Actress Valeria Kiseleva: Biography

Actress Valeria Kiseleva is known primarily as the mother of the popular television presenter Ivan Urgant. In the filmography there are no main roles. Most of the life actress Valeria Kiseleva worked at the Comedy Theater of St. Petersburg. What is known about the life of this artist? Why did Urgant's mother never give an interview and tell her about her famous son?

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Kiseleva Valeria Ivanovna was born in Leningrad in 1952. Graduated from the Institute of Theater and Cinematography. Since 1986, she played on the stage of one of the theaters in her native city. The first husband of the actress was Andrew Urgant. The second - Dmitry Ladygin.

In February 2015, died. Valeria Kiseleva is an actress whose cause of death became known in early February. The press reported that the mother of Urganta died in her apartment as a result of complications of respiratory viral infection.

Filmography

In the movie, actress Valeria Kiseleva played a few roles. It can be remembered in the image of one of the participants of the street ensemble in the melodrama "You have me alone". Valeria Kiseleva played an episodic role in one of the series "The Streets of Broken Lights". Other pictures in which the actress took part:

• "You know ... Mom."
• "The Fourth Planet."
• "Leningrad".
• "Cross the line."
• "A trip to my son".

Andrew Urgant

Relatives of the television celebrity had heard a lot of rumors. In the press, more than once appeared information that Ivan Urganta was allegedly brought up by his grandmother, and the parents for a long time pulled away from the performance of their duties. The grandson of the performer of the famous patriotic song in the film "Belarusian Railway Station" prefers not to comment on this information. He never told anybody about his family to journalists.

Nevertheless, according to the memoirs of friends and friends of Ivan Urgant's mother and stepfather, the future star of domestic television spent his childhood and adolescence in his parents' house. Actress Valeria Kiseleva met with Andrey Urgant as a student. The novice artist moved to live in a communal apartment, where Ivan's mother lived many years later. However, to the family life, Andrew Urgant at that time was not adapted, but because soon his young wife expelled him.

Dmitry Ladygin

Valeria Kiseleva did not like to give interviews and spread about her personal life. And this is quite a rare phenomenon in the theatrical and cinematographic environment. The second husband of the actress was Dmitry Ladygin. According to the words of the close friends of the parents of Urgant, and Bard Alexander Rosenbaum refers to them, Kiseleva was an intelligent man and extremely modest. Despite her profession, she did not like public speaking.

For Dmitry Ladygin, the marriage with Valeria Kiseleva became the first. They studied at the same institute, but at different courses. When the actress married Ladygin, her son was four years old. A few years later, the daughters of Valentine and Alexander appeared in the new family. For some time Ivan called his stepfather "daddy", but, having matured, apparently, he remembered the presence of his own father and began to address Ladigin by name.

In the family of theatrical actors, there was no special financial prosperity. Especially in the nineties. However, during this period it was not easy for all Petersburgers. Ivan already in his school years began to work part-time. When he became a star, he began to help relatives.

Valeria Kiseleva passed away on February 1, 2015. The actress was to be executed a week later sixty-four years. After the death of Valeria Kiseleva, the program "Evening Urgant" did not broadcast for three days. In the next issue, the facilitator explained the reason. Ivan Urgant told the audience about the death of his mother, mentioning that she was a very modest person and not only did not give interviews, but even once again tried not to talk about who her son is. "She would be embarrassed if she found out that I'm talking about her throughout the country," the presenter said in the epilogue of the Evening Urgant program.