What kind of girls do Grigory antipenko like. Grigory Antipenko: biography, personal life, family, wife, children - photo

Andrey Zhdanov is the character of Grigory Antipenko from the TV series Don't Be Born Beautiful, according to the actor, his complete opposite. The actor does not like to play himself in a movie, preferring to reveal his true self only to close people. In an interview with starstory.ru, Grigory spoke about friendship, the female ideal, and how easy it is to be a leader in the creative profession.

“In general, Andrei is a person diametrically opposed to me in spirit, in way of life and, in general, in everything,” says Grigory

Grigory, why usually, when a journalist goes to an interview with an actor, he thinks that they will start deceiving him now? During the interview, the actors also successfully enter the role, like in the movies, or do they remain themselves?

It's hard for me to talk about everyone. Personally, it’s easier for me to live in truth, otherwise it’s simply not interesting. But I have “wonderful friends” who have perfected this skill so much that they themselves are lost in communication with the press (smiles).

Is there such a thing as friendship at work, on the set?

Friendship for me is a very high concept. And the work is so short-term that it is not enough to get to know the person you met during the filming. I have good friends who could be friends, but I don't have friends as such.

During filming, various incidents happen all the time with artists ... Can you boast of this?

Brighter than my birthday, I can't remember. I was played by the chief director Alexander Nazarov. He made a huge scandal on the set, the shooting was on the verge of collapse. Everyone was called to the site: make-up artists, costume designers, screenwriters. I thought it was another director's nervous breakdown. He sat quietly on the sidelines, waiting for the end. At some point, the lights turned on, solemn music from the "Talisman of Love" played, and a cake with candles was brought out. It was only at that moment that I realized that this was a prank. I was very pleased.

“Ordinary professions do not interest me”

It's probably hard for an actor to be a leader. The profession is dependent, based on the suppression of self-esteem. Do you disagree with this?

In general, I am a leader by nature. And let me disagree with you. Our profession is unequivocally leadership, here you need aspiration. If a person begins to bend, then this all begins to manifest itself in work. I am a very independent person and I only compromise with the people I work with if they manage to convince me that they are right. Otherwise, I don’t let anyone down and behave as I see fit.

Are you saying you're a completely uncompromising person?

I used to be a very compromise person, even too soft-bodied. And they used it. It's bad, basically. Each person should have his own core, his own positions. Now I have a rather rigid position of my own. I am a very categorical person.

Is there a role you would never agree to play?

I don't really like roles with sexual perversions. If this is a comedy genre, then it is still possible. But most likely, he would have refused to play the dramatic role of a homosexual even for a large fee. It's not for me, I'm a natural person by nature.

Do you remember your very first fee?

It was an advertisement for MegaFon. There were absolutely no words. Some loving couple - I was the groom. A wordless happy story. However, I don't remember how much they paid me. But really, it's not that important. I came into this profession not because of money, but, first of all, because I like acting as a profession.

Now many actors have begun to receive a second reserve profession. Some go to producers, others to business... Have you thought about getting a second higher education?

I haven't played enough yet (smiles). I don't have the feeling that it is necessary to get something somewhere, look for some reserves. It is possible that in the future I will try myself as a director. In any case, I think it will be related to theater and cinema. Ordinary professions do not interest me. I tried enough of them before I got into the acting environment. I tried to learn all the professions, to know, to feel with my hands. I could return to any of them, another thing is that I do not want to do this. I'm sure this will never happen. The main thing is to move forward all the time, to do only what I have not tried yet. I believe that you cannot step into the same river twice.

In your environment, they say that the acting profession is unthinkable without doping. How do you think?

I generally have a very bad attitude to any doping. We were brought up in the Shchukin school in such a way that it is unnatural, abnormal, wrong. A person who cannot enter the court without doping is not a professional. In my life I do not drink, or do it very rarely, and I do not smoke. I was brought up that way.

How do you behave when fans recognize you on the street? Do you communicate with them?

I try to avoid such meetings on the street, I am an extremely private person. Never gravitated towards casual acquaintances. Moreover, if the initiative comes from the other side and this is a girl, it even repels me. I try to avoid such acquaintances.

“I don’t like it when people behave too violently and arrogantly”

Many men are afraid of being "together", some are afraid to get married. Have you never been afraid?

