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Elena Petrova leads a film life, which will celebrate her 47th birthday on November 1, the day of the National Awakening. The actress, known for her roles in film, television and theater, began her career only at the age of 15 and, although she did not graduate from NATFIZ, she quickly and decisively managed to establish herself. in the profession.
Of course, not everything in her life is rosy and her wishes didn’t always come true easily. In fact, as audiences have focused on her glamorous status and her ever-widening smile, Elena has faced serious problems in both her career and her personal life more than once. For some she confessed once, for others she just hinted, trying, as always, to keep her heart at a distance.
Only once did Elena Petrova mention the absence of her father. She did this several years ago in an interview with a women’s magazine. Then she the actress said that although she grew up without a father, she “always had a strong sense of family community, support in the family”. Her mother managed to build it in her place, unite them with her two brothers, teach them to rely on each other and overcome difficulties together. “Now I have the strength and the confidence that in the future I will be able to have the same good and cooperative family”, Elena shared her hopes in 2003. Years later, she married the Greek businessman Aristotelis Fotilas, with whom they have twins – 17 years old today Alexander and Isabella. Their birth occurs prematurely and the doctors of the Mother House are fighting for their lives. Elena only talked about it years later. Rumors were already circulating at the time about her divorce from Fotilas, but she never referred to him as her “ex-husband”.
Elena Petrova has been on stage since she was a child. Her mother Ani and her maternal grandmother Ekaterina have great merit for this. Her first was a dancer, but she stopped because her fingers were bleeding. Furthermore, she gave birth to her daughter early on, due to which she may have given up on some of her dreams of her. However, her beauty shared her belief that she had obtained her artistry from her mother. When she was 6, her parents enrolled her in rhythmic gymnastics. Later, however, she gave up Elena because she wanted to study in Nikolay Georgiev’s “4xS” theater class at the 22nd Sofia High School, where she later earned her secondary education diploma. The choice of her was probably also influenced by her grandmother Ekaterina, who always directed her to theatrical performances. Elena was 4-5 years old when her grandmother made her learn poetry, then dressed her like a doll, put ribbons in her curls and took her to act at events related to Babinden, March 8 and others.
“I have been pushed in this direction since I was little,” the star said, and recalled how she was put on a chair so she could be seen when she recited the poem. She liked to perform. Becoming an actress, Elena Petrova fulfilled her unfulfilled dreams of her mother, who in her youth dreamed of the stage, as well as her grandmother, who always wanted to know this profession. Ekaterina she has been performing in plays since she was little and she strongly wanted to become a great artist. Her mother, Elena’s great-grandmother, was categorically against it. That’s why even when her granddaughter was a child, Ekaterina kept telling her about becoming an actress or a dancer. Elena seems to have decided to grant her wish for her, because since she enrolled in the theater course she has pursued her goals with determination and discipline. She was also responsible and helped her mother by taking care of her younger brother. She took him from kindergarten, she often took him with her to rehearsals. Today, the “The Family” star is extremely attached to her two brothers. However, the actress did not mention her father except in her interview with her years ago when she incidentally said that she was absent from her childhood.
“We were a very noisy group studying in” 4xS “, there was no way anyone could pass us by, we played all kinds of jokes on” Rakovski “, we went into bars, we played, wherever there was a theater”, he shared Elena about her school years. With two friends, they also embarked on an activity: they cleaned the car windows and stopped at the traffic lights of “Graf Ignatiev” and “Slaveykov”. The idea came from one of her classmates who saw the others do it and she suggested they follow suit. They started joking, and Elena was very shy at first. She and her friends pretended to be the Crystal company. “We played studios, we also included kids from the class. We earned some money, which we then collected as a municipality and went to the restaurant” Sredets “, Elena recently said on the show” Out of the Game “on BNT. Stefan Shterev, who is also an actor and producer, recalled that Elena then served him 4.50 BGN, which he spent with their friends washing the car windows. With the money, Stefan ordered his favorite dish, mushrooms with rice, at the “Sredets” restaurant.
It was while playing pranks with her peers that Elena was noticed by director Iliyan Simeonov, who was then working with Khristian Nochev on the film “Border”. Marian Valev – one of the actors on the tape, also saw the “girl with long hair” in the center of her and talked about her. “I was really very wild, very memorable, obviously not anymore after so many years. I’m a very simple person,” said Elena. After “Granitsa”, she starred in “Goat Horn” (1994) directed by Nikolay Volov. The tape is a remake of Metodi Andonov’s cult 1972 film. It was a great challenge for Elena, because her confrontation with the great Katya Pascaleva was inevitable. However, she hardly imagined that this role of hers would cause another confrontation. The film was screened in a European festival whose jury was Gina Lollobrigida. Subsequently, she sent a fax to the film production company, in which she wrote that the young actress Elena Petrova reminded her a lot of her in her portrayal and appearance of the young Ingrit Bergman in For Whom the Bell Tolls. This recognition for Elena was equivalent to a prestigious award, as she received for the best female role at the Moscow Festival.
