Actor Afanasyev Valeriy: the second role does not mean "unknown"

This actor plays, as a rule, supporting roles. But here he manages to show each of his characters so that even after the end of the film, the audience for a long time are under a strong impression. Actor Afanasyev Valery Lives the life of each of his heroes as his own. Maybe that's why these characters turn out to be so believable and real.

Childhood

On August 20, on a hot summer day in 1949, the future People's Artist of Russia actor Afanasyev Valery appeared. As a child, he practiced a lot. So, just in case, because he was very afraid that the boys from his yard or neighboring courtyards would not only laugh at him, but also put on cuffs.

A little later, he found a new dream - he decided to become the world champion in gymnastics. As a child, he often had to stay home alone. At this time he played and imagined himself to be a real gymnast, trying as best and as confidently as possible to perform various complex exercises.

School and theater

Studying at school, little Valery Alekseevich Afanasyev began to study in a theatrical circle, although at that time he did not even imagine that after many years he would become an actor. He just loved to observe how the sacrament takes place on stage, when the performance began. Feelings, which the boy experienced at the same time, it is simply impossible to describe. For him it was some other, unreal life.

He was a shy boy, so it was uncomfortable for him to go to the theater studio. Once, in one of the interviews, Afanasyev shared his story with journalists about how he once thought about entering the music circle, because he so wanted to learn how to play well on the clarinet, which seemed to him some kind of curiosity.

Valera was constantly thinking about this, and when he went for a walk in the boys, he had a statement in his pocket about admission to the circle. The guys from the yard found this piece of paper, and this served as the basis for a merry laughter over the unlucky potential clarinet player. Of course, the fight was inevitable and it took place. But this dream is the future actor Afanasyev Valery And has not carried out.

Forward to the dream!

After graduation, the guy already knew exactly what he wanted. He decided to become an artist, so he applied to the Shchukin school. In some magical way, he passes the competition: in that year there was a huge influx of people wishing to study at this theater institute.

For a while Valery Alekseyevich Afanasyev, films with which he will share his love of spectators after several years, will work in the Moscow Drama Theater (MDT) named after Gogol. In the same period of his life he meets the director Valery Belyakovich. It is this man who will exert a tremendous influence on the fate of Afanasiev, the artist who has already formed his life, and his reputation was known both in the theater and in the cinema. After all, thanks to him, Valery eventually leaves the theater. Leaves "nowhere". He leaves - and wins.

Since 1990, the actor Afanasyev Valery Enters the troupe Theater in the South-West. On this stage he managed to reveal his talent in full force. He has a lot of interesting and diverse roles that he has long wanted to play. He is always calm, unperturbed. His voice is surprisingly rare in its multifaceted beauty. Afanasyev has a special gift: he can easily open the secret depth of irony and serious drama. But at the same time, it remains recognizable instantly.

The novel with the cinema

In the movie, Afanasyev, too, everything was going well. His debut film was in 1974 the picture "The hottest month". Since then, he has been offered more and more new roles.

True, in his "kinoshnuyu" piggy bank most often came across the roles of the second plan. He acted in different scenes: Fedya the diver in the "Road to himself," Dimka the tinsmith in the "Blackmailer", Yagupov in the acclaimed film of Svetlana Druzhinina about the adventures of the midshipmen, Major Golodny in "Senit Zones", the refugee Maxim in the second part about love for -Russian, prisoner Casing in "DDD", Peter Kalitin in "Simple Truths".

Many Valery Afanasyev worked in the series. What are his roles in The Moscow Saga (the role of Georgy Zhukov), The Best City of the Earth (Altufiev's role), The Guardian Angel (the role of Fedor Kamenev).

Do not remain without his participation and the screened ironic detectives Daria Dontsova: "Evlampiya Romanova 2" (character - Rodion Gromov nicknamed Nail), "Viola Tarakanova 2" (character - Vasily Nikitich).

Great it succeeds in the role of serious men - the military. It creates an absolutely sincere impression that the actor has spent at least half his life in uniform. This is confirmed by his game: Colonel Svirsky in "Mirror Wars", General Alexei Savin in "Russian Medicine", General Zhukov in "Landing Bat", Lieutenant-General Prokofiev in "Kremlin cadets", General Valentin Polunochenko in "Death to Spies" .. .

Perhaps, a bit apart stands a series with his participation, released in 2007 - "Fire of Love." In it, Afanasyev played George Bird - a real, strong man who, at an already quite respectable age, met the woman of his dreams, trying to do everything so that she felt like a queen.

His family

To date, the "actor of big and small roles" is the third time married. With great tenderness and warmth, Valery Afanasyev always talks about his half. Wife Almost from the first meeting, she felt that she had penetrated into his heart. He sincerely fell in love with her. Until now, the couple live together. They do not consider themselves an ideal couple, because hot disassociations they sometimes do happen. But this does not prevent them from keeping their hearths.

Valery Alekseevich has three grown sons and five grandchildren.