Zoya Simonova

Zoya Kaidanovskaya was born into a vibrant artistic family. Her parents are famous actors Evgenia Simonova and Alexander Kaidanovsky, the charming Princess from "An Ordinary Miracle" and the gloomy Stalker from the film masterpiece of the same name by Andrei Tarkovsky. When cinema and theater are in the blood, it is difficult to make a choice in favor of another profession, and Zoya Kaidanovskaya followed in the footsteps of her mother and father. Today she plays on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theater, acts in films. She is known to a wide audience mainly for the pictures of her stepfather - director Andrei Eshpai: Children of the Arbat, Ellipsis, Ivan the Terrible.

Zoya Aleksandrovna Kaidanovskaya was born on November 5, 1976 in Moscow. Her parents met 2 years before her birth on the set of the movie "The Lost Expedition" and soon got married.

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In the late 70s, Evgenia Simonova starred a lot and left for the shooting, entrusting the child to her mother - Olga Sergeevna Vyazemskaya. It was the grandmother who became Zoya's first idol - a teacher by profession, she gave her granddaughters (Zoya has several sisters from her mother's brother - the famous writer and host of the "Clever and Clever" program Yuri Vyazemsky) the basics of education, studied English, which she knew perfectly well, carried away painting ...

Zoe's other hobby was music. From an early age, the girl reproduced any melody cleanly, demonstrating excellent hearing. The result was training at the Gnessin school, which Zoya immediately disliked, but her grandmother carefully monitored her granddaughter's diligence. And this has borne fruit in the future - today the actress sings in performances.

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The marriage between Simonova and Kaidanovsky turned out to be fragile. The brilliant, outstanding actor was absolutely unadapted to marriage and everyday life. When their daughter was 4 years old, the actors divorced.

And 2 years later, a new husband appeared in Simonova's life - director Andrei Eshpai (the actress starred in his film "When Bach was played"). Zoya's younger sister, Maria Eshpai, was born: Evgenia Pavlovna named her daughters after her grandmothers. Stepfather Zoya accepted and fell in love right away, as well as the atmosphere that he brought: a big friendly family, endless guests, happy holidays.

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Zoya also willingly communicated with her father, but Kaidanovskaya disliked her last name. And so much so that at the age of 11, my mother transferred her to the name of Simonov and arranged for another school. The transitional age also became a difficult time for the girl herself and for her parents. Zoya did not like her appearance, her short stature (165 cm). According to the artist herself, there were bad companies, depression, and alcohol.

At the family council, it was decided to take the rebel from the graduation class and give it to GITIS. So the girl got into the acting and directing course of Boris Golubovsky. Studying at the university was interrupted: Zoya left, doubting herself, but returned again and received a diploma in 1999.

While still a teenager, Kaidanovskaya made her film debut. Director Vladimir Aleinikov offered the girl a role in his historical drama Feofania Painting Death (1991). In the film, which tells about the period of Russia, the era of the birth of Christianity, Zoya played Nastya, the daughter of the protagonist Gregory.

After graduating from GITIS, since the beginning of the 2000s, the actress has been filming without a break. Moreover, she takes the creative pseudonym Kaidanovskaya.

In 2003, the girl appeared in a small episode of the popular detective series "Evlampia Romanova: The Investigation Leads by an Amateur". And in 2004 he plays one of the main roles in the series “Children of the Arbat” by Andrey Eshpai based on the work of the same name by Anatoly Rybakov.

This film became her first serious work in the cinema. In the drama about how, against the background of the events of the 30s and 40s, the destinies of ordinary people break down - the guys from the old house on the Arbat, a whole scattering of stars played - Chulpan Khamatova, Evgeny Tsyganov, Daniil Strakhov, Inga Oboldina and others. Kaidanovskaya played the beautiful Vika Marasevich, the professor's daughter, a lover of a beautiful life.

The next picture in the filmography of the actress is "Ellipsis", also directed by her stepfather. The drama tells about the biography of the famous sculptor Kira Georgievna, who, being happily married, suddenly meets her first husband, her great love, whom she considered lost in the camps. The main role was played by Evgenia Simonova, and Zoya got the role of a girl named Tonya.

