Anastasia Vertinskaya was born on December 19, 1944 in the city of Moscow. Her family has been abroad for a long time and only a year before Anastasia was born, Vertinsky got permission to return to their homeland, to Russia. Anastasia's father - Alexander N. Vertinsky, a great chanson, composer, an ancestor of the author's song. Mother - Vertinskaya Lydia Vladimirovna, an actress and an artist. Anastasia Vertinskaya has an older sister, Marianna Vertinskaya, the actress of the theater Eugenia Vakhtangova. In the family, girls were always given a lot of attention. Parents tried to give their daughters a better education, they wanted the girls to grow up versatile, regardless of who they become.
Particular attention was paid to the study of foreign languages and the employment of music. The father was very anxious about his daughters. He was happy with any of their successes, never "brought up" them. And if the girls did something wrong, he said that he was very afflicted when they were fooling. And Anastasia and Marianna tried to do everything so that his father did not suffer. In her childhood, Anastasia really wanted to become a ballerina, but she was not accepted into the ballet school, citing her weight, she was a big girl for a ballerina. Then Anastasia wanted to devote herself to learning foreign languages, but everything changed in 1961, when Vertinskaya performed the main role in the film "Scarlet Sails." Anastasia decided to link her life with the theater. Also in 1961 the film "Amphibian Man" was released, in which Vertinskaya performed the role of the main character - Gutiera. Anastasia really wanted to work, for the sake of filming in the film she learned to swim perfectly. She personally acted in the water, dived without scuba gear, without resorting to the help of backupers. The film "Amphibian Man" became the leader of the film distribution in 1962. Anastasia Vertinskaya is recognized everywhere, she says that she was oppressed in this respect, it was impossible to go quietly to the subway, go to the store. People wanted to touch it, impose their communication.
In 1962, Anastasia was invited to the troupe of the Moscow Pushkin Theater. She, not having a special education, touring with the acting brigade throughout the country. In 1963, Anastasia comes on the second attempt at the Theater Institute named after Boris Shchukin. At the entrance exams, she failed and only because of her played roles she was allowed to retake the exams. Among the classmates of Anastasia was Nikita Mikhalkov. Three years later, in 1966, they become spouses. In the same year, Vertinskaya and Mikhalkov had a son, Stepan. The marriage of Anastasia and Nikita was short-lived, it lasted incomplete four years. The gap occurred, because Vertinskaya wanted to become an actress, and, according to Mikhalkov, the wife should monitor the house, give birth and bring up children, wait for her husband. But even after the break with Nikita, Anastasia remained respectful to him and instilled this feeling to her son.
In 1963, her, an inexperienced actress, was invited to the role of Ophelia in the film adaptation of Hamlet, Shakespeare. It was the role of the world repertoire, and Vertinskaya coped with it with brilliance. After this role, she literally showered suggestions, Anastasia becomes the most demanded actress. Since 1968, Vertinskaya actress of the leading Moscow theaters - a theater named after E. Vakhtang, the Pushkin Theater, Sovremennik, later the Moscow Art Theater. By this time, she played in the film epic "War and Peace" by Lisa Bolkonskaya, in the film adaptation of Anna Karenina by the role of Kitty Shcherbatskaya. But work in the movie did not satisfy Vertinskaya, she did not feel like a real actress.
And it was the work in the Moscow Art Theater that made it possible to feel confident in being an actress. She played in such theatrical productions as "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Tartuffe", "The Beautiful Resurrection for a Picnic", "The 12th Night", "Valentine and Valentine", etc. Ten years after his first marriage. Vertinskaya is getting married a second time, for the composer and singer Alexander Gratsky. But this marriage lasted even less than the first. After the second marriage, Anastasia decided that she can not be happy in marriage, noise, children, the husband is not for her. And she gives herself completely to work in the theater and cinema. For all its popularity Vertinskaya is alien to society. She likes to be alone, loves comfort, coziness. He likes to cook, he prefers Chinese, Georgian, Siberian cuisine. He is pleased to train chefs in his son's restaurant, Stepan Mikhalkov - restaurateur, cooking various dishes of Russian and Georgian cuisine.
Currently, Anastasia Vertinskaya refuses to play in the movies, as she does not see any interesting proposals for herself. She organized and headed the charitable foundation of Russian actors. The organization is engaged in charity to needy actors - veterans of theater and cinema, and also supports young talents. This is her, Anastasia Vertinskaya, whose personal life is so rich in events.