Alexander Kalyagin: biography, filmography, personal life

Babs Baberley, Chichikov, Alexander Alexandrovich Lyubomudrov, Zhukovsky, Sam - this is not the whole list of actor's works of a hardworking and wise man. Alexander Alexandrovich Kalyagin. He played more than 60 works in the cinema, voiced by all the beloved, kind and fair Leopold. The appeal of this cute cat is known to all children of the Soviet Union. It is impossible to forget that Alexander Kalyagin is a talented director. What is his "Prokhindiade" worth?

Birth of the winner

Actor and director Alexander Alexandrovich Kalyagin was born in late May 1942 in the village of Malmyzh, which is on the river Vyatka. His mother - Julia Mironovna Zaydemann was already forty years old. The village doctor gave advice: "Give birth!"

His son was chosen by his father - Alexander Georgievich Kalyagin, who was sure that the name Alexander (the winner) would always help the boy in life. Unfortunately, he passed away when the baby was not yet a month old, on June 17th. Julia Mironovna did not marry again, she raised her son on her own.

His little Shurik spent his childhood in the capital, Moscow. It was there that his mother's relatives lived. Later, he recalled that these were intelligent people, mostly women. And he grew up in a "woman's kingdom" a quiet, modest child.

But at the same time even a small Alexander Kalyagin could not bear even the slightest violence against himself. When my mother decided to teach the boy how to play the violin (he had an absolute hearing), it did not last long: he just sat down on the violin, crushing it. Alexander Alexandrovich told that he does not tolerate non-alternative situations in his life, he hurts when there is no choice.

The first serious decision

When Sasha was five years old, he decided that he would be an artist. As he grew up among many female relatives and was surrounded by tenderness and love, he immediately sat down on his head and manifested his character. Shurik realized early enough that his native element was krivlenie. All the relatives admired his performances. As a child, Sasha was sure that the work of an actor is a very light bread. Julia Mironovna took her boy's theatrical studies very seriously.

Studying at school, Alexander began to read poetry in the Palace of Pioneers. When he grew up a little, he acted already reading serious literature.

Learn, learn, learn ...

Yes, Sasha really wanted to play on stage. But having collected a house council, his mother and numerous aunts made an important decision: the boy needed to get a regular profession. Alexander Kalyagin agreed, and the study began in the medical school. After his graduation in 1959 he worked as a paramedic in the ambulance. Thanks to this profession, he came face to face with real real life, with human tragedies and dramas. Alexander saw infarcts and crippled in violent fights, drunkards and suicides. Later, this experience proved invaluable while working on roles. After working for an ambulance for two years, he wanted to realize the dream that he had in his childhood.

From the first time Sasha went to the "Pike", asking only a certificate that the ligament is in his order. This was due to the fact that his voice was with a sand, unusual. Such shades in the voice appeared after the imitation of Arkady Raikin, who was the idol of Kalyagin.

Hero-lover or a young pioneer?

Switching to the second year, he was expelled from the school for profnepryodnost. Teachers could not come to a common opinion: what role will the future actor have. He can not play the pioneers, the heroes are not his path, but the old men are without counting. Alexander was already not very skinny and beginning to grow bald.

His savior was Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. After many years, theatrical scientists exclaimed admiringly: Kalyagin Alexander Aleksandrovich seemed to have come to this world to try on Chekhov's characters! The winning card for him was the freshman Luba Koreneva, whom he always remembers with words of gratitude. In four hands they put a small piece of the play on Antosh Chehonte, which the rector Boris Zakhava recognized on the whole course the best. Soon Sasha became a practical best student.

The bright feeling of a smiling person

At the same time Kalyagin Alexander Alexandrovich brought together his first love. It turned out Tatyana Korunova - a real fairy-tale beauty and talented actress. The girl came from Sverdlovsk, where she studied at the local university on a mathematics course before the third year. During the entrance exams, Tatyana simply won Boris Zakhava and was accepted, without wasting time on qualifying rounds.

The novel, which was born suddenly, was hidden from all. Alexander and Tatiana carefully hid their feelings. The wedding took place already in the second year and was secret, the young simply signed with the registry office.

Family life was peaceful and happy. Alexander Kalyagin was an inconsistent head in the family: his wife was sure that he was much more talented, and tried to adjust to his mode of work, with might and main housework.

They graduated from the school together in 1965 and entered the Taganka Theater together. It was there that Alexander Kalyagin was entrusted with the role of Galileo in the performance of Berthold Brecht.

On one not very good day he had a serious quarrel with the director Yuri Lyubimov, after which Alexander decided to leave the theater. It is such an explosive and is Kalyagin Alexander, personal life Which - a tangle of contradictions. Lyubimov assures the actor that right after his departure his wife will be fired. When Tatyana heard this phrase, she wrote a statement that she was leaving the theater. Since then, her whole life has been devoted solely to the family. Tatiana and Alexander had a daughter, Ksenia.

All life is theater ...

In 1967, Kalyagin crossed the threshold of the Yermolova Theater. Over the course of three years, many interesting roles passed through his hands: Poprysin in "Notes of a Madman" by NV Gogol and Jim in "The Glass Menagerie" by T. Williams.

In 1970, the actor moved to Sovremennik, and a year later - to the Moscow Art Theater. It is here that he will serve more than a quarter of a century, joining with these walls, colleagues and leader Oleg Efremov. Here he will play his most important roles.

In these walls, he met with the great Anatoly Efros, who gave Kalyagin two roles - Fyodor Protasov and Orgon Moliere. They perfectly show the gullibility of the soul, thousands and thousands of its torment, flight and unforgettable masculine charm.

"Cinema, Cinema, Cinema. From you we are crazy "

And then came 1967, the year of the debut of Alexander Kalyagin in the movie - in the film "Nikolai Bauman." By the mid-70's, he played his best roles: Vanyukin in the film "His own among strangers, a stranger among his own", Alexander Alexandrovich in "The Slave of Love." So became known Alexander Kalyagin, whose films became the "golden" classics of Soviet cinema. At the same time, the comedy "Hello, I'm your aunt!" Appeared on the screens of the country, thanks to which the actor just took off on the wave of popularity. His hero Babs Beberley with all his charm penetrated the hearts of the audience, and the film, which became a cult, was simply divided into quotations: "I'll kiss you. Later. If you want to, "or" I'm Aunt Charlie from Brazil. "

A new marriage and a new life

When the daughter of Alexander Kalyagin Xenia was only four years old, Tatyana Korunova died of cancer. So the actor became a solitary father: she washed clothes herself, cooked food, drove to the kindergarten, helped to teach lessons in school. He loved his daughter madly. Alexander adored his girl with such adoration that she trusted her to choose a new mother, because he had fears that an extraneous woman in their house would cause irreparable injury to the child.

His unhurried choice Xenia stopped on the actress. So a new actor's family was created: Alexander Kalyagin, Evgenia Glushenko. With a woman, Alexander made the acquaintance, filming Nikita Mikhalkov in the film "Unfinished play for a mechanical piano," but they had serious relations only two years later. After the approval of the father's father's choice, the wedding took place, and in 1980 the newlyweds' son Denis was born.

So, the actor Alexander Kalyagin. The personal life of this charming man is not exposed. Daughter Xenia now lives in America, she is a programmer. 14 years ago she was born son Matvey. Son Denis graduated from a private school near Philadelphia. Now he lives in Moscow with his mother, he's a journalist. The second marriage of the actor, unfortunately, broke up, but the couple respectfully treat each other until now.