Mikhail Polyak (actor): biography and personal life

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A graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, an actor of the Lenkom Theater, and in the last years of his life a talented actor who worked in the Shalom Theater - Polyak Mikhail Naumovich. Today, only those with whom he was personally acquainted, and several dozen people who were ardent fans and admirers of Soviet cinematography, will remember him. Mikhail Polyak is an actor with a capital letter, who remained in our memory as a bright, intelligent, cheerful and talented actor. But, unfortunately, we can only judge his talent by the small video legacy that has survived to this day.

Mikhail Polyak. Biography of a talented Soviet actor

Father - Naum Moiseevich Polyak (1921-1985) was the director of many films. Naum Moiseevich was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and returned from the front as an invalid. Unfortunately, his body muscles gradually died off, and soon he completely lost the ability to move. The 50-year-old man, chained to a wheelchair, enthusiastically accepted every motion picture offered by Mosfilm. But soon he left the Mosfilm studio and plunged into the world of an ordinary Soviet person. He read a lot of books, listened to music,Vysotsky in particular, composed poetry. He had his own wine and vodka collection, which he replenished, and in the end it reached 500 pieces. During the onset of hard times, Naum Moiseevich decided to give life to his latest screenplay, "Pour la Mour." He created an excellent film group that worked not for money, but in the name of friendship, kindness and solidarity. Naum Moiseevich celebrated his 60th birthday for a whole week. The whole group and his close friends walked: Mark Shadur, Sasha Kelshtein, Yuri Deryabin and German Eremeev. The first wife, Lidia Granova, and son Mikhail, with their second wife, Lena Shanina, came to congratulate her husband and father.

About the mother of Mikhail Polyak - Lydia Vasilievna Granova (1925-1998) - it is only known that she was a literary critic and the first wife of Naum Moiseevich Polyak.

Filmography

Mikhail Polyak is an artist who was able to get ahead of his time. He possessed the unique organics that the actors of today's world of cinema have. His most famous role, which won the hearts of many fans of the musical film genre, was the role of graduate student Mark in the sensational and, as they say now, box-office musical Three Bachelors Lived. Together with Mikhail, no less talented Soviet actors Vsevolod Abdulov and Vladimir Nosik starred in the film. This hilarious musical film tells the story of three friends who are in graduate school and vowed to each other for 6 months to be committed to the bachelor life. But they did not expect that she would leave them soon…

Mikhail Polyak -an actor who was born in a creative family. Since his father worked at Mosfilm, he played his first role at the age of 15, in the film Listen-ay! taken in 1963. The story of the film tells about the beginning of the activities of F. E. Dzerzhinsky during the revolution.

In 1975, the film "This Troubled Winter" was released, in which Mikhail plays the role of a doctor. Every hour in children's hospitals there is a struggle for the lives of children, and often little patients do not believe in their miraculous healing. With his fervent and sincere game, the Pole convincingly showed all the qualities that a doctor who treats children must have.

9 films with his participation

It was impossible not to fall in love with his light and cheerful character Troubadour in the movie "Troubadour and His Friends". Mikhail Polyak is an actor who acted not only in films, but also brilliantly played in performances. It is a pity that the play "The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta" was not filmed. The charismatic Mikhail Polyak created the spirit and unforgettable atmosphere of the Lenkom Theatre. The premiere of the play "Juno and Avos", in which Mikhail Naumovich played a translator officer, took place in 1981, and for more than 30 years he has not left the stage.

Movie release year to the screens	Movie title	Role of Mikhail Polyak
1963	Listen-ow!	Boris Voitekhovich
1973	Zhili 3bachelor	Mark
1974	One day alone	Volodka
1975	This disturbing winter	Dmitry Dmitrievich
1976	12 Chairs (Episode 2)	episode
1978	Everything is decided by the moment	episode
1978	A guy from our city	translator
1982	Grenada	-
1983	Juno and Avos	translator officer

First marriage

Lyudmila Porgina. The wonderful actor Mikhail Polyak, his personal life, alas, did not work out for him. He had three marriages with quite famous women. The first time he married Lyudmila Porgina in 1965. She was only 17 years old, but her love for Mikhail was so strong that she immediately married him. Like most early marriages, theirs was completely drowned in domestic and family problems. Their marriage lasted only 2 years, and the family broke up. Later, in one of her interviews, Lyudmila Andreevna will tell you how difficult it was for her to leave Mikhail Polyak for Nikolai Karachentsov.

Second marriage

Elena Shanina. Soon great love came to Mikhail Naumovich. It was an actress who played with him at the Lenkom Theater - Elena Yuryevna Shanina. But, unfortunately, this marriage ended in divorce. Elena Shanina fell in love with another handsome man - Alexander Zbruev. In one of the theater productions, Zbruev and Shanina got the roles of lovers, andthe feelings that they played on stage soon carried over into the real life of the actors. Alexander Zbruev and Mikhail Polyak were intelligent people and were well aware that they were in love with one woman, but this did not affect their communication in any way. The love triangle, which consisted of Shanina, Zbruev and Polyak, played in the Bremen Musicians. There is no personal life in the theater, and every actor is in plain sight, soon rumors about this situation spread throughout Lenkom. Polyakov and Shanin did not have joint children. There were rumors that Mikhail Polyak began to abuse alcohol, and this was the reason for the divorce. And in one of her interviews, she said: “Misha and I were great friends, and if he hadn’t started drinking, we would have lived a long family life. He was a very smart and intelligent man. But, unfortunately, for such a subtle person, 70 "became a terrible time. Such people more often went into dissidence or found solace in alcohol. I tried with all my might to help him. But it's all useless if the person himself is against such help. And Mikhail did not want this. I believe that the illness of the soul is reflected in drunkenness. But, unfortunately, Mikhail is no longer there."

Third marriage

Marina Polyak. For the third time, Mikhail Naumovich married Marina Aleksandrovna, who took her husband's surname. She kept his last name, although now she is the wife of M. Shvydkoy. Mikhail Polyak - an actor who was accompanied by failure in matters of the heart … Maybe that's why his fate as an actor did not work out.

Mikhail Naumovich Polyak: audience reviews

The bright talent of the theater "Lenkom". No one can outshine the Pole - Mikhail cannot be replaced. The most charming and talented artist! In the 80s, everyone went to Lenkom just for the sake of it. Unfortunately, he left us and did not have such fame as other Lenkomites. but fans love and remember him!

That's what the audience says about him. And they regret that so little is known about his life.

The talented actor Mikhail Polyak, whose photo can be found with difficulty, will remain in our memory as such a charming and bright person.

Death of an actor

Mikhail Polyak gave us many characters, but the audience fell in love with the role of a young and sweet graduate student from the movie "There Lived Three Bachelors". He promised his fans that he would be a big star in the future… but that remained just a promise. What happened, and why the actor's life went downhill, will forever remain a mystery. He left us young, he was only 47…