Yulia Vladimirovna Menshova is an actress and TV presenter, mother of two children and wife of actor Igor Gordin. Her name is well-known, and today she successfully combines her career and personal life.
Star family
Date of birth - July 28, 1969. Another star appeared in the acting dynasty - Yulia Menshova. Her height, her weight today is 177 cm, 64 kg.
Let's talk about how her path as an actress and TV presenter developed. Yulia Menshova is the child of world-famous cinematographers, and this undoubtedly played an important role in her development as an actress. Maternal grandparents - Irina Alentova and Valentin Bykov - also from the acting environment.
Mom - Vera Alentova - starred in a number of films directed by her husband - director Vladimir Menshov.
Vera Alentova was remembered, first of all, for her iconic role in the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears": it brought her immense popularity, and the film itself was awarded an Oscar. Vladimir Menshov is also an actor, but later he tried himself as a director, and this decision led him to success.
Little Julia thus grew up in a creative atmosphere from an early age. She decided to follow in the footsteps of her parents.
School years
Being at school, even then she began to show her artistic abilities. Since childhood, Yulia Menshova has been distinguished by activity and strong-willed qualities.
Her family was busy with her career and was often on tour, so she spent a lot of time with her grandmother. Parents kept their daughter strict, not allowing her to come home late and dress in new-fangled clothes, so as not to be different from other peers who could not afford expensive clothes in those days.
She loved to be in the spotlight and perform in front of the public, embodying various images. The girl actively participated in school productions and at the same time went to acting classes. She increasingly understood that she was able to play on stage and win the attention of the audience. By the end of the school, it became clear that Yulia Menshova had already made her final decision regarding the choice of her future profession.
First steps towards a dream
After leaving school (in 1986), she entered the Moscow Art Theater School, where she studied until 1990. Julia was on the course of Alexander Kalyagin, an outstanding actor and talented teacher, who discovered new facets of talent in an aspiring actress. At first, Menshova hid her star name, not wanting to advertise the fact that she was the daughter of famous actors, but soon her secret was revealed.
Yulia wanted to gain respect for herself because of her talent, and not because she was from an acting family. In addition, manythey began to say that she entered there only by pull, and, in order to prove the opposite, she began to study with great diligence. Then she managed to become one of the best students, and as a result, after graduation, she received a red diploma.
The photo of Yulia Menshova, showing us a frame from her acting work, shows how she can transform.
Private life
The first time she almost got married, she had barely finished school. Then Julia met with a classmate, but at the last moment the girl took the documents from the registry office. According to her confession, then she wanted to get married not because there was love, but in protest to her parents.
She met her current husband in 1996. At that time, he was an actor in the Moscow Youth Theater. The meeting happened quite by accident: Menshova and their mutual friends then ended up in the theater, where they came to the play where Gordin played. After they decided to go to a restaurant, and there they met. The novel developed rapidly, and after a couple of months, the chosen one had already met Menshova's parents. At that time, Yulia was 27 years old, and Igor was 31 years old.
Future husband Yulia Menshova proposed to her after a year of relationship. From the very beginning of their acquaintance, mutual understanding arose between them - they could talk with each other for hours and often saw each other, and then they completely realized that they could not live without each other. In him, she saw the qualities of an ideal man, besides, he turned out to be a caring father.
Divorce from spouse
In 1997year, their first child, Andrei, is born. Shortly after that, omissions began in the couple, and after the birth of their second child, daughter Taisiya in 2003, mutual claims only increased, and this led to a break, but there was no official divorce.
In 2004, they began to live separately - their separation dragged on for several years, and then they got back together, realizing that they could not live without each other. Thus, Julia repeated the fate of her parents, who also decided to be together again some time after the breakup.
Theatrical activities
During her studies, she first tried herself as an actress on the professional stage. Her first work was in the television play "The Cabal of the Saints" in 1988. In 1990, Menshova began her professional career at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, and at the same time began acting in films. She worked in the troupe for 4 seasons under the direction of O. N. Efremov. Having suffered from behind-the-scenes intrigues, at some point our heroine decides to leave the theater and asks for blessings from her spiritual mentor, but only 2 years later she receives it.
