Anastasia Vertinsky biography

Born on December 19 in Moscow. Anastasia Vertinskaya was born on December 19 in Moscow in the family of the famous performer chanson Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky. Mother is Lidia Vladimirovna Tsiggvava, an artist and a film actress. She has an older sister Marianna Vertinskaya, also an actress. Parents tried to give their daughters the best education, while making special emphasis in music and studying foreign languages.

As the actress noted, she had an “almost mystical connection” with her father. She recalled how, on the day of the very last concert of Vertinsky in Leningrad, a call rang out in the house in the house in the house. And my mother sat down to wait for her to be connected with Leningrad and she would talk to her dad: the time was already evening, after the concert.

After this fateful day, which became the strongest shock of her whole life, Vertinskaya did not leave that his father was invisibly nearby. Anastasia Vertinskaya in childhood with her father and sister in childhood Anastasia Vertinskaya wanted to become a ballerina, but she was not taken to the ballet troupe, recognizing "too large girl." Anastasia Vertinskaya in the cinema then she decided to devote her life to foreign languages, but everything changed in the year when she came to the director Alexander Ptushko, who searched the main role in the film “Scarlet Sails”.

She was in a sports suit with a short haircut and at first the director was about to refuse her sample. Only after the Vertinskaya was selected a long wig and changed her in a dress, Ptushko allowed to take several pictures, appreciated the expressiveness of the appearance of a fifteen -year -old schoolgirl and approved her for the role of Assol in the film, where Vasily Lanova, Ivan Pereverzev, Sergey Martinson, Oleg Anofriev also starred.

The actress became a star. Anastasia Vertinskaya subsequently said that she hated the film “Scarlet Sails” for making it famous and deprived of the opportunity to calmly go shopping ”, but always spoke with great warmth about his partner on the set - Vasily Lanova. As Chebotarev said, when assistants throughout the Soviet Union were looking for actors for the main roles, he gave them an attitude: "Guttiere should have the sky, and Ichthyander - the sea." Anastasia Vertinskaya satisfied this criterion and was invited to the role of the main character.

Having abandoned the understudy, she swam in icy water, dived without an aqualanga and could be in the depths for a long time. True, the film found critics who were outraged that the heroine appears too often in a swimsuit and changes the dress in every episode. And, of course, the film strengthened the status of Anastasia Vertinskaya as an ascending star of Soviet cinema.

The actress herself said that she treats the tape condescendingly, as the first acting experience: “I laugh at the image with tenderness and warmth and make discounts on age. I look at the film how they look at children's photos, where there is teenage absurdity. ” Anastasia Vertinskaya in the film "Ampibbum Man" in the year Anastasia Vertinskaya, who had not yet had theatrical education, was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Theater named after Pushkin.

The young actress toured a lot and traveled the whole country as part of the acting brigades. In the year, Vertinskaya entered the Higher Theater School named after B. There, by this time, the older sister of Marianne was already studying. Anastasia failed in the entrance exams, but the teacher agreed to resolve the re -examination “only out of respect” to her roles in the cinema.

Sister's friend Lyudmila Maksakova helped the famous applicant to prepare an entrance repertoire, and the second attempt was successful. Meanwhile, student Anastasia Vertinskaya was at the center of universal attention. And although she always behaved very worthy and restrained, for everyone she was a man who is located God knows where. She understood that she was intense interest in her: a mixture of envy with reverence, ”recalled Nikita Mikhalkov, her future husband.

Some woman was not quite normal behind her, which poured sand into her eyes, ”said Marianna's sister. But the actor Alexander Kalyagin recalled the guy who "ran after her at the audience with a knife, threatened to slaughter her and commit suicide." Also, public attention from students to Vertinskaya was attracted because of her special creative approach to study. Everyone fled Vertinskaya will play now!

The fact is that the actress, ignoring the requirements of teachers, in particular, Shikhmatov, who threatened with deuces, “always wanted to be someone who was not in reality. I started something endlessly, not corresponding to my role. ” Vertinskaya played Ophelia here - the role that many actresses dreamed of - and, still a student of the theater university, created, as experts noted, a bright and impressive image.

Anastasia Vertinskaya said that work in Gamlet became for her, on the one hand, a serious test, on the other - a real school of acting. She gave her a lot of joint work with I. Then I realized that the profession of an actor is not only a craft, but also some sacrament, ”said the actress.The film, which received numerous awards, in particular, a special prize of the jury of the Venetian Film Festival, brought Vertinsky international fame, it began to be called "the most talented heart of Soviet cinema", "Vivien Lee of the Soviet screen." Anastasia Vertinskaya in the film "Hamlet" at the same time for four years of study at the Schukinsky school did not play a single "heroine".

