How 6 Russian actors who have crossed the 85-year mark live and look today

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

The age "over 80" in the acting environment is usually called the fourth youth. Indeed, some of the artists, even having stepped over 85 years in their lives, are full of strength and energy. And it seems that the inevitable old age, although it crept up imperceptibly, tracing wrinkles on their faces, but it could not age their young souls. Many, as before, try to stay in business and at least occasionally please the audience with their game. About how the favorites of the public look and live, further - in our review.

Our magazine has already had several publications about actors and actresseswho have passed the 90-year milestone and are approaching their 100th birthday. These are truly great people of the era, who created the history of cinema and the country as a whole. Whole generations were brought up on films with their participation, who still remember them with gratitude.

Tatyana Georgievna Konyukhova - 89 years old

Tatyana Konyukhova - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). Tatyana Georgievna was born on November 12, 1931 in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent.

Both of Tatiana's parents are from Ukraine, they met in Central Asia. My father was a military man, and my mother, having been orphaned early, lived in the family of her sister, whose husband served as a high-ranking official in Tashkent. Little Tanya from the age of five dreamed of becoming an artist, loved to sing and dance, "was sick" of cinema. In 1946, her father was sent to Latvia on duty, and the Konyukhov family moved to Riga.

Three years later, after graduating from school, Tatyana went to Moscow, where she entered VGIK on the first attempt. Her fellow students from the second year were Izolda Izvitskaya, Maya Bulgakova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Rufina Nifontova, Yuri Belov, Mikhail Semenikhin - the future color of Soviet cinema. Ask why from the second? Tatiana, having studied for two years at the university, turned out to be a second year student, and she asked to leave her for the second year herself. This was facilitated by a completely unpleasant case for the girl. Due to her typical Slavic appearance, second-year student Konyukhova was invited to play the lead role of Hanna in the film "May Night, or Drowned Woman" directed by Alexander Rowe. She successfully coped with this role, but the actress could not voice her character, she lacked experience. The director Rowe, of course, invited another actress to dub, and for Tatiana it was a real shock. The very next day she stood in the dean's office with a statement in which a request was made to leave her for the second year. So the girl turned out to be a student of the star composition of the course of Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov.

In 1956-1992, Konyukhova was an actress at the Film Actor's Studio Theater, among her works: "Every Autumn Evening", "Miracle", "Day of Arrival - Day of Departure", "Comedy of Errors", "Eight Women", "Long Live Ladies! "," Burn, My Star "," I Demand Judgment "," Dima Gorin's Career "," Guard "," Holiday of Disobedience "," The Marriage of Balzaminov ". At this time, for several years she was involved in 12 productions of the Academic Maly Theater. In the future, Tatyana Konyukhova's creative career developed quite successfully, but at some point she herself began to abandon roles that later became significant for other debutantes. Konyukhova was one of the most famous and most beautiful actresses of that time, but at the rise of her career she decided to leave the profession.

The fading star of Tatyana Konyukhova: Why did the star of the 1950s, at the peak of popularity, leave the cinema - in our publication. There you will also learn about the personal life of the actress, who put her family above her creativity.

But be that as it may, over the course of her entire creative career, Konyukhova starred in more than 60 film projects, many of which were remembered and loved by the viewer. The last works in the cinema - "Goldfish in the city N" (2010) and "Kept by fate" (2011). Since 2000, Tatyana Georgievna has been a teacher of acting and artistic director of an acting workshop at the capital's State University of Culture and Art. Until 2009, Konyukhova at the Artefact Theater played the role of Diana in the play Theatrical Anecdote based on the play by Nikolai Kolyada. and in recent years she has performed with her own concert program - she read poems by Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova.

Georgy Antonovich Shtil - 88 years old

Georgy Shtil - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1987), People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2001). Georgy Antonovich was born on March 4, 1932 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in a family of Russified Germans.

After leaving school, Georgy tried to enter the flight school, but "failed" the German exam, despite the fact that from six to nine years old he was brought up by a German governess. And his parents also spoke German at home with their children. Then there was an attempt with a sailor. He was taken to the nautical school, but was soon expelled due to a fight with a classmate. As a result, Georgy Shtil entered the pedagogical college and received a diploma as a physical education teacher. True, in his specialty he did not have a chance to work a day. Four years of military service completely changed the plans of the future artist, and after demobilization he became a student at the A. N. Ostrovsky Leningrad Theater Institute. In 1961, Georgy Antonovich graduated from high school and became an actor of the Leningrad Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky, to whom he gave his whole life.

