Natalya Vyacheslavina Sumska ( uk, Наталя В'ячеславівна Сумська; born April 22, 1956) is a

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actress of theater and cinema, television hostess, recipient of the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

in 2008 and the

People's Artist of Ukraine People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Establ ...

(2000).

Biography

Sumska was born on April 22, 1956 in the village of Katyuzhanka,

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into a family of hereditary actors. Her father was the People's Artist of Ukraine (1981), Vyacheslav Hnatovych Sumsky and her mother - the Merited Artist of Ukraine, Hanna Opanasenko-Sumska. Until Natliya was 10, she lived in

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

. In 1977 Sumska finished the Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts of Karpenko-Karyi. The same year she became an actress at the Franko National Academical Drama Theater. In 2000 she became a laureate of the national theater award ''"Kyiv pectoral"'' (for her role of Masha in the Chekhov's ''Three sisters''). Since 2003 simultaneously works for Inter TV Networks. There she led a talk-show ''Key moment'' which was discontinued by Inter in 2010. In 2008 Sumska received Shevchenko National Prize and was named the ''Kyivan of the Year''. Works in the theater company "Benyuk and Hostikoyev". He is a member of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Committee of Ukraine (since December 2016).

Personal life

Natalya Sumska has one younger sister

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, who is also an actress. Natalya Sumska is married to a fellow actor with whom she a daughter and a son.

Plays

* ''Eneyida ( Kotliarevsky)'' as Didona * ''Vassa Zhelieznova ( Gorky)'' as Liudmila * ''White Crow (Rybchynsky)'' as Joan D'Arc * ''Blez (Manye)'' as Mari * ''Senior from higher world'' as Fiorella and Matilda * ''Kin IV'' as Anna * ''

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'' as Eliza Doolittle

Movies

* ''Karmeliuk'' as Maria * '' Natalka Poltavka'' as Natalka * '' The Mountains are Smoking'' as Marichka * ''For home fire'' as Yulia Shablynska * ''Dudaryks'' as Khrystyna * ''State Border'' as Maria

References

External links

Profile on Inter

Sumska as a guest at the National Radio Company in Ukraine

Review of a play ''Senior from a higher world'' in Vinnytsia February 2004

Interview to newspaper ''Simya''
Living people 1956 births Ukrainian film actresses Ukrainian television presenters Ukrainian stage actresses 20th-century Ukrainian actresses Inter (TV channel) people Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University alumni People from Kyiv Oblast Ukrainian women television presenters {{Ukraine-actor-stub