Cherichenko Irina Vyacheslavovna: biography, personal life and creativity

Cherichenko Irina Vyacheslavovna is a popular Soviet and Russian actress. She earned fame by playing in the films "Tomorrow was War," "Korolev," "The Adventures of Soldier Chonkin."

Biography of the actress

Cherichenko Irina Vyacheslavovna was born in the Murmansk region in 1963. She was born in a small town Polar with a population of less than 20 thousand people.

Her father was a military man, serving as an officer on a submarine. My mother came to Polarny even before her marriage. She came from the Ukrainian Melitopol in distribution. She was assigned to work as a chorus master at the local Officers' House. True, Irina barely remembers her childhood near Murmansk. When she was 4 years old, her family moved closer to her mother's parents in Zaporozhye.

It was here that Cherichenko Irina Vyacheslavovna first showed her creative talents and acting skills. It all started with the fact that the girl began to dance, then moved to the circle of ballet at the House of Culture, in which her mother worked.

At the age of 9, the young Ira became a pupil of the cultural and educational school in Melitopol. In the same place lived her cousin, from whom she remained to live. The girl already then predicted a great future on the stage.

Choreography training

She comprehend the choreography with the famous teacher Viktor Anatolievich Chmil. He taught her all the subtleties of dance skills and was confident that her fame and success awaited.

The professional tragedy happened suddenly - at the final exam for classical dance. Partner Cherichenko dropped her, she was seriously injured, knee-bang against the scene. Doctors diagnosed her with a break in the meniscus.

Such a serious injury put an end to Irina Cherchenko's career Irina Vyacheslavovna. About the choreography could be forgotten. Nevertheless, for the successful completion of the course at the school, she was still given a diploma of a teacher-choreographer. She received it at the age of 16 and started working in a local house of culture. Here, too, her first serious novel took place. The heroine of our article fell in love and married a local disc jockey. True, this alliance was short-lived.

Acting education

To realize her creative potential Cheritchenko went to Moscow. For the first time it failed. Therefore, the next year, taught by bitter experience, filed documents immediately in two educational institutions. She passed the certificate of graduation to the Admissions Committee of the Shchukin school, and she granted the diploma of the educational and cultural school to the school in Shchepkin.

This time, she successfully passed the exams in both theatrical schools. Therefore, for a long time decided which of them to choose. As a result, I decided to study in Shchukin.

Actor education received in the creative studio of the People's Artist of the USSR Yevgeny Simonov, known for his roles in the state theater named after Vakhtangov.

At the beginning of the student's life, there was not enough money for anything, so she worked part time in restaurants - a dishwasher and even a cleaner. Male disc jockey stayed in Melitopol. Their relationship could not stand the test of distance, he did not want to move to Moscow, so he soon offered to divorce.

Debut in the cinema

Irina started to play cinema when she was still a student. For the first time on the screen she appeared in 1985 in the drama of Leonid Maryagin "The City of Brides", and in 1986 she played in Igor Voznesensky's drama "Where is your son?".

But the real success came to her at the end of the second year. She was approved for the main role in the film "Tomorrow was a war". Immediately after the picture came out, Cherichenko became famous.

"Tomorrow was a war"

The film "Tomorrow was a war" - Yuri Kara's film drama, shot based on the novel of the same name by the popular front-line writer Boris Vasilyev. Cherichenko inherited the role of the schoolgirl Iskra Polyakova.

The film unfolds in 1940. The main characters are students of the average ninth grade of the regular Soviet school. These schoolchildren literally tomorrow will enter adulthood, so they are intensively learning to love and understand each other and themselves.

In the center of the narrative of the head of the class Iskra Polyakova - it is played by Cherichenko. Her father is known in the city as a principally honest party worker, a communist. The spark tries to keep up with it. She is a loyal Komsomol member, the ideals that exist seem to her to be the only correct and indestructible.

At a birthday party, one of Iskra's classmates hears Yesenin's poetry for the first time, performed by one of his friends. She likes them, but "tavern poetry" seems alien to her Soviet ideals. Her friend tries to explain to the main heroine that Yesenin is not a decadent poet at all, but the feelings about which he writes in his works are an integral part of our life. A few days later, Iskra meets the father of her classmate, who gave her to read Yesenin, the famous aircraft designer in the city. He opens it to her eyes, the girl understands that many things were not deep and shallow, trying to understand her feelings and the world around her. This rebirth of the main character, as noted by critics and spectators, was especially successful for the young Irina Vyacheslavovna Cherichenko, whose films she later played were surely compared to her first major role in the cinema.

