September 10 marked the 65th anniversary of Igor Kostolevsky - a popular actor who played several dozen roles and created a number of memorable images on stage and on the set. Biography of Igor Kostolevsky abounds with successful endeavors in the field of theater and cinema. Some of the works are unique milestones on his creative path, first of all, the debut role of the young actor in the film "The Family as a Family" of 1970. The picture helped Kostolevsky in defining his role for many years, throwing male charisma in combination with an intelligent-imperturbable expression on his face allowed the artist to determine for himself the image of theatrical and film heroes.
Two years after the film debut, Igor Kostolevsky, whose biography promised to continue interesting films, played a small episodic role in Stanislav Rostotsky's film A Dawns Here Are Quiet. This role was not played in an episodic manner, she asked to come to the fore. That was when the actor Kostolevsky began to appear as a typical and original performer. The next work - the Decembrist Ivan Annenkov in the film "The Star of Captivating Happiness", directed by Vladimir Motyl in 1975, confirmed the actor's original talent. One of the critics, writing a review of the film, noted that the biography of Igor Kostolevsky simply obliges him to hold high the bar of acting, and he must in any role be able to bring to the viewer the immutability of his intellectual principle.
The film Motyl, in large part thanks to the talented game of Kostolevsky, was a great success. Soon another film appeared - "Nameless Star", fully revealing the intellectual charm of Kostolevsky. Star actors: Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Mikhail Svetin, Alla Budnitskaya and finally Igor Kostolevsky provided the film with a long life on the screen. Then followed a whole series of movies with the participation of the already popular actor. Among these films, "Tehran-43" takes a special place - an extremely topical picture of the plot against Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. After a while, Igor Kostolevsky, whose filmography was regularly replenished with new films, somewhat moved away from filming in the cinema and focused on theatrical performances. Thus, in addition to bright memorable works in the cinema, Igor Kostolevsky played many interesting roles in the theater. After completing his studies at AA Goncharov's course at GITIS, he was accepted into the troupe of the Theater. Mayakovsky, Kostolevsky for a long time only played in his native theater, the audience even started walking "on Kostolevsky." However, at some point, Mayakovka became close to the creative impulses of the already popular artist, and from time to time he began to play on the stages of other theaters. Nevertheless, the theater. Mayakovsky was and remains the most important theatrical stage of the actor.
In the personal life of a popular actor, too, everything was quite organic. In 1981, Kostolevsky married actress Elena Romanova. The couple lived together for almost twenty years. Then, as it often happens in the acting environment, a divorce followed. And after a while the biography of Igor Kostolevsky was replenished with new events in his personal life, the popular actor married for the second time. Wife was the French actress Consuelo de Aviland.
In 1986, Kostolevsky was declared the best actor of the year. This title became a recognition of his merits at the highest level. The title is supported by new bright roles. To date, Igor Kostolevsky's biography is not over yet, the actor is still energetic and full of creative plans.