Pepa Nikolova(1946-2006)

Pepa Nikolova Kirova is a Bulgarian actress. She was born in Harmanli, Bulgaria on December 23, 1946. In 1965, she entered to the Best Singers' School on radio and television, where she was noticed by the actor Peter Slabakov and film directors Irina Aktasheva and Hristo Piskov. They invited her to star in the title role in "Monday Morning." The film was banned by Communist censorship and remained unseen by the public until 1989, when 23 years later the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers gave her its Best Actress Award. In this film she as an unprofessional actress has played an unemployed "fallen girl of easy virtue" of the provincial town. But she was fascinated by a boy who is different from her other acquaintances. And he is an idealist and activist. He inspired her joining in his "brigade of communist labor." But she is skeptical about everyone and everything... The film does not come out of the screen, but the director Vili Tsankov invited her at the Youth Theatre, where she received the first small roles. Then she became a member of the troupe of Haskovo Drama Theater and since 1979 until her retirement - of Satire Theater, Sofia. The role of the gypsy Dzhalma, who was in love with "Big brother Sergo" (Stefan Danailov) in a series "At Every Kilometer" in 1969 brought her great popularity. In 2002, she was invited in Alexandra Audio to dub the voice of old Rose from "Monsters, Inc. ". In recent years, she was a host of the cable TV broadcasts. She has a daughter - Alexandra Sarchadzhieva, who is also an actress. Pepa Nikolova died on September 22, 2006 in Sofia, Bulgaria.