Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute
In the 1990s Demidova appeared in several films, playing Lebyadkina ("The Obsessed", 1992), Miss Minchin ("Little Princess", 1997) and Elizaveta Alekseevna ("Unseen Traveller", 1998). For two years she was teaching at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (refusing to be paid, "so as not to feel tied up by it") but left, disappointed by her young students' response. Now firmly under the impression that theatre in Russia, as well as abroad, was in crisis, Demidova quit the stage altogether.