The happy four of Evgenia Dobrovolskaya: 4 theaters, 4 marriages, 4 children

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

The filmography of this artist can be envied: for 35 years of her film career, she has played more than 80 roles. Nationwide fame was brought to her by the films "Queen Margot", "The Artist", "Clever, Beauty", "Heavenly Court" and others. Unlike many colleagues, she did not have to sacrifice her personal life for a career - the actress has four children. However, her fate made such abrupt turns that it resembled a roller coaster - what is only a marriage with Mikhail Efremov and an affair with Yaroslav Boyko - the fathers of her children.

As a child, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya was left to herself - her parents held managerial positions, constantly disappeared at work, and sometimes there was even no one to pick up her daughter from kindergarten or school, so the actress does not like to remember her childhood and youth. She says that during her school years she was the most ordinary teenager, perhaps very independent. At her own request, she enrolled in a studio theater on Krasnaya Presnya and decided to become an artist. She failed to enter GITIS on the first attempt, and preparing for admission next year, she got a job as a cleaner at the Mossovet Theater. The second attempt was successful: teachers Lyudmila Kasatkina and Sergey Kolosov believed in her talent, who became masters of her course. While still a student, she began acting in films.

There were many happy accidents in her life: for the first time she came to the set at the age of 17, on the last day of screen tests for the film by Pavel Chukhrai "Cage for Canaries". And she was immediately approved for the main role. Her first partner was Alisa Freindlich, who played the mother of her heroine in this film, and since then Dobrovolskaya called her her "movie mom". For the "Cage for Canaries" Evgenia received the prize for Best Actress at the Polish Film Festival in 1984. Even while studying at the institute, at the age of 17, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya got married for the first time and gave birth to a child. Her husband was actor Vyacheslav Baranov - Dobrovolskaya's partner in the first film "Cage for Canaries". This marriage did not last long, about 4 years - the husband was not ready for fatherhood.

Dobrovolskaya also had a lot of luck in her theatrical career - of course, multiplied by her talent. After graduating from GITIS, she got into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, which was a rarity - they took mainly students of their own Studio School. After working there for a year, the actress moved to the theater studio of Oleg Tabakov, and then to the Sovremennik theater. After a while, she changed her job for the 4th time, this time finally. On the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, she performed for many years.

Soon after the divorce, the actress married a second time - to Mikhail Efremov. Together they spent 7 years, and this time was very difficult. For the actor, his career remained in the first place, he was against the birth of children, and when Dobrovolskaya lay in preservation, he never visited her. After the birth of their son Nikolai, they lived for some time with Efremov's mother, Alla Pokrovskaya, but the daughter-in-law could not find a common language with her, and the young family had to move to a rented apartment. But this did not save their marriage - both were not ready for family life. Dobrovolskaya said about her wife: "" Both had an explosive temperament, the spouses often quarreled and even fought. For the first 5 years of their marriage, Efremov did not drink, and then he broke down, and binges began again. In addition, he did not remain faithful to his wife. They divorced in 1996.

All four children of the actress are from different men. She gave birth to her third son from actor Yaroslav Boyko, who at that time was married to another woman. They hid their relationship, and when Dobrovolskaya realized that they would not lead to marriage, they parted. The actress has so far refrained from commenting on this, stating only that "".

In 2009, at the age of 44, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya got married again and gave birth to her fourth child - her daughter Nastya. The marriage with cameraman Dmitry Manannikov turned out to be the strongest - they spent almost 10 years together. The actress admits: "".

Today she admits that in her life "". The only thing she was never disappointed in was her profession.

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