Plays in the performances of the Art Partner 21st Century Theater Agency. Her works are "Pygmalion", "Stupid", "Halibut Day".
In 2011, she made her debut as a theater director. Julia staged a performance called “Love. Letters in which her parents played.
TV presenter
In the first half of the 90s, she pursued an acting career, but then decided to say goodbye to the theater andcinematography. Menshova decided to try herself on television, as she understood that she was cramped within the framework of the actress, and she could not fully open up.
When Yulia Menshova left the tetra and plunged headlong into the sphere, hitherto unfamiliar and distant to her, she could not even imagine that it would be thanks to television that she would gain popularity.
Yulia wanted to get on television without the help of her parents, but she did not manage to break through right away. Once, Viktor Merezhko, a family friend, offered her a job as an editor in the My Cinema program.
In 1994, Julia became the editor of the My Cinema program, and a year later, the host of this program. The main concept consisted in conversations with famous cinematographers on a professional topic. Later, she was elected to the position of the managing service for the production and preparation of programs on the TV-6 channel, and then she became the head of the MNVK program production directorate.
Over time, Yulia Menshova successfully masters the role of a TV presenter, the growth of her career becomes obvious, and the programs are gaining more and more ratings.
In 2001, the production center "Studio Yulia Menshova" was opened. Since 2001, she began working on the NTV channel in the program “To be continued.”
TV show "I myself"
A new and significant turn in Yulia's career is work in the talk show "I myself", which was the most rated in the mid-90s. It was one of the first women's TV shows in the CIS. Julia Menshova was the producer and host of the program "I myself" from 1995 to 2001
In transmissionwomen talked about their lives, about the various difficulties they faced, as well as about relationships with men. Menshova was awarded the TEFI award in 1999, she was awarded this award in the nomination "Talk Show Host" for the program "I myself".
In the autumn of 1997, the magazine "I myself" began to appear, where she became the editor-in-chief.
Yulia Menshova: quotes about life
- "I think that in your house there should be not just a man who could be stamped in his passport, but a man from whom it is not scary to give birth to a child."
- "I believe every woman should have her own story."
- "My zodiac sign is Leo. I crush everyone. If anyone is on my family… what are you!”
- "Being overweight is a fear of life."
- “There will be a million people in life who will say that you are not good. And parents and home are the playground where you are loved endlessly and beautiful in everything.”
Return to cinema and new projects
In the mid-2000s, she returned to TV screens again, and her role in the TV series "The Balzac Age, or All Men Are Theirs …" brought her immense popularity. At the same time, Menshova also starred in feature films.
She played in the detective series "The Crime Will Be Solved", which ran for three years. Yulia Menshova rarely plays in films, giving herself to television.
Since 2010, she has been working on the TV-3 channel in the program “Teach me how to live” - all 30 episodes are on the air. This show involved ordinary people who changed their lives under the guidance of the presenter and the teamprofessionals. In 2013, she has a new project - the program "Alone with Everyone" on Channel One.
Often Julia also acts as a host at large-scale holiday concerts, social events and exhibitions.
Famous works in films and television series
- 1990 - debut work in the film "When the Saints March".
- 1992 - Silence.
- 1993 - If only I knew.
- 2004-2013 "The Balzac Age, or All Men Are Their Own…" (4 seasons).
- 2004 - "The Best Holiday Ever".
- 2006 - Big Love.
- 2007 - "Hold Me Tight".
- 2008 - "The crime will be solved."
- 2012 - "A Strong Marriage".
- 2013 - Between Us Girls.
- 2013-2015 - Women on the Edge.
Yulia Menshova tried herself as an actress, remembering her famous roles in the cinema, and also built a career as a TV presenter, proving her self-sufficiency and independence from the star family to her colleagues and viewers.
