Actor Kulagin Biography

Born on June 7 in Kirensk Irkutsk region. Soviet and Russian film and film actor, film director, screenwriter. Leonid Kulagin was born on June 7 in the city of Kirensk Irkutsk region on the Lena River. When he was six years old, the family moved to Gorky now Nizhny Novgorod, to his father’s homeland. There he grew up. He joined the theater thanks to his father, who worked as an electrician at the Gorky Drama Theater.

After school, Leonid often visited his father in the service, wandered behind the scenes, watched all the performances. Already in childhood, he first went on stage - in the play “Young Guard”. When his father quit the theater, his theatrical life stopped. He became interested in singing. In his court there was a drummer from the opera theater, where Leonid began to walk often. By the tenth grade he knew all the arias by heart and sang very well.

His idol was Fedor Chaliapin. After graduation, he faced a choice whether to go to study on an opera singer or on a dramatic actor. Since he realized that Chaliapin would not come out of him, he decided to become an actor. In the year he graduated from the Gorky Academic Drama Theater named after Gorky.

In years - actor of the Moscow Theater named after Gogol. In the year, he was awarded a silver medal for theater work. Stanislavsky, for the performance of the role in the play “Coast” by Yu. As a theater director, worked at the State Academic Russian Drama Theater of the Republic of Bashkortostan in Ufa, staged the performances of “The tragedy of the first floor” by V.

Zvelynoshchikov’s tragicomedy and the “Comical Theater” Theater fantasy based on the works of Carlo Goldoni. In years - the chief director of the Bryansk Youth Theater. In the cinema, he made his debut in the year in Andrei Konchalovsky’s film “Noble Nest”, played the role of Fedor Ivanovich Lavretsky. His partner was the famous Polish actress Beata Tyshkevich.

He later recalled: “Beata Tyshkevich is a beauty from beauties, a western star, all of Europe and half a world know her. When I first saw her, not on the screen, but in life, I didn’t recognize her - absolutely colorless face, freckles, eyebrows are so bright that they are not visible, very simple, dressed modestly. But as soon as her face was touched a little, she became irresistible!

Leonid Kulagin in the film "Noble Nest" by the next significant work was the picture of the Privalovsky Millions of the Yaropolk Lapshin. In the tape, he played Sergei Aleksandrovich Privalov, a young millionaire -and -millionaire, educated, good, but weak -winged. In the center of the plot is the story of Ilya and the Girls of Sasha Natalya Rudnaya. In their youth, they loved each other, but parted.

Ilya married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to be an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, he is still married to another, and she has experience of unsuccessful marriage. For eight days they will be on a deaf half -land, where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love. The film became the first Soviet eroticism with a large number of bed scenes.

Leonid Kulagin said: “When I went on tour with this film, I immediately warned that I won’t go to the audience after showing the film, only before, because I was tired of answering the same questions: did my wife be jealous of, because there were two-thirds of the plot in bed; did I really kiss and did I have something seriously? It is not easy to answer these questions - no one will believe that nothing could be.

"Leonid Kulagin in the film" Ballad of the Valiant Knight of Ivengo "in the actor often began to appear on the screen in television series. The most significant work of Kulagin was the Kulagin and Partners detective. The series is the main facts and real stories from life. The hero of the series, the employees of which can be engaged in and the image of the script of the Soviet period of the Soviet period in the biographical series “Mysterious Passion” in the series “The mysterious passion” in the Havriel, the role of the Archbishop of Gaberia in the historical series “Ekaterina The Order of the Friendship of Leonid Kulagina: the first wife was married twice - they met in Nizhny Novgorod, where he played in the local theater, and she came to the tour of the cheat.

She was born and raised in Yaroslavl, in an acting family, she graduated from a theater school there, and then ran away from her parents, settling in the Chita theater. And this theater came to our city on tour. Our feelings flashed right away, it seems, for the first time I did not think about the fact that I would have to part, maybe I decided that I would go to this woman to the ends of the world.

"Then they worked together in Chita for a year and a half, then left for Yaroslavl, where their family life was launched. The second wife - Eleanor Kulagin in girlishness Lapitskaya. We met in the Lipetsk Theater.By the way, Eleanor played the same role that his first wife previously played. The son of Alexei was born in marriage, he is engaged in the advertising business, presented the actor of his grandson Cyril.