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Video: 180 roles after 40 years: Late happiness and recognition of the star of "Youth" and "Margosha" Vladimir Sterzhakov
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On June 6, the famous actor, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Vladimir Sterzhakov turned 62. On account of him - about 200 roles in films, and he played 180 of them over the past 20 years. Probably no one better than him understands the meaning of the phrase “life after 40 is just beginning”, because he found success in the profession, popularity, and personal happiness already in adulthood.
Long road to success
Vladimir grew up in Tallinn in a simple family: his father worked as a builder and carpenter, and his mother was a cleaner and a night nurse in a kindergarten. He became interested in theater during his school years. One day, friends showed him an ad in the newspaper about recruiting a theater studio at a local drama theater, and he decided to try his luck. He was accepted there, and since then he spent all the evenings at rehearsals, and then fell asleep in the classroom. The school principal turned a blind eye to this - he was the first to believe in Sterzhakov's talent.
After graduating from school, Vladimir went to storm the capital's theater universities, and they were ready to be admitted to Shchukinskoye, VGIK, and the Moscow Art Theater School. He chose the latter, and upon completion of his studies he performed on the stage of this theater. Soon he received a summons to the army. Sterzhakov recalled: "".
After demobilization, Sterzhakov returned to the theater in the second half of the 1980s. started acting in films. One of the first was a cameo role in the movie "Plumbum, or Dangerous Game". And then came the 1990s, a protracted crisis began in the cinema, and the actor was left without work. He never thought about leaving the profession forever and continued to perform in the theater, although his family did not allow it. Sterzhakov then took on any job: he was engaged in a private driver, unloaded wagons, worked as an administrator in a travel company, and later began to actively appear in advertising. On his account - 54 commercials!
Long-awaited recognition
Sterzhakov was not worried about a pause in his film career. He said: "".
Only after 40 years, the actor was able to build a film career. And she was so impetuous that in 20 years he played more than 180 roles! Loud popularity came to him in the "zero", when he played the main male role in four seasons of the series "Dasha Vasilyeva. Lover of Private Investigation”and the director of a magazine publishing house in the TV series“Margosha”. The audience probably remembered him from the TV series "Kitchen", "Hotel Eleon", "The last article of a journalist", "Molodezhka".
Later happiness
The actor also found personal happiness in adulthood. Until the age of 35, he remained a staunch bachelor. He had affairs, one of his chosen ones was a French woman who worked at the Moscow embassy. She even offered him to move to France, but the actor refused - he understood that it was a hobby, not love. Everything changed when Sterzhakov met Alla, a graduate of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. After a chance acquaintance in line at a bakery, the actor sought reciprocity for a whole year, and the fortress fell.
She and Alla got married and have not parted since then. The only thing that darkened their happiness was that they did not have children for a long time. The diagnosis of infertility gave no hope, but the doctors were wrong. After 6 years they had a son, after 4 years - another one. Sterzhakov first became a father at the age of 40, and the birth of sons gave him a second youth. The actor admits: "".
Fight for life
In 2016, during the performance, the actor became ill, he was taken to the hospital with a heart attack. Then he managed to recover and return to work, but later his body failed again, this time even more serious - Sterzhakov was diagnosed with a malignant neoplasm in the abdominal cavity. Since then, he has undergone 6 operations and continues to fight the disease. The treatment is going well, and the doctors are confident of a favorable outcome. The actor does not like it when acquaintances express sympathy to him about this. He says: "".
This series brought resounding success to all its participants, but not everyone was able to take advantage of this: How did the fate of the actors of "Margosha".
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