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 a lot of 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
Grigory Antipenko is one of the young film actors who became popular at the beginning of the new millennium. He played in a large number of films, after which the artist became famous. The star of Russian cinema manages to play any role: from a hero-lover to a bandit.
The personal life of a film actor is a secret with seven seals. Other than official information, no information can be found. Twice Antipenko tried to become happy, but neither official nor civil unions made Grigory happy. The actor is involved in the upbringing of three sons, who, according to him, are his main treasures.
Height, weight, age. How old is Grigory Antipenko
Grigory Antipenko, whose photos in his youth and now are of interest, weighs 83 kg. The height of the man is 191 cm. He is one of the highest artists of the national cinema.
At the beginning of the new millennium, the popular action movie "Code of Honor" appeared on the screens of the country, in which the aspiring artist played a small role. Despite this, the actor was noticed. He had fans who asked questions about his height, weight, age. How old is Grigory Antipenko - this question has never been hidden. In 2017, the actor celebrated his 43rd birthday.
Biography of Grigory Antipenko
The biography of Grigory Antipenko began in the mid-70s of the last century in the capital of the Soviet Union. The father and mother of our hero worked as engineers, and my mother worked at the Mosfilm film studio. At the age of 6, he became interested in biological science, knowing the Latin names of living organisms. A little later, he began to dream of traveling to remote corners of the world to see rare animals, especially snakes.
In his school years, he dreamed of becoming a pharmacist, so he enters a specialized technical school after receiving a certificate. After receiving his diploma, he worked in his specialty for only a few months. Then a talented guy tries himself in different professions, but nothing attracted him.
Once Grigory passed by the Shchukin school and saw an announcement about the start of admission to the first year. A talented young man from the first time becomes a student of "Pike". Ovchinnikov becomes his teacher.
Filmography: films starring Grigory Antipenko
During the years of study, Antipenko became one of the best students of the course. The filmography of the popular film actor is diverse. He appears in diverse films: from heroes-lovers to bandits. His works were loved in "The Talisman of Love", "Junkers", "Don't Be Born Beautiful", "Alpinist", "Razluchnitsa" and many others.
The talented film actor then studies directing. In 2013, Antipenko began working at the Vakhtangov Theater.
Gregory has been actively voicing animated films in recent years. The characters in Tad and Jones and some others speak in his voice.
Family and personal life of Grigory Antipenko
Since the appearance of the film actor in The Talisman of Love, the family and personal life of Grigory Antipenko have been of constant interest to admirers of his talent.
It is known that the artist was married twice. For the first time, our hero married in his youth. He lived with his wife for seven years. A son was born in cancer, but then a crack appeared in the relationship of the couple, which led to a divorce. Then the actor was in an actual marriage with a colleague in the film series Don't Be Born Beautiful. Young people lived for about 6 years. In mid-2012, Grigory Antipenko and Yulia Takshina broke up. For the sake of the children, they maintained friendly relations.
Currently, a popular film actor now and then appears at various events with the most beautiful women of the Russian Federation, but is in no hurry to register a marriage with anyone again.
Children of Grigory Antipenko
The star of Russian cinema is currently a father of many children. In his first marriage, his wife Elena gave him a son, Alexander. Yulia Takshina also gave birth to two sons to the artist. Antipenko, despite the separation from his spouses, does not forget his children. He often communicates with them, goes to cinemas for the premieres of his films.
In 2017, the children of Grigory Antipenko, along with their father, appeared at the premiere of the popular Russian historical film Viking. It turned out that the artist came to support his colleague, who starred in this domestic blockbuster.
The son of Grigory Antipenko - Alexander Antipenko
The popular film actor became a father for the first time in his youth. Soon after the wedding, a son appeared in the family, who was named Alexander in honor of A.S. Pushkin.
At the age of 2, the boy became seriously ill. For a long time, Sasha was taken to the doctors, but the disease could not be diagnosed. The boy melted before his eyes. The parents went crazy with worry. Finally, the doctors were able to determine the disease and prescribe the right solution.
At present, the son of Grigory Antipenko, Alexander Antipenko, is a serious young man who is on the verge of graduation from school. He often communicates with his father, comes to his premieres in the theater.
Grigory Antipenko's son - Ivan Antipenko
In June 2007, the film actor became a father. His second wife gave him a son, who was named Vanechka. From childhood, the son of Grigory Antipenko - Ivan Antipenko was behind the scenes. The boy wants to follow in the footsteps of his parents. He has already played in several episodes of the famous children's humorous film magazine "Jumble".
