Actress Svetlana Kozhemyakina: about roles and about life

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Svetlana Kozhemyakina is a Belarusian theater and film actress. Represents the Belarusian Theatre. I. Kupala. A native of Minsk, at this time, entered 43 cinematic works into her professional list, including roles in such well-known serial television projects as The Eighties, Vangelia, Summer of the Wolves, Fartsa. At the dawn of her career, she portrayed Masha's friend in the 2001 TV series Quick Help 2. She worked in the frame with the following actors: Oleg Tkachev, Tamara Mironova, Anatoly Golub, Andrey Dushechkin, Alesya Pukhova, Evgeny Nikitin and others. The most productive period of her work falls on 2011-2013. The repertoire of the Belarusian actress includes films of the following genres: melodrama, military, drama. Photos of Svetlana Kozhemyakina and information about her life and work are posted below.

Biography

She was born on April 8, 1976 in the Belarusian city of Minsk. Svetlana's parents were from a working environment. The future actress lost her mother very early, she was raised by her father, whoI had to work long and hard at that time so that the family lived in abundance. From a very young age, she dreamed of acting in films and entering the theater stage, but as a child, she did not fully understand how to become an artist.

Having received a certificate of secondary education, Svetlana Kozhemyakina entered the faculty of screenwriting at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, having managed to get married by that time. Svetlana says that she was very surprised by her husband, who returned from a trip to Europe, when she announced to him that she was moving from the faculty of screenwriting to acting. She notes at the same time that other relatives and friends were shocked by her sudden "retraining".

Movie career

At first, the Belarusian actress starred almost exclusively in domestic projects, occasionally portraying the heroines of the episode in Russian TV series. A chance helped her to get the main role in the Russian-made television serial film "Divination by Candlelight". According to Svetlana Kozhemyakina, before the filming of this television movie, which was carried out in Minsk, it turned out that the Russian actress appointed to play the role of Lyudmila would not be able to take part in this project due to illness. A casting was urgently organized, at which all local actresses of the age suitable for this role were viewed. The organizers of this review then considered Svetlana the most worthy candidate. The actress recalls that she was immensely happy when she was approved for the lead role in this series.

Big role

After the shooting of the above-mentioned series, the actress was approached by producer Anatoly Chizhikov and told Svetlana Kozhemyakina that he had conceived a project about the opera and invited her to come to Moscow when the casting of the film begins to participate in it. Svetlana says that she did not take this proposal seriously, believing that it then “just came to the word.”

But soon she received the script for this picture, and then a telephone conversation took place with representatives of the film company, who asked her to come to participate in the selection for the role of one of the main characters. The casting took place, but Svetlana was approved for the role only two months later, when it turned out that she “looks good” in a duet with actor Sergei Puskepalis. Thus, she managed to join the actors of the Witness Protection project.

Family

Actress Svetlana Kozhemyakina says that one of the children's roles in the "Protection of Witnesses" was offered to be played by her son Matvey, who at that time was 8 years old. According to her, Matvey really liked it in St. Petersburg, where the shooting of the series took place. In their free time, Svetlana and her son took boat trips and watched bridges being built. The Belarusian actress noted that, despite the fact that her son received a fee for his first acting job and bought a designer with this money, he is not going to connect his life with cinema yet. He is fond of drawing and aspires to become either an engineer or an architect, which Svetlanaonly pleases.