Victor Verzhbitsky: biography and creativity

A successful television broadcaster, a talented movie and theater actor Victor Verzhbitsky decided on what to devote to life, took in his early childhood. On his account, more than eighty works in the cinema and twenty-five - on the stage. Biography of Victor Verzhbitsky, which is certainly interesting to fans of his talent, will be described in this article. For those who once saw an actor on the screen and wish to continue acquaintance with his work, a full list of films and theatrical works with his participation will be provided.

Childhood and career choice

Verzhbitsky Viktor Alexandrovich was born in the city of Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on September 21, 1959. Such aristocratic surname went to the future artist from his great-grandfather, the native Cracow Pole. Victor's childhood mostly went behind the scenes of the theater, where his grandmother worked as a dresser. From an early age, the boy watched as the most amazing way actors managed to create believable stories on stage. He also wanted to perform. When it came time to choose a profession, he already knew exactly what he wanted from life. Becoming a student of the scenic department of the Tashkent A. Ostrovsky Theater and Art Institute , Victor took the first step towards his childhood dream.

Carier start

In the same institute, at the same faculty as Viktor Verzhbitsky, his first mentor and friend, film director Timur Bekmambetov studied . It was he who opened the door to the actor for the actor, having removed it in several commercials and in the film "Peshawar Waltz".

Victor's debut on the television screen was the role of Nicholas I in the advertisement of the bank "Imperial". Later, the image of this hero, he successfully passed on in the series "One Night of Love" and "Poor Nastya." After the filming of these paintings passed many years, but Viktor Alexandrovich still many jokingly called your Majesty. Also in the advertisement of the bank "Imperial" the actor appeared in the images of Louis XIV and Alexander the Great. In the advertisement of the bank "Slavyanskiy" Viktor Verzhbitsky played Mandelstam Osip. This role is considered the pinnacle of his work in advertising.

The first works in the cinema

For a long time Victor Verzhbitsky was shot only in advertising and in the roles of the second plan. Actor few people took seriously. His first notable work was the main role in the film about the Afghan war, Timur Bekmambetov's "Peshevar Waltz". Soon he played roles in such films as "Sinful Apostles of Love", "Kamenskaya", "The Barber of Siberia", "Mama, Do not Grieve", "Stop on Demand," "Criminal Department," "Secrets of Palace Coups", "Three Against all "," Playing in modern "," Operational pseudonym "," Drongo "," Gladiatrix "," Saboteur "," Dear Masha Berezina "," Code of Honor ".

"The night Watch"

The cooperation between Verzhbitsky and Bekmambetov did not end there. In 2003, the film director invited Viktor Aleksandrovich to the role of the leader of the dark forces of Zabulon in the blockbuster Night Watch (based on the novel of the same name by Sergei Lukyanenko). As the actor himself recalls, he wanted to make his hero a living man who calculates the situation in advance, understands people. To do this, he got used to the image for a long time, invented real stories for himself, imagining what his hero would do in this or that situation. His efforts were not in vain, the work of Victor Verzhbitsky was highly appreciated not only by supporters, but also by opponents of this film. A widely publicized film became a real breakthrough, and Verzhbitsky learned what glory is. Positively spoke about the actor's play and the author of the literary work that became the basis of the film. Despite the fact that the telegraph was different from the book, Sergey Lukyanenko highly appreciated the actor's talent.

Achievement list

After the "Night Watch" actor increasingly began to receive proposals from other directors. Now the filmography of Victor Verzhbitsky has more than eighty paintings.

One of the most striking works was the role of oligarch Pokrovsky in the film "Personal Number." As Viktor Alexandrovich recalls, working on the set of this film, he kept conducting an analogy between his current hero and Zabulon, whom he had played somewhat earlier in the "Night Watch." As in the leader of the dark forces, the actor tried to wake a living person in the oligarch, to understand if he has a conscience, studying all the new and new facets of his personality.

Another work Verzhbitsky, worthy of attention, can be called the role of the Romanian Colonel Lucan in the film "Turkish Gambit" Janika Faiziyeva.

Undoubtedly, admirers of Viktor Verzhbitsky's creativity will not remain indifferent to his images in such films as "Poor Nastya", "Take Tarantino", "Day Watch", "Marry the General", "Admiral", "Red Square", "Keys from Abyss: Hunting for ghosts "," Kazarosa ".

Attention of the spectator is also the film "She-wolf" with Victor Verzhbitsky in the title role. Notable works were the roles of the composer Lutsky in the Primadonna, Boris O. Barsenko in Adventurer, Dubelt in The Deed on Dead Souls, the oligarch Gennady Alexandrovich Meshcheryakov in the film The Guardian Angel, Igor Vorobyov, the staff member of the President's staff in the film " Firs. "

Among the last roles of Viktor Verzhbitsky - Lezhava in "Spy", Igor Vorobyov in "Elk 2", Ryabushkin Victor Maryanovich in the humorous film "Our Russia. Eggs of Fate ", Alexander Vasilievich in" Caesar ", head of counterintelligence in" Intelligence ".

Despite the popularity that cinema brought to Victor Verzhbitsky, he considers himself primarily a theater actor and says that the artist uses cinema, but the theater educates and develops.

Theatrical life

After graduation, in 1983, Victor got a job at the M. Gorky State Academic Drama Theater in Tashkent. There he worked until 1995. During this time, he played many roles in such productions as Chekhov's Seagull (Treplev), Whoever receives a slap in the face, Andreev (clown Toth), Caligula Camus (Scipio), Zoykina's apartment Bulgakov (Obolyaninov), " Flight over the cuckoo's nest »Кизи (Билли Биббит),« Dear Elena Sergeevna »Razumovsky (Володя),« Sacred monsters »Кокто (Флоран).

In the New Dramatic Theater in Moscow, where Verzhbitsky worked for a year (from 1997 to 1998), he managed to play the roles of Menshikov in the "Assemblies" of Gnedich, Dorant in the "Jourdain" of Moliere, Guatemir in "The Revenge of the Queen" by Scribe and Leguve .

Nowadays

Now Victor Verzhbitsky starred in the cinema, plays on the stage of the Moscow Drama Theater named after Alexander Pushkin. Since 1998, the actor has performed roles on the stage of the theater "Et cetera", but more recently as a guest guest, and not as a member of the troupe. In 2005, Kalyagin Alexander decided to remove Verzhbitsky from the troupe. He explained this by the fact that the actor devoted more time to the cinema than to the theater, and he does not keep the "stars" in the walls of "Et cetera".

Viktor Aleksandrovich showed himself as a TV presenter. In 2011, together with Roma Zverev, he conducted the program "Game" on NTV. In May - February 2013 on the channel "TV3" a series of programs "Mystical Stories with Victor Verzhbitsky" was broadcast.

Victor Verzhbitsky: personal life

The popular Russian actor is now married for the second time. His first wife and son Alexander now live in Israel. With them he has maintained good relations, they often visit each other. The name of the current wife Viktor Alexandrovich does not disclose to anyone, it is known only that she is an ex-actress.