Alexander Zbruev: short biography

Alexander Zbruev is familiar to every spectator of our vast country. His role is still pleasing to us. But still many people tend to regard his work as Ganji's "Big Change". Zbruev is open to new projects and with unshakable firmness defends his personal life. A brief biography of the actor is presented in this article.

Childhood and youth

Alexander Viktorovich - the native Muscovite. He was born here in March 1938. His mother, Tatyana Fedorova, came from a noble family, which was known even under Peter the Great. His father, Viktor Alekseevich, the actor has never seen. Even before the birth of Alexander, Zbruev, the former chief of one of the departments of the People's Commissariat for Communications, was arrested and six months later he was shot on charges of participating in a counterrevolutionary organization.

When Alexander was only a month and a half, he and his mother were deported from Moscow to Rybinsk, where they lived for five years. They managed to return to the apartment on the Arbat only at the height of the Great Patriotic War (in 1943). By that time, five-roomed housing had become a communal apartment.

Alexander has an older brother Eugene (from his mother's first marriage). He lived all this time in the same apartment.

Tatyana Alexandrovna, who once received an acting education, worked at the film factory. Tchaikovsky and had a circle of interesting acquaintances. One of them played a crucial role in Zbruev's life. After leaving school, in which he studied not very diligently, Alexander was at a crossroads. He seriously engaged in sports (boxing, gymnastics), but humanitarian inclinations were quite bright. No wonder the peers gave him the nickname of the Intelligent.

On the advice of Nadezhda Vakhtangova, mother's friend, Alexander Zbruev goes to the theater school for a course to V. Etush. This occurs in 1958. Immediately after graduation in 1961, he was taken to the Theater. Leninist Komsomol, where Alexander Viktorovich successfully works to this day.

Film career

After some time after graduation, there was a film debut. It was the film "My younger brother," where actor Alexander Zbruev starred with such great artists as Andrei Mironov and Oleg Dal.

In the filmography of the actor, there are sixty works of art. The most vivid images were created by Zbruev in the paintings "Big Change", "Romance of the Lovers", "Everything will be fine!", "The Circle". Very charismatic role in the 1995 movie "Poor Sasha". In the detective comedy, the actor played the former engineer and the unfortunate thief Vova Berezkin.

For the role in the movie "You're My One" won the main prize of "Kinotavr" in 1993.

During his long career, Alexander Zbruev changed many roles. Initially, they were exceptionally positive heroes, but since the 1980s the range of his works has expanded. He played cynical, immoral people (for example, in the film "The Heir in a Straight Line"). Then there were romanticized roles. The latest film work shows that the actor realizes a lyrical hero.

Career in the theater

In the Lenkoma troupe Alexander Zbruev, whose biography is firmly connected with the history of this theater, has been listed since 1961. During this time, he played more than twenty roles. But, as you know, the competition there is especially high, so not all jobs were the main ones.

His first role Zbruev received only under the director Anatoly Efros, who came to the theater in 1963. It was he who entrusted Alexander with the role of the 17-year-old boy Marat, a resident of besieged Leningrad. The performance was entitled "My poor Marat" and glorified Zbrueva in theatrical circles.

After the arrival of Mark Zakharov in 1973, Alexander Viktorovich rightfully became one of the leading actors of the theater.

Alexander Zbruev is involved in such productions as "Boris Godunov" (main role), "About Lermontov ..." (poet), "Jester Balakirev" (Yaguzhinsky) and others.

Personal life

Despite the fact that the actor is a public profession, many do not like to talk about what happens to them outside the scene. Zbruev Alexander did not become an exception. The personal life of the actor is far from the eyes of others.

It is known that he was married twice. The first wife was Valentina Malyavina, an actress. The marriage lasted only four years.

Since 1967, Zbruev was happy in his marriage with Lyudmila Savelieva - a beautiful actress, who once played the role of Natasha Rostova. The couple have a daughter, Natalia.

Zbrueva also has an illegitimate daughter Tatiana from her theater colleague, actress Elena Shanina, who played Konchita in the popular play "Juno and Avos". Alexander Zbruev, whose biography is not an example in this regard, suppresses any inquiries about his children.

Brother Zbrueva is also an actor. All his life he worked in the theater. Vakhtangov. His grandson Peter Fedorov is also a popular actor ("Inhabited Island", "Firs").

Interesting Facts

In addition to his acting, Zbruev was engaged in entrepreneurship. Since 1995 he was co-owner of the restaurant "TRAM".

For four years (from 2000 to 2004) he conducted an acting workshop at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts. This experience and the release was the only one for today, since since 2004 Zbruev was on a creative holiday.