In general, marriage is a very serious step. I was already married. All this was quite chaotic and wrong, across my consciousness. I made this mistake when I was young, but I never regret anything in this life. All this was, this is my life.

What conclusions did you draw for yourself after your first marriage?

I learned a lot of useful things for myself. I will never take this step without getting to know the person well, without checking him with situations. What will i do? Open it completely.

How is your relationship with your ex-wife?

I have a wonderful relationship with her. Thank God it's all right. There are no obstacles in communication with the son, it is only welcome.

How much time do you spend with your son?

Unfortunately, very little - because of the busy work schedule. I hope that in the future this situation will change for the better.

Your son is very similar to you. The desire of many parents-actors to keep their children from this profession is quite justified. If your son decides to become an actor in the future, will you support him in this?

The women of our country fell in love with Grigory Antipenko after the release of the television series "Don't Be Born Beautiful", where he played the role of Andrei Zhdanov. His work in the theater and cinema arouses the interest of the public, each time the actor re-discovers himself to the audience.

We asked Grigory to talk about modern Russian cinema and the profession of an actor.

-What, in your opinion, is the reason for the success of the series “Don't Be Born Beautiful?”

At that time, not a single series in the dramedy genre had yet been shot in Russia, there was a dominance of bloody cinema everywhere. When the film "Don't Be Born Beautiful" was released, it was a direct hit. We managed to make a quality series, because everyone - actors, directors, cameramen - wanted to create. By the way, the main director Alexander Nazarov was my teacher at the Shchukin school. He is a talented teacher, an excellent director and artist. We believed that we could make a good movie, worked day and night. That is why the show has become so popular.

-Some praise TV series, others criticize. How do you feel about them?

I think serials are needed. This can be seen in the example of successful Western projects that bring creative and aesthetic pleasure to both the audience and the actors who play them. It is important that the creative process does not turn into a factory, that the shooting is not only for the sake of money. And now in our country there is just such a trend, so most of the Russian TV shows are failures. I hope that this period will pass, and in a few years we will be able to see good domestic films.

-What kind of films and performances do modern audiences need, in your opinion?

It seems to me that they are different. Now you can see a big stratification in our society. Previously, due to the total education of people, their desire for self-development, the public was intelligent. Great films have been made for her. Now only a small part of the audience perceives good cinema. But low-quality pictures are popular and have high ratings. I do not want to participate in such projects, to lower the bar.

I work for an intelligent viewer who is able to think, feel, empathize. I will not scold anyone, but the audience has become easier. So, as I said, films and performances should be different. When we play Orpheus and Eurydice, the audience sometimes freezes, and I don’t understand if this is good or bad. Not only they, but also we have lost the habit of high dramaturgy. People need to be taught good taste.

By the way, you played the main role in the play "Orpheus and Eurydice" staged by director Pavel Safonov. What are your impressions of this work?

Very good. "Orpheus and Eurydice" is a classic, thanks to which people think about their lives, about enduring values. The French playwright Jean Anouilh is a remarkable author. He transferred the plot of the ancient myth to the present and showed how hard it is to keep love in our world. We worked a lot on the play, correcting the shortcomings of the translation, which we did back in Soviet times. Another work in a similar style is Medea, which is also a play by Anouil. It is important that the performance is close and understandable to the public.

How is Russian cinema changing now?

Unfortunately, there are almost no old masters, and few young ones, and they cannot always realize themselves. Of course, there are very talented people, for example, director Alexander Chernykh. I have acted in his films. Once I listened to a radio program in which teachers of theater universities spoke. They said that now they enter creative specialties, mainly in order to earn good money. Previously, no one thought about it, everyone knew very well that in the cinema and theaters they pay little money. The exception was the stars who fell into the number of the elect. But it was tantamount to a lucky lottery ticket that no one really counted on. And now students say to teachers: “Why do we need “high matters”? Explain the basics, we'll do the rest ourselves." This is the wrong approach. Students should clearly understand why they came to the university and choose a profession not for the sake of money, but in order to realize their abilities. The main thing is that you like it! I think that over time the audience will get tired of low-quality movies, and the situation will change.

What is the most important thing in being an actor?

