Vladislav Galkin: biography and filmography

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The profession of an actor is hard and painstaking work. To become a good artist, it is not enough to work hard, they need to be born. Vladislav Galkin was one of the best on the Russian stage.

Childhood and youth

25 December 1971 Vladislav Galkin was born in Moscow. The biography of his childhood is not very remarkable: he lived in the small town of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region, in a creative family. His father, Boris Sergeevich Galkin, was a director and was an actor in Soviet cinema, his mother is an actress, playwright and screenwriter Demidova Elena Petrovna. All childhood, the future actor lived with his grandmother on his mother's side - an elementary school teacher Lyudmila Nikolaevna. Every summer, the grandmother took her grandson with her to the pioneer camp, where she worked as an educator during the school holidays. Galkin studied at a local school, in the same place where Lyudmila Nikolaevna taught. As a child, Vladislav was a restless and disobedient child, which, of course, was reflected in his school performance. But despite the behavior problems, he received good references from school teachers.

Parents did not want Vladislav to devote his life to the film industry. Knowing the harsh acting worldfrom the inside, they did not believe that this was the profession that their son should aspire to. And they did not allow thoughts that their only boy, Vladislav Galkin, is an actor in the future! It is thanks to the grandmother, who secretly brought the child to the first screen tests, that nine-year-old Vladislav makes his debut in the film The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Lyudmila Petrovna died in her eighties from breast cancer.

Family

After graduating from school, Galkin from the first time goes to the Shchukin Theater School. The actor left his native nest very early. He was only 17 years old. He always knew that he would not live long with his parents, and perceived them more as friends. For him, the ideal family was two: husband and wife, and children were a kind of integral application. Children grow up and leave their parents, and the husband and wife are one and cannot exist separately. Despite this, Galkin himself had four wives. He didn't have children. Together with his last wife, Daria Mikhailova, they raised her daughter. Publicly, Vladislav narrated that before meeting with Daria he did not have a full understanding of marriage and marriage, that only in her did he find the same thing. It was love at first sight. However, in 2009, without divorcing Daria, he begins cordial affairs with the last woman in his life - Anastasia Shipulina. And with her he also celebrates his birthday in St. Petersburg in 2009. The divorce from his wife was scheduled for March, but never took place. “I have always loved every woman in my own way,” said Vladislav Galkin. The actor died on February 25, 2010.

Career and awards

Vladislav Galkin begins his journey in serious cinema in the military drama "In August 44th". This role became successful and soon the actor brought well-deserved success and, of course, cinematic awards. The perfect adult movie debut! Nevertheless, his next masterpiece is not long in coming: his role in the well-known series "Truckers" brings him great success, and the audience instantly falls in love with his game. After the release of the series, Vladislav becomes one of the best and most famous actors in Russian cinema. His subsequent roles were no less successful and fueled the love of the viewer. Vladislav Galkin boasts a pair of statuettes of the TEFI award, the NIKA award, the Golden Eagle award, and, of course, he received the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

Filmography

The actor became the hero of many films. In particular, he starred in such films as:

• "Voroshilovsky shooter" - 1998.
• "In August '44" - 2000.
• "Truckers" - 2000-2001.
• "Spetsnaz" - 2002.

• 2004 was a very fruitful year for the writer. Films with Vladislav Galkin filled the box office. During the year, two series were released at once: "Truckers 2", "Saboteur" - and the film "72 meters".
• "The Master and Margarita" - 2005.
• "Saboteur 2: The End of the War" and the film "Imperfect Woman" - 2007.
• "Petrovka, 38. TeamSemenov" - 2008.

Personal

The first time Vladislav Galkin scandalously appeared in the press in 2006: there were rumors about the actor's love for strong drinks, as a result of which he made brawls and scandals. Working a lot at this time, the actor coped with stress by leaning on alcohol. Gossip began to appear about Vladislav's real alcohol addiction.

The first brawl happened in a bar: after quarreling with the bartender, the actor started firing from a traumatic pistol at the bottles that were in the bar. Even the police could not stop him: after their arrival, he resisted and started a fight with a representative of the law enforcement service. It was one of the versions of the policemen, the second was the version of the colleague of the bartender who called the outfit. The shift was at night, the actor arrived closer to midnight, when the waiters wiped the tables and raised the chairs. Galkin was already drunk, and the bartender decided not to respond to his request to pour alcohol. After repeating a couple of times, the actor got angry and shot at the glass, which fell and broke, the bartender ran into the office and called the police. At this time, his colleague approached the actor and offered him a drink, they sat down at the table, poured whiskey and talked sincerely. According to the bartender, Vladislav Galkin looked very tired, talked about his parents and complained about his wife Daria.

Law enforcement officers arrived about twenty minutes later and began to provoke the actor, poking fun at his appearance and condition. Further in these two versionsThere is only one outcome - a fight, a trial. This was not the only case when Vladislav Galkin started a fight. The actor, whose photo can be seen in our article, as a result of this evening received a sentence with a suspended sentence of fourteen months. After a short time, he began to publicly appear in bars and at events with Anastasia Shipulina. The wife announces the divorce, set the date for December 2009, but for some reason the date is moved to March 2010.

Last journey

In the second half of February, the actor's corpse was found in his Moscow apartment. Forensic medical officials noted the date of death three days before he was found. According to the official version, the cause of death was acute heart failure, it could not stand such a passionate love for alcohol. Galkin posthumously received two more awards: the Golden Eagle and the Golden Rhinoceros.