The biography of Kalyagin actor

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Truly popular love brought the artist the role of Babs Baberlea in the famous lyrical comedy “Hello, I'm your aunt! In the year, the artistic director of the Moscow Theater ET Cetera and the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia turned 80 years old. Parents were teachers at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, which at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War evacuated to the town of Malmyzh, the Kirov region, where the boy was born.

Alexander Kalyagin in childhood Alexander Georgievich died when his son was not even a year old, Julia Mironovna, who moved back to the capital, took care of him. They helped her raise Sasha Aunts. Remembering childhood, Kalyagin said: My poor mother! How did she get from me, I was uncontrollable. He hated the drill, who was at school, he loved some objects, but hated some.

The German caused special hatred, although my mother knew six foreign languages. Mom stubbornly tried to make a violinist out of him, although once a wayward Sasha in protest sat on the violin and crushed. At seven years old, Alexander knew that he wanted to become an artist when he grows up, and, according to him, "built his life as a theater." I must say that there was enough cunning: when necessary, it became extremely quiet, when it was profitable for me, it was naughty.

My mimicry was very inventive. And even then there was an acting game. Mom loved me very much, and she invited a carpenter who made me a small model of the theater. Sasha’s mother was a very talented teacher and understood that her son was psychologically difficult at school. Therefore, at the family council it was decided that after the eighth grade, the young man would enter the medical school in order to get a “real” profession.

Alexander Kalyagin in his youth and, meanwhile, he wrote a letter full of grammatical errors to Arkady Raikin, in which he spoke about his dream. Arkady Isaakovich answered the teenager: “Sasha, I believe in labor. What is work? Labor is the basis of everything for me ... ". Kalyagin carefully kept his letter all his life, and in the year he read his Raikin personally during the Theater Meetings.

Alexander Kalyagin reads the answer of Arkady Raikin to his letter and yet the guy succumbed to his mother’s persuasion and graduated from a medical school in the specialty “Obstetro”. For two years he worked as an ambulance paramedic, where he saw life from the inside and gained invaluable experience. True, the study was given to Kalyagin with difficulty, he was almost expelled from the second year.

But the rector Boris Zakhava saw in the student creative potential he played a scene in front of him about three stages of intoxication and left him to study further. Alexander Kalyagin at the Medical School of Theater Activities for the fourth course, Alexander was already one of the best graduates when, among other novice actors, he was invited to serve in the theater of drama and comedy on Taganka, led by Yuri Lyubimov.

Alexander Kalyagin in the play “Seagull” this later “Taganka” will become legendary, but in the year the Khudruk was just starting his experiments. His impulsiveness and unpredictability boiled from the theater of many talented artists, Kalyagin did not escape this either. The then director Nikolai Lupak spoke much later: he acted with Sasha at all disgusting. Kalyagin played Galileo in line with Vysotsky.

I once ask for six passes for friends from the film group. 20 minutes before the performance, Lyubimov flies to me: “Put Vysotsky, I called him, he is already approaching” - “But Kalyagin plays today” - “And I said Vysotsky! Half an hour later, Alexander Alexandrovich laid a statement about leaving on the table. After the incident, Kalyagin moved to the service of the theater named after Maria Ermolova, where Poprishchina brilliantly played in the “Notes of the Madman”, but he did not stay there for a long time.

In the year, Kalyagin founded and headed his own et Cetera theater. He often explained his decision, including this: I do not want to throw stones at Efremov, my teacher. I love him and respect him. But it seems to me that it all started with the section of the theater. Destroyed, but did not create anything in return. If you want, you don’t want, the Moscow Art Theater was then the first theater of the country.

The most powerful directors put it. This is a very sick conversation. The actors began to leave, conflict with Efremov many of my performances shot. I almost stayed with one performance then. And suddenly, overnight, I realized that I was sitting at a broken trough, that I was without my favorite business, I decided that I needed to communicate only with the young.

Somehow he immediately perked up, and they believed in me. For several years, Kalyagin rented various rooms, and in the year settled on New Arbat. Ten years later, he built a new building for the theater. At his opening, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his opening. During the existence, many prime ministers were released in ET Cetera, the director of some of them was Alexander Alexandrovich himself, for example, the play “Faces” based on the stories of Anton Chekhov, “suppress and excite” according to the work of Maxim Kurochkin.

