Actress Vera Sotnikova: Biography

Vera Sotnikova, whose biography is the topic of this article, has long been known to viewers. She is an actress of Russian and Soviet cinema and theater, a TV presenter. She actively starred in television series and films, so her name is always on the list.

A family

Vera Sotnikova was born in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1960, on July 19. In a beautiful girl, all the souls did not drink: the parents - father Mikhail Petrovich and mother Margarita Petrovna, and older sister Galina (five years older).

The family of the future star had nothing to do with the cinema or the theater. My mother worked as a telephone operator, and my father worked at a Volgograd factory as a burden-loader - he loaded scrap into a blast furnace . And yet. Nevertheless there is a merit of parents that Vera became the man of art: her father wrote memoirs about how he ran away to war as a boy, and his mother composed poems.

The older sister adored literature and wanted to become an actress, while the younger sister studied French with rapture and was going to enter the Moscow State University at the faculty. However, fate decreed otherwise: Vera did not manage to become a linguist, but she realized her sister's dream - she entered the theater.

Once in the eighth grade, the girl was very ill. Sister Galya, to somehow distract her, began to read aloud the story of Kuprin, which was the moment of truth. Recovered, Vera decided to engage in theatrical art and enrolled in the House of Culture in a circle.

Childhood

Vera Sotnikova had a very happy childhood. Parents spent all their holidays only on driving girls to the best museums. Vera adored fairy tales and was a creative child. Laying herself to bed, she without long persuasion, with pleasure closed her eyes and went to a land of dreams and fantasies, where she was, of course, the queen. Every evening Vera composed fairy tales before going to bed, and then played them in the afternoon with a school friend.

All toys of the girl, except for the names, necessarily had names, diaries, medical cards, and they all went in for sports, like her.

At school, Vera loved literature, she always received five for her essays, quickly taught poems and recited them at creative evenings, and sometimes even composed poetry. To some extent, everything the girl did then became part of her future profession.

However, Vera Sotnikova did not always live a fabulous life. The biography of one of the most beautiful Russian actresses also contains dramatic pages. It is now behind her shoulders the recognition of the public, dozens of successful performances and films. And the path began very prosaically ...

The beginning of the creative path

At the time when Vera finished school in her native Volgograd, Galina, her older sister, worked on city television as a director. She recommended the girl to enter the theater school in Saratov, but the future star filled up the exams and returned home with nothing. Sotnikova decided not to give up and began to prepare for admission to the philology department of Moscow State University. But they did not accept it either. After this, a series of accidents began, which in the life of the actress played an important role.

Vera Sotnikova stood at the Kazan station in a huge queue for tickets. She planned to go home. It was necessary to wait about eight hours, and to pass the time, the girl decided to go to the "Pike" to audition, just at random. In the student yard, she met a guy, and he offered to go to the School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theater at the same time. Vera agreed. Andrew Myagkov listened to the students . After Sotnikova's speech, he asked: "Why are you reading so badly?". The girl honestly confessed that she had not accepted the documents to the university, and she was going to go home, and here she came to occupy herself in the evening with something. "You're not going anywhere!" - cut off Myagkov.

So, after leaving the parental home, at the age of seventeen Vera Sotnikova moved to the capital.

First love

The girl was placed alone in the dorm room of the Surikov school. Vera went to classes with pleasure, and everything was fine, until one day in the spring she fell in love - irrevocably and finally. My friend Yuri's friend became the chosen one. He somehow went into the hostel, and Sotnikova was overwhelmed! A tall, handsome man with piercing blue-gray eyes, a scholar, a talent, an artist, a genius, an art connoisseur! Yura said that he works in the Pushkin Museum as an assistant to the restorer. He began to devote verse to Vera. Later it turned out that Yuri plagiarized them from Emil Verharn, but then the girl did not know about it, she liked poetry very much. In the life of the Faith this was the first true love, strong and passionate.

So began her real life. Sotnikova married, but the marriage lasted only a year. In the second year, Yang's son was born. Actress Vera Sotnikova says that this is a difficult period, because there was practically no money. Young mother, in order to somehow improve the financial situation, had to agree to any role that was only offered. Faith with her young son was huddling behind a closet partitioning the room in the communal flat. And in the second half, Yuri lived.

Creation

Sometimes a woman even thought that it was good to stop everything in one fell swoop. But she learned from her childhood the motto: "It's just that Stalingrad does not give up!" Vera tried to calm herself, saying that the difficulties would end sooner or later, she would become a famous actress and get a job in the best theater. And it happened.

Today Vera Sotnikova's filmography includes more than forty films and serials. Among the latest film works "The Bridegroom", "My Favorite Rascal", "Ludmila", "The Office".

As a director, the woman took five music videos for the singer Vladimir Kuzmin. She also produced a television show "The Dog Waltz", an entourage "Adam and Eve", a documentary about the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva.

Vera Sotnikova's filmography includes many worthy roles, but the actress also tries herself as a TV presenter: she worked on TNT channel in the project "Club of former wives", now she is one of the co-hosts of the program "Battle of Psychics". Among other things, the actress acts as the trustee of the Adeli Foundation, which deals with children with disabilities diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

Personal life of Vera Sotnikova

In the official marriage was only once - with the father of his son. Then, for 7 years, from 1993 to 2000, she lived in a civil marriage with singer Vladimir Kuzmin. After that, her civil partner was producer Renat Davletyarov. Now Vera Sotnikova is trying to keep silent about the details of her personal life.