Gaft Valentin (Valentin Gaft): biography, filmography, personal life and photo of the actor

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Gaft Valentin Iosifovich is an outstanding artist of our country. His amazing works make an indelible impression and remain in the memory of even the most demanding viewers for a long time.

Born and raised magnificent in Moscow, in the family of a lawyer. He spent his childhood in a small communal apartment on Matrosskaya Tishina Street. The family huddled in one room, but everyone was really happy and content. His father, Iosif Romanovich, was distinguished by a modest character and a proud nature. To his mother, Gita Davydovna, the boy always treated with special respect. She was a person with surprisingly delicate manners, in everything she loved cleanliness and order. These wonderful qualities the mother passed on to her beloved son.

In the 4th grade, Gaft gets to the play "Special Assignment" based on the work of S. Mikhalkov. So the future artist got acquainted with the theater. The boy enthusiastically watched everything that was shown on the stage, and unconditionally believed in what was happening. It must be admitted that the play did not make the young viewer decide to choose the profession of an actor, but led him to a school amateur circle, where heplunged headlong into the creative process.

Moscow Art Academic Theater

After graduating from ten classes in 1953, Valentin Gaft secretly decides to enter the theater institute. He stopped his choice at the Shchukin School and the Moscow Art Theater School. Before the start of the entrance exams, a fateful event occurs in the life of the future artist. By chance, on the street, he meets the TV star Sergei Dmitrievich Stolyarov ("Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Sadko"). Not at a loss, Valentine asks a famous actor to listen to him. Stolyarov was somewhat discouraged by the courage of the young man, but did not object. The lessons of the famous artist were not in vain: they immediately enrolled in the Gaft Studio School.

The theater is a small life

After graduating from the theater institute, Gaft hardly gets a job. The first place of his service was the Mossovet Theater, where he made his debut in the play "Lizzy McKay" as the second detective. But he was not offered significant parties, so the actor worked there for only a year. After some time, he gets a job in the theater of Satire, where he does not stay for a long time either. Here the actor will play literally one role - a scientist in the play by E. Schwartz "Shadow". But later, it was on the stage of this institution that he will perform the best of his roles - Count Almaviva in the famous production of Crazy Day, or the Marriage of Figaro. Further, the thorny path of the actor Valentin Iosifovich will continue at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.

And after some time will work on the stage with the directorA. Goncharova in the area of Spartakovskaya street. 1965 will be a turning point in the career of a talented artist, he will meet Anatoly Efros. And from that moment on, a bright streak will begin in stage life, which Valentin Gaft has been waiting for. The actor's biography will be marked by a fruitful creative union, since it is within the walls of the Lenin Komsomol Theater that he will receive invaluable experience, which will later become the basis of his skill.

The actor's last creative "refuge" will be the Sovremennik Theater, where he will go at the invitation of Oleg Mikhailovich Efremov. He serves in it to this day. He has played almost three dozen roles, among which the following can be noted: Gusev in the play "Valentin and Valentina", the mayor in "The Inspector General", Baston "The Block", Leiser "Difficult People", James "The Pinter Collection" and many others. The wonderful artist calls the walls of this theater his second home. He fanatically loves the stage and cherishes it infinitely.

The Man Called Kino

The actor's film career was less successful, at the beginning of his career he had to play only bit parts. But starting from the 70s, the picture changes for the better, Gaft began to offer bright and memorable images.

It is worth remembering at least Apollo Sataneev in the musical comedy "Magicians" or the main role in the film "Visit to the Minotaur", where he played Pavel Petrovich Ikonnikov. Already in those years, the actor manages to portray his characters in a special manner. Each of his roles was unique and uniquely played. Heintroduces the viewer to completely different types, working through and passing the character of each character through himself.

Filmography

Gaft Valentin Iosifovich brilliantly showed his talent not only on the stages of various theaters, but also loudly declared himself in the cinema. The film actor embodied his gift in dozens of films. The table below includes the most memorable masterpieces.

