Dmitry Pavlenko is a talented actor known to Russian audiences for his roles in the films ABC of Love, Forensic Experts, St. John's Wort, Nanolove, Daddy's Daughters. Superbrides”, etc. In addition, for more than 20 years he has been the leading artist of the Moscow Drama Theater. M. Yermolova.
Actor's family
Pavlenko Dmitry Yurievich was born on April 10, 1971 in the Solonechny mine, located in the Gazimuro-Zavodsky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory, into a creative family. The actor's mother, Nadezhda Nikolaevna, has been working as a director on Chita television for many years, and his father, Yuri Vasilievich, devoted his whole life to studying geology, defended his doctoral dissertation, and is engaged in teaching. Dmitry has an older sister, Elena, who, although she did not become an actress, is also a creative person.
Childhood and youth
The childhood of the future actor passed in Chita, where he studied at secondary school No. 38. From an early age, Dmitry was attracted by the mysterious world of cinema. The boy grew up on the films of Tarkovsky, Bergman and Fellini,who, together with my mother, went to see the recreation center of the Mashzavod. In the future, he dreamed of becoming a director.
After graduating from school, Pavlenko went to enter the biological faculty of Irkutsk University, but failed the entrance exams. Returning to Chita, for a year he mastered the profession of an amateur director at a local cultural and educational school. During this time, he realized that the real calling of his life was not directing, but acting.
Incoming Sliver
In 1989, Dmitry Pavlenko came to Moscow to enter the Theater School. Shchepkin. For exams, he prepared a program lasting about 4 hours, containing countless fables, poems and excerpts from prose works. Dmitry was very worried and from nervous tension before admission, he lost 12 kg in a short time. Members of the examination committee could not resist the pressure of the young man. Having successfully passed the exams, Dmitry was enrolled in the Shchepkinsky school for the course of the famous actor V. Safonov. After graduation in 1993, Pavlenko was invited to the troupe of the Moscow theater "Sphere". Actor of the Drama Theater He became M. Yermolova by chance: he came for an interview with a friend whom he just wanted to support. As a result, Dmitry was invited to the theater troupe, but his friend was not.
Theatrical career
Work at the Theater. Yermolova for Dmitry Yuryevich began with a small role in the play "The Pupil", staged bybased on the play of the same name by A. Ostrovsky. In it, the young artist played the drunkard Neglitentov and appeared in only one episode. But this turned out to be enough for Pavlenko's talent to be noticed by the theater director Alexei Levinsky and invited him to one of the main roles in his production of “Wedding. Anniversary”, which premiered in 1994. The actor’s collaboration with Levinsky continued in subsequent years. Dmitry played with him a journalist in "The Bourgeois Wedding", Cleant in "The Imaginary Sick", Lomov in "The Bear", Podkolesin in "Marriage", Chvankin in "The Death of Tarelkin", Don Juan in "Don Juan".
In addition to Levinsky, Pavlenko collaborated with other directors of the Theater. M. Ermolova. He played Scipio in A. Zhitinkov’s production of Caligula, a young man in V. Fokin’s Invitation to Execution, a teacher in M. Borisov’s Evening of Comedy, Leonardo in R. Israfilov’s Slave of His Beloved, Louis Lamar in Not trust your eyes” by M. Smolyanitsky, etc.
Working in movies
The biography of Dmitry Pavlenko is inextricably linked with cinema. The debut of the actor on the set took place long before he entered the theater school. In 1983, Dmitry, who at that time was 12 years old, played Vasya Kubik, a pupil of the orphanage, in the film "Garden", which tells about the years of World War II. Filming took place at the film studio "Belarusfilm". While working on the film, the teenager met Aristarkh Livanov, Galina Sulima, Dmitry Matveev and other famous actors.
Following for Dmitry shootingin the cinema took place already during his student life in Moscow. In 1991, a student of the theater school was invited to a small role in the youth melodrama "Cute Ep", directed by O. Fomin based on the work of the same name by G. Mikhasenko.
Dmitry Pavlenko's national love was brought by the role of Victor Zombie in the serial film "The ABC of Love", filmed during 1992-1994. After the release of the film on the screens, the young actor was recognized on the street and asked for autographs.
Today in the filmography of Dmitry Yuryevich Pavlenko, there are more than 70 works in the cinema. The artist played prominent roles in the films "Dossier of Detective Dubrovsky", "Cage", "Stop on Demand-2", "Clean Keys", "Death of the Empire", "St. John's Wort", "Barvikha", "One step away from World War III" and others. In 2017, 3 films with the participation of Pavlenko were released at once: "Father's Coast", "Doctor Anna" and "Unknown", and in 2018 the premiere of the film "To Paris" is expected, in which you can also see actor.
The artist's wife and daughter
The personal life of Dmitry Pavlenko has been associated with actress Natalia Seliverstova for over 20 years. For the first time, he saw his future wife shortly after his enrollment at the Shchepkinsky school, when he came to the Taganka Theater to watch the play "Phaedra". Natalya, who by that time was not yet a student at the theater school, was sitting in the auditorium with Dmitry's classmate. Pavlenko immediately liked an attractive girl, but he did not dare to meet her. A year later, Seliverstova enteredacting department of the Moscow Art Theater School and began working in the theater of O. Tabakov. Pavlenko repeatedly crossed paths with her at school, but the really young people met 2 years after the first meeting at a student get-together. They have been together ever since.
On November 14, 1997, Dmitry and Natalia had a daughter, Polina. From childhood, the girl became interested in ballet and after school she entered the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. Today Polina Pavlenko is one of the most promising young ballerinas in Russia.
Family show
Dmitry and Natalia are actors of the same theater. On stage, they often have to perform together, playing either the bride and groom, or brother and sister. In the fall of 2015, the couple presented their joint creation to the audience - a performance for two "TyYa", created on the basis of the play "Blue, slightly aquamarine sky" by the Transbaikal writer A. Gordeev. The performance is on the stage of the Theater. Yermolova, directed by G. Dubovskaya. Pavlenko and Seliverstova are the only performers of all roles in the play. Dmitry appears on stage in the form of a drunken and battered musician, who does not leave hope of finding his love in his declining years. Natalia plays a lonely young girl with oddities. Throughout the performance, the main characters gradually get to know each other and finally realize that they are two halves of one whole.
Actor's dream
Dmitry Yurievich managed to play on stagenative theater and in the cinema of different heroes, but he, like any actor, dreams of the role of Hamlet. However, as Pavlenko himself jokes, his wish is unlikely to come true. At the dawn of his creative career, the role of Hamlet was offered only to established artists who had reached a certain professional level. Today, the situation has completely changed, and the Shakespearean character is trusted to play young novice artists close to him in age. But Dmitry Pavlenko is not very upset, because he has enough roles in the theater even without Hamlet.
