Actor Yuri Gorobets: biography, personal life, films

Yuri Vasilievich Gorobets has the highest honorary title "People's Artist of the Russian Federation". He rightfully deserved to be called the patriarch of the national cinema and theater, his creative experience is 50 years! Over 200 roles he played on the stage of theatrical scenes and in the cinema, revealing the boundless possibilities of his talent. Currently, Yuri Gorobets is working at the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, plays in performances "Without guilt guilty" and "Zoykina apartment", but he dreams to get new roles.

Yuri Vasilyevich is the actor, because of whom we go to the theater performances. It really can be called a real Russian nugget! While watching the performances with his participation, the viewer has an opportunity to appreciate the professionalism of the artist.

Yuri Gorobets: biography. Childhood

The actor was born in 1932, on March 15, in Vladikavkaz (then - Ordzhonikidze) in the family of workers. At the beginning of the war, in 1941, the father of a small Yura was killed at the front.

In the autumn of the same year, the Germans approached the city in which Yura lived with his mother. The bombing once very much frightened the boy, he began to stutter. This illness had a negative impact on his childhood. Communicate the child could only with his close friend, who invited him to attend a drama club, which was the beginning of his professional activities. On the stage, Yura forgot about his stammering, pronounced all the phrases without stopping. Then he first had the thought of becoming an actor.

Realization of dreams

In 1951, after graduating from high school, Yuri Gorobets was sent to Moscow to study at the Academy of Tank Troops. Stalin. From there he fled, not having passed completely entrance examinations. The future actor decided to try to enter the GITIS.

He, as not having passed the exams to the academy, was to be sent to serve in the army, but a talented young man was procured a release, and he was enrolled as a student of the Institute of Theatrical Art.

Yuri's mother did not approve of the choice of her son. She believed that he could become a military engineer, and instead traded a serious specialty for something completely incomprehensible to her. How could she know that her son would become the favorite actor of millions of viewers? After graduation in 1955, Yuri Gorobets went on a distribution to Yaroslavl.

Theatrical roles of the actor

The Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky became his home for Yury Vasilievich, he worked there for 23 years. Currently preparing to receive another recognition of the audience on his native stage, playing in the play "Handsome man." The dramatic classics to the artist is very close, he worships her. His favorite role is Naum Fedotych Lotokhin. Horobets speaks of him as a wizard.

The list of favorite roles does not end on Lotokhin. Before the beginning of his work in the Moscow Art Theater, the Russian actor worked in the Drama Theater named after. Volkov city of Yaroslavl (1955-1957), then in 1957-1961 in the Odessa theater. In the Moscow Drama Theater, he played from 1961 to 1971, and at the Theater. V. Mayakovsky in 1972-1982. From 1989 to the present, Yuri Gorobets is an actor of the Moscow Art Theater.

All of his scenic images were vivid, unique, they always aroused the sympathy of the audience. The most famous roles that the People's Artist played:

• Davydov ("The Virgin Soil Upturned" by Sholokhov);
• Maxim Svetlichny ("We only dream of peace");
• Hevers (Zykovs M. Gorky);
• Sergei Petrovich ("Vassa Zheleznova" by M. Gorky).

Cinema: Soviet period

After a while, beginning in 1958, the actor was invited to film. At first he was given insignificant roles. Gradually the skill grew. Yuri Gorobets, whose films began to appear more and more on the screens of cinemas and televisions, gained great love from the viewers. He was getting more and more fans and fans.

The first big work of the actor was the role of Kostya, a student from the comedy "Come Tomorrow". She immediately got into the center of attention of many spectators. The image of the protagonist of the film was played very naturally.

Yuri Gorobets is an actor in which solidity and calm have united, which left its imprint on his heroes. This was Lieutenant-Colonel A.N. Kiselev from the detective "A shot in the fog", Dad in the television movie for children "The Blue Cup". At the film studio "Belarusfilm" the well-known actor played the main role of the commander of the partisan detachment of Batka Minaya. It is this work that Yuri considers the most important for himself. It was the drama "Father".

In the 70s, Yuri Gorobets played the role of artist Konstantin Yakushev in the television series "Day by Day", as well as Anton Ivanovich Denikin in the film "Walking through the agony". In the arsenal of works of the actor there is a very memorable role of the "decommissioned" pilot Misha from the legendary film "Crew", which was screened in 1980. The success was incredible, the film was viewed by millions of spectators.

Actor Yuri Gorobets: personal life

In 1957, the actor had to change his place of work, the reason was marriage. Once he met Tamara Lyakin, Yuri had never parted with her. The girl was a graduate of GITIS, an actress.

After the marriage, the couple moved to Odessa, where they began to work together at the Odessa Drama Theater, but stayed in this city only until 1961. At that time, the popularity of Yuri as a film actor increased. Success has multiplied the following roles, which Gorobets played:

• "In search of joy" (role - Gennady);
• "Irkutsk history" (role - Sergey);
• "Promised Star" (role - Karetkin).

The daughter of a famous actor

In his personal life, Yuri Vasilyevich was lucky. They live with their spouse, Tamara Ivanovna Lyakina, a very friendly family. They have a single daughter, Elena, who graduated from the Faculty of Theater Studies. In the footsteps of her parents, she did not want to go. She loves her work, and this is the main thing. The heiress of the actor worked as the editor of the magazine "Who", then in the press service of Chekhov's ITF.

The hobby of Yuri Vasilyevich

Honored artist of Russia, in addition to the theater, has personal interests: in his spare time he works in wood carving. He has a whole collection of icons and various figures. Yuri Gorobets made a machine with his own hands, on which he wove several tapestry paintings. Holidays actor likes to spend in the circle of their loved ones, the family for him all his life meant a lot and means.