Andrey Mironov: filmography and personal life

Riga, August 14, 1987. Opera Theatre. They give "The Marriage of Figaro". On the stage in the role of Figaro brilliant, as always, Andrew Mironov, filmography And the theatrical work of which has more than a dozen diverse characters. The action continues exactly according to the planned plan. Until the fifth scene begins in the third act.

Figaro-Mironov utters his own text, when he suddenly steps back, leans his hand against the gazebo and slides down to the floor. Graf-Shirvind embraces him and takes him backstage to the deafening silence of the auditorium. "Shura, my head hurts" - the last words of the great actor.

The ambulance took him to the clinic. The best doctors tried to save the life of a favorite of the whole country for two days. On the morning of August 16, he passed away. The cause of Andrei Mironov's death is a vast cerebral hemorrhage.

A gift for all women

On the eve of the International Women's Day, a son was born to the family of famous pop artists of the Soviet Union Maria Mironova and Alexander Menaker . But my mother decided to write down the date of his birth on March 8, because this strong and intelligent woman was always sure that her son, a boy kissed by God, would be the best gift to all women of the USSR on their holiday. And after many years he really became such a gift: few of the young ladies could resist the Myronov charm. But it's all later ...

His father's career began with musical feuilletons. Later, Alexander Semenovich tried to combine his performance and direction. Mother performed in the 2nd Moscow Art Theater and in the Moscow State Music Hall.

Parents met in the newly created in the pre-war capital, the Hospitality Theater and miniatures. Then they worked there and it was then that their famous pop duo was invented. And three years later their son was born. Maria Vladimirovna appeared on stage until the very birth, and the fights began with her directly during the performance. Andrei Mironov, whose filmography was replenished with every new film he played, was born in a maternity hospital on the Arbat Street.

Childhood and war

Andryusha was only three months old when the Great Patriotic War began. The theater of miniatures, in which his parents served. Was evacuated to Tashkent. In this city, the boy became very seriously ill. The doctors were sure that his strange illness was tropical dysentery. The kid had a hard time, my mother listened every minute: whether the baby has breathing or not. Andryusha lay on the floor, on newspaper scraps, and he did not have any strength to even cry. His eyes were not shut. Invalid help was rendered at that difficult time by the wife of the famous pilot Gromov, who was able to get the necessary medicine in those difficult days.

T-shirt under the torn sherry

It was 1948. Seven-year-old Andryusha (at this age still Menaker) went to first grade. And two years later, like a bolt from the blue, the bells of "Doctors' Affairs" sounded. Parents made an important decision: the boy changed his name. Now his name was Andrei Mironov. Roles This one of the best actors of our time has been loved for many years by his admirers.

His childhood years did not differ from the childhood of boys and girls of those years. He liked to run around with the ball, he enjoyed running to the cinema to watch movies, adored ice cream. His childhood hobby was collecting badges.

In school years he was a very frisky boy, Andrew was recognized as a leader among classmates. He studied medium, exact sciences were not included in the priority of his interests. With all this, when Andrei Mironov, whose filmography began growing at a crazy pace a few years later, celebrated his 11th birthday, a story happened that could provide him with a film debut. Director Ptushko began shooting a fairy tale "Sadko". For extras he needed children. Among the selected was Andryusha. For him was intended a small role of the beggar. But Mironov's skate all his life was an incredible cleanliness, so he did not dare to pull a naked deryuga on a naked body and put it on a trendy t-shirt in those years. Noticing this, the director shouted and the boy was asked to leave the set. The debut of the future actor did not take place.

"Who am I going to be?" Only an actor! "

In his childhood, Mironov Andrei Alexandrovich, whose filmography interests every spectator, almost every summer had a rest in Pestovo, where the recreation house of the Art Theater was located in those years. He was familiar with the famous Moscow Art Theater. And in school Andryusha with great pleasure participated in all theatrical productions. In 1958 he entered the Shchukin Theater School on the course of I. Rapoport. He was well-fed, pimply and polite, did not particularly shine with talents - there were absolutely different leaders on that course. But he really wanted to get a red diploma. He studied quite diligently and immediately retook any four. From the other classmates differed accuracy, which sometimes even seemed a bit out of place.

The first role

Students under pain of exception were categorically forbidden to act in films. But many, applying to it all the forces, tried to get into the crowd. All but him. So, Andrei Mironov. The filmography of this unique actor of Soviet cinema began in the fourth year, thanks to Julia Reisman. He invited him to his film "And if this is love?". Strange as it may seem, but no one beginning actor scolded. Perhaps, due to the fact that Andrew was in the school in good standing. Perhaps, a very influential family of Andrei Mironov stood up.

The debut role in the theater

In 1962 he received a diploma. His dream of working at the Vakhtangov Theater did not come true, which plunged the impressionable Mironov into an abyss of disorder. Now he could not figure out which theater to go to work in. He was helped by the absolute accident in the person of Pluczek, who invited him to his place.

