Victor Verzhbitsky: biography and creativity

A successful TV presenter, a talented film and theater actor Viktor Verzhbitsky made a decision about what to devote his life to in his early childhood. He has already accounted for more than eighty works in the cinema and twenty-five on the theater stage. The biography of Victor Verzhbitsky, which is probably interesting to fans of his talent, will be described in this article. For those who once saw an actor on the screen and wish to continue acquaintance with his work, a complete list of films and theatrical works with his participation will be given.

Childhood and career choice

Verzhbitsky Victor Alexandrovich was born in the city of Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on September 21, 1959. Such an aristocratic surname went to the future artist from his great-grandfather, an indigenous Krakow Pole. Victor’s childhood was mostly spent behind the scenes of the theater, where his grandmother worked as a dresser. From an early age, the boy watched how amazingly the actors managed to create believable stories on stage. He also wanted to speak. When the time came to choose a profession, he already knew exactly what he wanted from life. Having become a student of the stage design department of the A. Ostrovsky Tashkent Theater and Art Institute , Victor took the first step towards his childhood dream.

Carier start

His first mentor and friend, film director Timur Bekmambetov , studied at the same institute, at the same faculty as Viktor Verzhbitsky . It was he who opened the doors to the movie for the actor, having shot it in several commercials and in the film “Peshawar Waltz”.

Viktor’s debut on the TV screen was the role of Nicholas I in the advertising of the Imperial Bank. Later, he successfully transmitted the image of this hero in the TV series One Night of Love and Poor Nastya. Many years have passed since the filming of these paintings, but Viktor Alexandrovich is still jokingly called Your Majesty. Also in the advertising of the Imperial Bank, the actor appeared in the images of Louis XIV and Alexander the Great. Viktor Verzhbitsky played Mandelstam Osip in an advertisement for Slavic Bank. This role is considered the peak of his work in advertising.

The first work in the cinema

For a long time, Victor Verzhbitsky starred only in commercials and in supporting roles. Few took the actor seriously. His first notable work was the main role in the film about the Afghan war by Timur Bekmambetov "The Peshevar Waltz". Soon he played roles in such films as “Sinful Apostles of Love”, “Kamenskaya”, “Siberian Barber”, “Mom, Don't Cry”, “Stop on Demand”, “Crime Department”, “Secrets of Palace Coups”, “Three against all ”,“ Game of Art Nouveau ”,“ Operational alias ”,“ Drongo ”,“ Gladiatrix ”,“ Saboteur ”,“ Dear Masha Berezina ”,“ Code of Honor ”.

"The night Watch"

Verzhbitsky’s cooperation with Bekmambetov did not end there. In 2003, the film director invited Viktor Alexandrovich to the role of the leader of the dark forces of Zavulon in the blockbuster Night Watch (based on the novel of the same name by Sergey Lukyanenko). As the actor himself recalls, he wanted to make his hero a living person who calculates situations in advance, understands people. To do this, he got used to the image for a long time, invented real stories for himself, imagining what his hero would do in a given situation. His efforts were not in vain, the work of Viktor Verzhbitsky was highly appreciated not only by supporters, but also by opponents of this film-making. The widely publicized film was a real breakthrough, and Verzhbitsky learned what glory is. The author of the literary work, which became the basis of the film, spoke positively about the actor’s game. Despite the fact that the television character was different from the book one, Sergey Lukyanenko praised the actor’s talent.

Achievement list

After "Night Watch" the actor increasingly began to receive offers from other directors. Now the filmography of Victor Verzhbitsky has more than eighty paintings.

One of the most striking works was the role of the oligarch Pokrovsky in the film “Personal Number”. As Viktor Alexandrovich recalls, working on the set of this film, he always drew an analogy between his current hero and Zavulon, whom he had played a little earlier in Night Watch. As in the leader of the dark forces, the actor tried to wake a living person in the oligarch, to understand whether he has a conscience, studying more and more new facets of his personality.

Another work by Verzhbitsky worthy of attention is the role of the Romanian Colonel Lucan in the film “Turkish Gambit” by Janik Fayziev.

Undoubtedly, fans of Victor Verzhbitsky’s work will not be indifferent to his images in such films as “Poor Nastya”, “Take Tarantina”, “Day Watch”, “Marry the General”, “Admiral”, “Red Square”, “Keys to the abyss: The hunt for ghosts "," Casarosa ".

The attention of the viewer is also the film “She-Wolf” with Victor Verzhbitsky in the title role. Notable works included the roles of composer Lutsky in Primadonna, Barsenko Boris Olegovich in The Adventurer, Dubelt in The Cause of the Dead Souls, oligarch Meshcheryakov Gennady Alexandrovich in the film Guardian Angel, Igor Vorobyov, an employee of the President’s apparatus in the film Christmas trees. "

Among the last roles of Victor Verzhbitsky are Lezhava in Spy, Igor Vorobyov in Fir-trees 2, Ryabushkin Viktor Maryanovich in the comedy film Our Russia. The Eggs of Fate ”, Alexander Vasilievich in“ Caesar ”, the head of counterintelligence in“ Scouts ”.

Despite the popularity that cinema brought to Viktor Verzhbitsky, he considers himself primarily a theater actor and says that he uses the cinema of the artist, but the theater educates and develops.

Theater life

After graduation, in 1983, Victor got a job at the State Academic Drama Theater named after M. Gorky in Tashkent. He worked there until 1995. During this time, he played many roles in such performances as Chekhov's “The Seagull” (Treplev), “The One Who Gets Slaps” by Andreev (the clown Tot), “Caligula” Camus (Scipio), “Zoikin’s Apartment” Bulgakov (Obolyaninov), “ Flight over the cuckoo’s nest ”Kesey (Billy Bibbit),“ Dear Elena Sergeevna ”Razumovskaya (Volodya),“ Sacred Monsters ”Cocteau (Florent).

At the New Drama Theater in Moscow, where Verzhbitsky worked for only a year (from 1997 to 1998), he managed to play the roles of Menshikov in the “Assembly” of Gnedich, Dorant in the “Jourdain” of Moliere, Guatinard in “The Queen’s Rematch” by Scribe and Leguve .

Present

Now Victor Verzhbitsky acts in films, plays on the stage of the Moscow Drama Theater named after Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Since 1998, the actor has performed roles on the stage of the Et cetera theater, but more recently, as an invited guest, and not as a member of the troupe. In 2005, Kalyagin Alexander decided to remove Verzhbitsky from the troupe. He explained this by the fact that the actor began to devote more time to cinema, not theater, and he did not keep “stars” in the walls of “Et cetera”.

Viktor Alexandrovich showed himself in the role of TV presenter. In 2011, together with Roma Zverev, he conducted the “Game” program on NTV channel. In May - February 2013, the TV3 channel broadcast a series of programs called “Mystical Stories with Victor Verzhbitsky”.

Victor Verzhbitsky: personal life

The popular Russian actor is now married for the second time. His first wife and son Alexander now live in Israel. He has a good relationship with them; they often visit each other. The name of his current wife, Viktor Alexandrovich, does not reveal to anyone, it is only known that she is a former actress.