Natalya Vyacheslavina Sumska ( uk, Наталя В'ячеславівна Сумська; born April 22, 1956) is a
Ukrainian
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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
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Estab ...
(2000).
Biography
Sumska was born on April 22, 1956 in the village of Katyuzhanka,
Kyiv Oblast
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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
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. 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
Olha
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* Olha Basanska (born 1992), Ukrainian footballer
* Olha Basarab (1889–1924), Ukrainian political activist and alleged spy
* Olha Bibik (born 1990), Ukrainian ...
, 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
* ''
Pygmalion
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Mythology
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Stage
* ''Pigmalion'' (opera), a 1745 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
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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 InterSumska as a guest at the National Radio Company in UkraineReview 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
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