Vitaly Kovalenko: biography, personal life, roles and films, photos

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Kovalenko Vitaly is a famous and honored artist of cinema and theater. Success and popularity came to a talented actor from Kazakhstan after he successfully played Napoleon himself in the serial film "Adjutants of Love". But in the cinematic and theatrical piggy bank of the actor there are a huge number of roles, both episodic and main ones.

Childhood

Kovalenko Vitaly was born in early 1974 in Kazakhstan. Pavlodar became his hometown. His parents had nothing to do with the theater, so no one even thought that Vitaly could become an actor.

Passion for theater

It is known that even in his school years Vitaliy Kovalenko became interested in theater. Parents did not share such a passion for their son, but still hoped that over time it would pass. Therefore, they did not interfere with their son, although they dreamed that in the future he would enter either a medical or a polytechnic institute.

Vitaly Vladimirovich in his school years was an active participant in the theater studio "Debut". He secretly dreamed that he would go totheater university, although his teacher Vyacheslav Petrov did not recommend it to him, since in this profession everything is always ambiguous and difficult.

Education

Despite the uncertainty about whether to choose an acting profession or not, Vitaly Kovalenko immediately after graduation goes with his friends to St. Petersburg to pass exams in the theater.

But he and his six friends were late for their exams, so they decided to enter Yekaterinburg. Alas, the future actor Vitaly Vladimirovich Kovalenko failed the exams. Therefore, the next year he was preparing for admission and worked. At first, he combined visiting performances and participating in theatrical extras with the work of a driver, and then began to work at a thermal power plant and even at a furniture factory.

And exactly one year later, the future actor successfully passed the exams and became a student at the theater institute in Yekaterinburg. By this time, parents had already come to terms with this choice of their son and even helped him. It is known that in 1996 Vitaly Kovalenko, whose personal life is always interesting to the audience, graduated from a theater university and received an actor's diploma. From that time on, his theatrical career began to take shape.

The beginning of a theatrical career

For the first time on the stage, Vitaly Kovalenko, an actor whom no one knew at that time, came out as a student. He was in his third year, when he had to pass tests on excerpts from the works of Russian classics. Vitaly Vladimirovich in the play "UncleVanya" played Astrov.

Already in his fourth year, he participated in two theatrical productions of the Yekaterinburg Academic Drama Theater, since at that time he also collaborated with the Masks Theater. Just one year after graduation, he worked in this theater, and then moved to Novosibirsk.

Work at the Red Torch Theater

In 1997, Vitaly moved to Novosibirsk, as he was invited by friends, and got a job at the Red Torch Theater. His first debut in this theater was participation in the musical Hello, Dolly. But in the future he played many roles. This is Khlestakov in the play "The Inspector General", and Cherub in the theatrical production of "Zoyka's Apartment" and others.

Work at the Alexandrinsky Theater

In 2002, Vitaly Kovalenko, whose films the whole country knows and loves, moves to St. Petersburg, as he is invited to work at the Alexandrinsky Theater. But this decision was not easy for him. Not only friends remained in Novosibirsk, but also directors who constantly gave him roles.

Therefore, for the first seven years, Vitaly Vladimirovich regretted leaving the theater in Novosibirsk. Everything had to start over: to win the trust and respect of not only colleagues and directors, but also the love of the audience.

In this theater, Vitaly Vladimirovich also played many roles. So, in the theatrical production of "The Miserly Knight" he played Albert, a cynical military man in the theatrical production of "Man=", and in the play "The Seagull" he gotthe role of Shamaev. Despite the fact that this role is episodic, and the actor only needed to appear on stage four times, he still had to change clothes three times.

At present, the talented film actor is still working at the Alexandrinsky Theater, and is also actively collaborating with the Bryantsev Youth Theater in St. Petersburg and a branch of the Meyerhold Center.

Film career

Vitaly Kovalenko, whose filmography is diverse and wide, began acting in films in 2001. In the serial film "NLS Agency" he successfully played the role of a chemist. But still, the first cinematic project where he got one of the main male roles was the serial film "Adjutants of Love", which was released in 2005. In this film about the most interesting historical events, Vitaly Vladimirovich plays Napoleon. The protagonist is Pyotr Cherkasov, who founded military intelligence and is doing a great job with the difficult task of maintaining peace between France and Russia.

While the shooting of this film was going on, the talented actor had to constantly travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow, so he had practically no time to rest. And if there was a free minute, then Vitaly Vladimirovich tried to study archival documents about Napoleon in order to get to know him better and play him more believably.

By the way, such knowledge about the famous Napoleon later came in handy in 2013, when he played him in the famous TV series Vasilisa. In 2016, he starred in the film What they are silent aboutFrench, where he also played Napoleon. Both the directors and the audience find a great resemblance between the actor and his hero.

But the actor played a variety of roles. You can see in the photo of Vitaliy Kovalenko in the movie "Battalion" (2015). In addition, many other heroes were played by a talented actor. His characters can be found in the films "Sea Devils", where he played Sergei Maly, in the film "Palm Sunday" and others. The talented actor starred not only in historical films, but also in crime series and military dramas.

In 2007, Vitaly Vladimirovich played a major role in the film "Attempt to Escape". His hero Mikhail Melnikov liked and fell in love with the audience. This was followed by the film "State Defense". Today, his cinematographic collection contains more than 40 films, where his characters are not only historical figures and law enforcement officers, but also complex psychological characters that require understanding and reflection.

No less interesting is his role in the film "Ladoga", which was released in 2013. In this tragic tape, he played the foreman of drivers who took people and children out of besieged Leningrad. He returned to the topic of Leningrad, but already post-war, already in the film "Leningrad 46" directed by Igor Koltsov. In this serial film, he played the journalist Sergei Kvaskov.

According to the plot of the film, which was released in 2015, crime has increased in a city that has recently experienced terrible and tragic events. This film is about people who tried to fight againstcriminals and tried to restore order in the city, not sparing their own lives.

In 2017, Vitaly Vladimirovich Kovalenko starred in the famous mystical film “Gogol. The Beginning, directed by Yegor Baranov. In the film, built on the plot of the famous work of Nikolai Gogol, the talented actor successfully played the investigator Kovleisky.

Trotsky series

In 2007, the serial film "Trotsky" directed by Konstantin Statsky and Alexander Kott was released, where Vitaly Kovalenko plays Pyotr Stolypin. This film tells about what historical events took place in the twentieth century. But still, the basis of the plot is a story about the biography of the revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky and how he influenced the course of historical events.

The plot of the film takes the viewer to 1940, where on the eve of the war in the Mexican capital of Mexico City, a journalist visits Trotsky's secretary. After the first meeting, Trotsky did not like Frank Jackson. But soon Lev Davidovich begins to tell a journalist about his life, about its main events. These fragmentary memories form the plot of the entire film.

Vitaly Kovalenko: personal life, family

Talented actor Vitaly Vladimirovich Kovalenko does not like to talk about his personal life. But still it is known that he is married and his marriage is happy. His wife has nothing to do with cinema and theater. Nothing is known about the children of the actors.

IfVitaly Vladimirovich has free time, then he tries to spend it with his family. All the photos that are available on the Internet show only his professional activities, and the actor's personal life is closed.