Vera Sotnikova, whose biography is the subject of this article, has long been known to viewers. This is an actress of Russian and Soviet cinema and theater, a TV presenter. She actively starred in television series and films, so her name is always heard.
Family
Vera Sotnikova was born in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in 1960, July 19. In a beautiful girl, everyone was doting: both parents - father Mikhail Petrovich and mother Margarita Petrovna, and older sister Galina (five years older).
The family of the future star had nothing to do with cinema or theater. Mom worked as a telephone operator, and dad worked at a Volgograd plant as a loader - he loaded scrap into a blast furnace. And yet. nevertheless, there is a merit of the parents that Vera became a man of art: her father wrote memoirs about how he ran away to war as a boy, and her mother composed poetry.
The older sister adored literature and wanted to become an actress, while the younger one studied French with rapture and was going to enter the Moscow State University for the philological faculty. However, fate decreed differently: Vera did not manage to become a linguist, but she fulfilled her sister's dream -entered the theater.
Somehow, in the eighth grade, the girl became very ill. Sister Galya, in order to somehow distract her, began to read Kuprin's stories aloud, which became the moment of truth. Having recovered, Vera decided to engage in theatrical art and enrolled in a circle at the House of Culture.
Childhood
Vera Sotnikova had a very happy childhood. Parents spent all their holidays just taking girls to the best museums. Vera loved fairy tales and was a creative child. Going to bed, without much persuasion, she closed her eyes with pleasure and went to the land of dreams and fantasies, where she was, of course, the queen. Every evening Vera made up stories before going to bed, and then played them during the day with a school friend.
All the girl's toys, except for the names, always had last names, diaries, medical records, and they all went in for sports, like her.
At school, Vera loved literature, she always got only five for essays, quickly learned poetry and recited them at creative evenings, and sometimes even composed poetry herself. To some extent, everything that the girl did then became part of her future profession.
However, Vera Sotnikova did not always live a fabulous life. The biography of one of the most beautiful Russian actresses also contains dramatic pages. This is now behind her the recognition of the public, dozens of successful performances and film roles. And the path began very prosaically…
The beginning of the creative path
At the time Vera was graduatingschool in her native Volgograd, Galina, her older sister, worked as a director on city television. It was she who recommended the girl to enter the theater school in Saratov, but the future star flunked the exams and returned home with nothing. Sotnikova decided not to give up and began to prepare for admission to the philological faculty of Moscow State University. But the university did not accept her either. After that, a series of accidents began, which played an important role in the life of the actress.
Vera Sotnikova stood at the Kazansky railway station in a huge queue for tickets. She planned to go home. It was necessary to wait about eight hours, and in order to pass the time, the girl decided to go to the "Pike" for an audition, just at random. In the student courtyard, she met a guy, and he offered to go to the Studio School at the Moscow Art Theater at the same time. Vera agreed. Andrey Myagkov auditioned the applicants. After Sotnikova's speech, he asked: "Why do you read so badly?" The girl honestly admitted that they did not accept her documents to the university, and she was going to go home, but she came here to keep herself busy until the evening with something. "You're not going anywhere!" Myagkov snapped.
So, leaving her parental home, at the age of seventeen, Vera Sotnikova moved to the capital.
First love
The girl was placed alone in a dorm room at the Surikov School. Vera went to classes with pleasure, and everything was fine, until one spring she fell in love - irrevocably and completely. The chosen one was a friend of her husband's friend Yuri. He somehow went into the hostel, and Sotnikovawas smitten! A tall, handsome man with piercing gray-blue eyes, an erudite, a talent, an artist, a genius, a connoisseur of art! Yura said that he worked at the Pushkin Museum as an assistant restorer. He began to dedicate poetry to Vera. Later it turned out that Yuri plagiarized them from Emil Verharn, but then the girl did not suspect this, she was madly in love with the poems. In Vera's life, this was the first true love, strong and passionate.
So her real life began. Sotnikova got married, but the marriage lasted only a year. In the second year, the son Yang was born. Actress Vera Sotnikova says that this is a difficult period, since there was practically no money. The young mother, in order to somehow improve her financial situation, had to agree to any roles that were only offered. Vera and her little son huddled behind a closet blocking a room in a communal apartment. And in the second half, Yuri lived.
Creativity
Sometimes a woman even thought it was good to end everything in one fell swoop. But from childhood she learned the motto: “Stalingrad does not give up so easily!”. Vera tried to calm herself, saying that the difficulties would end sooner or later, she would become a famous actress and get a job in the best theater. And so it happened.
Today, the filmography of Vera Sotnikova includes more than forty films and series. Among the latest film works are "The Groom", "My Favorite Gouging", "Lyudmila", "Administration".
As a director, a woman shot 5 music videos for singer Vladimir Kuzmin. She also produced the TV show "Dog W altz", an entreprise"Adam and Eve", a documentary about the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva.
Filmography of Vera Sotnikova includes many worthy roles, but the actress also tries herself as a TV presenter: she worked on the TNT channel in the Club of Ex-Wives project, and is now one of the co-hosts of the Battle of Psychics program. Among other things, the actress is a trustee of the Adele Foundation, which helps disabled children diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
Personal life of Vera Sotnikova
I was officially married only once - with the father of my son. Then for 7 years, from 1993 to 2000, she lived in a civil marriage with singer Vladimir Kuzmin. After that, her common-law spouse was producer Renat Davletyarov. Now Vera Sotnikova is trying to keep silent about the details of her personal life.
