Alexander Zbruev is familiar to every spectator of our vast country. His roles are still pleasing to us. But still, many are inclined to consider his role as Ganji's “Best Break” as his best work. Zbruev is open to new projects and with unshakable firmness protects his personal life. A brief biography of the actor is presented in this article.
Childhood and youth
Alexander Viktorovich is a native Muscovite. He was born here in March 1938. His mother, Tatyana Fedorova, came from a noble family that was known even under Peter the Great. The actor never saw his father Viktor Alekseevich. Even before the birth of Alexander, the elder Zbruyev, who was the head of one of the branches of the People’s Commissariat of Communications, was arrested and executed six months later on charges of participation in a counter-revolutionary organization.
When Alexander was only a month and a half, he and his mother were sent from Moscow to Rybinsk, where they lived for five years. They managed to return to the apartment on Arbat only in the midst of World War II (in 1943). By that time, five-room housing had turned into a communal apartment.
Alexander has an older brother Eugene (from his mother’s first marriage). All this time he lived in the same apartment.
Tatyana Aleksandrovna, who once received an acting education, worked at the film factory to them. Tchaikovsky and had a circle of interesting acquaintances. One of them played a crucial role in the life of Zbruev. After graduating from school, in which he did not study very diligently, Alexander was at a crossroads. He was seriously involved in sports (boxing, gymnastics), but humanitarian inclinations manifested themselves quite clearly. No wonder their peers gave him the nickname Intelligent.
On the advice of Nadezhda Vakhtangova, a friend of her mother, Alexander Zbruev enters the theater school for a course at V. Etush. This happens in 1958. Immediately after graduation in 1961 he was taken to the Theater. Lenin Komsomol, where Alexander Viktorovich successfully works to this day.
Film career
Some time after graduating from college, a movie debut took place. It was the film "My Younger Brother", where actor Alexander Zbruev starred with such great artists as Andrei Mironov and Oleg Dal.
There are sixty film works in the filmography of the actor . The most vivid images were created by Zbruev in the films "Big Break", "Romance of Lovers", "Everything will be fine!", "The Inner Circle". The role in the 1995 film “Poor Sasha” turned out to be very charismatic. In the detective comedy, the actor played a former engineer and an unfortunate thief Vova Berezkin.
For his role in the film "You are mine alone" received the main prize of the "Kinotavr" 1993
Over his long career, Alexander Zbruev has changed many roles. Initially, these were exclusively goodies, but since the 1980s the range of his work has expanded. He played cynical, immoral people (for example, in the film "The Heiress in a Straight"). Then there were romanticized roles. Recent film works suggest that the actor realizes a lyrical hero.
Theater career
In the troupe of Lenkom, Alexander Zbruev, whose biography is firmly connected with the history of this theater, has been listed since 1961. During this time, he played more than twenty roles. But, as you know, the competition there is especially high, so not all the work was major.
Zbruev received his first role only under the director Anatoly Efros, who came to the theater in 1963. It was he who entrusted Alexander with the role of the 17-year-old youth Marat - a resident of the besieged Leningrad. The performance was called "My poor Marat" and glorified Zbruev in theatrical circles.
After the arrival of Mark Zakharov in 1973, Alexander Viktorovich rightfully became one of the leading actors of the theater.
Alexander Zbruev is involved in such performances as “Boris Godunov” (the main role), “About Lermontov ...” (poet), “Jester Balakirev” (Yaguzhinsky) and others.
Personal life
Despite the fact that the actor is a public profession, many do not like to talk about what happens to them outside the stage. Alexander Zbruev was no exception. The personal life of the actor is far from prying eyes.
It is known that he was married twice. The first wife was Valentina Malyavina - actress. The marriage lasted only four years.
Since 1967, Zbruev was happy in marriage with Lyudmila Savelyeva - a beautiful actress, who at one time played the role of Natasha Rostova. The couple has a daughter, Natalya.
Also, Zbruev has an illegitimate daughter Tatyana from a colleague in the theater, actress Elena Shanina, who played Conchita in the popular play "Juno and Avos." Alexander Zbruev, whose biography is not an example in this regard, suppresses any questioning about his children.
Brother Zbruyev is also an actor. He worked all his life in the theater. Vakhtangov. His grandson, Pyotr Fedorov, is also a popular actor ("Inhabited Island", "Christmas Trees").
Interesting Facts
In addition to his acting, Zbruev was engaged in entrepreneurship. Since 1995 he was a co-owner of the restaurant "TRAM".
For four years (from 2000 to 2004), he led an acting workshop at the RATI. This experience and release turned out to be the only one to date, since since 2004 Zbruev has been on creative leave.