Most likely, few know who the director of such famous films as “Poor Nastya”, “Bachelors”, “They Don't Part With Beloved”, and many others that have been broadcast on television several times. This is the actress, director, producer Ekaterina Dvigubskaya, which will be discussed in the article.
Biography Pages
Catherine was born on October 14, 1974 in a family of people of creative professions, closely associated with cinema. Catherine's mom is a famous film actress Natalya Arinbasarova (of Kazakh origin). Father, Nikolai Dvigubsky, was a theater artist and production designer. A talented girl from childhood was involved in the world of art and creativity. Yegor Mikhalkov-Kanchalovsky, the stepbrother of Katyusha, grew up in the family from his first marriage. Unfortunately, the marriage of the parents did not last long. Father left the family when Katerina was 6 years old.
Nikolai Dvigubsky went to France and created a new family there. Mom was very difficult to participate in the filming and raise a daughter. Arinbasarova identified Ekaterina Dvigubskaya for 2 years in a boarding school. The girl believed that being in it tempered her and helped develop an inner core. Good memory and wonderful abilities of the girl allowed her to easily learn English and French. During the restructuring in the 90s, Katerina was able to get the opportunity to go to her father in Paris during the holidays at school, where she practiced and improved her French. Father devoted a lot of time to his daughter during her visits, drove to museums, taught to understand painting.
Institute
After graduating from high school, Ekaterina Dvigubskaya entered the acting department of VGIK, where she learned the basics of acting at meters such as Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and Albert Filozov. All the years of study, she enthusiastically attended lectures and participated in the filming. As a student, she starred in the film "Tram-Tararam, or Bay-floundering." Kateryna graduated from high school with honors. Her teachers already at the institute saw a promising young actress in Catherine.
"... here (at the institute) I was immensely interested, and I understood that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, and therefore I tried ..."
But during her studies, she became interested in directing, so Catherine immediately entered the courses of scriptwriters and directors and graduated from this educational institution with another red diploma.
The directorial thesis was a short film "You and Me." The work was done according to her own script. The actors in the film were her mother Natalya and Ekaterina Dvigubskaya herself (pictured below).
Creation
The real popularity of Catherine brought the series "Poor Nastya." It was a joint work with the Columbia Pictures film studio, made according to American technologies, which made it possible to shoot the series in parallel with its broadcast. Catherine’s work with film studio directors made it possible to see how American colleagues work and learn a lot. Another equally successful project is the series "Bachelors", where the director herself starred in several episodes. As a director, Catherine worked on the following films:
- "Dear Masha Berezina."
- "Deal".
- "Moscow, I love you!".
- "Love melody".
- "Kink".
- "Your world".
- "To death is beautiful."
- "The doctor."
Actress Dvigubskaya starred in the films "The Perfect Couple", "Adventure", "Operation" and others. As a producer, she performed on the four-room reality show.
Catherine tried herself on the literary path, becoming a co-author of autobiographical books by Natalia Arinbasarova’s mother, “Moon Roads” and “Lost Childhood”.
Personal life of Ekaterina Dvigubskaya
Catherine does not like to talk about her personal life, leaving her, as they say, "behind the scenes", especially since she developed late. As Dvigubskaya herself says, she devoted all her time to work.
At 29, she began to live in a civil marriage with producer Alexander Gottlieb, who at that time was 47 years old. Having lived together for 7 years, the couple realized that they have different interests, as well as their attitude to life. Perhaps the difference in age or absolute employment with work in which there was no time left for the family and children played a role.
Ekaterina Dvigubskaya broke up with her civil husband painlessly, deciding that it would be better for both.
After some time, Katerina met Alexander Bykov, who became her husband. In marriage with Alexander, her first-born Timothy appeared. With the advent of the child, Catherine began to devote a lot of time to him. Family trips to museums, theaters and exhibitions have become traditional. Parents try to instill in their child a sense of beauty.
What is Dvigubskaya working on now
As a director, Ekaterina works in different genres. Her works include romantic comedies and social dramas. One of the latest works released on television screens is the four-episode melodrama Husband with Home Delivery. Catherine starred in this series and as an actress.
In 2016, she directed the tragic melodrama "The Smell of Lavender" and the film with a detective tint "Payback for Happiness." In the same year, the film "Frozen" was released, in which Catherine raises the issue of parenting and the problems of child psychology.
2017 was no less fruitful. The light saw the four-part melodrama "Swing". In addition to this work, Ekaterina Dvigubskaya began work as a director on the films "Attacker" and "Ghosts of the Past."