He made his film debut in 1960. He played his first notable roles 7 years later in the films "The personal life of Valentin Kuzyaev" and "Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha". Throughout his creative career, the actor regularly appeared on the screen, however, he played mostly small character roles. The talent of Georgy Shtil was especially vivid in the comedy genre: "Old, Old Tale", "Intervention", "Dauria", "New Years Adventures of Masha and Viti", "Sibiriada", "Be My Husband", "Treasure Island", "Crazy ". It is worth noting that the actor's filmography is more than 200 films. Also, the actor was involved in more than 60 theatrical performances of the G. A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (formerly named after M. Gorky). Recent movie roles - "Cops-15" (2016), where Calm played a retired police colonel "Kefirich", as well as "Wings of the Empire" (2017), "Floor" (2020).

You can find out about the actor's personal life from our publication: 200 roles and the last love of 88-year-old "just professional" Georgy Shtil.

In 2016, for his anniversary, Georgy Antonovich released his memoir "All my roles are the main ones", where he outlined not only the secrets of his creative success, but the main views on life in general.

Yuri Vasilievich Gorobets 88 years old

Yuri Gorobets - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1984). Yuri Vasilievich was born on March 15, 1932 in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz). But soon the family moved to the city of Shchekino, Tula region.

During his school years, Yuri attended the city drama circle, where he got rid of the stuttering received during the war. On stage, the guy forgot about everything, and pronounced all the phrases without hesitation. It was in those years that he first had the idea of becoming an actor. In 1951, graduating from school, he participated as a reader in the first All-Union show of amateur performances. After leaving school, the future actor received a referral from the military registration and enlistment office to the engineering faculty of the Moscow Military Academy of armored and mechanized troops. But it so happened that during the entrance exams, Yuri received a telegram about victory in the final round of the All-Union Amateur Show. This was the last straw that tipped the scales, and the young man, contrary to the obligations and complaints of his mother, entered GITIS.

In 1955, he was assigned to the Yaroslavl Theater. Then, having married, he moved to Odessa and served for three years in the Odessa Russian Drama Theater, and after moving to the capital he served in the Theaters of Pushkin, Mayakovsky and the Moscow Art Theater.

In 1959, he made his film debut, and at once in three films "Thirst", "Green Van", "Faith Corrected". The first fame came to Yuri Vasilyevich in 1963 in the popular film "Come tomorrow …". In the same year, there was another major role in the detective story "Shot in the Fog". And also there were the main roles in the films "Bitter Grains" (1966), "Sons Go to Battle" (1969). The actor perfectly embodied on the screen the image of General Denikin in the film "Walking in the throes" (1977). Later, the actor starred mainly in supporting roles.

Nevertheless, Yuri Vasilyevich rightfully deserves to be called the patriarch of Russian cinema and theater, his creative experience is as much as 50 years. The artist's filmography includes more than 70 films, as well as 20 leading roles in theatrical productions of various theaters in the country, in addition to many minor ones. In the 2000s, he played several roles in television series, among the most notable is Evgeny Evseevich Mezhakov (a thief named "Commerce"). Recent film roles - "Moore is Moore" (2005) and Love as love (2006).

With his wife Tamara Ivanovna Lyakina (b. 1939), People's Artist of the RSFSR, Yuri Gorobets has been married for over 60 years. Their daughter Elena is a theater critic by profession. The actor is now on a well-deserved retirement, he is fond of woodcarving and collecting icons.

Tatyana Vasilievna Doronina - 87 years old

Tatyana Doronina - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, theater director, writer, People's Artist of the USSR (1981), full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, member of the Writers' Union of Russia. Tatyana Vasilievna was born on September 12, 1933 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).

During her school years, Tatyana was seriously carried away by the theater and began to study in the drama club. Mother sewed her dresses for performances from gauze. Therefore, even before the end of the eighth grade in 1950, she signed up for a long line to audition for the Moscow Art Theater School in the first three rounds, which were held in Leningrad by famous Moscow artists who traveled around the cities in search of talented applicants. Thus, by the end of school, the girl had already passed the preliminary selection for all the capital's theater universities. Doronina's choice fell on the Moscow Art Theater School. Tanya's mother even sincerely wondered what her daughter had such that they were ready to accept her in all universities:

All-Union popularity came to her at the age of 34, when Tatyana Lioznova's film was released "Three Poplars on Plyushchikha" (1967). In the movie, Tatiana Doronina starred a little. Film critics call her leading role in the film "Stepmother" (1973) as one of her best works. The filmography of the actress was only 15 films. The last work in the cinema - "Valentine and Valentine" (1985).

Tatiana Doronina devoted her whole life to the theater, having played in more than 50 theatrical performances during her creative career. She brilliantly played her roles in the Leningrad Theater. Lenin Komsomol, at the Bolshoi Drama Theater. M. Gorky, Moscow Art Theater, Moscow Theater. V. Mayakovsky. She, as a theater director, has created more than 25 productions at the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky, where she was also the artistic director and director for 30 years (1987 - 2018). And on December 4, 2018, Doronina officially became the president of the Moscow Art Theater, but she never took the presidency. You can learn more about this from our publication: Why the famous actress became a recluse.