The most famous films featuring Valentin Gaft

	Date, year	Movie	Role
1	2010	"Burnt by the Sun-2: The Coming"	prisoner Pimen
2	2009	"Book of Masters"	talking mirror
3	2007	"12"	one of the jurors
4	2005	"The Master and Margarita"	Kaifa
5	1997	"Kazan Orphan"	magician
6	1992	"Anchor, more anchor!"	Fyodor Vinogradov
7	1991	Promised Heaven	leader of the homeless
8	1988	Thieves in Law	bandit leader Arthur
9	1987	"Forgotten Melody for Flute"	Lonely
10	1982	Wizards	deputy director, Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev
11	1980	"Say a word about the poor hussar"	Colonel Pokrovsky
12	1980	"The Black Hen, or Underground Dwellers"	teacher/king
13	1979	Garage	Chairman of the cooperative Sidorin
14	1975	"Hello, I'm your aunt!"	footman Brasset
15	1973	"Seventeen Moments of Spring"	Gavernitz

This is not a complete list of films in which Gaft Valentin was involved. The artist's filmography includes more than 115 films, but these are perhaps the most recognized and sensational films in his work.

Cooperation with director E. Ryazanov

The brilliant actor easily managed to make the moviegoer fall in love with the characters he was lucky enough to play in the films of the wonderful director Eldar Ryazanov. It was his ideological characters that brought the actor real popularity. Among the most interesting works are such films with Valentin Gaft as: the brave and noble Colonel Ivan Pokrovsky. A lone warrior who won over more than one woman's heart. A brave and resolute cavalryman, a man of word and honor, devoted to the hussar brotherhood and military affairs from the movie "Say a word about the poor hussar." Excellently presented by Gaft in a self-ironic image, the head of the garage cooperative Sidorin. The role was amazingly realisticperformed by an actor. In 1987, the artist miraculously copes with the character of a Soviet official, bureaucrat and campaigner in the film "Forgotten Melody for the Flute". But perhaps the most striking and charismatic was his character in the film Promised Heaven, where Valentin played the leader of the homeless named President, who despises the existing laws, the communist system and desperately fights for justice.

Popularity

Beloved by many, the actor is known not only for his work in theater and cinema, but also for his numerous appearances on television. For example, filming in the television series "Buddenbrooks", based on the novel by T. Mann. He is fluent in all kinds of genres of his profession, which allows him to use his greatest talent in many ways, to show it in a variety of guises from dubbing in the studio to serious roles in the theater.

Valentin Gaft is an actor who treats his profession with special trepidation. Never in his life did he regret that he chose this particular line of activity. The artist gives himself entirely to work, goes into it with his head. "Theatre", "cinema" for him are not empty words. Using them in his speech, he pronounces each concept with soul and a sense of infinite respect. Leaving the profession for him is like stopping breathing, so great is the master's love for the work that he has been doing all his life.

Private life

Today, the famous artist is married to a beautiful and wonderful actress Olga Ostroumova. For the first time, lovers saw each other on the set of the film "Garage", butthey were able to register a marriage only in 1993. Before that, Olga, like Valentin, was not free. In the acting environment, their couple is considered one of the most harmonious, despite the age difference. Both have their own baggage of failures in their personal lives, but now they have found the happiness that they have been waiting for so long. “We feel each other without unnecessary unnecessary and unimportant words,” Valentin Gaft admits in an interview.

Children occupy a special place in the life of an actor. He had a daughter, Olga. Unfortunately, in 1992 she committed suicide. Now the actor gives all his attention to the son of Olga Mikhailovna, Misha. He has been raising him since he was 10 years old. And he does not have a soul in his wife's grandchildren: Polina, Zakhara and Faina. According to his wife: “Gaft is an excellent father and grandfather.”

Epigrams in the life of a master

A talented person is talented in everything! These words, of course, can be attributed to the personality of Valentin Iosifovich Gaft. Some time ago, the artist discovered his writing abilities. He is especially good at creating epigrams. He dedicates sharp, ironic, playful poems to his colleagues and friends, very accurately noticing their most hidden character traits. The epigrams of Valentin Gaft are full of aphorisms and comparisons, they clearly show the outstanding literary gift of the artist.

Awards

Gaft Valentin Iosifovich ─ an outstanding personality, winner of many titles and awards. It is part of the Nika Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts, isa member of the Union of Cinematographers, Theater Workers and Moscow Writers. For long-term creative work and the development of domestic theatrical art, he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree, and in 2011, II degree. He is also a Cavalier of the Order of Friendship, Laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize and the first Laureate of the I. M. Smoktunovsky Theater Prize. In 2007, the actor was awarded the Golden Eagle for Best Actor in the film 12, and in the same year he won the Stanislavsky Theater Prize for his great contribution to the development of acting.