Actor Oleg Strizhenov: biography, filmography and personal life

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Oleg Strizhenov is an actor of the Soviet and Russian theater and cinema. Since 1988 - People's Artist of the USSR. For more than 50 years he has been serving at the Moscow Film Actor Theater and at the Russian Theater of Estonia. The most striking paintings with his participation are "Star of Captivating Happiness", "Roll Call", "Third Youth", "Forty-First" and dozens of others.

Biography

Oleg Alexandrovich was born in Blagoveshchensk in 1929, on August 10th. The artist's father went through the Civil and Patriotic War, and his mother was a teacher in schools in Finland and Russia. A few years after the birth of their third child, the Strizhenovs moved to Moscow. During the Second World War, Oleg worked as a mechanic in the workshop of the Research Film and Photo Institute.

Then he went to study at the TCTU (props department). In 1953, Oleg Strizhenov graduated from the Shchukin School and joined the troupe of the Russian Drama Theater, located in the capital of Estonia. Here the artist served one season, after which he went to Leningrad. Strizhenov was accepted into the team of LATD them. Pushkin, but history againrepeated, and after one season he moved to Moscow. In 1957, Oleg Alexandrovich began performing on the stage of the Theater-Studio of a Film Actor.

Performances

Being an artist of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, he participated in the following productions: "The Seagull" (the role of Treplev), "Three Sisters" (Tuzenbach), "The Bronze Grandmother" (Nicholas I), "Mary Stuart" (Mortimer), "Guilty Without Guilt" (Neznamov) and etc. In the Russian Theater of Estonia, Oleg Strizhenov played Netudykhata in the play “Over the Dnieper” and essayist Gruzdya in “The Restless Character”. At the State Theater of Film Actor, he took part in the reading program "Sergey Yesenin", the staging of "Wide Shrovetide", the stage compositions "Masquerade" and "Anna Snegina".

Filmography

The debut picture of the artist was the social comedy of 1951 "Athletic Honor", in which he got the episodic role of a fan in a restaurant. For the next few years, Strizhenov played the main characters in the dramas The Mexican, film adaptations of Journey Beyond the Three Seas, The Captain's Daughter, The Gadfly, and Forty-First. Thanks to the filming in these tapes, the actor won the love and recognition of millions of admirers of Soviet cinema.

In 1959, Oleg Alexandrovich appeared in the title role in the film adaptation of F. Dostoevsky's work "White Nights" and in the disaster film "Life is in your hands." Then he played key characters in the films "The Queen of Spades", "Duel", "Northern Tale" and "In the Dead Loop". In 1965, Strizhenov appeared as an astronautA. Borodin in the biopic "Roll Call" and P. Tchaikovsky in the drama "The Third Youth".

The fantastic comedy "His Name Was Robert" and the film adaptation of L. Yushchenko's story "Unjudicated" became another legendary film masterpiece featuring Oleg Alexandrovich. In 1972, he played Lev Manevich in the military adventure film Earth, Poste restante. Later, the premiere of the drama "The Last Victim" (the role of the impoverished nobleman Dulchin) and the historical-romantic film "The Star of Captivating Happiness" (Prince Volkonsky) took place.

In the 80s, Oleg Strizhenov played the key characters in the films “Not subject to disclosure”, “Proceed to liquidation”, “Youth of Peter” and “Lord Veliky Novgorod”. In 2000, he appeared in the role of A. Gagarin in the film "Instead of me." The latest work of the actor today is the Ukrainian detective series Five Stars.

Private life

Oleg Strizhenov for 12 years was the husband of Marianna Bebutova, whom he met on the set of the film "The Gadfly". This marriage brought the spouses the girl Natalia, who grew up and became an actress. In turn, she had a daughter, and her father had a granddaughter, Alexander.

The second official wife of Strizhenov was Lyubov Zemlyanikina. The actors met at the Moscow Art Theater. In 1969, their son Alexander was born, who today is an actor, screenwriter and director. After six years of marriage in the personal life of Oleg Strizhenov, a divorce again occurred. The reason was the mass of mutual grievances and claims of the spouses. At the moment OlegAlexandrovich is married to film actress Lionella Pyrieva. The couple has no children.