The dream came true only in the year, when the Vertinskaya, to her delight, got the role of Olivia in the play “Twelfth Night” by Peter James, the chief director of the Sheffield Theater. After Hamlet, Vertinskaya became one of the most popular actresses of Soviet cinema. While still a student of the B. Theater School named after B., an inexpensive, limited woman.

Lovely, pretty, cozy. Perhaps she was alive, we would not love her. After all, she was the wife of Prince Andrei, and what is she next to him? .. I think their paths would still be dispersed, they were too different. But Lisa died. And in the soul of Prince Andrei, this dumb, the tragic question remained for life: “Why? For what? Why did the man die? When starring in the War and the World, I realized that it was possible, without playing the tragedy, to create an image of a tragic sound, ”Vertinskaya said about the role of Lisa Bolkonskaya.

Anastasia Vertinskaya in the film "War and Peace", among the Vertinsky that time highly marked by the film criticism of the work of the Vertinskaya, is also the role of Kiti Shcherbatsky "Anna Karenina", Olga Borisovna "Premature Man", dir. Sakharov, according to K. Simonov, the same name, which the actress herself later called, along with Mona and Olivia, among her three most beloved.

Success had the film “Do not grieve! Director George Danelia, as he himself recalled, inviting the role of Mary, Dr. Levan Tsintsadze Vertinskaya, was not guided by the fact that her mother was a Georgian. When they sat down on the script, then, from the first page, they knew that Mary would play Vertinskaya. Because the heroine was supposed to be beautiful, aristocratic.

And this is Nastya, ”he said. She spent the season in the theater. Vakhtangov, and in the year went to the Contemporary Theater, where she worked for up to a year. In “Contemporary”, the Ranevskaya “Cherry Orchard” by A. Chekhov, Valentine Valentine and Valentine M. Roshchin, later - Olivia “Twelfth Night” William Shakespeare was her key roles. A. Vertinskaya called Oleg Efremova as her teacher in the theater.

Together, they worked in the theater for a total of twelve years - first in the "Contemporary", then in the Moscow Art Theater. Work in Tartuf, according to Moliere in the Moscow Art Theater Standing A., became the stage achievement of Vertinskaya. Efros of her Elmir was aesthetically highlighted, as "a lady from the famous French tapestries or paintings of Watto, inaccessible in her incredible beauty and grace." Efros, admiring Vertinskaya’s work in Tartuf, offered her to choose from any of the twelve plays - the actress preferred Shakespeare's “storm”.

Experts also praised her Lisa Protasova “Living Corpse” by L. Gelman, Pat “Pearl Zinaida” M. Then the film “Man is in its place” dir. Sakharov, then - a six -year pause. One of the most noticeable works of the actress in the cinema in the years was the role of Mona in Mikhail Kozakov’s television movie “Nameless Star” based on the play of the Romanian playwright Mikhail Sebastian.

He gave several scenes to us, and we also knew them and played them, ”recalled her partner Igor Kostolevsky. Vertinskaya played Jamma. In the title role, Andrei Kharitonov debuted here, who later took off the Vertinskaya as a director in the “Libra of Passion”. Vertinskaya played the main role here, and I. In the year, A. Vertinskaya played two unusual negative roles for herself: the duchess “inherited” from the mother “Life of Don Quixote and Sancho” and Morgan “New Adventures of the Yankee at the court of King Arthur”.

A peculiar contrast was the “stormy-comic” role of the “foolish mother” played by her in the film “In Sochi Dark Nights” director V. Vertinskaya wrote the play “Mirage, or the Road of the Russian Pierrot” according to the memoirs of her father, set it on stage and herself played the role of Alexander Vertinsky in a performance, dedicated to the laying of the Great Counteum.

With the beginning of the perestroika, Vertinskaya, as she later recalled, was filled with a common “spirit of freedom”, especially since she was, according to her, “genetically intended for an independent existence”. In the year, Anastasia Vertinskaya was offered to teach acting at Oxford University. She agreed and worked for the next 12 years with interruptions abroad. After Oxford in Paris, Vertinskaya for a long time, together with Alexander Kalyagin, led a master class in the Comedy Frances and Chekhovsky School, also taught at the Swiss "School of European Cinema".

The students set with a group of students as a result of a three -month daily teaching performance “Chekhov. In the year, the directorial debut of Andrei Kharitonov “Thirst for Passion” based on the works of V. Bryusov, where A.