Yulia Men'shova: family, height, weight, photo, quote

Julia Vladimirovna Menchova is an actress and TV presenter, mother of two children and the wife of actor Igor Gordin. Her name is on hearing, and today she successfully combines her career and personal life.

Star family

Date of birth - July 28, 1969. In the actor's dynasty appeared another star - Julia Men'shova. Growth, its weight for today is 177 cm, 64 kg.

Let's talk about how her way developed as an actress and TV presenter. Yulia Men'shova is a child of world famous figures of cinema, and this undoubtedly played an important role in her becoming an actress. Grandmother and grandfather on the maternal line - Irina Alentova and Valentin Bykov - also from the acting environment.

Mom - Vera Alentova - performed the main roles in a number of films, directed by her husband - director Vladimir Menshov.

Vera Alentova remembered, first of all, her iconic role in the film "Moscow does not believe in tears": he brought her great popularity, and the film was awarded the "Oscar". Vladimir Menshov is also an actor, but later he tried himself as a director, and this decision led him to success.

Little Yulia, therefore, grew up in a creative atmosphere from a young age. She decided to follow in the footsteps of her parents.

School years

Being in school, even then she began to show her artistic abilities. Since childhood, Julia Menchova has been active and strong-willed.

Her family was tightly engaged in a career and often was on tour, so she spent a lot of time with her grandmother. Parents kept their daughter in strictness, not allowing them to come home late and put on newfangled things, so as not to differ from other peers who could not afford to buy expensive clothes in those days.

She loved to be in the center of attention and perform in front of the public, embodying different images. The girl actively participated in school productions and went to the classes on acting. She understood more and more that she could play on stage and win the attention of the viewer. By the end of the school it became clear that Yulia Men'shova had already decided on the choice of the future profession.

The first steps to a dream

After graduation (in 1986) she entered the Moscow Art Theater School, where she studied until 1990. Julia was on the course of Alexander Kalyagin - an outstanding actor and talented teacher, who opened new facets of talent in the beginning actress. Initially, Menshova hid her stellar name, not wanting to advertise the fact that she is the daughter of famous actors, but soon her secret was revealed.

Julia wanted to gain respect for herself due to her talent, and not because she is from the acting family. In addition, many began to talk that she had entered there only through the brunt, and to prove otherwise, she began to study with great diligence. Then she managed to become one of the best students, and eventually after graduation she received a red diploma.

Photo by Julia Menshova, who shows us a shot from her acting work, shows how she can reincarnate.

Personal life

For the first time she almost got married when she had finished school. Then Julia met with a classmate, but at the last moment the girl took the documents from the registry office. According to her confession, she wanted to marry then, not because there was love, but as a sign of protest to her parents.

She met her current husband in 1996. At that time he was an actor of the Moscow Youth Theater. The meeting happened quite by accident: Menchova with their common acquaintances then turned up at the theater, where they came to the play where Gordin played. After they decided to go to a restaurant, and there they met. The novel developed rapidly, and after a couple of months the chosen one had already met with Menchova's parents. At that time, Yulia was 27 years old, and Igor was 31 years old.

Future husband Yulia Men'shova made her an offer after a year of relations. From the very beginning of their acquaintance between them a mutual understanding arose-they could talk to each other for hours and often saw each other, and then realized that they could not without each other. In it, she discerned the qualities of an ideal man, besides, he turned out to be a caring father.

Divorce with spouse

In 1997, their first child, Andrei, appeared on the light. Shortly thereafter, the pair started to mistrust, and after the birth of the second child, the daughter of Taisia in 2003, there was only more mutual claims, and this led to a rupture, but there was no official divorce.

In 2004, they began to live separately - their parting was delayed for several years, and then they came together again, realizing that they can not do without each other. Thus, Julia repeated the fate of her parents, who also decided to be together again some time after the separation.

