He is 32. For a successful acting career, there is everything: youth, beauty, talent, the beloved Satyricon theater and the first movie roles. Meet George Lezhava.
Way to the stage
The path to the stage for George was predetermined: mom is a writer, father is a musician. Born in Moscow in May 1984, from early childhood he participated in amateur performances. First in kindergarten, then in school. He wrote scripts, organized concerts. Having lost his mother early (1990), the boy, together with his older brother, was brought up in the family of grandparents. Grandfather Grigory Lezhava is a famous scientist, doctor of historical sciences, engaged in ethnographic research. Despite a serious passion for sports (fencing, acrobatics), Georgy Lezhava in 2001 decided to enter the Moscow Art Theater School.
Having a photogenic appearance, excellently dancing and playing the guitar, the young man immediately entered the course of Konstantin Raikin, falling into his first set. Already at the age of 19, after good luck on the student scene in the play “The Cabal of the Holy One” he was invited to the troupe of the Satyricon Theater, where K. Raikin is the artistic director. For two years he performed on stage until the formal completion of studies at a theater university.
Demand in the theater
The theater was founded by Arkady Raikin in 1939 as a miniature theater, where the great actor was the main participant in all the performances. After his death in 1987, his son Konstantin led the creative team of the temple of Melpomene, who by then received the new name "Satyricon". Gradually, he turned into a real drama theater with a classical and satirical repertoire. In 2003, many young actors joined the troupe, among whom was George Lezhava. From the very first days it became clear that the theater and the novice artist found each other. The young man was introduced to several performances, including "Country of Love", "Little Fool", "Ay da Pushkin ...".
Today, the actor has a busy schedule, he participates in five productions, two of which are premieres: “One-armed from Spokane” (M. McDonagh) and “A Man from a Restaurant” (I. Shmelev). If in the second performance he perfectly plays along to the master K. Raikin, playing Skorokhodov, portraying several restaurant visitors at once, then in the play by McDonagh he has one of the main roles - the receptionist of Mervin, a lonely person living in a fictional world from his own fantasies. Full halls during performances testify to the success of the work.
TV series
The actor made his debut on the screen in the series “Police Says!” in 2011 (not counting the episode in 2010). In one of the episodes titled “On-duty Pharmacy”, he plays a drug addict named Victor, who has taken the pharmacist and pharmacy guard hostage. In the course of the script, he has to conduct dialogs with employees of the special department. A tall blue-eyed brunette with a shock of curly hair cannot but arouse the sympathy of the audience: an incomplete higher education, early departure from the life of parents, concern for a friend who is in a state of withdrawal. He is sweating, fussy, with a guilty look, but finds no sympathy with the main "negotiator" Eduard Burov, because on his conscience is not only his own ruined life, but also the life of a girl named Belka.
The first appearance in the series did not go unnoticed, new invitations followed: "Operation Puppet Master", "Margarita Nazarova", "Sklifosovsky". In the film about Lyudmila Gurchenko, he plays the favorite actor of the Russians Igor Kvashu (2015). Despite participating in 16 projects, still the main roles in the movie have not yet been played. George Lezhava performs more successfully on the stage of his favorite theater.
Father of many children
In 2010, at the premiere of a short film at the Cinema House, Georgy Lezhava, whose personal life is widely discussed in the press, met a successful actress and aspiring director Maria Boltneva. A month later, he invited her to his play, and soon a romantic relationship began between the young people. The couple began to live together in George’s apartment, because Maria herself was from Novosibirsk. In November 2011, a young woman gave birth to three charming boys - Plato, Timothy and Andrey. Two kids have the names of their grandfathers: the famous actor Andrei Boltnev and father George - Plato Lezhava. The name of the third baby was chosen by Mary. Even during the pregnancy of a friend, the future father made her an offer, but she preferred independence.
In numerous interviews, Maria explains her move by the fact that two strong personalities found it difficult to get along together. George Lezhava, who has Georgian roots, has a Caucasian temperament and traditional ideas about a family where the main earner and head is a man. In this framework, she lacks air. Now a young mother with triplets lives in a two-room apartment with her nanny, maintaining a warm relationship with her father and his family. Actor George Lezhava takes an active part in their upbringing and maintenance, refusing any comments on the situation, which does him honor.