This actor is familiar to many residents of the country as a browded guest worker Jamshut from the popular comedy series "Our Russia". The recognition and love of millions of viewers came to this man only when he exceeded fifty. Appearing as if from nowhere in 2006, ten years later he suddenly disappeared again ...
Parents
The paternal line of Magdyas was descended from Hungary and Moldova. Thus, in the blood of Alexander Stepanovich Magdyash, the father of our hero, the blood of either Hungarian Moldavians or Moldavian Hungarians flowed. His wife, Alexandra Vasilyevna Romanova, mother of Valery Magdyash, an accountant by profession, was not only Russian, but also an incredibly beautiful Siberian from the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a virtuoso dancer and singer. When the Great Patriotic War ended, fate pushed her mother, grandmother Valery, to move from Siberia to Moldova, and soon numerous relatives of their family followed her.
Frontman Alexander Stepanovich Magdyash worked in the Cheka before the war, and then at various times served as the police chief of such Moldavian towns as Novye Aneny, Cimislia, Cagule and Vadul-lui-Voda. He was a serious man, wore a fairly high rank, but at the same time he sang beautifully and generally loved to have fun. And when Alexander Stepanovich and Alexandra Vasilyevna performed a duet in front of their neighbors at some holiday, this became a truly unforgettable performance for everyone present.
Childhood and youth
Valery Alexandrovich Magdyash was born on August 7, 1951 in the capital city of Chisinau, Moldavian SSR.
The earliest memories of the future star of TNT were the feeling of some inconceivably tender love of his parents for each other, which the actor likes to recall in almost every interview.
And then his father went headlong into the fight against the Carpathian Bandera, and the young Valera practically did not see him for a long time. Alexander Stepanovich returned home late after midnight, kissed his sleeping son, and left early again in the morning. The boy was left to his own devices.
Valery grew up a very agile and artistic child. At the age of eight, he became the laureate of the All-Union Festival, at which he played the role of Vasily Terkin himself. The boy was noticed by the famous Moldavian director Emil Loteanu and soon invited him to film screenings. However, the mother of Valery Magdyash was against and did not let her son go.
Later, our hero came across the work of K. Paustovsky "Book of Wanderings", after reading which he fell ill with the sea and for many years forgot about creativity. After graduating from high school, Valery went after his dream to Simferopol. There he entered the higher military-political building school, graduated with honors and was distributed to the Far East. After serving several years as a company political commander, in 1975 Valery was hospitalized, after which he was commissioned to Moscow.
There, in the capital, twenty-four-year-old Magdyash put an end to the career of a naval officer and entered GITIS.
Below in the article in the photo Valery Magdyash while studying at the Theater Institute.
Theatre
After graduating from GITIS, Magdyash was enrolled in the troupe of the Moscow Comedy Theater, where he worked for three years. After that, he served at the Pokrovka Theater, and was also busy at the A. Dzhigarkhanyan Theater. During these years, the actor could be seen in such performances as “Talents and Fans”, “Jealousy”, “Hamlet”, “The Inspector General”, “Duck Hunt” and many others.
With the advent of the 90s, Valery Alexandrovich got a job at the Ministry of Culture, in which he was engaged in projects aimed at the spiritual revival of Russia through the theater, and also excelled in the career of theater production.
In 2010, Magdyash presented to the theater world his own solo performance "A bunch of dandelions", telling about everything important for him - about his parents, about military service, about his first love, about how he had done something right, and about for which he is ashamed. This sincere and touching production was very fond of the audience, who had discovered for themselves from an unexpected side an actor familiar to many in the image of Jamshut from the comedy sitcom Our Russia.
Movie
Cinema appeared in the biography of Valery Magdyash only in 1998, when the age of the actor was already approaching fifty.
His debut role as a judge in Valery Priyemykhov's film "Who, If Not Us" was very small.
The next work of Magdyash in the cinema followed after five years - he appeared in one of the episodes of the popular series "Truckers 2". In 2004, the actor played the director of the casino in the multi-part film "Lawyer", and a year later starred in the film "Lucky."
The most significant for Valery Alexandrovich was the year 2006, in which the first season of the popular comedy sitcom Our Russia started.
The role of the guest worker Jamshut, which he performed in conjunction with the famous comedian Mikhail Galustyan, playing in the form of his permanent screen partner Ravshan, became for the fifty-five-year-old Valery Magdyash, whose films in the piggy bank are not so many, really stellar. For three seasons of filming in this series, the actor became megapopular not only in Russia, but also in almost all the former Soviet republics.
In 2010, Valery Alexandrovich further consolidated his reputation by playing the role of Jamshut in the brilliant full-length comedy “Our Russia. The Eggs of Fate. ” With this picture, the creators of the sitcom completed the history of their project.
One of the last significant works of Magdyash in the cinema was his participation in the filming of the documentary “Eye of God”, which was released in 2012, in which the actor played the roles of Ambroise Vollard and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.
Personal life
Behind Valery Magdyash is three happy marriages.
With his first wife, Muscovite Alla Zakharova, he lived for fifteen years. Their marriage over time collapsed on its own due to the almost complete absence of Valery and Alla from each other. Each of them was busy with his own career, endless trips, tours and business trips. They eventually parted as friends. From this marriage, Valery Alexandrovich has a daughter, Victoria and a grandson, Nikita.
Finally tired of loneliness, the actor married Natalya Evseeva, who was fifteen years younger than him. In their short-lived marriage, a daughter Ksenia and a grandson Konstantin were born. It all ended with the fact that Natalia and her daughter went to live in New Zealand.
The third wife of Magdyash was a certain Natasha, with whom the actor lived only two scandalous years.
Today
Last year, misfortune happened to Valery Magdyash. The actor has long dreamed of new housing and for a long time saved up money for it. When he collected all the necessary amount, having sold his old apartment in Moscow, packed his money in a suitcase and carried it to the bank, the unidentified men stunned him with a strong blow from behind on the head and robbed him.
Valery Alexandrovich was left without housing, documents and livelihoods. Out of hopelessness, he began to homeless in the Krasnodar Territory, closer to heat. One fine day, Magdyash slept at the railway station of the city of Essentuki and caught the eye of Tatyana Vanchugova.
The woman recognized the famous actor and invited her to live in the village of Supsekh, located near Anapa.
Now Valery Alexandrovich lives with her, helps around the house and is engaged in its repair, gradually returning to his acting profession ...