Alisa Grebenshchikova: biography, filmography and personal life of the actress

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Popular Russian theater and film actress Alisa Grebenshchikova was born in the summer of 1978 in the northern capital - Leningrad.

Childhood, family

The girl was born in the family of the poet and rock musician, the famous Boris Grebenshchikov. Alice's mother's name is Natalya Kozlovskaya. Two years after the appearance of the baby, the family broke up. Alice stayed with her mother, who after a while married a second time - to the psychotherapist Dmitry Ovechkin. The childhood of the future actress passed in Leningrad. Summers were usually spent on the Karelian Isthmus, where Alice likes to relax even now.

Alisa Grebenshchikova studied at the gymnasium with a humanitarian bias. Parents tried to often visit museums and exhibitions with their daughter. The girl studied at a music school (piano) and attended a journalism club at the university, tried her hand at the teenage newspaper Leninskie Iskra.

For a long time her relationship with Boris Grebenshchikov did not go well, but by the senior classes, father and daughter managed to establish communication.

Academy of Theater Arts

After graduating from the gymnasium, Alice, to the surprise of many, applied to the SPbGATI for the drama department. She prepared for the entrance examsexcerpt from the poem "Eugene Onegin". The teachers who were present at the selection committee advised the girl to pick up something lighter, more comical for the next round.

In the second round, Alisa Grebenshchikova presented an excerpt from "Pippi Longstocking", after which she was unconditionally enrolled in the Academy.

First film roles

In their second year, many students took their portfolios to Lenfilm in the hope of at least some minor role in the cinema. Our heroine also succumbed to temptation. And the incredible happened! Very soon she was invited to the casting of the film "American" directed by Dmitry Meskhiev. Students of the Academy were strictly prohibited from filming. Despite this, actress Alisa Grebenshchikova could not refuse a pretty role. She played Dinka Ogurtsova. Working with the talented Meskhiev and the inimitable Nina Usatova has become an invaluable experience for the aspiring actress.

Work at the Moscow Art Theater

A former student of the Moscow Art Theater School taught theater skills at Grebenshchikova's course. She idolized this theater so much that she was able to instill love for it and her students. Alisa Grebenshchikova has been to the performances of the Moscow Art Theater in Moscow more than once. For herself, she firmly decided that after her studies she would definitely work on this stage.

In her last year at the Academy, Alisa took part in the Festival of Student Performances. She played a cameo role in the play "My Fair Lady". Grebenshchikova was noticed by members of the Moscow Art Theater Art Council. The aspiring actress was invited to Moscow forviewing. After that, the girl was accepted into the troupe.

Her first major and very serious work on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater was the role of a girl who fled to the front. It was a performance of "The Brides of 42". Alice prepared the role for four months. She approached the task very seriously - she reviewed military chronicles, read literature about the war. The success of the performance was overwhelming. But the most valuable achievement is that there were always a lot of young people in the hall.

Despite the fact that Alice took a liking to the Moscow Art Theater, in 2001 she was forced to leave it. The fact is that she was invited to the series "FM and the Guys" and to the entreprise "Romeo and Juliet" for the main role. It was impossible to combine such a number of completely different projects with work in the theater. One entreprise was followed by the next - "Sylvia".

Participation in series

After Alice received her diploma as an actress, she faced the typical difficulties of all theater graduates - she was completely ignored by filmmakers. Because of this, she began to act in TV shows and TV shows. After the first experience, other works followed - "Pale-faced Liar", "Passenger without Baggage", "The Best City of the Earth", "Ondine". Later, Grebenshchikova realized that participation in the series does not contribute to the development of acting skills, but rather the opposite.

The actress patiently waited for a push that would move the situation off the ground. And it happened. Everything changed a small role in the film "Driver for Vera" Pavel Chukhrai. This workAlice remembered for a long time. She managed to make a small and inconspicuous image one of the brightest and most memorable.

From that moment on, the filmography of Alisa Grebenshchikova began to rapidly fill with new roles.

Private life

On August 10, 2008, the son of Alisa Grebenshchikova, Alyosha, was born. The actress is very happy - she is a wonderful mother who loves her son madly. Alisa Grebenshchikova's common-law husband, Sergei Danduryan, with whom the actress lived for five and a half years, left her when the woman was expecting a baby. He saw his son only once.

Recent works of the actress

In 2014, Alice turns thirty-six years old. Despite her relatively young age, her filmography is huge. Today we will present you her latest work.

"Sex, coffee, cigarettes" (2013), tragicomedy

In Moscow restaurants you can meet a variety of people. And all because in these institutions a stormy business life is in full swing. Here they sell and buy coffee plantations, deft pickpockets hunt, write dissertations and sort things out, meet love and part forever…

Sherlock Holmes (2013), detective series

A new and original reading of the famous stories and short stories by Conan Doyle. The director managed to assemble the strongest ensemble cast.

“Tankers don’t leave their own” (2014), melodrama

A lonely woman Marina, who lost her son and husband, met a man with whom she is happy. This is a retired captain who served in the tank troops. Soon the officer is seriously injured. As a result, an old wound makes itself felt. Fedor is in a very serious condition. Only one person can save him - a local celebrity, Professor Rosman. The operation is very expensive, there is no money. Marina sells everything of value, fellow soldiers collect part of the money. But to the horror of the woman, a large amount of money collected with such difficulty is stolen. Fedor is getting worse every hour. Mad with grief, Marina decides on a desperate act - she steals the professor's daughter and demands that the doctor save her husband in exchange for the girl's safety …