Actress Valeria Kiseleva

Talented actress Kiseleva Valeria Ivanovna to esthetes from art is familiar from the memorable theatrical works. But for a simple audience, Valeriya Ivanovna is better known as the mother of a national favorite, a presenter, a showman with an excellent sense of humor - Ivan Urgant.

short biography

On the life of the actress Valeria Kiseleva little is known. She was born on February 7, 1951. The fact that Valeria Ivanovna has a creative vein was visible from childhood. However, she entered the theater institute of LGIC when she was twenty years old. Here, at the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, she met the future coryphaeus of the acting department, Andrei Lvovich Urgant.

In 1977 Valeria Kiseleva finished theatrical. April 16, 1978, Valeria and Andrew Urgant had a son Ivan. Unfortunately, the civil marriage did not lead to the wedding. A year after the birth of Ivan Urgant, the acting duo broke up. The son remained to live with his mother, in his beloved Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). However, the dream of a real family did not leave Valeria. She married a colleague in the shop - Leningrad actor Dmitry Ladygin. As a result, Ivan had two more sisters.

It is worth noting the remarkable character of Valery Ivanovna, by the way, recently celebrated the anniversary. Friends characterize her as a really very modest person, an intelligent talented touching woman with a subtle emotional organization, a loving mother. And the fact that Ivan Urgant rarely talks about her in various interviews, it's rather a personal request from Valeria Ivanovna.

Creative way

Valeria Ivanovna - the owner of a memorable appearance, so characteristic of comic actors, clearly passed on to her son Ivan Urgant. If Valeria is compared with Pierre Richard, you might think that they are a sister and a brother. The first notable actor's works of Valeria Kiseleva are connected with the VF Komissarzhevskaya Theater. But the expressive image, sense of humor and incredibly lively facial expressions and asked for a comedy genre.

No wonder that, since 1986, the actress has been working in the famous St. Petersburg Comedy Theater. N.P. Akimova. Thanks to bright works, mainly theatrical, in 2000 Valeria Kiseleva was awarded the deserved title "Honored Artist of Russia".

Theatrical works:

Work in the cinema:

Cinematography could not leave Valery Ivanovna alone. Already in 1983, the actress played in a children's comedy fairy tale "Tin rings". In the 85th the film "Cross the Line" was released. The 86th was marked by a role in the film "A trip to his son", which collected a decent collection of festival awards.

Megastar of direction Dmitry Astrakhan made three films with the participation of the actress: the role in the melodrama "You have one" (1993), as well as in the comedy "Everything Will Be Good" (1995) and the fantastic parable "The Fourth Planet" (1995). Actress Kiseleva fell in love with a fairy-tale genre, as evidenced by the role in the children's film "The House of the Old Castle" (1995).

In recent years, proposals from the creators of domestic films and television series have been showered one by one. Among them: