Lubov Virolainen Actress Date of Birth: 14.01.1941 Country: Belarus

1. Biography of Lyubov Vorolaynen
2. Pursuit of Acting
3. Success in Film
4. Personal Life

Biography of Lyubov Vorolaynen

Lyubov Vorolaynen, a delicate blonde with brown eyes, was born in Borisov before the war. Her maiden name was Urozhenko, and her parents were Belarusians. Her childhood was tragic as her father died in the Great Patriotic War and her mother joined the partisans. Lyubov, along with her three-year-old sister and six-year-old brother, lived in an underground shelter. Later, her mother managed to place the children in different families, and after their liberation from a concentration camp, she reunited with them.

Pursuit of Acting

When Lyubov was in the 10th grade, she appeared in her first film, "Na perelome" (At a Turning Point). With the money she earned, Lyubov bought white bread and shared it with her siblings to show off their improved living conditions. Despite their poverty, Lyubov had a beautiful dream – to become an actress. However, her attempt to enroll in the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) failed due to her old school dress and her inability to read the required material. Disheartened, she left the audition.

After some time, Lyubov Urozhenko was accepted into the studio at the M. Gorky Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater. She completed her studies there in 1965 and became an actress at the theater. During this time, Georgy Tovstonogov, the theater's director, entrusted her with interesting roles, including comedy, which she rarely received offers for in both theater and film. In 1969, Lyubov left the theater and became an actress at Lenconcert, and from 1972, she joined the Lenfilm studio. She regrets leaving the theater, claiming that the film industry only cast her in "the role of our contemporary woman, someone very kind, capable of love and being loved."

Success in Film

Lyubov's first major role in film came in 1969 in the melodrama "Doroga domoy" (The Way Home). Three years later, she was invited by Sergei Gerasimov to play the role of Masha in the film "Lyubit cheloveka" (To Love a Man). This film brought her nationwide fame, and she was showered with flowers by her fans during numerous public appearances.

Some of the most notable films in which Lyubov Vorolaynen appeared include the melodrama "Den pervyy, den posledniy" (The First Day, the Last Day, 1978), the drama "Sred' bela dnya" (In Broad Daylight, 1983), and the action-adventure film "U opasnoy cherty" (At the Dangerous Line, 1983).

Personal Life

In the early 1970s, Lyubov Ivanovna married Yuri Vorolaynen. However, their time together was brief as Yuri passed away. During her late husband's heart surgery, Lyubov Ivanovna met cardiothoracic surgeon Alexander Zorin, who later became her second husband. They have been living together for over twenty years and have a son and a granddaughter.

In the early 1990s, Lyubov Vorolaynen found herself without work as the Soviet film industry collapsed. She tried her hand at a cosmetology company, conducted courses on "Health and Beauty in Your Hands," and even worked alongside her husband, filming heart surgeries. However, she eventually left that job as well.

In 2002, after a ten-year hiatus, Lyubov Vorolaynen returned to the screen in the TV series "Vremya lyubit" (Time to Love).