Sergei Chonishvili

Sergei Chonishvili came up with a formula for success in the profession - to play yourself. Even if other traits, character are cultivated in the character, the actor must walk alongside. Constant employment in the theater and on the set is not at all from the desire to earn all the money in the world. The artist jokes that if he wanted to become rich, he would give up art, take up oil or gas, or even try his luck in the corridors of the State Duma.

Honored Artist of Russia, writer, theater and film actor Sergei Chonishvili was born in 1965 in Tula into a creative family. Father Nozheri Chonishvili - People's Artist of the Soviet Union, after his death, the Omsk House of Actor was named in his honor. Sergei's mother, Valeria Prokop - People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Despite the fact that the boy's childhood was spent in the theater and observing what was happening behind the scenes, he did not dream of becoming an actor. Sergey liked the profession of an oceanologist, fanned by romance, and his idol was the famous scientist Jacques-Yves Cousteau. In his school years, the future actor attended a music school, Chonishvili still plays the piano well and loves jazz.

In high school, it becomes clear that parental genes have won: for the first time, the son thought that he would follow in the footsteps of dad and mom. After school, Sergei Chonishvili, throwing away his last doubts, becomes a student at the Boris Shchukin Theater School. The guy was taught by outstanding stage masters Yuri Avsharov, Alexander Shirvindt and Yuri Katin-Yartsev.

In 1986, the actor was awarded a red diploma and invited to work in the troupe of the famous "Lenkom". For a long time, Sergei Chonishvili plays supporting roles or participates in extras.

For the first leading role he was invited by Andrei Zhitinkin, who staged the play "Playing blind man's buff" for the Independent Theater Project. The director was impressed by Chonishvili's acting skills, and he invited him to cooperate further.

The creative biography of Sergei Chonishvili continued on the stage of "Tabakerka", Oleg Tabakov's theater. Zhitinkin brought him here, who staged two performances on the stage of "Tabakerka" - "Psycho" and "Old Quarter".

The actor also played on the stage of the A. Chekhov Theater. Here the theater-goers saw a talented artist in the sensational performances "Event" based on the play by Vladimir Nabokov, "Ideal husband. Comedy "based on the works of Oscar Wilde and" The Musketeers. Saga. Part one".

However, “Lenkom” remained the main one for Chonishvili. Here Sergei Nozherievich played his best roles in such performances as "Vabank", "Dictatorship of Conscience", "Juno and Avos" and "Mystification". For the role of Nozdryov in the latest production, Sergei Chonishvili was awarded the prestigious Seagull theatrical prize.

In 1999, Chonishvili was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

In 2000, the artist was awarded the I.M.Smoktunovsky Prize. And 7 years later, for the role of Kochkarev in the production of Mark Zakharov's "The Marriage" Chonishvili received the second prize "The Seagull".

As for the cinema, at first the actor, like many of his novice colleagues, was offered only episodic roles. In 1986, in the sensational youth film "Courier", Sergei Chonishvili played a friend of the main character Katya.

The first major role went to Sergei Chonishvili only in 1995 in the historical series "Petersburg Mysteries". The tape based on the famous novel by Vsevolod Krestovsky "Petersburg Slums" was a tremendous success. The creators of the project have collected in it the color of Russian cinema. Sergei Chonishvili appeared in the form of an insidious seducer - Prince Voldemar of Shadursky.

The image brought fame to the actor, but his film career stopped there. Sergei was not invited to the main roles for a long time, so he decided to do another art form - dubbing films, cartoons and commercials.

Today Sergei Chonishvili is the most famous voice actor for Russian cinema and television, he became the official voice of the STS TV channel. The actor has voiced dozens of documentaries and feature films. With the advent of computer games, Chonishvili took on them: he has at least four dozen voiced game roles on his account.

The unique velvety timbre of Sergei Chonishvili (bass-baritone) is now no less recognizable by contemporaries than the voice of Yuri Levitan in the 20th century. The voice of the artist sounds off-screen in many popular projects of the central TV channels of Russia. From 1999 to 2005, Chonishvili voiced the program “Around the World”, beloved by millions, on the channel “Russia”. On NTV, his voice-overs sounded in the Top Secret program, and on Channel One, Sergei Nozherievich voiced the documentaries Secrets of Love and Secrets of Death.

The artist's amazingly beautiful and rich voice also came in handy for scoring a variety of audiobooks: Sergei Chonishvili has read dozens of works on his account.

In the 2000s, the actor again began to be invited to the main roles in the movies. In 2002, viewers saw him in the film adaptation of the first book of the famous writer Boris Akunin about the adventures of Erast Fandorin: in the detective film Azazel by Alexander Adabashyan, Sergei Chonishvili played Ippolit Alexandrovich Zurov.

Soon, the artist was invited to prominent roles in the films "Goodbye, Doctor Freud", "Shifted", "Bride to Order" and "New Year's Romance".

Sergei Chonishvili with his velvety voice and oriental appearance (his father is Georgian by nationality) can often be seen in the image of a hero-lover, in which he is very convincing. Directors invite him to such roles quite often.

In 2005, viewers enthusiastically watched the development of the passionate relationship between the heroes of Sergei Chonishvili and Irina Pegova in the TV series "Girlfriend of a Special Purpose". A year later, the artist appeared in the melodrama "Lovers", where he played a teacher who seduced his student - the beautiful Dina. The role of the student went to the young actress Glafira Tarkhanova.

In 2008, Alexei Muradov's melodrama "Can't Enter the Same River Twice" was released, in which Sergei Chonishvili and Olga Lomonosova played a married couple. In the film, a spouse is cheating on his wife by making a "virtual" girlfriend, while he does not even suspect that this is his wife, who decided to check her soul mate for loyalty.