In 2007, Kaidanovskaya starred in Larisa Sadilova's Nothing Personal. The heroine is a lonely pharmacist Irina, tired of life. A private detective Vladimir Zimin (Valery Barinov) is monitoring her apartment and is imbued with the unhappy fate of his "object".

When it turns out that the customer has mixed up the apartments and it is necessary to follow Irina's neighbor, the socialite Katya, Zimin does not lose sight of the one who touched his heart. For this role, Zoya Kaidanovskaya received the Best Actress Award at the IFF in Yalta. And the film itself won the FIPRESCI prize at the Moscow IFF.

In 2009, Andrei Eshpai's multi-part historical film "Ivan the Terrible" was released. The director decided to film his version of the era of the great Russian tsar, focusing on the controversial personality of the monarch, which combined strength and talent, but at the same time exorbitant cruelty and ambition. Kaidanovskaya played the mother of Ivan the Terrible - the Grand Duchess Elena Glinskaya.

Among the artist's works, it is worth highlighting the drama "Elysium" (2012), which tells about the life of the poets of the Silver Age, in which Zoya played Olga Dmitrievna, as well as the touching children's film "Puppy" (2009), where the actress appeared as Vera, the mother of the main character Alyosha ...

The artist's popularity skyrocketed after her role in the rating series Method (2015) with Konstantin Khabensky and Paulina Andreeva in the lead roles. The acting couple play the detective Meglin and his trainee Yesenia Steklov, who solve intricate and bloody crimes. Steklova wants to get to the bottom of the mysterious death of her mother, which happened many years ago. Kaidanovskaya played a woman named Irina Ignatovich - a patient of a psychiatric clinic, who turns out to be Yesenia's real mother.

Zoya Kaidanovskaya and Konstantin Konstantinov

In parallel with the cinema, the theatrical career of the artist is developing. After GITIS, in 1999, she served at the Variety Theater for 2 years (performances "Vanya and the Crocodile", "Life is getting better"). She also collaborated with the theater on Malaya Bronnaya (play "Three Tall Women"). Now (since 2006) she has been working with her mother at the Mayakovsky Theater, appears on the renowned stage in such productions as Gogol's "The Marriage" (Agafya Tikhonovna), "Cupids in the Snow" (Avdotya Potapievna), "On Suitcases" (Bella) and others.

With her husband, actor Alexei Zakharov, Zoya Kaidanovskaya studied at GITIS. But the relationship between the artists began after graduation. For a long time, young people lived in a civil marriage and officially got married years after the birth of their son Alexei. Moreover, there were no magnificent ceremonies and wedding photo shoots, they just put wedding rings on each other.

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This is exactly how the actress tells about her personal life in numerous interviews. However, a number of sources report that the artist's first marriage happened even earlier - with classmate Maxim Slavkin. It was from him that Zoya gave birth to Alyosha, whom Zakharov later adopted. And Zakharov's own child was the daughter of Varvara, whom Kaidanovskaya gave birth to in 2010.

In 2015, Express Gazeta reported that a representative of a famous surname divorced her husband: the discord was due to Zoya's success, the husband simply did not want to put up with it. The new chosen one of the actress was businessman Alexander Bykov.

In 2019, the Russia-1 channel aired the TV series Tell the Truth, directed by Andrey Eshpai. Zoya Kaidanovskaya played a supporting role in the project.

1991 - "Feofania, painting death" 2003 - "Evlampiya Romanova. The investigation is conducted by an amateur "2004 -" Children of the Arbat "2005 -" The Goddess of Prime Time "2006 -" Ellipsis "2006 -" Signs of Love "2007 -" Nothing Personal "2009 -" Ivan the Terrible "2009 -" Puppy "2010 -" House Suns "2012 -" Elysium "2015 -" Adult daughters "2015 -" Method "2016 -" Sklifosovsky. Resuscitation "2019 -" Tell the Truth "

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