Meanwhile, the life of schoolchildren goes on as usual, Iskra even begins to take courtship of classmate Stameskina. As a bolt from the blue, news of the arrest of the aircraft designer hits the city. He is suspected of wrecking. The spark goes to support her friend at a difficult moment in her life, even despite her parents' warnings about possible unpleasant consequences.

At this time, the girlfriend of Iskra Vika, the school's leadership calls to publicly renounce her father. She refuses, then they call Polyakov and give her an assignment as the head of the class, organize a meeting and disgrace the daughter of an aircraft designer from the Komsomol in disgrace. The spark refuses, in a fit of feeling, fainting. She is rescued by the director who takes to the medical office and praises for the manifestation of sincere human feelings.

Vika is grateful to her friend, arranges a picnic, and at night she commits suicide. At the funeral of the daughter of the enemy of the people only the bravest come, Iskra reads the poems, and the principal addresses the audience with a speech. For him, this does not pass without a trace - he is fired, and the main character has a tense relationship with his mother.

It is time for school exams. Suddenly it becomes known that aircraft designers are released, it is completely justified. Friends of the Wiki come to support him. And one of the schoolgirls notes that this year, 1940, went so hard, because it was a leap year, the next one, 1941, will be much happier.

With these words comes the final picture. In the frame there are marching soldiers. Sounds the song "Holy War".

Work in the theater

Irina Cherichenko, whose biography is presented in this article, after the success of the film "Tomorrow Were War" continues to appear in the cinema. But he does not get satisfaction from his work. It seems to her that she is constantly offered similar roles. Time after time on the screen it is necessary to recreate the image of Iskra Polyakova.

Therefore, it begins to lean towards an acting career. He plays in the troupe of the New Drama Theater under the guidance of his mentor from the Shchukin school Yevgeny Simonov.

At the age of 25, an unexpected change occurred in her life. She throws everything and goes to the nunnery as a novice. Later, the actress admitted that she urgently wanted to relax from the surrounding bustle, to understand, first of all, in herself. She spent only a few months at the Pyukhtitsa Monastery, in Estonia. After that, I returned to normal life.

Imprisonment

During the reorganization, the borders of the Soviet Union were opened and it became easier to leave the country. Including actors on tour. In the late 80's Irina Cherichenko sent to Spain as part of the choreographic team.

There she lends herself to a suspicious adventure. She manages to be tempted by a quick salary for transporting an unknown cargo. In the baggage are drugs. In a Spanish prison with an actress, a microstroke occurs. With the help of lawyers and friends, she manages to get out of prison, proving her innocence in the drug trade and what she did not know what was in the baggage.

Having returned home, Irina has been engaged in business for several years. However, in the final analysis decides to return to the acting profession.

Theater success

Success to her brings a role in the play "Bunk" Andrei Sokolov. On the stage, only five actors are involved, who play about 20 roles. The whole action takes place around the center of the human universe, according to the author's intention, bunks. It is here that heroes are born, learn life, become parents and, finally, die.

In this work, Sokolov, the People's Artist of Russia, who has played dozens of roles in film and theater, brings to the forefront the problems of fathers and children, which is repeated in every generation. A tragic problem, because the experience of parents can not teach their children anything.

Career in television series

Returning to active work, Cherichenko basically gets a role in domestic television series.

She appears in episodes in the sitcom "My Beautiful Nanny", plays in the criminal drama series Dmitry Fix "Lawyer" (again with Andrei Sokolov). In the film "Ranetki" by Vyacheslav Murugov, she gets the role of Irina Prokopieva, the mother of one of the main characters - Ani, whose role is played by Anna Rudneva.

In the detective series of Elena Nemykh "Invisible" Cherichenko gets the main role. Larissa, the mother of two adult sons, who, together with her husband, even after retirement, continues to work for the KGB, carrying out surveillance and carrying out private orders.

Personal life

After an unsuccessful first marriage, Cherichenko Irina Vyacheslavovna remained for a long time. Her personal life did not evolve until about 2005. At that moment Irina Cherichenko and Alexey Lysenkov (the host of the TV program "Himself a director") met. They did not officially formalize their relationship, having lived in a civil marriage for 10 years, until 2015.

Cherichenko Irina always dreamed of children. They had a son, Philip. At first he wanted to become an artist, but then he got carried away with photography and went to live in the USA.