Gifts and lessons from the fate of Oksana Akinshina: What role did the actor Sergei Bodrov and musician Sergei Shnurov play in the life of the actress

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

On April 19, actress Oksana Akinshina celebrated her 34th birthday. In her years, she is a successful and sought-after actress, who has already played about 40 roles in films, and her personal life is as stormy and impetuous as her film career: she became a mother of three children, and her marriages and novels with the most famous artists do not get tired of discussing in the media. There were two significant meetings in her life - with the actor and director Sergei Bodrov Jr. and the musician Sergei Shnurov, which became for her both a gift of fate and a test that hardened her character.

Godfather in the movies and guardian angel

Oksana Akinshina was in love with Sergei Bodrov since the age of 11, when the film "Brother" was released, which became a cult for the youth of the 1990s. Then the girl could not even dream that in just 3 years she would meet her idol on the set. Oksana did not think about her acting career at that time - she was engaged in choreography and took her first steps in the modeling business. Once the director of a modeling agency sent her for audition to Sergei Bodrov Jr., who decided to try his hand as a director in the film "Sisters".

The search for the two young protagonists of the film continued for a long time, every day 300 people came to the casting, and Bodrov still could not make a choice. Many girls, putting on the most elegant dresses, tried very hard to please the director, but that was exactly what repelled him. Oksana was very different from them - she seemed cold, unfriendly, wayward and intractable, but it was just such a heroine that Bodrov was looking for. So Akinshina got her first film role, which made her famous throughout the country. This work became the springboard for her successful acting career, she called Sergei Bodrov her godfather in the cinema, thanks to which other directors drew attention to her.

He became her mentor and almost the only authority to whose opinion she listened. The Sisters were released in May 2001, and just a year later, Sergei Bodrov Jr., on the set of his next film The Messenger, died in the Karmadon Gorge along with the entire film crew, who found themselves on the way of the Kolka glacier descended. Bodrov's departure was a great shock for Akinshina.

She later admitted: "".

The scandalous romance of a schoolgirl and an outrageous musician

It cannot be said that Akinshina was glad of her early fame, later she confessed: "". Even before that, her relationships with her peers had not worked out - she was arrogant, conflicted and uncompromising, was known as the "main school outrage", met with hooligans, and her parents were constantly summoned to the director. Her studies took little interest, and after she became famous, she practically abandoned her studies at school.

She received new proposals from directors one after another, she had many acquaintances in the acting environment, at the age of 14 she started an affair with actor Alexei Chadov, who was 6 years older than her, but their relationship did not last long. In the 10th grade, Akinshina got a role in the film "Games of Moths", and on the set she met the leader of the "Leningrad" group, musician Sergei Shnurov, who wrote songs for the film. She was only 15, and he was already 29. Their romance was stormy and impetuous and provoked a loud scandal, because the actress was underage.

They did not consider it necessary to make excuses and did not hide their relationship. Almost immediately, the artists began to live together. Her classmates often saw them hugging right on the doorstep of the school. The teachers called her parents, discussed her behavior at the teachers' council, but all this had no effect on Oksana. She said that if it were not for Shnurov, she would not have finished school at all - in the morning he woke her up and forced her to go to class. She completed her studies with grief in half.

Their romance lasted about 5 years and, according to the stars themselves, was dizzying and crazy. Shnurov arranged scenes of jealousy for her, they vigorously sorted out the relationship, often quarreled, but at the same time they treated each other very tenderly. After another loud scandal, Shnurov left her.

Soon after their separation, the actress married the general director of the PR company Dmitry Litvinov. They had a son, Philip, but the marriage did not last even two years. After the divorce, Akinshina began an affair with singer Alexei Vorobyov, but this relationship was not long. After a series of unsuccessful novels, the actress admitted: "".

Happy marriage and ellipsis at the end

In 2011, on the set of the film "Love with an Accent", the actress met the producer Archil Gelovani. They began to live together, but for a long time they hid their civil marriage from the public. In 2013, they had a son, Konstantin, and 4 years later, a daughter, Emmy. The actress has repeatedly said that she felt truly happy only next to Archil Gelovani. This relationship changed her a lot - she settled down, became much calmer, restrained and peaceful.

It seemed that she had finally found happiness and harmony in family life, but in the summer of 2018, the actress suddenly announced her separation from Gelovani, although later they went on vacation with their children. At the same time, Akinshina often published photos with Sergei Shnurov, accompanying them with sentimental and tender comments, which provoked rumors about the couple's reunion. In fact, they still maintain very warm friendly relations and continue to share news - Shnurov remained for her one of the closest people in her life. But the actress is silent about her marital status today …

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