Biography: Lidia Velezheva. Career and personal life

A well-known actress, Honored Artist of Russia,a successful TV presenter and just a beautiful brunette with a strict look - all this Lydia Velezheva. Biography of the actress is full of ups and downs, which certainly influenced the formation of her views on life and helped her to become what she is today. Who is she, where was she born, where she studied? What was her path to today's sure day? These questions are of interest to many fans of her talent.

Biography: Lidia Velezheva in her childhood

The future television star was born on October 2, 1966 inthe capital of Ukraine, Kiev. She was born 5 minutes later than her twin sister Irina. Since the mother of the girls was alone, without her husband, she worked in different shifts, she had to hand over the daughters to a boarding school. But she visited them all the time and as soon as she got married (her companion became a retired colonel), she immediately took her daughters home. Surname Вележевой, as she said, has the Yugoslav origin, but in the actress it is a lot of blood - Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish, Italian. A great-grandfather Lydia and was a baron of the gypsy camp.

Biography: Lidia Velezheva in the cinema

The first actor's experience Lydia got back in 13 years. But the realization that she wants to connect her life with the cinema, came to her much earlier. From the very childhood she sang, danced and told poems wherever it was possible.

In 1979, the young Lydia herself came tofilm studio. Dovzhenko give his photo for the files of actors-children. The girl who wrote down all the data of Lidia looked at her attentively and asked for a moment to wait. She dialed some number and said: "Here the girl came, in my opinion, the way you need." So the "born" actress Lydia Velezheva. She won a major role in the film "Waiting." The young girl worked together with famous actors: Grinko, Talyzina, Pashkova. Yu. V. Katin-Yartsev, a teacher at the Shchukinsky School, approached Lydia's mother and said that her daughter had an undeniable talent, invited them to Moscow to enter the theater.

When Lydia arrived in Moscow, to remember hershe did not go to the teacher, she was frightened. The girl has got used all to achieve independently and never anybody about what did not ask, so has made and this time. Just in the first lesson, which was led by Yuri Vasilyevich, he recognized the young actress. After the Schukinsky school, she began working at the Moscow Academic Theater. E. Vakhtangova. So began her acting biography.

Lidia Velezheva: personal life

The actress's husband became a well-known producer and actorAlexei Guskov. Lydia says that at first glance she clearly understood that Alexei would be her husband, so strong was her foreboding. In the family of Guskov and Velezheva, two sons were born: Vladimir in 1989 and Dmitry in 1994. Lydia is difficult with three men in the house, but they love her very much and take care of her.

Biography: Lidia Velezheva and real success

For a long time, the actress was not known for wideaudience, despite the fact that there were already 14 roles in its arsenal, among them the main ones in the films "Moscow Love", "Gypsy Island", "Enchanted Wanderer".

The first tangible success came to Velezheva with the film "The Thieves". The second film with her participation, after which the actress began to learn, was the series "The investigation is conducted by connoisseurs".

In 2003, Lydia won a role in the film "The Idiot" (based on the novel by FM Dostoevsky). The director could not find an actress for a long time, and Lydia Velezheva herself became that same person, which she is very proud of.