Larisa Guzeeva - 60: What viewers don't know about the famous actress and TV presenter

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

On May 23, the famous actress and TV presenter, Honored Artist of Russia Larisa Guzeeva celebrates her 60th birthday. The image she created on the screen makes many viewers see in her only a self-confident, strong, ironic and even cynical woman who does not go into her pocket for words. This image has developed largely thanks to the program "Let's Get Married!", Which has been hosted by Guzeeva for many years. What tempered her character, what trials she had to endure, and why her film career did not become successful - further in the review.

Larisa Guzeeva was born in the village of Burtinskoye in the Orenburg region. She never saw her father - she was raised by her mother and stepfather. The family lived modestly, the mother was a history teacher. One of the biggest shocks of her childhood was the death of her 3-year-old brother, who, having played, grabbed the hose of the washing machine, inhaled water and choked.

Larisa was brought up in severity, but from her youth she was distinguished by a wayward character - even at school, resisting dogmas, she began to wear mini-skirts, use makeup, swear and smoke, which is why her mother-teacher had to blush more than once. She dreamed of becoming an artist since childhood, and after school she submitted documents to LGITMiK. To attract attention and stand out from the huge crowd of applicants, the girl shaved her head. She managed to impress the admissions office and she entered. Classmates did not like her, considering her too arrogant and arrogant - Larisa always knew her worth, knew how to stand up for herself and did not seek to win someone's favor. She often behaved defiantly - now the actress explains this by the fact that then she just wanted attention and love, and there was no one nearby who could tell her that this was a very primitive way to achieve this.

In her youth, Guzeeva led a bohemian lifestyle, rotating in the circle of St. Petersburg rock musicians. They often spent their evenings at the trendy Saigon Café. Larisa was familiar with Viktor Tsoi, and she had a 4-year romance with musician Sergei Kurekhin. She later told about the reasons for their separation: "".

The debut main role of Guzeeva made her a real star. Back in her student days, she played the main role in Eldar Ryazanov's film "Cruel Romance", after which she literally woke up famous. But this first main role remained the most famous in her biography. In every interview she was asked questions about this film, and she was so tired of it that now she avoids this topic. However, the story of how an unknown student got to the shooting for Ryazanov really deserves attention.

If the director had no doubts about the candidacies of Andrei Myagkov, Nikita Mikhalkov and Alisa Freundlich, and they were approved without samples, then the main character was chosen from several applicants. Ryazanov's choice was a mystery to many - a 23-year-old girl in ripped jeans, with bright nail polish, who came to audition, did not in any way correspond to the image of the romantic and fragile Larisa Ogudalova. Guzeeva smoked "Belomor", swore foul language and had no idea what unhappy love was - she said that she would simply leave if the man did not reciprocate. Nevertheless, Ryazanov was pleased with his choice, although later he admitted that "at first her professional ignorance was truly boundless." The feeling of love, which appeared during the filming in relation to Mikhalkov, helped her get into the image. "" - said the actress.

In the 1980s-1990s. Guzeeva continued to act, but she herself admitted that these were mainly passing roles in mediocre films that she has not watched since. The actress agreed to them only in order not to fall out of the cage and not be left without work and without a livelihood. In addition, she rarely managed to maintain good relations with the directors after filming - Guzeeva was always very sharp, straightforward and uncompromising. She never had affairs with directors in order to get a role, and could not put up with the fact that her opinion was not considered. Perhaps this was one of the reasons that her film career was not very successful.

The actress never hid the fact that in her youth she began to abuse alcohol, which is why she later began to have problems. She called herself the first media personality in Russia who spoke openly about the problem of female alcoholism. Her first husband, an assistant operator Ilya, suffered not only from alcohol, but also from drug addiction. Guzeeva unsuccessfully tried to fight this for almost 8 years, but all her efforts came to naught. As a result, she herself became addicted to alcohol. Tired of this difficult relationship, she filed for divorce. A few years later, Ilya died of an overdose.

The second marriage, in which she gave birth to a son, helped her cope with difficulties and overcome her own addiction. True, this relationship did not last long. She managed to find personal happiness only in her third marriage - with the restaurateur Igor Bukharov, about which the actress said: "". In this marriage, at the age of 40, she gave birth to her second child, daughter Olga.

Recently, the actress rarely appears in films, but she appears on the screens very often - as the host of the program "Let's Get Married!". She is often asked questions about whether she considers herself entitled, after several unsuccessful marriages and alcohol addiction, to give people advice on how to arrange their personal life. To this, Guzeeva replies that it is the difficulties she experienced that give her the moral right to warn people against such mistakes and share her own experience.

Many are afraid of her and do not like her for her sharp tongue, but she almost leaves no one indifferent. And for the majority, she is still associated with the role that became the pinnacle of her creative path: What's left behind the scenes of "Cruel Romance".