Svetlana Kryuchkova

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Name: Svetlana Kryuchkova ( Svetlana Kryuchkova )

Date of birth: 22 June 1950

Age: 66 years

Place of birth: Chisinau

Height: 170

Activities: actress, people’s artist of the RSFSR

Marital status: married to Alexander by Molodtsov

Svetlana Kryuchkova: biography

The future national actress of RSFSR Svetlana Kryuchkova was born in Kishinev in the family of counterintelligence, major SMERSH. The mother of the future actress was there in the personnel Department. In the family Hook was gripped by a real military discipline. A little Light brought up from childhood in itself discipline, responsibility and develop a command voice. To become an actress, the daughter of an officer never dreamed of. She dreamed of a romantic profession of the geologist had thought to devote her life to books, becoming a scholar.

Kryuchkov was growing up an ugly duckling. The future actress was a redhead and was teased by the kids in the yard. She felt unbearably lonely, but never hesitated to publicly read the verses, and then sing. Light came in the school band and became a soloist.

After graduating from high school in Chisinau, Kryuchkov came to Moscow to storm the theatre. In the school Shchepkin was a huge competition for the girls: 240 people in place. Kryuchkov read Juliet’s monologue and an excerpt from «Scarlet sails» green sang the famous Ukrainian «Nich yaka msacn…», danced, dropping shoes. In the end I chose Svetlana with 238 people. Unfortunately, the fourth round of the exams it had been the other entrant that came instead of the hook, but the actress did not become.

First, the daughter of an officer of pride was in Moscow, sitting on ZIL Turner. The work was hard, the pay is low, besides, in the city of Light was all alone. Unable to stand, the girl returned to her parents in Chisinau, where for some time he worked at an agricultural Institute. A year later, despite the entreaties of his father to apply to the Kishinev pedagogical Institute, Svetlana went back to storm the theatre capital. This time she was enrolled in the theater school. Schukin. The entrant Kryuchkov went through to the fourth round, and it again did not take.

Before the trip to the Saratov theater school, where she was waiting for as a student, Kryuchkov decided to go for the entrance exams to the school-Studio of the Moscow art theatre, where she eventually took on the course Vasiliy Markov, known for numerous roles in Dzerzhinsky Soviet films.

For the fourth course Svetlana received her first role in a movie, immediately made her a star. The young actress played Nellie Ledneva in the movie «

Big change» Aleksei Korenev. Kryuchkov still believes Alexei Alexandrovich as their godfather in the profession and I am sure that without this role, her fate would have been different. The end of filming «Big change» coincided with the end of the school-Studio MXAT. A star graduate of the booked five theaters of Moscow. She chose, of course, the Moscow art theatre.

Svetlana Kryuchkova: theatre

The Mat Kryuchkov served for two years. Rehearsed a lot, but on the stage infrequently. And all because the girl refused to play in the formulation, if it is something it didn’t like. Her first performance at the Moscow art Theater was the play «the Last days» by Mikhail Bulgakov.

The Moscow theatre Svetlana’s life turned love. The actress dropped everything and went to Leningrad to the future famous Soviet filmmaker, laureate of the state prize of the USSR Yuri Wexler.

In Leningrad soon Svetlana gave birth to a son, and entered the service in the Leningrad Bolshoi drama theatre named Tovstonogov, where he still plays. The first role she was offered hook, was the role of a schoolgirl in the play Luba, the «Fantasy Faryateva». 26-year-old actress was reminded of the girl, but the Director convinced her. Apparently it was a test of professionalism, and Svetlana passed with flying colors. Tovstonogov took her to the state.

Kryuchkova played Aksinya in «and Quiet flows the Don» Sholokhov, Vasilisa in Gorky’s drama the lower depths, Ranevskaya in «the Cherry orchard» by Chekhov, and many other serious dramatic roles. Now the actress embodies on stage BDT image of Vassa Zheleznova in Gorky’s play of the same name.

Svetlana Kryuchkova: movies

Svetlana Kryuchkova – actress outside the role. Her talent for the force, the role of any dramatic complexity and psychological depth. After a romantic Nelly’s Leneveu in the «Big change» she played the hapless Agafya Tikhonovna in «the Marriage» and after that the mysterious Elsa Barrymore in «the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson».

Paired with great Nonna Mordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova played the subtle tragicomedy «Relatives». The script for Mordyukova was written by Viktor Merezhko and directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

Twice Kryuchkova played the Empress Catherine II. Specifically for this role, the actress learned to speak Russian with a German accent. One of the most characteristic role of the famous actress became the role of the wife of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev, Victoria Petrovna.

Kryuchkov also brought a very psychologically heavy and multi-layered nature of the grandmother of Sasha Savelieva Nina Antonovna in the film «Bury me behind a plinth» from the famous novel by Pavel Sanaev.

Svetlana Kryuchkova: personal life

The first husband of Svetlana Kryuchkova was a poet and actor

Michael Starodub. They studied together in the school-Studio of MKHAT, and met at one of the noisy student party in the Dorm, where she lived, Svetlana. The wedding was played by lush: I rented «the Seagull» — the Soviet car of a representation class, clinked champagne on the red square on the fifth floor in their new shared home, the groom carried the bride in his arms. But this marriage did not last year. The man called her a mediocre actress, in addition, «terrible as an oven.» The last straw was the jealousy of the husband, and professional. Starodub auditioned for the role of the protagonist of the film «Big change» Gregory Ganji, but it did not take. Not wanting to see people not discerned in him acting talent, Michael asked his wife to get the script back on «Mosfilm». Seeing a young pretty actress, film Director Alexey Korenev invited her to try on wife Ganji. As a result, after a week the phone rang: she was invited to the role of Nelly’s Leneveu, which glorified her then all over the country. Michael Starodub was not able to forgive his wife that she agreed to play in the film.

The second time the actress was married to the famous Soviet cameraman

Yuri Veksler, they worked together on the set of the film «the Elder son». Having fallen in love, determined woman gave Moscow, the Moscow art theatre and moved to the dear Leningrad. For six years they lived in a civil marriage, while Svetlana got pregnant. Son, named Dimitry, who today lives in France. Wexler and Kryuchkov lived together for 14 years, until one day Svetlana with her girlfriend Larisa Guzeeva came to the bar, where he met Alexander by Molodtsov. He was younger than her 12 years. It seemed that these relations have no future, but Svetlana happy with my choice so far.

Alexander Molodtsov today – an artist-decorator. In may 1990, the actress gave birth to a son, who was named Alexander.