Denis Yuchenkov: biography and creativity

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Soviet and Russian playwright and theater director Mark Rozovsky called him a clever actor, a skilled actor and a golden actor. And all because Denis Yuchenkov understands the director's task perfectly, does not discuss with him, on the contrary, immediately fulfills his plan.

“Rehearsing with him is a pleasure,” adds the director of the theater “At the Nikitsky Gates”. The theater is a living art, and you need to go there at least once a month, D. Yuchenkov believes. A grateful viewer receives a charge from the actors, from the production and gives it back to the actors.

Why is popularity needed?

Denis Yuchenkov is well known in the bohemian environment (theatrical forums testify to this). They speak positively about him, and among the many comments there are a huge number of enthusiastic ones.

Without false modesty, the actor believes that it is important for any person in this profession to be recognized. Once Denis said that he came to Moscow for fame, and she found him. You can't live with fame alone - it's detrimental, but it helps, nourishes the actor. Just as there is no soldier who would not dream of becoming a general, so there is no actor who would not want to receive the title of honored artist and lovepublic. Honored Artist of Russia Denis Yuchenkov says and thinks so.

"Main Road" - TV project with Denis Yuchenkov

The actor got to the infotainment program "Main Road" through the TV series "Autonomka", where he played the captain of a submarine (the main role), and then he was invited to the "Culinary duel". Seeing the imposing artist, the producers and directors of the Main Road project invited him to audition for their show, and for almost ten years Yuchenkov has been its permanent host along with actor Andrei Fedortsov.

One can only dream of a show about cars, says actor Denis Yuchenkov, because this is a man's business - roads and cars. Each time in the program, the plots change, meetings with different people, different cars, situations, the roads also change. In the second test section, he and his partner test car performance. He has to measure the turning radius, luggage compartment load, driving through mud, and so on.

From early childhood, the boy loved movement and cherished the dream of his own transport, but for his parents, buying a car was a luxury, not a means of transportation. Only at the age of nineteen, the young man managed, showing all his acting talent, to “persuade” the older generation to buy a car.

Biography

Denis Konstantinovich Yuchenkov was born on November 30, 1971 in Ulyanovsk. Both the father and mother of the actor, as well as his grandfather, belong to the acting dynasty. Denis Konstantinovich himself is an actor in the third generation and this is terribleproud. Being a father himself, the actor tries to be tolerant towards children and does not try to put pressure on their choice, but admits that he would not mind if one of his children became an actor. His eldest son did not follow in his father's footsteps (he is a student at MGIMO), and the actor's youngest son only recently became a schoolboy, and it is too early to judge whether he will serve Melpomene or not.

From his school years, Denis Yuchenkov remembers how their school team competed with another school football team, and his friends remember how he already then artistically passed and scored goals against the enemy.

The performance of the People's Artist of Ukraine Gleb Yuchenkov (Denis's grandfather) and the People's Artist of Russia - Konstantin Yuchenkov (the father of the actor), who played the role of Lenin for the first time in the national cinematography, are forever remembered by the regulars of the Ulyanovsk Theater (especially the older generation).

Ulyanovsk Drama Theater

Denis Yuchenkov himself, having graduated from the Yaroslavl Theater Institute, served in the Ulyanovsk Theater for ten years, where his mother Zoya Samsonova, People's Artist of Russia, still plays. Then, in 1993, he and his young wife Natalia Dolgikh-Yuchenkova came to the Ulyanovsk Drama Theater, and the youth performance "Black Arrow" became the first joint production.

In the local theater he was lucky to play in such productions as "The Servant of Two Masters", "Cliff", "Thirst Beyond the Stream", "Enough Stupidity for Every Wise Man" and other performances. In addition to the beautiful appearance, the actora naturally delivered velvety voice, this quality became an occasion for television people to use him in local commercials. They say that until now his voice in the theater warns the audience to turn off cell phones, not to shoot the performance with a photo and video camera, and wishes you a pleasant viewing.

Voice of Denis Yuchenkov

And in the capital, his soft baritone came in handy, which often commented on documentaries behind the scenes and some programs on Channel One and on Rossiya. He read the text in documentaries “Olga Volkova. I don’t want to be a star”, “Sergey Nikonenko. Oh lucky!”, “The Devil's Dozen of Mikhail Pugovkin” and in many other films about actors and not only.

In 2011, he and his son Gleb came to Ulyanovsk to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the theatre. As a true patriot and loving son, Denis does not forget his parents and hometown, theater, friends.

Denis Yuchenkov. Filmography

In August 2003, the Yuchenkov family moved to Moscow in full force. It all happened by chance, their theater then toured in Ryazan, and before that, the entire last season in Ulyanovsk, performances were staged by the capital's director Arkady Katz. Having completed his mission in the regional theater, he was invited to the theater “At the Nikitsky Gate” with the same performance “Enough Stupidity for Every Wise Man”, the artistic director of which was Mark Rozovsky. But an unpleasant story happened: the actor playing Glumov categorically refused the role and left the theater. Without hesitation, Arkady Katz invitedDenis Yuchenkov for the same role. Mark Rozovsky liked Yuchenkov and got another role (immediately the main one) in the production of Oblomov, based on the novel by Goncharov.

Starting from 2004, Denis Yuchenkov began acting in films and serials. In total, he played about 30 roles in the following films:

• "We alth".
• "Killout Game".
• Kulagin & Partners.
• "Fool".
• "My Fair Nanny"
• "Autonomy".
• “Who is the boss in the house?”.
• "Russian translation".
• "The Agony of Fear".
• Protection.
• "And yet I love…".
• "Foundry".
• "Tricksters".
• “Varenka. Test of love.”
• "The Pursuit of Happiness"
• "Web-3".
• "Bodyguard-3".
• "Chain".
• “Varenka. Both in sorrow and in joy.”
• "Main version".
• “Keys to happiness. Continued.”
• "Killer Profile".
• "Cop-6".
• "Second lethal-2".
• "And the balloon will return."
• "Sklifosovsky".
• "Father Matthew".
• "Quiet Don".
• "Provocateur".

Denis Yuchenkov is very similar in appearance and talent to his father, he is loved for his sense of humor, resourcefulness and for the way he sings in the production of “Songs of Our Court”.