Distinguished Artist of Russia

After graduation of the Saratov Theater College named after I. Slonov, Galina Veretelnikova worked in Tula at the M. Gorky Drama Theater; after that, she was invited to Stavropol to M. Lermontov Drama Theater where she became one of the leading actresses before long. In her decade there, she played many roles; in 1981, Galina Veretelnikova was awarded with the honorable title of a Distinguished Artist of Russian Federation.

Veretelnikova came to work to the Russian Academy Drama Theater named after Pushkin in 1985, already a well-developed master, experienced in performing on both provincial and Leningrad stages: by then, she had already worked at the Leninsky Komsomol Theater and the Gorky Big Drama Theater. In the late 1980s – early 1990s, parallel to her work at the Alexandrinsky Theater, Veretelnikova played at the Secret Art Atudio.   Her roles in such performances as In Private with Everybody by A. Gelman and The Dog by A. Krasnogorov belong to that period. Her impersonation of an unlucky telephone operator, the main character of S. Zlotnikov’s melodrama A Man Came to a Woman had a special success with the audience. This work of the actress was highly appreciated by critics and press.  

In the twenty years on the Alexandrinsky Stage, the actress had played twenty three roles of the Russian and foreign repertoire, both bit-part and major roles. Among those roles were: Cindy (Airport, A. Heily, 1985), Kislitsina (Extreme Penalty, V. Arro, 1986), Streltsova (I Demand a Court Trial!.., O. Perekalin, 1986), Mrs. Yulyasevich (Mrs. Yulyasevich’s Moral by G. Zapolskaya, 1987), Faerie (The First Ball of Cindrella by Ye. Schwarts, 1988), Baloshina (The Leaders by G. Solovsky, 1989), Princess Alexandra (Alexander Nevsky by V. Belov, 1990), Sarah Harford (Mirages after the More Stately Mansions by E. O’Neill, 1991), Anisia (The Power of Darkness by L. Tolstoy, 1991), Pepita (Blaise by C. Magnier, 1992), Anna Arsenyevna (The Puppy Flowers by Z. Gippius, 1993), Balzaminova (Pictures of Moscow Life by A. Ostrovsky, 1994), She (Sorry by A. Galin, 1996), Natalya Stepanovna (Deceptions by M. Gavrilova, 1997), Dina (The Comedy of Our Life by N. Ptushkina, 1997), Grand Lady (A Pair of Chestnuts by A. Belinsky, 2000), etc.  

The sharp comedian talent of the actress, her ability to make a succinct and memorable character revealed themselves in the stage readings of German drama which took place under the frames of the Festival of modern German Drama at the Alexandrinsky Theater (1999). Galina Veretelnikova created an image of eccentric Hanna Luck in Daniel Kall’s Distant Lightings.

The most recent roles of the actress include Manefa (2002) and Turusina (2004) in A. Ostrovsky’s play Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man (Director Vladimir Golub); and the Guide in Andrey Bely’s theater project Petersburg (2005).   

Presently, the actress is engaged in Valery Fokin’s performance Ksenia. The History of Love by modern dramatist V. Levanov (2009). She is engaged in the group scenes of W.Shakespeare's Hamlet (Director Valery Fokin, 2010).