Remain yourself, do not lose moral principles and fortitude. You can not emasculate yourself, exchange for trifles. You need to respect the profession and the people for whom you work.

You go in for mountaineering, you have visited the Caucasus, the Tien Shan and other beautiful places. How does this passion affect your life?

For me, this is salvation. Sometimes I get tired of people, of our reality, and then I go to the mountains. I rest there, restore peace of mind. I need it. Climbing is great fun. I don’t set records, although I manage to do a lot. In the mountains you can meet smart, intelligent, educated people, their company is very pleasant. For the first time he climbed to a height of 7000 km. and I will definitely continue to conquer other peaks. I would like to go to the Pamirs, and then to the Himalayas.

- Do your relatives help you in work and in life?

They help a lot. Life is changeable, there are different periods in it. Therefore, family, children - this is what makes life worth living.

-What would you wish the readers?

It is very important not to lose yourself, your soul, and then everything will turn out well.

Alexandra NIKOLSKAYA (for the Plekhanov Studio magazine and the Exclusive edition).

Photo from the personal archive of Grigory Antipenko

Gregory was born into an intelligent family in Moscow. His mother worked as an engineer at Mosfilm, and it would seem that it was not difficult for a smart and artistic boy to get into the environment of filmmakers. However, until a certain age, he was not at all interested in the acting profession.

Despite the fact that the boy enjoyed going to the drama club at the nearest cultural center to his home, he will begin to believe in himself as an actor at a fairly adult age. From extracurricular activities, he liked karate more, the section of which he also attended.

But Grisha was seriously fascinated by biology. As a child, he begged his parents to buy an encyclopedia and began to learn the names of animals in Latin.

Along with biology, he also understood chemistry. In order not to waste time, the inquisitive boy finishes nine classes and submits documents to the pharmaceutical school.

After graduating from it and getting a job as a pharmacist, Antipenko was somewhat disappointed with the choice of profession: instead of interesting experiments and bright discoveries, he had to spend his days doing monotonous pharmacy work. In order not to get bored completely, the young man began to look for himself.

Following was a position in social structures, and then fate brought him to Mosfilm as a decorator. Gregory's hands made many copies of museum exhibits that appeared in films.

Solution

M+W (2009)

He was 22 when he first saw the theater from the back of the auditorium - he got a job at the Satyricon as a stage worker. For two years, the man watched how rehearsals were going on, performances were being prepared, and after seeing enough, he remembered his childhood passion and took preparatory courses at the theater studio of the Moscow Art Theater.

The changes in his son's life were most surprised by his father, who considered Gregory a man without emotional. But precisely in order to reveal new qualities and feelings in himself, he moved to a new stage in his life.

Gregory entered the "Pike". At the testing stage, someone from the selection committee asked why a young man at such an adult age decided to come to them? After all, becoming an actor, he actually changes his life. To which Antipenko replied: "One life is not enough for me." The committee liked this attitude.

Having already become famous, in one of the interviews, Gregory admits that it took him time to find his vocation. He advises all people not to stop at casual work and look for a job that will satisfy and delight. Let it happen in adulthood and let something have to give up to achieve it.

The actor himself, in search of a vocation, had to give up the comfort that money gives. Then he will become famous and will receive good fees. But, in order to enter the profession, learn and gain experience, he and his small family had to literally save on food.

Actor

Torgsin (2017)

And the first family of the actor appeared quite early. Even in his youth, he fell in love with a simple girl named Elena. They played a wedding, and soon the firstborn of Gregory, little Sasha, was born. In an official marriage, they lived for about seven years. But the first wife did not wait for the day when her husband woke up famous. They divorced before his finest hour.

The first film role went to Gregory when he was in his fourth year. It was the "Code of Honor" - a series in which the character of Antipenko is involved in several episodes. However, the debut took place.

While still a student, Grigory enters the Mayakovsky Theater and collaborates with the "Class Theater", and after graduation he is enrolled in the troupe of the capital's "Et cetera". He excelled in the dramatic arts. Moscow notices a new talented actor, but all-Russian fame will come to him only after a triumphant appearance on television.

Andrey Zhdanov

Don't be born beautiful (2005-2006)

The first autographs on the street Grigory began to give out after the role of the villain, brilliantly played in the Talisman of Love. And the casting in the series "Don't Be Born Beautiful" became fatal for him.

