Acting couples, when husband and wife are together at home and on stage, are not so uncommon. Working together often only brings the family unit closer together. We remember couples who work in the same theatre.
For example, Anton and Elena Khabarov work together at the Moscow Provincial Theatre.
Anton Khabarov is the main male of Russian TV series. He is just a Casanova. Women melt under his magnetic gaze. In life, Anton is the absolute antipode of his cinematic image. A strong family man, monogamous, married to his classmate at the Shchepkin Theatre School, Elena (née Stepucheva). They have been together for 20 years. For Anton it was love at first sight. Charming and sociable Elena had other admirers, she even had a boyfriend whom the girl was going to marry. Upon learning of a more successful opponent, Khabarov grew bolder and gave his beloved an ultimatum: “either him or me.” And Elena unexpectedly chose Anton. After university they got married. They had a son and a daughter. While Elena was looking after the children, her husband wasted no time and devoted himself to a career in cinema. Today the Khabarovs work at the Moscow Provincial Theatre. They can be seen together in the play “Bench”.
Stars of the TV series “Kitchen” and “Hotel “Eleon”” Anna Begunova and Dmitry Vlaskin, Dimas from the comedy “Fizruk”, also known as Eduard Streltsov from “In the constellation Sagittarius”, got married 6 years ago. They have a five-year-old daughter, Lukerya, who is growing up. They met at the Pushkin Theatre, where they serve. Vlaskin and Begunova star in the play “The Handsome Man”. Dmitry as the handsome Apollo Okoyomov, who is looking for a richer wife. Begunova plays his wife Zoya, a woman with angelic patience.
At the same theatre, Pushkin also has another acting couple: Vladimir Zherebtsov and Anastasia Panina. Zherebtsov’s first success came when he played the main role in the series “The Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka”. And then he was brought to the people’s love by Sklifosovsky, where the actor played the surgeon Konstantin.
Anastasia Panina and Vladimir Zherebtsov met in 2003, while working on the play “Romeo and Juliet”, where Vladimir played Romeo. But a year later the couple broke up. Anastasia believed that Vladimir did not take her seriously enough. True, very soon the actors met again at the rehearsals of the play “Bullets Over Broadway”, where they played the main roles. They realized that it was fate and never parted. They got married in 2009. A year later, their daughter Alexandra was born. Today, Vladimir Zherebtsov and Anastasia Panina can be seen together in the plays “Handsome Man” and “The Path of Change”. They also acted together in films: “Doctor Tyrsa”, “Fizruk”, “White Lie”, “Surrogate Mother”…
Evgeny Kindinov (the handsome man from the melodrama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky “The Romance of Lovers”) and his wife, actress Galina Kindinova, are classmates. They have been married for more than half a century. They studied together at the Moscow Art Theatre School. They have been working together since 1967 at the Moscow Art Theatre. “There were a lot of beautiful girls in our class; Galya was not the brightest, but that is not the main thing,” says Kindinov.
The couple have a daughter, Dasha, who was born when the actors were in their forties, a late and long-awaited child whom the couple adored. There is a granddaughter, Alexandra.
Anatoly Kot plays scoundrels, murderers and fascists in films. And in real life he is the sweetest person. In his youth, he selflessly helped his classmate at the Minsk Theatre Institute Yulia Vysotskaya. He entered into a fictitious marriage with her so that Yulia, who was not Belarusian, would be accepted into the best drama theatre in the republic – the National Academic Theatre Yanka Kupala. Vysotskaya herself asked: “Just be my husband!” They got married, then divorced… Then the Cat had another marriage, not fictitious, but real, but this union also fell apart, despite the birth of his daughter Alice. And finally, in the series “Margosha” Anatoly Kot met a woman of destiny – actress Yanina Kolesnichenko. “She just blew me away,” Kott admitted. In 2011, Kolesnichenko gave Kot a daughter, Arina.
Yanina Kolesnechenko has been working at the Moscow Art Theatre for over 25 years. Chekhov, where Anatoly Kot also moved two years ago. Now they are together at the theatre.
Artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre named after Chekhov Konstantin Khabensky works in the same theatre with his wife, actress Olga Litvinova. He has worked at the Moscow Art Theatre for over 20 years; he has no privileges as the wife of the artistic director. Ordinary artist. At troupe meetings, Khabensky always distances himself from his wife. He never sits next to her in the auditorium. These are the traditions of this private couple. They also have two daughters.
Alexey Guskov and Lidiya Velezheva have been married for 35 years. They have two children and grandchildren… Lidiya Velezheva met Guskov at the Detective Theatre. Alexei shot the matches at her, put them in his pocket and ran away. For some reason, this made a strong impression on Velezheva, she immediately realized: “This is fate, this man will become my husband!” And so it happened. They are together at home and at work, in the theatre. Vakhtangov.
“The secret of our marriage is simple: we don’t talk about work at home,” Guskov explains. “Family is family, work is work.” The actor claims that he is the head of the family, and this is not discussed. Velezheva is only glad that her husband is in charge and takes responsibility.
Actress Polina Agureeva is married to her colleague, actor Fyodor Malyshev. Both work at the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre. Nothing original, if not for the nuance – the age difference: the husband is 15 years younger than his wife. The family has a 9-year-old son, Timofey. Polina and Fedor appear on stage in the play “Souls” based on Gogol. Polina plays the role of Korobochka and the whole society very well, and the director of the play is her husband Fyodor Malyshev.
Actors of RAMT (Russian Youth Theatre) Yanina Sokolovskaya and Maxim Kerin have been together for many years. The age difference (Maxim is 13 years younger than Yanina) does not bother them. They got married last October. “Love knows no logic, it is above reason…” Yanina signs the wedding photo. Maxim and Yanina often perform in the same performances. And they never tire of each other, either at home or on stage.
