Even at school, the girl decided on the future profession: she will be an actress! Other options were not even considered! The biography of the actress is literally filled with theatrical productions already at school. After the eighth grade, the girl boldly came to audition for a theater school. While reading the fable about the cat, she got into the role so much that she fell down on all fours and exaggeratedly impressively. Examiners, not used to such an initiative, restrainedly advised the girl to forget about the career of the actress forever. However, Lena did not break the first disappointment. She was still firmly convinced of her stellar future and did not hide her dreams from her classmates. In her blind faith, she reminded them Assol, who dreamed of scarlet sails and the guys did not miss the chance to play a trick on the future actress. They called home on behalf of the director of Gorky's film studio and were invited to try.
Children are cruel in their misunderstanding of things, it was an evil joke. She could turn for the girl with a cruel blow, but at the film studio Lena was immediately noticed by the director's assistant, who was making a film-fairy tale and the girl got the first, albeit episodic, role of the princess's girlfriend. She regarded it as a sign from above, and classmates never laughed at her again.
After receiving the certificate, Elena, faithful to the children's dream, entered the Shchukinsky Theater School. As a second-year student, she starred in Alexander Alexandrov's lyric comedy The Shelter of Comedians (1995) in one of the main roles. Her character Vika on the plot was a brunette, the girl had to repaint urgently.
In the moral sense, the first shooting was not easy. Zakharov did not want to leave the school in the Crimea, the director even threatened to expel the girl. Fortunately, everything ended well.
Elena also joined the theater during her student years. In 1996, in the theater of the Moon, she was confirmed for the role of Rosemary in the play "The Night is Tender", and after graduating from the school in 1998, Elena Zakharova was enlisted in the staff of this theater. She managed to work on the stage of other theaters, including the famous "Tabakerka". Under the leadership of Oleg Tabakov, she played Mashenka in the play based on Ostrovsky's play "On Every Wise Man is quite simple," in the Kazantsev Center in the play "Feeling of a Beard" - Marina. But the special role of Ophelia in Peter Stein's self-styled performance "Hamlet" is noted with special professional pride. After all, the beginning actress was lucky to play with masters, including Evgeni Mironov and Vladimir Etush.
It is true that after the burial scene of Ophelia (Elena was buried in a coffin and really covered with earth), at first it had to be sealed off with valerian. Once there was a little curiosity. During the next "falling asleep", the dead Ophelia sneezed ... Fortunately, the actors reacted instantly and took "sneezes" on themselves. No one in the room had time to figure out where this sound came from in fact.
By the way, the performance was a great success. He was appreciated even abroad.
In parallel with the theatrical activity, the actress continues to act in films. But her roles in the films of Alexander Baranov "New Year's story" and in the novel by Roman Khrushchev "The film about you" the audience was not impressed.
Everything changed the series "The Fifth Corner". It was after him that Elena, we can say, woke up famous: she was recognized on the streets and in stores. The next role of Elena Zakharova in the series "Truckers" also did not go unnoticed, but on the set the actress had a hard time. Dangerous tricks, she performed herself without a backup. Often it ended in trauma and tears. One day, the late actor Vladislav Galkin (Sashok), performing a fairly simple trick (he had to overthrow the actress on the ground), did not calculate the strength, as a result, Elena nearly broke her neck.
But the real fame of the actress was the role of a modest teacher of aesthetics Polina Sergeevna in the youth series "Kadetstvo". It is interesting that the producers of the series Konstantin Kikichev and Vyacheslav Murugov approved it without any trial. And did not lose. Elena coped brilliantly. She liked the extraordinary love story of a cadet and a teacher. "It was interesting to play" - the actress admits.
An interesting role, more precisely, even two, she got in the mini-series "The Princess and the Pauper." Elena played just two very different women - a simple Alena and a rich stinker Inna, who, by the will of fate, exchanged roles. According to Zakharova, although she looks like Alena, she liked the playful spoiled Inna more.
To date, Elena Zakharova is a popular and popular actress.
He says little about his personal life, but he does not make secrets from it either. Citizen's husband of the actress - Sergei Mamotov. He is the General Director of Systematic Software Solutions (Russia). In February 2011, Elena Zakharova and Sergei Mamotov became parents. They had a daughter. That's it, the life of the famous actress Elena Zakharova.