What made 7 famous actors take a break from their careers, and then enchantingly return to the profession

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

Many talented actors admit that their profession is very dependent. And even successfully played roles are not a guarantee that in the future directors will constantly invite an artist to the shooting, and they have to leave the profession. There are other situations when an artist leaves at the peak of fame, feeling tired and burned out. After a long interweaving, it can be very difficult to return to the theater stage or set again, but the heroes of our today's review succeeded.

Vladimir Shevelkov

The actor became famous back in 1979, when the film “I ask you to blame Klava K for my death,” where he played Seryozha Lavrov, was released. After the filmography of Vladimir Shevelkov was replenished with other stellar works, including the films "Midshipmen, forward!" and "Hearts of Three". But at the peak of his fame, the actor left the profession, vowing not to act in films for 12 years.

Tired of popularity, he began to work as a simple bartender, then decided to shoot ads, opened his own agency. And only 12 years after leaving the profession, he again began to accept offers for filming. Vladimir Shevelkov still believes: he desperately needed a creative pause, which allowed him to understand himself and his life guidelines.

Valentina Telichkina

She lost her job in the 1990s due to the film crisis. To get rid of depression, she began to paint, painting helped her to recover. Valentina Telichkina has already put an end to her career when she received an offer to shoot in the TV series "Brigade". With the role of the mother of the hero Sergei Bezrukov, her return to the cinema began. Today, the actress is already 76 years old, and she continues to be actively creative.

Lyudmila Nilskaya

After the collapse of the USSR and the onset of the crisis in cinema, the actress was left without work, and in 1994 she agreed with the proposal of her husband Georgy Isaev to move to the United States. For 9 years, Lyudmila Nilskaya was forced to take on any job, since her husband's business went bankrupt, and her little son had to be fed, dressed and shod. She served as a shop assistant, driver, cleaner, and computer software tester. When Georgy Isaev announced to his wife that he was leaving the family, she gathered her thoughts for another two years, and then decided to return to her homeland.

Thanks to her friends, she was accepted into the troupe of the Theater of the Moon. Soon Lyudmila Nilskaya began to appear in films and TV series again, in 2009 she won the Golden Eagle award for the role of Galina Brezhneva in the film Galina.

Anna Kamenkova

In the career of the actress there was a pause that lasted more than ten years. After her roles in the films "Young Wife" and "Visit to the Minotaur", the actress was on the crest of success. But in 1987, after several unsuccessful pregnancies, the long-awaited son of the actress Sergei was born, and Anna Kamenkova plunged into raising a child. Later she quit the theater, and very little was filmed in the troubled 1990s.

The actress was grateful to fate for the fact that she managed to play many bright roles before the age of 40, and with a clear conscience switched to dubbing, occasionally starring in TV shows. When Anna Kamenkova turned 50, the theater again appeared in her life, and numerous invitations to the shooting.

Tamara Akulova

She often played romantic heroines in the cinema, and viewers call the role of the incomparable Lady Glenarvan in the film "In Search of Captain Grant" as the visiting card of Tamara Akulova. In the 1990s, the actress, like many of her colleagues, was out of work: because of the crisis, she had to be content with small roles, and they remained unnoticed. However, at that time the actress had absolutely no time to be bored: she began to devote herself to raising her daughter, and then her son. For 10 years, Tamara Akulova has appeared in films only a few times.

And in 1991 the film "Heirs" was released, which was filmed by the husband of the actress Elyor Ishmukhamedov, who gathered in it a truly stellar cast. Lidia Smirnova, Irina Skobtseva, Marianna Vertinskaya, Tamara Akulova, Vera Glagoleva, Larisa Guzeeva, and others worked together on the site. The return of Tamara Akulova turned out to be quite successful, and now she quite often pleases the audience with her appearance on the screens.

Tatiana Lyutaeva

Debuting in the film "Midshipmen, forward!" Svetlana Druzhinina, the actress almost immediately, together with her first husband, moved to his homeland in Vilnius. There she served in the drama theater and refused all proposals of the directors for filming. She was determined to put family first and devoted all her time to her husband and daughter.

Only in 2004, the actress, along with her 16-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, moved back to Moscow and immediately returned to the profession. Today Tatyana Lyutaeva is rightfully called one of the most sought-after actresses and is vying with each other to be invited to the shooting.

Alexandra Yakovleva

The actress, who starred in "The Crew" by Alexander Mitta, "The Wizards" by Konstantin Bromberg, "The Man from the Boulevard des Capuchins" by Alla Surikova, left her acting career in the mid-1990s and began to engage in social and administrative activities. She headed the culture department in the Kaliningrad region, headed the quality and personnel management service at Pulkovo airport, and later held the position of deputy head of the Oktyabrskaya railway for quality management and marketing.

The actress's track record includes many more different jobs. In 2016, she returned to the screens, playing the role of the official Tamara Igorevna in the new film "Crew", and announced a full return to the profession. Unfortunately, now the life of the actress is not easy, as she has been struggling with cancer for several years now.

Sergei Solovyov's film "Assa" became a cult film for the generation of the 1980s, its premiere caused a real stir at the box office of cinemas. The main roles were played by non-professional actors - physician Tatyana Drubich and artist Sergei Bugaev, who instantly became popular. But after the stars of the movie "Assa" disappeared from the screens, deciding to devote his life not to cinema at all.