Natalya Eduardovna Andrejchenko, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984) (Russian: Ната́лья Эдуа́рдовна Андре́йченко; born May 3, 1956) is a Russian actress. Her most famous roles include the title character in Mary Poppins, Goodbye and Lyuba in Wartime Romance.
Biography
Andrejchenko decided to become an actress in early high school. After an unsuccessful attempt to get into the Schepkin Art School, she was admitted to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography where she studied in the Sergei Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva school. In 1976 she appeared in her first movies Ot zari do Zari and Kolybelnaya dlya Muzchin. Her first successful film role was in the 1979 epic film Siberiade, which received the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival. However, Natalya became more popular in the Soviet Union after her roles in Mary Poppins, Goodbye and Wartime Romance, both feature films released in 1983.
Personal life
From her first marriage to the Russian composer Maksim Dunayevsky she had a son named Dmitry (born 1982), a banker by profession. In 1985–2005 she was married to the Austrian/Swiss actor, writer, producer and director Maximilian Schell, whom she met on the set of Little Odessa. They have one daughter together, Anastasia Schell.
She is a vegetarian, practices a raw food diet, and is engaged in yoga.
Filmography
- Ot zari do zari (1975) as Valya
- Stepan’s Remembrance (1976) as Tanyushka
- Dolgi nashi (Our debts) (1976)
- Kolybelnaya dlya muzhchin (Lullaby for men) (1977) as Valya Krylova
- Step (1978) as Girl
- Zhnetsy (1978) as Mariya
- Ukhodya – ukhodi (If you’re going away – then go) (1978)
- Torgovka i poet (Saleswoman and a Poet) (1979)
- Siberiade (1979) as Nastya Solomina
- Priletal marsianin v osennyuyu noch (1979)
- Koney na pereprave ne menyayut (1980)
- Damy priglashayut kavalerov (1981) as Raisa
- Chelovek, kotoryy zakryl gorod (A Man Who Has Closed the City) (1982) as Nina Lazareva
- Lyudmila (1982)
- Wartime Romance (1983) as Lyuba
- Dvoe pod odnim zontom: Aprelskaya skazka (Two under a one umbrella) (1983) as Lyudmila
- Meri Poppins, do svidaniya (1984, TV Movie) as Mary Poppins
- Maritsa (1985, TV Movie) as Maritsa
- Peter the Great (1986, TV Mini-Series) as Eudoxia
- Forgive Me (1986) as Maria
- Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1989) as Yekaterina
- Candles in the Dark (1993, TV Movie) as Marta Velliste
- Ne idet… (1994)
- Little Odessa (1994) as Natasha
- Aurora: Operation Intercept (1995) as Francesca Zaborszin
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1997, TV Series) as Princess Nizamova
- Modern Vampires (1998, TV Movie) as Panthia
- 8 ½ $ (1999) as Kseniya
- NYPD Blue (2000, TV Series) as Leah Shenkov
- Podari mne lunnyy svet (2001)
- Down House (2001)
- O’key (2002)
- My Big Armenian Wedding (2004, TV Mini-Series) as Lena’s Mother
- Quiet Flows the Don (2006, TV Mini-Series) as Dariya
- Ochen russkiy detektiv (2008)
- Na kryshe mira(2008) as Elena Naumova
Self
- Meine Schwester Maria (2002) as Natascha Schell