In 2000, her television career began with the role of Mona in “Howl for Wolves”, in 2005 she played Anelia in “Sea Salt”, “Magna Aura. The Lost City”, “Ludmil and Ruslana”. Among these commitments, Elena met the Greek businessman Aristotelis Fotilas. They met during the opening of a store in the chain, of which he was executive director at the time. Nine months later, Fotilas asked her out, but she refused. After another year, the invitation was extended again, as they had already met. This meeting slowly led to closer relationships. A year after they became a couple, Elena Petrova was sure he was the man she wanted to have a child with. She the actress sometimes dreamed of a girl, then a girl, until she finally got them both. She gave birth to the twins Alexander and Isabella, but prematurely, for which they were placed in incubators. This is the most difficult time in her life.
“We literally had to fight for their lives. I have two very strong ropes in the house: Alexander and Isabella, who keep me firmly planted on the ground, even though I like to fly, I like to fantasize, to disappear. These two ropes that you keep me on the ground, in fact, they guide me every so often when they appeared, really … I went through a very difficult path with their father then, so that now they can be wonderful children that we adore, look at and want to give our best – the good, “shared Elena years. after. It was the memory of this ordeal that always gave her the impetus to move forward when things got tough. “Because a person is only as strong as his struggle, these things you realize later. When huge problems and difficulties happen to you, these buttons are pressed into you and you face difficulties that are much smaller than they are,” said Elena.
He married Fotilas in July 2006, one year after their twins were born. For the first time, there was talk of their separation shortly after Elena appeared as Boryana in 2010 in the “Glass House” series. Her role on the BBC series made her recognizable to the mainstream audience, which she watched with trepidation as she juggled her screen husband Stefan Danailov and her forbidden love of her with her son from the first. her wedding, played by Kalin Vrachanski. Word quickly spread that the passion between Elena and Kalin had spilled into reality. But this has never been confirmed, quite the contrary – the two emphasize how good friends they are. You also shared personal things. However, then, the interest in Elena did not diminish, reinforced by the success of “Glass House”. Not long after, the actress was rumored to have a passionate relationship with a cameraman named Svetlin. Then rumors spread that she was in love with director Martin Makariev, whom she met on the set of the series. Photos of lovers have also appeared. The news inevitably fueled rumors of the actress’s divorce with Fotilas, along with which she also said goodbye to her lavish lifestyle.
However, in social circles it was rumored that the actress had a spacious apartment in which she lived with her twins. But her new love not only didn’t last long, but she didn’t even get out of lawlessness. Eventually, Martin Makariev, who has a son from a previous marriage, abandoned Elena for his younger colleague Luiza Grigorova, with whom they later started a family. Years later, Luisa admitted that she fought for her husband’s heart, but she didn’t mention Elena’s name. She just said that she waited patiently for her beloved, otherwise the first sparks between them flew not on the set of “Glass House”, but on that of “The Tree of Life”.
After these stories, Elena Petrova did not publicly prove a relationship with a man. That’s probably why people always talk about her about her failures in love for her. It was with them that in April 2011 the withdrawal of her driver’s license was explained, after she was caught driving after consuming alcohol. Elena was fined and deprived of the right to drive for a certain period of time. It should be noted that this is her only mistake in so many years in the spotlight. Thanks to her strong character, the actress, who is a Scorpio, managed to get up after this split and she hasn’t had another one since.
As for her profession, she said she managed to get away with many roles and gave up many dreams. She is prone to drastic changes, even external ones, for the sake of a project. And for love she is ready for anything and she has shown it, Elena shared, without specifying to whom. “There is a very nice thought from Elif Shavak, that if before love and after you are the same thing, then you didn’t love yourself enough. Every love leaves cruel scars, tattoos, scratches, wounds … but then you understand what it is. it’s just for you love. I’m not saying that all love has to end like this … “, said Elena Petrova.
The actress also experienced the unpleasant side of fame. For her it is a loss, forgetting who you are, where you are, forgetting even some people around you. “It’s nice to go up if you know there’s someone over there waiting to pick you up, because the fall is inevitable. Now that I’ve been there, if it happened to me right now, it would be different.” In one of her latest interviews of hers, Elena Petrova said she humiliated herself, but she never mentioned the pivotal moment that led to this. “Humility means believing and feeling certain things, vibrating on another level, calming down, listening, loving,” said the star with some of the most beautiful hair ever.