Cinema filmography of Alexander Kalyagin has more than a hundred roles, many of which have become a living classic.The debut in the cinema was the role in the film "Nikolai Bauman", which was released in the year.

Alexander Kalyagin in the film "Nikolai Bauman" The most famous images by the actor were created in the seventies and eighties. Alexander Kalyagin in the film “Slave of Love” but the All -Union love of the audience received the character Babs Baberle. This tramp from the tragicomedy “Hello, I'm your aunt! But after the film was released, it was impossible to present someone in this role except Kalyagin.

Alexander Alexandrovich brilliantly played the school teacher Mikhail Platonov in the “Unfinished play for the mechanical piano”, Pavel Chichikov in Dead Souls, Peter Polorlov in the film “Old New Year”, Aesop in the picture of the same name. Alexander Kalyagin in the film “Old New Year”, the nineties and the beginning of the two thousandth brought Kalyagin a few more bright roles.

Alexander Kalyagin in the series “Poor Nastya” since the year, the People's Artist of Russia is the permanent chairman of the Union of Theater Workers, there was almost no time left for filming in the cinema. Alexander Kalyagin in the film "Rud and Sam" in the year was released the last at the moment of the picture with the participation of Kalyagin. In the company of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, he appeared in the adventure comedy “Rud and Sam”, after which he stopped accepting offers on filming.

The actor believes that for the cinema he did everything he could. The personal life of Alexander Kalyagin for the first time Alexander married the second year of the institute. His chosen one was Tatyana Korunova. Two students-actors had no weddings, their own housing too. The newlyweds settled in the parental apartment of Kalyagin. Alexander Kalyagin with his first wife and daughter Family life took shape happily.

They played together in the Taganka Theater and left there from there, their daughter Ksenia was born in the year. Nothing portended trouble until Tatyana Fedorovna in a matter of months was burned from cancer. She was gone in the year, and after 11 months, Alexander was waiting for another blow - his mother passed away. He remained a widower with a child in his arms, on the nervous ground he began to eat a lot, and was fat.

Five years after the death of our wife, we lived with my daughter together. I swore then: “I will put Ksyushka on my feet, no matter what it costs. So that at least Tatyana was not ashamed. ” For five years they lived alone and Ksenia, to bring someone else's woman to their house with Tatyana, Kalyagin seemed blasphemy. But when, on the set of the “unfinished play for a mechanical piano,” Alexander met actress Yevgeny Glushenko, thoughts about a new family began to appear more often.

Kalyagin dared to make the woman a proposal only after Ksyusha he herself stated that he wanted the “Aunt Zhenya” to move to them with dad. In the year, Kalyagin and Glushenko got married, and their son Denis was born in the year. Alexander Kalyagin and Evgenia Glushenko with children Ksenia with children and husband now lives in America, she is a programmer. Denis graduated from the prestigious American school "George-Skul", became a journalist.

The marriage of actors who seemed strong for many years has been under threat more than once. The whole reason was a series of rumors about Kalyagin's love of love. In the year, information appeared that Glushenko and Kalyagin divorced, but there were no official evidence of these rumors. He remains the artistic director of the Moscow Theater ET Cetera and the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia.

In the year, Alexander Kalyagin, despite health problems in the fall, the actor fell into the cardiology department of one of the capital's clinics, Alexander Alexandrovich admitted in an interview that he did not feel the severity of the lived years and continues creative activities both on the stage of the theater and on the radio, where he conducts the author’s "Eviches of the theater" with Alexander Kalyagin.

" In the theater repertoire of the actor - the roles in the productions of "Examiner. Version "," Faces ". Interesting facts in his youth, Alexander Kalyagin, became a habit of keeping a personal diary. If at first these were maximalist notes with a claim that his “brilliant records” will read the descendants, then the actor later began to record thoughts about the characters that he played on stage and in the cinema.

He analyzed the roles, thought over the image, drawn details and nuances. Kalyagin confessed to one of the interviews that working on the image of the leader of the revolution, a whole dissident Antilentine Likbez was held: “After all, my family was repressed. I am half a Jew, along my mother. The uncle at Stalin sat down, the whole family suffered this hard. Mom was always afraid of everything.

” The actor experienced real horror when the play “So we will win!