Currently, Ivan is studying at school in the 5th grade. He comprehends various sciences with great desire. In addition to school, the boy attends several circles: theater and drama and sports.
The son of Grigory Antipenko - Fedor Antipenko
In the middle of summer 2009, the film actor became a father again. The civil wife gave him another son, who was named Fedenka. The mother of the child went to work early, so his grandmother began to raise Fedya.
Currently, the son of Grigory Antipenko, Fyodor Antipenko, is studying in primary school. The boy goes in for sports with great desire, taking the first steps in the study of martial arts. Fedor recently won the first prize in his nomination at the capital's championship.
The ex-wife of Grigory Antipenko - Elena
For the first time, the film actor fell in love in his youth. They met at the institute where they studied. The lovers dated for several months. Then Gregory made a marriage proposal to the girl, she agreed.
After the wedding, the couple lived happily for 7 years. The ex-wife of Grigory Antipenko - Elena left the theater and began to work at home. The actor disappeared for days at work. Quarrels began to arise in the family. Once the artist took things and left home with one suitcase. Antipenko communicates with his ex-wife for the sake of his son.
The ex-wife of Grigory Antipenko - Yulia Takshina
In 2005, on the set of one of the films, the artist met with Yulia Takshina. Young people often talked, went together to various events. In 2006, the lovers began to live together. They did not officially register their marriage. Soon children were born, whom Grigory and Yulia raised together.
After some time, the civil spouses broke up. They kept their friendship for the sake of their children. The artist often comes home, talks with his ex-wife on various issues.
Recently, information appeared in the media that the film actor got married again. He was connected with one of his colleagues - Tatyana Arntgolts. It was reported that Grigory Antipenko and his new wife, whose photos were posted below, are happily married. They decided not to disclose their relationship for now.
To stop gossip, the artists did not communicate for a while. Currently, they are friends and do not pay attention to gossip.
Instagram and Wikipedia Grigory Antipenko
Instagram and Wikipedia Grigory Antipenko are popular with fans of Russian cinema.
Wikipedia artist fully and in detail reports on the creative path of Antipenko. It tells how he became an actor, what professions he did earlier, with whom he was married and which of the children was born. The page contains a complete list of works in which Gregory starred.
The artist's Instagram is replete with information about his creative activity. Only photos taken on the set and in the theater are posted here. But photos of children, wives cannot be found on his page. By this, the artist protects his loved ones from the excessive attention of strangers.
Plays investigator Alexei Polyakov. A friend of the tragically deceased husband of the main character, he is the only one who has not turned away from the desperate woman, the only one who believes in her rightness and helps in the search for the missing child. In general, a real knight, noble, caring, fearless. Antipenko outplayed a great many such "gift" men, and therefore he treats his hero with a share of irony. We were able to talk to the actor right on the set. While the make-up artists were conjuring up Grigory's hair, curling naughty curls and doing styling, he spoke about a new role, about complexes, creative searches, discoveries and diamond chairs.
- Gregory, you have the main role in this project. Is it interesting to play?
I can not say that this is a central role. The main action is led by the main character, played by Olya Budina. I try to help her in every possible way - where male intervention is needed. Shout at someone, squeeze someone lightly. But yes, to a small extent. The role does not imply any serious creative discoveries - this is how the script is written. But it normal.
- Have there been recent works that have become a discovery?
Mostly theatrical. The performance "The result is obvious", for example. The rehearsals were difficult, but it was a creative search that resulted in a completely new paint for me, which I had not used before. This allows me to feel that I am not a one-dimensional actor and have not yet hit the ceiling. And quite a few people spoke well about the performance - it means that something happened, and it's nice. Everything else is work.
- That is, for the most part, work and pleasure are incompatible things for you?
Hard to tell. Work is good either way. It's worse when it's not there. Therefore, it is a sin to complain. Now I have become softer in assessing what is happening ... Apparently, I have aged and began to react more calmly to everything. And specifically on this project, an interesting scenario, and the team is good. And I am grateful to the people that every day they help me not to perceive work as a kind of hard labor and make up my everyday life - in general, not bad.
And yet, it seems that you are not very satisfied with yourself, with the roles that you are offered ... But at the same time, you do not refuse them.
Unfortunately, sometimes I have to make some compromises. I have a family and I need to feed it. The directors see me in certain images - I am partly a hostage to previously played roles, textures. In a situation where I deliberately lower the bar and agree to a poor-quality script and a not very interesting role, I naturally try to do something new. Sometimes it works.
