Sergei Sosnovsky: biography and filmography

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Sergey Sosnovsky is one of the most sought-after actors in Russian cinema. For 11 years of his "cinema" career, he played in 36 films. Now he is sixty, he is full of energy and creative plans.

Youth years

Sergey Sosnovsky is a native of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. He spent his childhood years in his native village Makrusha. After school, he decided to learn the profession of a car mechanic. By chance, he got into the drama club. Together with a friend, for the company, in 1976 he went to Saratov to enter the theater school and was accepted. He mastered the basics of theatrical art on the course of N. D. Shlyapnikova. After receiving his diploma, he worked at the Theater for Young Spectators. Having the necessary experience, the actor decided to create his own theater in Siberia. Before the trip, I received an offer to work at the Saratov Drama Theater. Director A. I. Dzekun literally intercepted the actor on the platform and persuaded him to stay in Saratov. From 1985 to 2004, Sergei played on the stage of this theater and delighted his fellow countrymen.

First film role

Until 2004, Sergei Sosnovsky worked in his native drama theater, but already in 2004 he was invited by Oleg Tabakov to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

Surprisingly,Sergey Valentinovich played his first role as a movie actor at the age of 49. A fairly mature age to start, and yet, he was successful. The painting "My half-brother Frankenstein" received favorable reviews not only from domestic but also from foreign critics.

After the release of the picture, Sergei Valentinovich realized that he was completely absorbed in the new process. Even a year later, in one of his interviews, he admitted that the magic of cinema had not faded for him. The work has increased, the fees have also become more tangible. Actors began to be invited with enviable regularity not only to films, television series and television shows. As the actor himself admits, despite many years of experience, he prepared for each role as if for the first time. Many critics began to note that Sosnovsky is organic in the role of a villain, and the actor himself believes that negative characters are much more multifaceted than positive characters.

Sosnovsky Sergey Valentinovich settled in Moscow. At first he lived in the hostel "Snuffbox". A year later, the theater management offered the actor to move to a separate apartment.

A. P. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater

After moving to the Moscow theater, the first play by Sergei Sosnovsky was The Cherry Orchard, he rehearsed in the second cast. Also, the actor was involved in the productions of "The Last Day of Summer or the Cultural Layer" and "Terrible Moon". Many fans were interested in how Sergei Sosnovsky felt in the new team. The actor gave a detailed interview in which he spoke about working at the Moscow Art Theater, about the routine, traditions and wages in thistheater. Over the years of work in Moscow, the actor managed to play in fourteen plays.

Sergei Sosnovsky: filmography

Despite the fact that Sosnovsky began his acting career at a very mature age, in his sixties he is more in demand than ever. In 2015, 4 films with the participation of Sergei are released: "Runaways", "All the best", "According to the laws of wartime" and "Method". The previous year was prolific, Sergei Sosnovsky played many roles. The actor shone in serials and films: "Gentlemen, comrades", "Clean water at the source", "Kuprin", "Kitchen", "At the bottom". In general, the new era has become very successful for Sergei Valentinovich in terms of creativity. He acts in at least three or four projects a year, and that's not counting theatrical productions.

Awards and nominations

The titanic work that Sergei Sosnovsky did during his life on stage could not go unnoticed by either critics or statesmen.

In 1993, Sergei Sosnovsky became an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

In 2000, the actor received the Golden Harlequin Award for Best Actor.

In 2004, Sosnovsky received the title of People's Artist of Russia.

In 2007, he won the "Seagull" award for the play "The Pillow Man".

In 2009 he won the Oleg Tabakov Charity Prize for creating the image in the play "The Pillow Man". In the same year, he received an award from the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" for the best male role in the play "The Elder Son".

Private life

How was the personal life of the actor? After all, such a busy work schedule often leaves no time for yourself. Nevertheless, Sergei Sosnovsky is married.

He prefers not to talk about his chosen one in the press. It is only known that his wife is a businesswoman, she runs her own travel agency in Saratov.

Because of moving to Moscow, the artist had to part with his wife so that she would settle things in her native Saratov. After the management of the theater offered Sergei Valentinovich full-fledged housing, and not a room in a hostel, his other half also moved to the capital.

The actor has two children. The daughter from her first marriage is also trying to build an acting career. The son works as an engineer and is not interested in theater.