Natalya Bondarchuk

Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (born 10 May 1950) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris as "Hari". She is the daughter of Soviet director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and Russian actress Inna Makarova. Her half-brother is film director and actor Fedor Bondarchuk; her half-sister is actress Yelena Bondarchuk. Biography Natalya Bondarchuk was born in Moscow to Soviet director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk and the Russian actress Inna Makarova. In 1971 she graduated from the acting school of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and in 1975 from the directing school there. She made her film debut in 1969 in Sergei Gerasimov's By the Lake, followed by the 1971 productions You and Me, by Larisa Shepitko, and A Soldier Came Back from the Front, by Nikolai Gubenko. She became internationally famous for her role as "Hari" in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris in 1972. It was her favorite role. She was also Tarkovsky's favorite of the film, as he wrote in his diary that "Natalya B. has outshone everybody". In 1973 she met her future husband Nikolai Burlyayev on the set of the Nikolai Mashchenko film How the Steel Was Tempered. The two later withdrew from their participation in this film. In 1976 their son Ivan was born.