By the way, about the family. "Mother's Heart" once again affirms the inviolability of family values. Are you a good father yourself? Or is it "so-so", as they admitted in one interview?
Maybe I would have been a good father if I had a different profession and I was a different person. It is difficult for me to stay at home, in one place. I can not. A day or two at most, and it undermines me, I have to fly somewhere, do something, otherwise I turn into an amoeba and stop loving and respecting myself. Some kind of motor inside is working, some kind of clock is ticking, constantly reminding that the period has not yet passed when you need to act, rush somewhere, save someone, look for your own soul, and so on ... Therefore, my children, probably, will not there is enough paternal attention, but they have no choice - they got such a folder. My father at one time also traveled a lot on business trips, although he still paid more attention to us. True, then the times were calmer, there was stability. Saturdays and Sundays have always been reserved for us. And now I can't brag about it. God forbid, once every two weeks I will meet with my eldest son, and I took my little children to Montenegro, and it is generally not known when I will see them next. It will turn out - I will break out for a day or two. This is life, this is normal. Although I always wish it were different.
I heard that in terms of this eternal search, you compare yourself with Ostap Bender. Do you think the day is near when you will find your diamond chair?
Yes, Bender is my absolute inner ego, it lives in me completely organically. I am a person in search - constant such, unhealthy, anxious. And I think it's right. Anyway, for me. Chairs come across different. Sometimes Viennese, there are stools, and there are also from the Gambsian set. But I am actually convinced that it is better not to find that same diamond chair, but to believe that it is somewhere. Whatever happens, as with Ostap, who found a chair and realized: there is nothing more to look for, the goal has been achieved. Or find it, but then the next one should be some kind of mega-diamond, platinum, but so that new aspirations necessarily appear and there are no stops.
You once mentioned that there is nothing worse than a discomplexed person. The conclusion suggests itself that you yourself must be the "happy" owner of a whole set of complexes ...
I guess I have quite a few of them. There is a theory that intelligence is to some extent a complex, and this is true. We are embarrassed to offend, inconvenience, be superfluous. Such complexes make a person more sensitive to others, to what is happening around. These complexes I find useful. All the rest that interfere with life and self-realization are, of course, harmful. I have enough of these and these. I try to get rid of bad ones. And useful live with me. And I'm not looking for a different degree of raskompleksovannosti. Although many consider me too shy or too suave. They say: "Grisha, be simpler." And I won't, I'm 35 - it's too late to change. What is - such is.
You call yourself a depressed person, say that many times you had to start life from scratch. How often do mental storms happen? For a long time there was a desire to "reset" once again?
Yes, it was the case. I have recently had a very strong depression, again, associated with the profession. I couldn't act, I didn't want to... Everything that comes out is far from what was expected. But, unfortunately, this is reality. Then one must either leave the profession, or try to break through, to do something in the circumstances that exist. It turns out one or two scenes for the entire project - already a victory. But it doesn’t work ... God forbid, the next one will work out. In any case, the profession does not tolerate downtime, waiting, subsidence. This is a constant action, the movement of the soul. And, of course, systematic training, otherwise everything is lost ... In general, I'm not that depressing. Just a run for creativity is not enough, and in accordance with the tasks set and the available opportunities, one has to resort to an already used palette. So what to do?
You are incredibly popular. The presence of five unofficial sites, the first places in the ratings of Russian actors, crowds of fans - it’s just right to have a star fever, and not vice versa. How do your critical attitude towards yourself and your success with the audience get along?
I am adequate - this is my trouble and my happiness. I take everything very well. It's not entirely correct, maybe I evaluate myself in my works - I don't like much, to be honest. So far, there has not been a single work that I would like to hang in a frame on the wall and be proud of. Only some isolated scenes. Perhaps that is why I have a very nervous nature in this sense. I think about it all the time. How to do better, in which direction to move, how to sharpen your skills? Therefore, I am very grateful to my fans who keep me in the ratings, but I treat this with a slight irony. Thank God if people like it. Sometimes it’s quite sad: you look at some movie, and you think: damn, what’s wrong - there’s no way to get out of this ... And they call me and say that I liked it, and at that moment I’m in some kind of stupor and I can’t understand how to take it. Like this? Maybe I'm really overly self-critical in my assessment ... Or is the audience's sympathy so great, advances on account of some past achievements? Mystery. In any case, I still don’t have any laurel wreaths on my head, I don’t think that I have reached serious milestones, that I have reached somewhere and rested, and then exactly downstream ... The chair, definitely, in the future - just in time for the question of Ostap .
Lyudmila Khlobystova, RUTV.ru
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 circle 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.
