Today we will talk about who Victoria Lepko is. The personal life and work of the actress will be described later. She was born in Moscow in 1941, on July 20. Her father Vladimir Alekseevich is a comic film and theater actor.
Childhood
Let's start with the family. The father of the actress, among other things, studied at the school of painting. He graduated from it, was a brilliant draftsman. His cartoons are famous throughout the capital. He is the first performer of the image of Prisypkin in the work "Bedbug" by Mayakovsky, as well as the only actor who in France was awarded the Grand Prix for this work.
Mom Victoria Lepko Antonina Krupenina - dancer. After the parents' wedding, they got a room in a communal apartment, which was located on the top floor in the Operetta Theater. During the war, the mother of the future actress with her newborn daughter was hiding from the bombing at the Mayakovskaya metro station. Father fought, was in the militia. He was carried out by Georgy Tusuzov, a famous artist.
The name of Vika for the girl was invented by Fedor Kurikhin - a friend of his father and a “satire”. He played the Undertaker in the film "Funny Guys". After the war, the mother of the future actress came to serve in the Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. She fell in love with the artistic director - Burmeister Vladimir Pavlovich. Parents split up. The girl was terribly worried. However, in the end it turned out that now she has two dads who love her forever, and she has them. Also, the future actress has established good relations with Aunt Alla - the first wife of stepfather and half-sister Natasha. The girls are still friends. For her, her father has always been a guiding light.
Maly Theater
Lepko Victoria entered the Shchukin Theater School. Graduated from it. At the same time, she studied with
Andrei Mironov on the same course. After getting an education, she dreamed of serving in the Satire Theater, but she was refused. So actress Victoria Lepko got to
Anatoly Efros on the stage of the Maly Theater. She began to play in a play called "Dancing on the highway." The production involved Kononov, Dahl, Solomin, Rudnev.
"Zucchini 13 chairs"
In the early sixties on television of the USSR there were practically no humorous programs. This fact could not but worry the various TV executives. An order was received to urgently come up with an entertainment program. As a result, “Zucchini 13 Chairs” was created. The transfer lasted 14 years. It ridiculed Soviet manners and the order of mouth of the Polish masters. The program managed to stay on the air for so long because of the great love of the people, as well as personally the wife of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev. People who closely knew the country's leader’s family later said that he didn’t miss her. If this happened, he was shown a specially made record. Lepko Victoria embodied in this program the image of Pani Carolinka. Thus, the actress became a star.
Personal life
You already know that Victoria Lepko is an actress. Her personal life will be described later. She married in 1962, gave birth to a son. An engineer named Boris became her husband. He was a charming man. For 6 years of family life, Boris was fond of outsiders several times. Victoria did not want to endure this. They got divorced. She remarried. However, she could not forget the first chosen one. Boris died in a plane crash in 1972. Victoria still believes that if she had not left him, this would not have happened. After the tragedy, the actress did not fly airplanes for another 10 years. For three months she suffered from stuttering.
In 1989, Lepko Victoria created her own theater called Vernissage, which belonged to the Central House of the actor A. A. Yablochkina. The actress received the title of Honored Actress of Poland and Russia. Victoria played over 70 roles in the Maly Theater and Vernissage. She did not allow her son to devote himself to acting. She currently regrets it. The woman was afraid that he did not have enough skill. She did not like the way he read poems. As a result, the young man became a cabinetmaker and makes furniture. He is a good master, has wonderful hands.
However, the mother regrets the interrupted acting dynasty. Victoria Lepko became a grandmother three times. In the family of the actress, another misfortune happened. The car knocked to death her eight-year-old grandson, it happened on the territory of the Leningrad highway. The actress spends time with her grandchildren, and also takes care of her mother. Now she receives unemployment benefits from the Vernissage Theater, writes poetry, and occasionally takes part in enterprises.
Filmography
In 1959, Lepko Victoria starred in the film "Lullaby." In 1960 she played in the movie "Caution, Grandmother." In 1963 she got a role in the film “City - One Street”. In 1965, she starred in the movie "Going to a Thunderstorm." In 1970, the film “And a man plays the pipe” with her participation was released. In 1974 she played in the film "Sancho's Faithful Friend". In 1982, she starred in the films "Connoisseurs are Conducting Investigations" and "Moscow Smiles." She worked on TV shows: “Case at the Hotel”, “Zucchini 13 Chairs”, “Krechinsky's Wedding”, “Recognition”, “Skapen's Wickedness”, “Summer Walks”. She was engaged in the dubbing of the animated film "Fire-Jumping Ranger".