Theatrical activity

During her studies she first tried herself as an actress on a professional stage. Her first work was in the telephoto "Kabala svjatosh" in 1988. In 1990, Menchova began her professional career at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, and in parallel began to act in films. In the troupe she worked four seasons under the guidance of ON Efremov. Suffering from behind-the-scenes intrigues, at some point our heroine decides to quit the theater and asks for blessings from her spiritual mentor, but only after 2 years gets it.

He plays in the plays of the Theater Agency "Art Partner of the 21st Century". Her work - "Pygmalion", "Bastoloch", "Halibut Day".

In 2011, her debut as a theater director took place. Julia staged a play called "Love. Letters ", in which her parents played.

TV presenter

In the first half of the 90's, she was engaged in an acting career, but then decided to say goodbye to the theater and cinema. Men'shova decided to try herself on television, because she understood that within the actress it is tight, and she can not reveal herself completely.

When Julia Menshova left the tetra and plunged headlong into the sphere, she was hitherto unfamiliar and distant, she could not imagine that it was due to television that she would gain popularity.

Yulia wanted to go to the TV without the help of her parents, but she did not succeed in making her way. Once Victor Merezhko - a friend of the family - offered her work as an editor in the program "My Movies".

In 1994, Julia became the editor of the program "My Cinema", and a year later - the host of this program. The basic concept consisted of conversations with famous filmmakers on a professional topic. Later, she was elected to the post of managing service for production and preparation of programs on the TV-6 channel, and then she became the head of the directorate for the production of MNVK programs.

Over time, successfully mastering the role of TV presenter Julia Menchova, the growth of her career becomes obvious, and the programs are gaining more and more ratings.

In 2001 the production center "Julia Menshova Studio" was opened. Since 2001, she began working on the channel "NTV" in the program "To be continued."

The telecast "I myself"

A new and significant turn in Yulia's career is the work in the talk show "I myself", which was the most rating in the mid-1990s. It was one of the first women's TV programs on the territory of the CIS. The producer and host of the program "I myself" Julia Menchova was from 1995 to 2001.

In the program, women were told about their lives, about the various difficulties they encountered, and also about their relationships with men. Menchova was awarded the TEFI Prize in 1999, she was awarded this award in the nomination "The Leading Talk Show" for the program "I myself".

Since the autumn of 1997, the magazine "I myself" began to appear, where she became the editor-in-chief.

Yulia Men'shova: quotes about life

• "I believe that in your house there should be not just a man who could have stamped a passport, but a person who is not afraid to have a child."
• "I am convinced that every woman should have her own story."
• "I'm on the zodiac sign Leo. I'm scattering everything. If anyone is on my family ... yes you are! "
• "Excess weight is a fear of life."
• "People who say that you are not well, there will be a million in your life. And parents and home are the place where you love endlessly and is beautiful in everything. "

Return to the cinema and new projects

In the mid-2000s, she again returned to the TV screens, and the role in the series "Balzac's age, or All the men of her ..." brought her great popularity. At the same time, Men'shova acted in film in full-length films.

She played in the detective series "Crime Will Be Revealed," which went on for three years. Julia Menshova rarely plays in the cinema, giving herself to television.

Since 2010, she starts working on TV-3 in the program "Teach me to live" - all 30 issues are on the air. This show was attended by ordinary people who changed their lives under the guidance of a leader and a team of professionals. In 2013, she has a new project - the program "Alone with everyone" on the "First Channel".

Often, Julia also acts as a host on large-scale festive concerts, social events and exhibitions.

Famous work in film and television series

• 1990 - the debut work in the film "When the Saints march".
• 1992 - "Silence".
• 1993 - "If you know."
• 2004-2013 "The Balzac Age, or All Men Are Its ..." (4 seasons).
• 2004 - "The best holiday".
• 2006 - "Great Love".
• 2007 - "Hold me tight".
• 2008 - "The crime will be solved."
• 2012 - "Strong marriage."
• 2013 - "Between us, the girls."
• 2013-2015 - "Women on the brink."

Julia Menshova tried herself as an actress, remembering her famous roles in the cinema, and also built the career of a TV presenter, proving to her colleagues and spectators her self-sufficiency and independence from the star's surname.