Leonid Kanevsky was a fairly popular actor in the Soviet Union. Mainly due to the role of the charming inspector Tomin in the series of films “Investigators Are Conducting Investigations”. And to this day, the actor’s face flashes on television. Let's try to figure out what happened to the fate of the actor after the collapse of the USSR and where he lives now?
Kanevsky Leonid: biography
Leonid Semenovich was born in Kiev in 1939. The father of the future actor worked at the fruit factory as a technologist, his mother was a housewife. Little Lena did not predict the status of a movie star, but he showed his will, and at age 17 he went to Moscow to enter the theater.
Despite the fact that they refused to admit the young man to the Moscow Art Theater and to them. Shchepkina, Leonid Kanevsky successfully passed an audition at the Shchukin school. It is noteworthy that fellow students of the future actor were such celebrities as
Andrei Mironov and
Vasily Livanov.Kanevsky Leonid, whose biography has so far developed successfully, after graduation, was immediately accepted into the troupe of the theater. Lenin Komsomol. The actor got his first theatrical experience under the strict guidance of the director Efros (film “Two in the Steppe”).
In 1963, Kanevsky began acting in films. He rarely got the main roles, but his characters were always remembered by the viewer. Unfortunately, in 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, Leonid immigrated to Israel. But even there he did not leave the acting profession: together with his friend Eugene Arie Kanevsky created the drama theater Gesher, in which he plays to this day.
"The Diamond Arm"
Leonid Kanevsky prefers to play characteristic characters. That is exactly what his hero is - a foreign smuggler - in the film "Diamond Arm" by Eldar Ryazanov.
It is to this smuggler that Senya Gorbunkov accidentally finds himself and then finds himself in the center of criminal events. Kanevsky’s character appears on the screens only two times, but the comic moments during which he swears in an unknown language with his accomplice are among the most striking in the film.
"Investigators are leading"
Leonid Kanevsky for ten years of work in the cinema nevertheless waited for his finest hour - in 1971 he got the main role in the detective series “Connoisseurs are Conducting Investigation”. This role made the artist a recognizable person. Inspector Tomin performed by Kanevsky did not leave the screens, starting in 1971 and ending in 2003 (it was then that the shooting of the film was finally completed).
The actor got so accustomed to the image that many viewers mistakenly believed that he was actually a policeman in the past. Yes, and Leonid Semenovich himself so “stuck” to his character that he even
celebrated Police Day as a personal holiday.
"D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers"
Who doesn’t remember the famous comedy by Jungwald-Khilkevich “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers” with Mikhail Boyarsky in the title role? Leonid Kanevsky in this film again got a comic role - Monsieur Buanassier (husband of Constance).
Buanasie was remembered by the viewer as a small and mean man who, for the sake of his well-being, was ready, it seemed, to "sell his mother." Kanevsky was well able to convey the character of his hero, to whom you involuntarily feel contempt. But it was not without humor, because to cause sincere laughter is that rare acting quality that Leonid Kanevsky just possesses.
"Semin"
Actor Leonid Kanevsky looked so organically in the role of a policeman, that in 2009 he was again invited to the main role in the action-packed series about the everyday life of human rights defenders.
The director of the series “Semin” was Alexander Franskevich-Laye (“In June of the 41st”). The script was written by Andrei Kureichik ("Horoscope for good luck"). In total about the legend of UGRO Boris Semin was shot 12 episodes. In addition to Kanevsky, such actors as Dmitry Orlov (“Sea Patrol”), Anastasia Panina (“Two in the Rain”) and Sergey Kostylev (“Zhelannaya”) took part in the film.
The series was a success with the viewer, so in 2011 there was a continuation of the film "Semin: Retribution." This time, 16 series were presented to the audience, directed by Sergey Lyalin (“Scythian Gold”).
"The investigation was conducted" with Leonid Kanevsky, as well as new roles in the movie
Among other things, for nine years now, the actor has been the permanent presenter of the television show "The Investigation Waged." It is easy to guess that the program is dedicated to criminal stories and the procedure for their disclosure by police officers. "Investigation led" repeatedly received the television award "Tefi".
Kanevsky also continues to act in films. In 2014, a film performance entitled “The Examiner” was released on television. Together with Kanevsky, Daniil Strakhov ("The Draw") shone in the frame, as well as the theater actress Larisa Paramonova.
Personal life
Leonid Kanevsky has a wife, Anna, who is much younger than him, daughter Natalya and granddaughter Amalia.
Kanevsky’s daughter married an Israeli citizen. She is a stylist and costume designer by profession. Recently, Natalia managed to release her own collection of jewelry.
Kanevsky himself lives in Israel, but did not sell his Moscow apartment on the Garden Ring. He often comes to shoot in Russia.