In 2010, Sergei Chonishvili appeared in two notable films - the mystical crime tape "Thirty-seventh Novel" and the adventurous series "Notes of the Forwarder of the Secret Chancery", in which he played one of the main roles - the head of the Secret Chancellery Ushakov. In this series, he met on the set with Anna Snatkina, Peter Krasilov and Ilya Sokolovsky.

The following year, the successful project was continued: the second season of the series was released, in which Chonishvili again played Andrei Ushakov.

The ironic detective "Gray Gelding" is an adaptation of the story of the same name by Sergei's colleague in the shop, People's Artist of Russia Andrei Myagkov. The film told about the investigation into the murder of the ex-wife of the actor, in which her friends were suspected. And all because all 3 women were once in love with an idol, but he ignored them. Chonishvili's company in the frame was made up of Olga Kabo, Alexander Domogarov.

In the melodrama "All for You" Sergei played the role of a co-owner of a construction company, who simultaneously solves problems in business and on the "personal front".

In the early 2000s, Sergei Chonishvili tried himself as a writer and realized his childhood dream - to write books. His first collection is called "Minor Changes", and after 3 years the actor issues a full-fledged book "Train Man".

In 2013, he played a major specialist in the acclaimed war drama Ashes, which received high ratings and laudatory reviews. The following year, Sergei Chonishvili delighted his fans by appearing in the New Year's Flight melodrama, in which he was on a par with the key characters of Oksana Fandera, Svetlana Khodchenkova and Marat Basharov.

The filming of the detective "Snoop" with the participation of Chonishvili, as well as Ingeborga Dapkunaite and Mikhail Khmurov ended as soon as it began. The background of the incident is unknown, and the audience was able to see the project of the same name by Dmitry Brusnikin with Anna Banshchikova in the title role, which the creators of the first picture saw in the image of Dapkunaite's assistant.

And in 2016, Sergei Chonishvili played the grandfather in the eponymous Russian-Ukrainian TV series Igor Moskvitin. But the artist's grandfather is not exactly what most of us imagine him to be: he is a successful and respectable businessman who is going to marry a young beauty. Therefore, the granddaughter who has fallen on his head is a real burden, with which you need to learn to live.

The hero Chonishvili in the drama "The Cruel World of Men" is a representative of the business world and one of those who lead the new head of a financial corporation by the nose. Ravshana Kurkova starred in this role.

Little is known about the personal life of the popular Russian actor, although they say that the artist has it rather stormy. In an official marriage, Sergei Chonishvili visited only once: his wife gave birth to two children - daughters Anna and Alexandra. But the idyll did not last long. The artist assures that he did not work out with his family due to constant employment, and love is a plant that requires constant attention and time for its development.

If you believe the rumors, Sergei Chonishvili was married 3 more times, but civil. And in the studio of Yulia Menshova's program "Alone with everyone" he admitted that there are much more children.

The names of the women who lived with the actor for some time are unknown: Sergei is extremely reluctant to open the veil of mystery in this area of ​​life.

The name of one of Chonishvili's chosen ones, with whom he is credited with an affair, is Liza Boyarskaya. If you believe the rumors, then Sergei was Elizabeth's first serious love, but for unknown reasons, the couple broke up. Either Lisa's father opposed the romance between his beloved daughter and a man who is 2 times her age, or the frivolity of Sergei Chonishvili and his unwillingness to tie himself by marriage played a fatal role - is unknown. Elizaveta Boyarskaya and Sergei Chonishvili did not comment on their relationship.

The actor is not present on social networks, but photos and videos with Chonishvili's participation are freely available on the Web and on his official website.

In 2018, Sergei Chonishvili recorded new audiobooks - "The Last Russian Tsar" about Emperor Nicholas II Edward Radzinsky and "Karmalogik" by psychotherapist Alexei Sitnikov. At the same time, he manages to play in the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, "Snuffbox" and the Theater of Nations. Perhaps this speed of life is wrong, but the lack of free time is a way to always be in good shape, says the actor.

Sergey got a supporting role in the thriller with elements of eroticism "The Kept Women". This is the first series in the career of director Konstantin Bogomolov, and his ex-wife Daria Moroz played one of the main roles.

In the first quarter of 2019, the premiere of the film "The Magician" about a former rock musician giving lessons to a disabled boy took place. In addition to Sergei Chonishvili, the ensemble includes Maxim Sukhanov, Ivan Okhlobystin and Irina Kupchenko.

Together with Andrei Chernyshov and Daniil Spivakovsky, the actor starred in the crime tape Anatomy of a Murder. The plot revolves around the difficult life of a pathologist who hides a colleague's professional mistake.

Soon, a historical tape with a budget of $ 16 million will appear in Sergei's filmography. The King of Madagascar is being filmed by Oleg Ryaskov, with whom Chonishvili worked in Notes of the Forwarder of the Secret Chancellery. In the new project, the artist again plays the head of this body of political investigation, General Andrey Ushakov.

The fantastic drama "Ikaria" is dedicated to the theme of human immortality. Eternal life will be gained by those who dare to repeat the flight of Daedalus and Icarus and at the same time make a difficult moral choice. Along with the experienced Sergei Chonishvili, young artists of the Gogol Center Alexander Revenko, Rinal Mukhametov and Nikita Kukushkin starred in the film as the Smoking Man. Ivan Yankovsky, grandson of Oleg and son of Philip Yankovsky, is invited to the main role.

2003 - "Theater Blues" 2005 - "Girlfriend of Special Purpose" 2006 - "Lovers" 2007 - "Point of Return" 2008 - "Twice in the same river" 2010 - "All for you" 2010 - "Gray gelding" 2013 - "A matter of honor "2016 -" Grandpa "2017 -" Vera "2019 -" Magician "

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