The successful adaptation of the Colombian series "I'm Betty the Ugly Girl" from the first episodes won the hearts of the audience and introduced them to a whole bunch of young and promising Russian artists. Among the performers of the main roles was Grigory Antipenko. He played an irresponsible young man who inherited the Zimaletto fashion house from his father.

The actor has repeatedly emphasized that he has little in common with his hero and it took him a long time to study the image. But Antipenko considered Zhdanov from all sides and was able to convey those of his character traits that he himself does not possess.

Handsome and heartthrob Andrey Pavlovich fell in love with the whole country, and in Ukraine the actor even received the people's award "TV Star" for the embodiment of an ambiguous hero. Gregory became a real favorite of the audience throughout the former USSR.

Julia

The set of "Don't Be Born Beautiful" brought the actor not only recognition, but also the love of the beautiful Yulia Takshina, who played a narrow-minded and cool bitch, a lover of money and a beautiful life, however, sometimes very charmingly comical - Andrey Zhdanov's secretary Victoria Klochkova.

The public whispered during the filming: Grisha and Yulia have an affair! They did not hide from anyone and soon began to live together. The couple was not going to marry, they were so good. In a civil marriage, two sons were born - Ivan and Fedor.

After six years of married life, the couple separated. Gregory, nevertheless, loves his children very much and continues to communicate with them. According to Takshina, the former common-law husband is involved in all significant issues related to the boys.

After a sharp turn in his professional life, Antipenko was called to work in many projects. At first, he really agreed to a variety of roles.

But today, more than a decade after the premiere of the first series of Don't Be Born Beautiful, the actor notes that there are very few good projects to which he is called. He almost does not act in films and devoted himself to the theater.

- Grigory, how did you react to the appointment of Oleg Menshikov to the post of artistic director of the Yermolova Theater?

“In any case, this is a positive move. I don’t know what kind of artistic director Oleg Menshikov will be, but there is hope that he will be a good one: he is a responsible person ...

- As far as I know, you are always extremely careful about the choice of roles ...

- Indeed, I do not agree to all the roles, and this applies to the theater in the first place. For me personally, the theater is a temple, a place of confession. If there is no topic in the work that affects me, so that I want to tell the audience about it, I will not go to this production. In general, there are a lot of conditions under which I either fit in or don't fit in. In "Odessa 913" I liked the atmosphere, despite the fact that the Yermolova Theater is not yet very promoted and is slightly forgotten by the state. Here the actors really want to work. All significant projects are formed for me already traditionally unexpectedly, they literally fall from the sky, and Odessa 913 is no exception. The project began with another actor, my classmate Alexander Ustyugov. They rehearsed for a month, but then Sasha refused to participate due to personal circumstances. They began to look for a replacement and eventually remembered that there is such a well-known guy for Rodion Yuryevich as his student Grigory Antipenko. I read the material, talked to the director and felt that I could try, take a chance and start rehearsing. In general, I am very grateful to Rodion Yurievich for this role. Such offers are not rejected.

- You came to the theatrical world as an adult, an established person - this rarely happens at acting departments. What was it like for you to study among, you might say, children who had just graduated from school?

- I had a rather tough upbringing in the family - I am not a spoiled person. I was taught to do everything on my own and be completely autonomous. It was not easy to study with another generation. Of course, I made allowances for the fact that about ten years ago it was the same. But in general it is difficult with people who think differently due to age, it is not easy to find common interests and contacts. In my opinion, I was the oldest not only on the course, but also among all the students of "Pike" at that time. I almost fraudulently entered the school, saying that I was twenty-two years old, and I was already twenty-four. I revealed this secret to Ovchinnikov only in my fourth year. But in some ways I was lucky - I had a huge worldly experience, it was not difficult for me to come up with sketches, and my young classmates poked around, invented plots from their heads, tried to look for something in books.

Is theater more important to you than cinema?

The theater is the main thing, I think. There are, of course, unique examples when people did without the theater and became, in general, good movie actors, and went on to the end all their lives, but there are only a few of them. All the same, a person must feed somewhere, try somewhere, build muscle creative mass somewhere ... Even if you are filming all the time, and, God forbid, if you are offered different roles. But more often than not, directors don’t do this, you exist in one form that they use. Theater is an opportunity to try yourself in different genres, other incarnations. It is a great happiness when you meet a good director who begins to discover in you new facets of your abilities and possibilities that you do not know about. So far, thank God, I'm lucky with this. I play only the main roles and grow up on very good material.

