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Tatyana was born in Odessa. From childhood, the girl knew: she would make people laugh. “Laughter heals,” Ivanova said later, already as an artist. After school, Ivanova chose not cinema or theater, but the circus arena. There, under the circus dome, her first image was born - a clown who is not afraid to look ridiculous. In the early 1990s, Tatyana joined the comic trio “Fu Store” along with Sergei Gladkov and Vadim Nabokov. Their miniatures, full of absurdity, grotesque and that very Odessa irony, quickly became iconic.

Real fame came to the actress in 1996, when the actress was invited to the television project “Pun”. Tatyana Ivanova played the roles of a waitress, a flight attendant and many other heroines on the project, but viewers remembered her primarily as Baba from the “Village of Fools” section. At the center of the story is a fabulous married couple, Man and Baba, living in a village hut. Their frequent guest is the Fool Sailor, a friend of the Peasant, with whom the heroes endlessly argue, drink, hunt and fish. True, they do it in their own way: they catch fish right in the well with an empty hook and hunt not for animals, but for the Bear, an old friend of the family.

This absurdly comic series parodied the usual motifs and cliches of everyday life. And Tatyana Ivanova played so naturally that the audience believed every gesture, every word of the comic. She was the heart and soul of this television show, and the audience adored her unconditionally.

Another story happened on the set of “Pun” - a romantic one. At first, Tatyana and Vadim Nabokov simply shared an Odessa apartment and jokes, then - rehearsals and tours. Gradually, friendship grew into something more. They got married almost by accident: in 1996, they urgently needed to go abroad, and Vadim’s passport turned out to be invalid. The decision to get married became a formality, but life put everything in its own way. The formality turned into a happy marriage, in which a son, Ilya, and a daughter, Maria, were soon born.

After “Pun,” the actress continued acting. She can be seen in the series “Anka from Moldavanka” next to Ekaterina Kuznetsova, as well as in the projects “Odessa-Mama” and “Ivanova-45”. The latter, by the way, again brought together three former participants in the cult program - Ivanova, Nabokov and Alexei Agopyan.

In 2020, Ivanova also appeared on stage with the play “Pun.” The audience greeted her standing, as if twenty years had not passed. And then - silence. The actress disappeared from the media space: she doesn’t run social networks, doesn’t give interviews, as if she was hiding behind the curtain of her own laughter.

But, they say, you can still meet her in Odessa - on Primorsky Boulevard, with coffee and a thoughtful look at the sea. The same posture, the same squint, the same mischievous smile. She just laughs more quietly now—for herself.