Andrey Gradov: the heir of the Chuvash actors

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

Is it really the brave operative Taraskin, the cowardly Ishutin, who reads the book “On Tasty and He althy Food” on a bench, the cheerful journalist-intern Zhenya, who joined the Cyclone’s crew of women, the smart and cruel Major Pozdnyakov - this is one and the same same person? And indeed it is. All these roles were played in different years, but with the same success, one of the best actors of our time, Andrei Gradov. He is a representative of the old acting school, whose creative biography included a lot of interesting roles that brought him all-Union fame and the love of the audience. When in the difficult 90s there was a temporary downtime in work, Andrei Petrovich showed himself to be a very caring, attentive and enterprising family man who put his own family many steps above his personal ambitions.

Childhood without a mother

The future Honored Artist of Russia appeared in the family of the famous poet and playwright Pyotr Gradov and Isis Maksimova-Koshkinskaya, the daughter of the first Chuvash actors. Andrei and his sister Tanya werewhen they were still very young when their mother died in a terrible car accident. The children were raised by their maternal grandparents.

After graduating from secondary school, Andrei Gradov easily entered the Shchukin Theater School. A smart student successfully completed his studies at this educational institution in 1974.

The beginning of the creative path

In cinema, Andrei Gradov declared himself to be a very talented actor after the first bright role of the Red Army soldier Nikita (1978). Since he immediately rose to a very high level, regardless of whether he got the role of the first plan or a secondary one, he could not lower the bar lower. An excellent example of this is the popularly beloved cult TV series by Stanislav Govorukhin "The meeting place cannot be changed." Actor Andrei Gradov, who played the role of Nikolai Taraskin in it, perfectly fit into the team of eminent actors, managing not to get lost against the background of Vysotsky, Gerdt, Konkin … Despite the fact that this role is not the main one, but only the second plan, later journalists noted it in articles as one of the main works of the Soviet actor.

Being a versatile professional, he tried to work in a wide variety of genres, testing his strength and acting skills. So, in his life, the roles of the potter Greedy, the journalist-intern, and the corrupt major appeared. Andrey Gradov is trying to use all the possibilities. His filmography is constantly updated with more and more new characters. He has also acted in musical comedies anddetective stories, and drama films.

Love is one and for life

The family has always been for the actor in the first place, crowding out everything else. Andrei Gradov is one of the few monogamous men. He and his wife have been together for many years. In one of the interviews, the actor said that although he started a family quite early, he was sure that he would never change his wife.

When the films that gave him fame throughout the Soviet Union were released, he had long been "in the family." At that time he was only 27 years old.

Andrey Petrovich almost never talks about his family. Maybe he doesn't want to draw more attention to himself. Or maybe he just doesn't want to jinx his happiness. But the all-seeing eye of journalists managed to find out that the actor's wife works as a doctor. The couple had a daughter, who is now an adult. The girl decided not to follow in the footsteps of her parents, she mastered the path of a lawyer.

Allied professions

Very difficult, even difficult, days have come for the actor's family, when films were practically not made during perestroika. Andrey Gradov, whose personal life from the moment he first appeared on the screen was of interest to all fans without exception, shared his memories that he tried with all his might to do everything possible so that his beloved girls - his wife and daughter - did not need anything. He learned to trade - and conservation, and fish, and clothes.

A little time passed, films and series arrived in the country from across the sea. Therebyfor some period of his life, the actor made good money by voicing various foreign heroes. The family was able to survive the crisis. Now they are doing very well. Gradually, Russian cinema was revived, interest in the original actor again appeared. Andrey Gradov's career does not just continue, but steps up the steps higher and higher. In his memory, the impressions of the difficult years he lived were very well fixed, so he tries not to refuse the projects offered to him, regardless of whether it is a series or a full-length movie. In addition, when the uninvited vacation ended, it turned out that the skill and talent of the actor did not fade over the years.

Family Haven

When Andrei Gradov has a free moment, he enjoys spending it with his beloved girls - his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, there are not many such moments. The actor is already 61 years old. He is a loving grandfather to his 18 year old grandson. Now Gradov has a quiet family life, because calm days with his adored wife are closer to him than stormy romances with other women. It is impossible not to pay tribute to the wife of the actor, because she was always next to him, ignoring all the difficulties and the manifestation of attention from the fans.