Irina Selezneva

Irina Selezneva is a multifaceted actress. She managed to gain professional success at home and abroad, she knows two foreign languages.

Perestroika, unkind to the actors, did not put an end to Selezneva's career, and the difficulties of her first marriage did not become an obstacle to Irina's gaining personal happiness.

The biography of the actress began on September 8, 1961. Irina was born in Kiev, then the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, into a family of Soviet engineers. From the age of 4, the girl herself knew that she would be an actress, but life at first was different. For many years, Selezneva was an athlete, at the age of 10 she received the title of master of sports in swimming.

In the photo from the competition, it is difficult to recognize an actress known for feminine roles. Ira was a member of the Olympic team, but she did not get 0.4 seconds to be admitted to the competition.

Irina's father dreamed that his daughter would study music, but this desire turned out to be unrealizable. The family did not live well and could not afford to buy an instrument. And soon after the birth of Volodya's younger brother, the parents divorced, and the girl did not have time for herself. Mother worked two jobs, and Ira had a household on her shoulders.

Ira managed to find time only for classes in the theater studio under the leadership of Joseph Sats - this helped to cope with depression after leaving the national team. Immediately after the start of classes, the girl got a role in the play "The Incident". The atmosphere of the stage finally convinced Selezneva of her intentions to become an actress. After waiting for her brother to go to grade 1, the girl announced to her mother that she would go to enter the theater, in Leningrad. According to her in an interview with the magazine "7 Days", my mother reacted calmly, gave 23 rubles for the road, but warned: "You will not enter."

Mom was wrong - Ira entered LGITMiK the first time, on the Katsman-Dodin course. The student years were hungry, but fun. According to the actress's recollections, a popular student dish they had was "luxus" - a mixture of white bread, onions and vinegar.

After graduation, Irina, along with her husband Maxim Leonidov, was admitted to the Bolshoi Drama Theater. Tovstonogov. There, Selezneva's theatrical career began, which continued already at the Maly Drama Theater - in the first place of work, she was not given serious roles.

Selezneva's film career began in 1987 with the complex picture The Kreutzer Sonata. During the filming, the actress was hospitalized with appendicitis. There, taking advantage of the situation, she asked doctors what the facial expressions of a person who was wounded in the stomach could be - her heroine died that way. In the end, one of the doctors reminded the actress that she herself had a hole in her stomach, so there was nothing to learn.

After that there was a successful film "The Temptation", but Irina got a small role there.

Until 1994, the actress did not act in film - the cinema of Russia was going through difficult times, and Selezneva herself left the country and went to Israel. Irina was offered to act on the Promised Land, but the actress refused. The roles mainly exploited the theme of Russian repatriates and were monotonous. Irina did not risk acting in the images of indigenous Israeli women, she was afraid not to get into the image.

The only appearance of the actress in Israeli cinema was her role in the biographical film 1994 "The Man Who Loved Hebrew." All that is known about cinema in Russia is that it is a film about Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the man who revived spoken Hebrew.

In 1995, the film “Moscow Holidays” was released, in which Irina appeared in the role of the eccentric Italian Luciana. The movie, shot by Alla Surikova, was warmly received by the audience and still often appears on TV screens. "Moscow Holidays" became a chance to return to work in a stellar team - with Yarmolnik, Tabakov, Dzhigarkhanyan.

But the next film "Imagination Play", where Irina worked with Igor Kostolevsky, went unnoticed. The cast of the film was no less famous, but neither the critics nor the public appreciated the film. The reviews pointed to a weak script, a clear lack of budget, and an unconvincing acting.

After that, Irina rarely starred - she practically did not live in Russia, and it was difficult to get out to the shooting. In 2007 and 2008, the actress appeared in the series “Age of Sagittarius” and “Age of Sagittarius-2”. In 2009, she played a major role in another detective series - “Redistribution. Blood with milk". The paintings did not have success, having received average ratings.

The first whirlwind romance of the actress happened during her studies. Beloved Emilio was Cuban and studied to be a theater critic. However, the man, himself very jealous, cheated on Irina with a girl from a polygraphic college who gave birth to a child from him. In addition, in the end, Emilio went back to Cuba and never returned.

After that, Irina began to meet with Maxim Leonidov, who later became a famous Russian rock and roll player and leader of the Secret group. The young people got married, and in 1990 the musician decided to immigrate to Israel. Selezneva is not Jewish by nationality, but she had the right to emigrate as the wife of Maxim Leonidov.

In Israel, marriage gradually began to deteriorate. One of the reasons was Irina's success on the theater stage in Israel, while Maxim's artistic and musical career did not work out.

The husband began to leave for Russia more and more often, met Anna Banshchikova there and put the final end to his marriage with Selezneva. When Maxim returned to Russia, Irina continued to live and work in Israel. The difficult divorce proceedings lasted 3 years. One day, Ira's friend took her to unwind in a bar, where the woman met the Englishman Wilfrid.

In 2000, Selezneva took three cats and left for England, where she and Wilf got married.

The actress has no children of her own, but she has an excellent relationship with Briny, Wilfrid's daughter from her first marriage. Briny's daughter, Daily Louise, Irina truly loves and considers her granddaughter.

The actress lives in the UK with her husband, in the town of Wheatley Chapel. Irina does not break off ties with Russia and does not abandon the idea of ​​continuing her acting career.

Now the woman is happy in her personal life and says that she does not regret anything in her past.

1985 - "One for All!" 1985 - "No need to be sad" 1987 - "Kreutzer Sonata" 1987 - "Temptation" 1989 - "Black Cat" 1994 - "Moscow Holidays" 1995 - "Imagination" 1998 - "Twice Buskila" 2007 - "Age of Sagittarius" 2008 - “Era of Streltsa-2” 2008 - “Redistribution. Blood with milk"

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