Doronina was married five times, but all her marriages were short-lived. From 1985 to this day, Tatyana Vasilievna has lived alone, she has no children. Doronina's first husband was the actor Oleg Basilashvili, the second was the theater critic Anatoly Yufit, the third was the writer Edward Radzinsky, the fourth time Doronina was married to the actor Boris Khimichev, and the fifth was the official Robert Tokhnenko. All her spouses unanimously argued that her only passion was always the theater. How does Tatyana Doronina live two years after her dismissal from the position of artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater, where she worked for 30 years - read in our publication.

Stanislav Andreevich Lyubshin - 87 years old

Stanislav Lyubshin - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981). Stanislav Andreevich was born on April 6, 1933 in the village of Vladykino near Moscow (now a district of Moscow).

In the village in which the future actor was born and grew up, after the war, a drama circle was organized in which Stanislav's mother played the main roles. Even then, the guy began to dream about the stage. But after school he entered a technical school, then went to serve in the army, but at the same time he did not let go of his dream of becoming a student at a theater institute.

In 1959, Lyubshin graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School. In the same year he made his debut at the Sovremennik Theater, where he was assigned. He served as an actor in the Taganka Theater, and in the Theater. MN Ermolova, and on Malaya Bronnaya. From 1981 to the present, he has been an actor at the Moscow Art Theater. A. P. Chekhov. Stanislav Andreevich believes that venerable age is not a reason to leave the profession: Lyubshin can be seen in at least four performances of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, and his roles as stately monks, gray-haired rulers and romantic artists become a real decoration of Russian cinema.

The actor made his film debut back in 1958 in the war drama "Today there will be no dismissal", but the first fame came to him after filming the film "I am twenty years old" (1963). Popularity brought him roles in the films "Five Evenings" and "Shield and Sword". The actor's filmography consists of more than 90 film roles and television series. As a production director, Lyubshin shot two films: "Call me into the bright distance" (1977) and "Three years" (1980). Some of the last works of the actor in the cinema - "The Eternal Life of Alexander Khristoforov" (2018) and "Godunov" (2019).

Having lived for almost 44 years in marriage, at the age of 60 the actor left his family and for more than a quarter of a century is happy with Irina Korneeva, who is 40 years younger than the actor. In 2006, the actor, who had never complained of well-being before, was admitted to intensive care with a stroke and fell into a coma. He later said that he was able to return to life only thanks to the efforts of his wife, who did everything possible and impossible to help him fully recover. Since then, Lyubshin calls her his guardian angel. And Irina does not get tired of repeating that being close to such a person as her husband is a gift of fate and real happiness. In his 87 years, no one dares to call the actor an old man - he looks and feels much younger than his years. More details about the artist's personal life are in our publication: Stanislav Lyubshin - 87: Who Saved the Life of the Star of the films "Five Evenings" and "Shield and Sword".

Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili - 86 years old

Oleg Basilashvili - Soviet and Russian actor, public figure, People's Artist of the USSR (1984), laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after I. brothers Vasiliev (1979). Oleg Valerianovich was born on September 26, 1934 in Moscow.

By the way, only the actor's father bore the Georgian surname Basilashvili, and before that all his ancestors were called Basilovs in the Russian way. Both surnames are translated the same way - "a descendant of Basil (Vasily)". According to family legend, Basilashvili's ancestors came to Georgia from the territory of modern Turkey, from Basiani about 400 years ago.

Curiously, Oleg Valerianovich managed to hit the screens twice as a teenager, starring in small episodes of films - "Foundling" 1939 (a boy on a bicycle) and Red Tie (1948) (a boy at the pioneer admission ceremony). It was then that the guy's dream of becoming an artist was born. In 1956, Oleg graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and was assigned to Volgograd. But soon, with his wife Tatyana Doronina, they were invited to the Leningrad State Theater. Lenin Komsomol (now the St. Petersburg State Theater "Baltic House"), where they served until 1959. And then Oleg and Tatyana moved to the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Gorky (now named after G. A. Tovstonogov). After 8 years of married life, their roads diverged with Doronina. From the second half of the 1960s, Basilashvili became one of the leading theater actors. He appeared on the stage of the Bolshoi until 2019 and was involved in more than 50 theatrical productions.

The actor became widely known for his roles in E. A. Ryazanov's films "Office Romance", "Station for Two", "Say a Word about the Poor Hussar" and Georgy Danelia "Autumn Marathon." Vladimir Bortko "The Master and Margarita". The filmography of the actor is about 80 films, as well as more than 25 films sounded by him in his track record. The most recent works in cinema are "Without Borders" (2015) and "We Didn't Expect" (2019).

After parting with Tatyana Doronina, Oleg Basilashvili met the love of his life. Read about it in our review: Oleg Basilashvili and Galina Mshanskaya: more than half a century of love, devotion and reciprocity.

And in conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude and audience love to these artists who have been our idols for many years and wish them health for many years to come.