulina (“Power of Darkness,” L. Tolstoy, 1989), Masha (“The Seagull,” A. Chekhov, 1990), Bertha (“The Cricket on the Hearth,” C. Dickens, 1994), etc. Among Natalya Yershova’s best roles was Nadya, a foster daughter of a rich landlady Ulanbekova in A. Ostrovsky’s drama “A Protegee of the Mistress” (director Alexander Galibin, 1995). In Alexander Galibin’s performance, the heroine of Natalya Yershova sounded unexpectedly modern and sharp on the background of careless show-booth festivity.  She remained the only living and truly suffering human person among puppet personages subordinate to whims of an extravagant lady. The actress is currently engaged in R. Kuni’s comedy “Thirteens Number” (director Vladimir Golub, 2003) and Andrey Moguchy’s project after A.Bely’s novel “Petersburg” (2005).