- Are there any limits for what is permitted on the stage, on the screen?

- I don't like obscene things, it annoys me. In my opinion, art, with the exception of some behind-the-scenes experiments, should be limited by the boundaries of morality. Art allows, thanks to various creative forms and solutions, to embody certain scenes in some other way, not directly, not through undressing and shocking. When there was censorship and other restrictions, we made great movies. It still remains so, you don’t want to close your eyes in front of the screen and squeeze into a chair. Perhaps it's just me who feels this way, but it seems to me that it's wrong when everything is possible. In any case, I will not take part in this, for me there are clear boundaries that I do not cross. Everything should be beautiful in all respects - both spiritually and visually. "Beauty will save the world" - this is my attitude towards art.

- Beauty is clearly not enough now, there is much more outrageous ...

- What do these people want, who today have filled an impressive territory in art, what position do they choose? Capture a large audience of young people, attract to this outrageous? Earn more money? Is this the goal of the masters who undertake this? And then where? To belittle and lower everyone to the level of hell and tumble there? This is definitely not mine ... Now is such a stupid time that many artists, gaining fame, turn off their brains and turn into some kind of incomprehensible characters, inflate like soap bubbles, doing something incomprehensible. It usually doesn't end well.

- Andrey Mironov. For me, he is the absolute epitome of an actor with positive energy, with positive aspirations. Absolutely all of his work - dramatic, comedy - all his roles are aimed at creation. You cry, laugh, but these are all genuine emotions, the soul is cleansed of them and it becomes easier to live. For me, Mironov is the ideal actor. Another thing is that it is impossible to learn this, it is either there or it is not. I love many directors: early Mikhalkov, Tarkovsky, Danelia, and many others. It’s just that now the “old people” would be better off not filming anything. Now there is some kind of stagnation, there are no big directors in the theater either - everyone is living out against the backdrop of former victories. And our best television programs are based on retro, because they themselves can’t think of anything, they don’t have talent, but they want to earn money as soon as possible, weaken something, repeat, get money and go to the Bahamas.

Speaking of the Bahamas. How do you feel about the revival of social activity of Russians?

- I have a positive attitude. Another thing is that I myself could not participate because of employment. It is good that something has begun to happen here, because it is quite obvious that the authorities have outlived their usefulness, after endless beautiful words, one wants some kind of deed. When you learn this truth from those who know the real truth of the state of our affairs, your hair stands on end. Thank God, the country has not yet been completely sold out, everything is somehow still holding on, but on the verge. But I do not see a person yet who could come and be a good alternative to all this.

– What if you had the opportunity to somehow influence the situation?

- I definitely won’t get into politics - this is a dirty business, even good people “grind” there. How to defeat this system? Don't know. I hope that people will have a desire to serve, and not to earn, because they are already infinitely rich. I wonder when they will stop stealing? Do they really not have a desire to create something, at least build a house so that the sign hangs, and everyone admired him and said that this house was built by such and such a person ... Now such a time without a hero. People do not want to stay forever, but they want to have time to live sweeter, such a wild desire to grab more in their short life. It is strange that people who have such an opportunity every day cannot get enough: five, ten, twenty cars, houses all over the world, but you cannot live everywhere and use everything at the same time. Stop already, do something for the country, do it in such a way as to remain in the memory of the people as a good, decent person. Now it is impossible to say about a single politician that he is decent. All are frank businessmen who always have a way out, for example, somewhere in England. At any moment they will flutter and fly, and rather build a mansion there ...

- Would you like your children to become actors?

- Sasha, my eldest son, wants to, but I dissuade him in every possible way, I say: “Learn everything for now, it may come in handy later.” Actor's bread is stale. Here, nothing is poured into anyone, there is no absolute happiness, immediately after the rise, if not a fall, then disappointment, a desire to leave the profession. If you're not ready enough for it, it's easy to slip. Stay afloat and be true to your profession and your moral path ... Here you need to have character in order to become someone, otherwise what's the point?