Mironov allowed himself a little pokapriznichat, but came to view. And soon his debut took place: the performance - "24 hours a day", the character - Garik. After that, the roles fell like a horn of plenty. But he became the real star of the theatrical stage, having embodied on the stage the role of Tushkanchik (the play "Women's Monastery"). And now those who remember his game, talented and unique, the cause of Andrei Mironov's death seems some kind of ridiculous and woeful accident, an evil joke of heaven. After all, he was always so real, so cheerful, so alive ...

Star Screen

By the beginning of the seventies in the luggage of the actor's films was the first rather serious role of Alexander Zahri. Soon after, the audience could see the picture of director H. Oganisyan "Three plus two". The character of Mironov in this comedy - veterinarian Roman - brought him a certain fame. Several years later, he was shot with an enviable regularity, but not very often. 1965 year. Received an offer from Ryazanov to come to the screen test. The role of the scoundrel and cunning Dima Semitsvetova was recognized by critics as one of the best in the film. And the director himself told that this character was written out a little indistinctly, so this masterpiece reading was due precisely to the skill and talent of Andrei Mironov. Then there were a few more pictures, until, finally, the shooting of one of the best gaydayevskie comedies - "The Diamond Arm". It was in this film that Mironov sang for the first time on the screen. Despite the fact that his character is a crook Gennady Kazadoyev nicknamed Graf, Mironov was loved by millions of spectators. The actor is so charming, soulful and easily played the role of a scoundrel, that everyone who saw this picture, was imbued with an involuntary sympathy for him. Although later in an interview with Andrei Mironov, with some sadness, shared his feelings about the fact that it is very painful and incomprehensible to him that for the huge number of spectators the highest point of his talent is this comedy. He really wanted to play with serious directors - Mikhalkov, Tarkovsky, but they did not see the heroes of his paintings in him.

1971 year. "Property of the Republic". In this film, the actor was lucky to play one of his most romantic roles (a character - a former court fencing master nicknamed Marquis). He is practically himself a charming, adventurous, modest, gentle, kind, in the soul - a maximalist who gives himself all away for the sake of justice. His hero literally in a second becomes the idol of the boys of the seventies, and the song, sung by him, became a hit.

And there were also roles of the criminal henchman in "Old-timers-robbers" and clever and pretty Lieutenant UgRo in "The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia". Incidentally, in the last picture, all the tricks, even the most complex, Mironov performed himself, without the need for backup and stuntmen. After this film, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

He was loved even by children. Andrei Mironov it was impossible not to love, not to admire him.

In the 80 years, the most difficult in the life of the actor, he still filmed, despite the disease. Back in the 78th he had the first hemorrhage, but only two months later he was again on the stage. In the early 80's he began to appear on the body of terrible furuncles, very painful and almost incurable. Nothing helped, except ointments, which only slightly eased the condition. He decided to try lymphadenectomy - removal of lymph nodes with a chronic infection. After the operation, it became much easier. He continued to withdraw.

Worthy works of that period are the pictures "Be my husband" in a duet with Elena Proklova, "My friend Ivan Lapshin", "The Tale of Wanderings" and "The Man from the Boulevard of the Capuchins" in the company of famous actors of Soviet cinema - Karachentsev, Tabakov, Boyarsky, Kvasha. It was the role of Festa that was the last in the life of Andrei Mironov (director - Alla Surikova, who started to work only after the actor agreed to play in her picture). Success exceeded all expectations. As if returned a couple of decades ago, to the "Diamond Hand".

Two marriages of Andrei Mironov

The first time the actor married in 1971 on 24-year-old actress Ekaterina Gradova. This marriage was a huge love, but, unfortunately, did not last long. In this alliance, their daughter, Masha Mironova, was born. Mironov was a very conservative husband. He did not allow Katya to do make-up, to take in hand even a glass of wine. The maximum the fingers of his beloved woman should smell are the berries and spirits. He was a very gentle husband and a funny dad, because he was afraid to stay with little Masha together because, as he himself said, it is lost when a woman cries. Already in 1974, the couple parted, and two years later, in 1976, officially divorced.

With his second wife, also an actress, Larisa Golubkina, he met while still in his official first marriage. For ten years he tried to persuade her to play a wedding. He did it. Now Golubkina is sure that what was before Andrei is terribly frivolous. And Andrei even adopted her daughter, also Masha. So he became the father of two Masha.

Children Andrei Mironov - both daughters - after growing up, also followed in the footsteps of their parents. Now they are famous actresses.

Thus lived in two marriages Andrew Mironov. The personal life of the idol of millions has always caused, causes and will cause genuine interest. Perhaps this is correct, because people who respect him, it is interesting to learn about him at least something new, despite the fact that he has not been with us for thirty years. But you do not notice them, because when you turn on the TV, even on one channel and flashes such a familiar, almost native face. And it seems that Andrei Mironov will always be with us - both in joy and in sorrow ...