Actress Evgenia Dobrovolskaya died | Forbes Life

People’s Artist of Russia Evgenia Dobrovolskaya died at the age of 60. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, of which she was the leading actress.

“For the last year she has been battling a serious illness. I literally fought – stubbornly, without losing hope. But with all the thirst for life and stubbornness of spirit, physical strength turned out to be finite. She is no longer in this world. Evgenia Dobrovolskaya’s first role at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater was Nina Zarechnaya in “The Seagull” (later she had the opportunity to play all the heroines of this play). In her performance, it was a soul eager to fly. Zhenya herself was like that. Fly,” the theater said in a statement.

Evgenia Dobrovolskaya graduated from GITIS and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky in 1987. From 1988 to 1989 she was an actress at the Moscow Theater Studio under the direction of Oleg Tabakov. From 1989 to 1991, Dobrovolskaya played in the Sovremennik-2 theater studio, created on the basis of the graduate course of the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1991, the actress joined the Moscow Art Theater troupe. Chekhov. In total, she participated in almost 30 productions.

Evgenia Dobrovolskaya also has more than 60 film roles and almost 40 roles in television projects. She received the title of People’s Artist of Russia in 2005. According to representatives of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, the date and time of farewell to the actress will be known later.