10 famous actresses who gave up their careers for family

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

Today, many women successfully combine professional activities with the role of wife and mother. Moreover, they are willing to go to great lengths in order to build a successful career, even if it requires less time to devote to their loved ones. But there are many women in the world who are ready to sacrifice their careers for the sake of quiet family happiness. In our today's review, we suggest recalling successful women who decided to put the interests of their family first.

Daria Sagalova

The charming Daria Sagalova, who played Sveta Bukin in the popular TV series "Happy Together," almost immediately after the marriage with the entrepreneur Konstantin Maslennikov began to give preference not to new projects, but to her family. The couple are raising three children, and Daria is also the founder of a dance studio, where she teaches herself. Sometimes the actress is removed, but she herself admits that the most important thing for her is the family.

Nadezhda Rumyantseva

She became famous after the release of the film "Girls", then the audience fell in love with her in "The Queen of the Gas Station" and waited for the release of new films with the participation of Nadezhda Rumyantseva. But the meeting with Willie Hshtoyan forced the actress to reconsider her attitude to life. When the actress's wife was sent to diplomatic work abroad, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, without a shadow of a doubt, went with him, leaving the cinema. She chose personal happiness and was proud of her husband, with whom she lived in harmony for over 40 years.

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Grace Kelly

The story of Grace Kelly is like a real fairy tale about Cinderella meeting her prince. She was an Oscar winner, the audience loved her, the fans adored her, the directors gladly invited the talented actress to their films. True, her personal life did not work out. When Grace Kelly met the prince of Monaco and received a marriage proposal from him, she did not even doubt whether to accept it or not, although she clearly understood that she would have to leave her career and devote herself to fulfilling the duties of a member of the ruling family. Becoming the wife of Prince Rantier, she reserved the right to play only one role: to be the princess of her husband.

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Oksana Okhlobystina (Arbuzova)

Oksana Arbuzova has become a real celebrity, starring in the title role in the film by Mikhail Tumanishvili "Accident - the daughter of a cop". By the time the picture was released, the girl was only 16 years old, and the burden of fame for her was too heavy. She seemed to have lost her life guidelines and even began to think about how to say goodbye to life. But her whole life was turned upside down by a meeting with Ivan Okhlobystin, who became for her at the same time a friend, husband, father of their six children, and also the person she wanted to follow. For several more years, Oksana continued to act in films, but she already clearly saw her destiny in being a wife and mother. Soon she gave up work altogether, devoting herself entirely to caring for home and family.

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Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle became famous for her work in the TV series Force Majeure, in which she starred for seven years. In addition to the series that made Meghan Markle famous, before meeting Prince Harry, she had about thirty films in her account. But a fateful meeting with His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales made the actress and model leave her career and devote herself to her family. It seems that Meghan Markle parted with her profession without any regrets.

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Daria Melnikova

She very early began acting in films, and became famous thanks to her work in the TV series "Daddy's Daughters". But at the same time, Daria Melnikova believed that the purpose and happiness of a woman lies not in a successful career or fame, but in much simpler things. A strong family, according to Daria Melnikova, is an endless source of positive emotions and feelings. After the marriage with Artur Smolyaninov, the actress almost stopped acting in films, devoting herself to the most dear people: her husband and two sons. She sometimes goes on the stage, but still devotes more time to her family.

Eva Mendes

On account of Eva Mendes more than 30 works in films and TV shows, but recently she is very rarely seen on the screen. After meeting Ryan Gosling during the filming of The Place Beyond the Pines in 2011, the actress increasingly began to give up roles. Much more she likes to devote herself to family and children. At the same time, Ryan Gosling himself believes: only thanks to the support of his wife and daughters, he was able to become the owner of the Golden Globe. At the same time, the actors did not officially register their marriage, but both of them are not at all interested in conventions.

Tatiana Klyueva

The actress began acting in films during her school years, became famous thanks to the filming of Alexander Row's fairy tale "Barbarian-beauty, long braid", but soon after graduating from GITIS she decidedly refused to continue her career. She left with her husband-captain for Sevastopol and began to give all her time and energy to the family. However, Tatyana Klyueva does not at all consider her choice a victim and admits: if fate had given her a second chance, she would not have changed anything in her life.

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Deborra-Lee Furness

The successful Australian actress, Australian Film Critics Award winner for her performance in Shame, no doubt left her acting ambitions in the past when she became the wife of Hugh Jackman, best known for her role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series. Deborra-Lee Furness not only cares about her husband, she helps him grow professionally, but also brings up two adopted children and believes that she herself chose and built her happy destiny.

Elena Solovey

After Nikita Mikhalkov's film "The Slave of Love" was released, Elena Solovey actually woke up famous, although even before that, viewers and critics paid attention to the extraordinary actress. Her career was developing quite successfully, but in the early 1990s, she faced a choice: to leave with her husband and children in the United States in order to provide the family with a dignified existence, or to stay in troubled Moscow. In Russia, the actress already had a name, recognition, fame and profession. And in the United States, an unclear future awaited her herself, but at the same time - great opportunities for her husband and children. Elena Solovey chose the well-being of her loved ones to the detriment of her career. Despite the fact that she missed her profession, the actress believes that she did absolutely the right thing.

Elena Solovey's acting talent was revealed largely thanks to the director Nikita Mikhalkov, who shot her in his most famous films. Their collaboration and creative love began with the film "Slave of Love", which became a breakthrough in the world of big cinema for both the director and the actress. True, at the beginning of filming, no one could have imagined that everything would end successfully: Nikita Mikhalkov "carried on" this film after another director, and Elena Solovey sobbed in despair when she learned what he did to her heroine …