Why Alisa Grebenshchikova refuses to talk about her father, and how does the actress get in the way of her loud surname

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

She felt close attention to herself since childhood, because her father - the famous BG, the legendary man Boris Grebenshchikov - was the idol of millions. It was not easy to grow up with such a surname, especially since at first they practically did not communicate with their father. It became even more difficult when she chose the acting profession for herself, because she had to constantly prove her creative competence and independence. Recently, the actress celebrated her 43rd birthday, and today she feels absolutely happy and does not prove anything to anyone else. True, Alisa Grebenshchikova shares the concept of "happy" and "married", and prefers not to talk about her father.

The surname obliges

Alisa was born in Leningrad in 1978, in the first marriage of Boris Grebenshchikov with an engineer-economist Natalya Kozlovskaya. When the girl was not even 3 years old, her parents divorced, and until the age of 14 she practically did not communicate with her father. Her mother soon married a psychotherapist Dmitry Ovechkin, who raised Alice. For her father, music always came first, he existed apart from everyone, in his own world, which for a long time was inaccessible to his daughter.

Alisa grew up on the songs of Vysotsky and Okudzhava and only at the age of 14 began to take an interest in her father's work, and that was because one of her school friends advised her to listen to the songs of the Aquarium group. And only after that, the musician's daughter began to go to his concerts and to the recording studio. No one ever limited their communication with his father, but he was so absorbed in his work that he did not seek to build a relationship with his daughter. In her youth, Alice was not proud of her surname, but was ashamed of it - from the first grade she felt increased attention to herself and felt awkward because of this. In an interview, Alice admitted: "".

His third wife Irina helped to establish communication with his daughter Boris Grebenshchikov. She invited the girl to them for the summer holidays, and the musician's daughter developed friendly relations with her, even warmer than with her father. Alice said: ""

The father never favored his daughter in any of her endeavors, but in every interview she was invariably asked about him. This angered Alice, because no one "promoted" her anywhere, besides, she did not communicate with her father so closely as to answer questions in his place. Therefore, the musician's daughter said: "".

Own way

In her youth, Alice studied at a music school, but she never intended to follow in her father's footsteps. She dreamed of becoming a journalist, worked in the teenage editorial office of the Leninskie Iskra newspaper and attended preparatory courses at Leningrad University. However, during classes, she realized that journalism did not fascinate her enough to connect her life with her, and after graduating from school, Grebenshchikova decided to enter a theater university. On the first round of entrance exams at the Academy of Theater Arts, she did not impress the admissions committee, having read an excerpt from Eugene Onegin. The teachers advised her to show herself in a different role in the second round. Alice heeded their advice and appeared in the form of Pippi Longstocking. After that, they had no doubts, and she was accepted.

In her second year, Alisa took her photographs to Lenfilm, where director Dmitry Meskhiev drew attention to them and offered the student a role in his film American. It was he who became her godfather in the cinema. After completing her studies, Grebenshchikova received an offer from Tatyana Doronina to join the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater and moved to Moscow. The actress performed on the stage of this theater for three years, and later took part in entreprise performances and in productions of the Praktika Theater and the Millennium Theater House.

In parallel, her film career developed. She began her career in cinema with serials, the first popularity came to her at the beginning of the "noughties" thanks to filming in the TV series "FM and Guys". Since then, Grebenshchikova has played more than 70 movie roles, the most striking of which were her film characters in the films Driver for Vera, Diamonds for Juliet, Moscow, I Love You! and in the TV series "Faith, Hope, Love", "Behappi" and "Project Anna Nikolaevna".

Better to be happy than married

Alisa Grebenshchikova has never been officially married. She lived for 6 years in a civil marriage with photographer, cameraman and producer Sergei Danduryan. They were not ready for marriage and broke up immediately after the actress gave birth to a son. They themselves did not comment on the reasons, but Sergei did not recognize the child. There were rumors that figure skater Ilya Averbukh became his father, in whose television project "Ice Age" Grebenshchikova participated. However, the actress herself did not confirm or deny these rumors, and she never mentioned the name of the child's father. Her son bears the surname Grebenshchikov.

Previously, the actress was worried when there were long pauses in her acting career, but after the birth of her son, her priorities shifted. Even before that she called herself "a fake, fake actress" - in the sense that she had never lived by work and realized that "life is wider than a film set or a theater dressing room." But when in 2008 she had a son, Alexei, Alice ceased to be upset with downtime in her career, because all her free time could be devoted to the baby.

Alisa Grebenshchikova never discusses her personal life in an interview, but about her marital status says: "".

She is no longer ashamed of her loud surname, although she admits that she hinders her more than helps: "".

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