The very first roles of domestic stars: from Senor Sadalsky Tomato to the frogs of the Arntgolts sisters

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

For some celebrities, their careers did not begin at all from the set, but from the stage at school or kindergarten. It will later become known, and no one will dare to doubt the presence of the artist's talent. And they still remembered their very first roles best. And even though at that moment they did not have an army of thousands of fans, and there were not so many people in the hall, perhaps it was then that a real actor was born.

Valentin Gaft - the bride

The future actor first visited the theater in the fourth grade and was so impressed with the performance of the children's performance "Special Assignment" by Sergei Mikhalkov that he immediately made the fateful decision for himself to become an actor. For the first time he appeared on the school stage in the form of a bride in the play "The Proposal" based on Chekhov. He was so harmonious in this image that later he very often played female roles. After graduating from school, Valentin Iosifovich, from the very first attempt, entered the Moscow Art Theater School. At the same time, he also entered the Shchukin school, but did not pass the second round.

Stanislav Sadalsky - Senor Tomato

Stanislav Sadalsky played his very first role in his life in the Voronezh boarding school, where he was brought up after the death of his mother with his brother. It was there that the future actor got acquainted with the art of drama, began to study in the school theater studio, and then appeared on the stage in the role of Senor Tomato in the fairy tale "Cipollino". True, the thin boy had to wear special overlays for the authenticity of the image.

After the first success, Stanislav Sadalsky firmly decided to become a real artist and stubbornly stormed the capital's theater universities, where he was refused to be admitted due to an incorrect bite. As a result, the dream came true, and he entered GITIS, began acting in films as a student, and after receiving his diploma he was accepted into the troupe of the legendary Sovremennik.

Ksenia Rappoport - crane

Immediately after graduating from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts, Ksenia Rappoport made her debut in the role of Nina Zarechnaya in the play "The Seagull" based on Chekhov, but at the age of 15 she played a cameo role in the film "Begone!" Dmitry Astrakhan. It was after the first filming that she decided to devote her life to art. Before that, she dreamed of becoming either a polite waiter or a cheerful trolleybus driver, and already in high school she began to prepare for admission to the Institute of Foreign Languages. But the actress still remembers a puppet show dedicated to Victory Day, in which she was entrusted to portray a flying crane with her hands to a song to the poems of Rasul Gamzatov "Cranes".

Sergey Nikonenko - Snow Maiden

Today the People's Artist of the RSFSR recalls with pleasure how in the second grade he was entrusted to play the role of … Snow Maiden. The school where the future actor studied was male, Sergei Nikonenko had stunningly long eyelashes, like a girl's. The audience did not even know who played the granddaughter of Santa Claus, and the second-grader himself liked the work on stage very much. But he decided to become an actor at the age of 13, having met a girl who was planning to become an actress and was engaged in a drama club and a circle of artistic words. Later, Sergei Nikonenko's girlfriend cooled to the stage, and he entered VGIK on the course of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova.

Stanislav Duzhnikov - the evil daughter of her stepmother from "Cinderella"

The actor, known for his role as Lenya in the series "Voronin", for a long time did not even think about the acting profession. He attended the drama club only for educational purposes, as demanded by his grandmother, who believed: the more busy a teenager is, the less time he has for all sorts of nonsense. Stanislav played the role of a decorator and a loader in the drama club, but once, indulging, showed the girl who played the role of one of the daughters of the evil stepmother in the fairy tale "Cinderella" how to play. The teacher immediately announced to the teenager that he was introduced to the play. Subsequently, Stanislav Duzhnikov became so carried away that he decided to become an artist and for four years stormed the Shchukin school until he became a student.

Tatiana and Olga Arntgolts - frogs

Today, the charming Arntgolts sisters have played many roles in the cinema, and in childhood they comprehended the magical world of the theater from behind the scenes, where they actually grew up. The girls' parents Albert Arntgolts and Valentina Galich served in the Kaliningrad Drama Theater, and Tatyana and Olga were constantly with them during rehearsals and performances.

The Arntgolts sisters played their first roles not at school, but in the Kaliningrad Regional Drama Theater in the fairy tale "The Golden Chicken", appearing on stage in the form of two adorable frogs. They were the only children in the production, before them children were not involved in theatrical performances at all. Then Tatyana and Olga did not even think about an artistic career. Both of them were preparing to enter the Faculty of Journalism, but participation in the play "Little Tragedies" at the school graduation decided their fate: the Arntgolts sisters became students of the Shchepkinsky School.

Many children appear on the screen: someone was interviewed, another performed on stage, and still others even got some kind of movie role. All this does not mean at all that they are destined for a successful acting career. But in the case of celebrities, their appearance on the screen as a child was more likely a pattern and recognition of their talent, rather than an accident and luck. True, not always …