Ilya Oleinikov: biography. The actor's family and personal life

In all the vast Russia, and in the near and far abroad, there is probably no one who does not know who Ilya Oleinikov is. The biography of any public person always arouses a keen interest in the layman, and even the artist, and even such a famous one, even more so. After all, we all know that there is no role that the actor Ilya Oleinikov could not play. Male or female, comic or tragic - it does not matter. Talent does not take him. However, the way to universal recognition for Ilya Lvovich was by no means strewn with roses. And the life of this wonderful man has never been easy. According to the actor's own admission, she was like a song - "song", a lifetime.

How it all began

Ilya Oleinikov was born in Chisinau, in 1947, on the tenth of July. Nothing remarkable in his childhood happened to him, and even then the time was hard, post-war. Therefore, the children's biography of Ilya Oleinikov contains only two noteworthy facts. First, then his name was Klaver. And secondly, it was then that he realized that clowning, humor, satire is, perhaps, the only thing that can cause interest in it. For this reason, after graduation, in 1965, the problem of choosing the cause of life before Ilya did not stand. He did not hesitate to leave Chisinau for the capital. Where he successfully entered the Moscow State College of Circus and Variety Art at the Clownery Department, a diploma that he received four years later.

Ah, how you want to break into ...

And who knows how the future life of Ilya Lvovich would have developed, if not for one circumstance. His teacher was young even then Alexander Shirvindt, who invited Oleynikov to take part in his new program called "TV Interview". In the program, many actors of the very popular Satire Theater - Tatyana Peltzer, Andrei Mironov and other famous artists took part in the program. And although the program itself turned out, frankly, so-so, it was thanks to her that the artist Ilya Oleinikov was born. His biography as an actor, however, might have been somewhat different if at that time he had not received a summons to the army. In those days, there were only a few channels on television. Each new program aroused genuine interest among TV viewers, literally the whole country "stuck" to the screens. So immediately after the release of the transfer of a young actor in the literal sense of the word is recognized. But for two years of the army service the spectator Oleynikov was fairly forgotten, a long way to glory had to start again.

"Town"

I had to work hard. From 1970 to 1974, Ilya Klyaver worked in the orchestra of Yuri Saulsky, which was called "VIA-66", and then moved to Lenkontsert, on the stage of which he acted as an artist of a conversational genre. But the thought of that fleeting success on television did not leave him for a minute. And in the mid- eighties the actor takes on the pseudonym Oleinikov and begins to perform in a duet with Roman Kazakov.

Who knows, maybe Glory would have found Ilya Lvovich much earlier, if not for the tragic death of a partner. Oleinikov had to find a companion for a long time to speak through trial and error, until, finally, in 1991, what happened happened. The actor met Yuri Stoyanov, and two years later the first issue of the "Gorodok" program appeared on the country's screens. Original skits, sparkling humor, funny dialogues - the spectator instantly appreciated the talent of the "inhabitants" of the town. And three years later, in 1996, the program received the "Teffi" award. What is surprising, from year to year the popularity of "Gorodok" only grew. It is watched with pleasure not only by Russian viewers, but also by fans of good humor throughout the post-Soviet space.

Shooting at the cinema

Ilya Lvovich's talent is multifaceted. He is not only a great humorist, but also a terrific actor, who has been doing a lot and successfully in films. True, Ilya Oleinikov does not consider his films as a special achievement. Nevertheless, some of them really deserve attention. So, he played a very memorable role in the adaptation of Bulgakov's cult novel "The Master and Margarita" (the finist director of the Rimsky variety show), and also starred in two very good, worthy of all praise and really funny comedies - "Alchemists" and "Thin Thing". These are his best works, and generally in twenty-five films in titles is the name of Ilya Oleinikov.

The biography of this subtle, intelligent, and versatile person reveals to us and one more aspect of his talent. Most often, the name of Ilya Lvovich is associated with variety, humor. And somehow very rarely remember that he himself wrote and put a very good musical "The Prophet". However, due to objective circumstances, the performance failed to "survive". And who knows, everything will turn out differently, maybe Ilya Oleinikov would be known today to the audience not only as the creator of Gorodok, but also as the director of magnificent musical shows. By the way, in 2001 the actor received the title People's Artist of Russia.

Family and personal life

Oleinikov never suffered from stellar illness and did not consider himself a public person. His family life is the same as that of most ordinary people. The only thing that can be said is that the actor was married three times. True, according to the very same Ilya Lvovich, the first two marriages were registered in youth, and even then for the sole purpose of obtaining a Moscow residence permit. In fact, they were both considered fictitious.

With the third wife - Irina Klyaver (Oleynikova) - the actor happily lived almost 40 years. They met at one of Oleynikov's speeches in the regional town of Donetsk region. Irina Viktorovna is a singer in the past. By the way, together with her husband she took part in the release of the album "Chanson for Two", which was released in 2010. The son of Ilya Oleinikov - Denis Klyaver, from 1994 to 2012 was the soloist of the group "Tea together", which today, unfortunately, disintegrated. The two Oleynikovs have two grandchildren - Timothy and Daniel, and the granddaughter of Evelyn.

And they are always escaping the whole court ...

Unfortunately, the third grandson - Daniel - the actor and did not see. On November 11, 2012, the inhabitants and admirers of Gorodok suffered a great grief: in the sixty-sixth year of its life, its creator and inhabitant, Ilya Lvovich Oleinikov, died. He died of an oncological disease, which was diagnosed in the actor a year earlier. So died a talented actor and a very good man Ilya Oleinikov, whose biography is similar to a song ...