Mozgovoy Leonid Pavlovich - theater and film actor, who made his debut on a large television screen only at the age of 51. Winner of many cinematic awards in Russia.
Childhood and youth
Leonid Mozgovoy was born in Tula two months before the start of World War II, on April 17, 1941. His father was a military man, and the family spent all his childhood as an actor in wanderings in various garrisons. Subsequently, they settled in a small closed town near Sverdlovsk.
He studied at school Leonid Mozgova diligently, but paid more attention to extracurricular activities, or rather amateur art. He dreamed of an acting career from an early age and sought to realize his dream.
He still has the receiver "Tourist", which became the actor a mascot. He was handed him for winning the reader’s contest, where Leonid impressed everyone by reading Turgenev’s poem with such expressiveness that goosebumps ran .
After leaving school, Leonid, at the insistence of his father, entered the flight school in Kazakhstan. There he quickly organized an amateur art club . After the next performance, a teacher, a young lieutenant, approached him. He said: "The plane must be loved just as you love the scene."
After this fateful phrase, Mozgova Leonid, an actor in his soul and thoughts, wrote a statement for expulsion. And in 1959 he went to Moscow to realize his dream.
Student
In the capital, Brain twice tried to enter the VGIK, but failed. Then he decided to try his luck in Leningrad. The first time he entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema, where he studied from 1961 to 1965. He was immensely lucky, because he got on the course to Boris Zon, the founder of the Youth Theater in the country, a student of Stanislavsky himself.
This was the last course of the Zone. And it turned out pretty loud: actress Natalya Tenyakova (Baba Shura in the film "Love and Pigeons"), theater director Lev Dodin and others.
The faculty of dramatic art gave a lot to Mozgovoy. He reflected his memories of his years of study and his mentor in the 2011 book “Boris Zon School”.
Work on the stage
Leonid Mozgovoy is an actor whose biography developed almost exactly as he wanted. After graduation, he went to conquer the literary stage. In 1967 he became the winner of the competition of readers among artists in Leningrad. Since then, his career in this direction has been continuously developing. Leonid Mozgovoy calls himself a museum reader, because often he is offered to recite verses of various poets in their museums.
Brain is fighting for a revival of the art of the word. Even in his work book such wording appears: "master of the artistic word."
Theater work
Leonid Mozgovoy, whose biography is inextricably linked with theatrical activities, after graduating from the institute in 1965, he came to the Musical Comedy Theater, where he served for five years.
In 1975, Mozgovoy decided to perform alone. Since then he has been working in the genre of one actor. He is a frequent guest at the Petersburg Concert, where his solo performances, Notes on Cuffs, Lolita, I Am Hamlet, and others, are held.
A total of fourteen solo performances in his piggy bank. He is very sensitive to the surrounding reality, which is reflected in his works. Brain travels a lot, but prefers to perform on small venues in order to have contact with each spectator, which he was deprived of while working at the museum. Then even had to play performances in the stadiums.
Recently, theatrical works are dominated by classical works. For example, "Black Monk" by A. Chekhov
Movie work
Leonid Mozgovoy always wanted to act in films. Delighted with the work of Lenfilm, he went to audition and even participated in extras a couple of times. But then he decided for himself that such a flicker on the screen is not worthy of a real actor, and simply began to wait for a suitable role, his role.
The wait was long. Brain's debut in the movie only happened in 1992. He starred in the role of Chekhov in the film "Stone". And he got this role, too, by accident. Vera Novikova, the second director of the film, was a longtime friend of Mozgovoy, and just on the eve of the samples they met and talked. Vera invited Leonid to meet with the main director A. Sokurov. Their conversation lasted more than two hours, as a result, a film debut took place.
After the premiere, the 51-year-old actor was called the discovery. But the directors were in no hurry to invite him to other roles. His next film was the painting "Moloch", the director of which was again Sokurov.
Brain got the role of Hitler. He prepared for a long time, re-read a ton of books, reviewed the newsreels kilometers. The difficulty was that the role had to be played in German. Mozgovoy thoroughly learned all the cues, and the Germans, who duplicated it, said that the pronunciation of the Russian actor was perfect.
Two years later, another picture of Sokurov came out - "Taurus", where Mozgovoy played Lenin. This film showed the viewer a completely different leader of the proletariat. The director and actor literally laid bare the soul of an old dying man who repents of his deed.
Mozgovoy’s cinematic piggy bank has only 24 works. This does not upset the actor, but rather the opposite - he is pleased with the quality of his films. And he knows that his viewer approves of what has been done and is looking forward to new roles.
Awards
In 1999 and 2001, he was awarded the Golden Aries Award for Best Actor in the films Moloch and Taurus. For his role as V. I. Lenin, he received the prestigious Nika Prize in 2001.
He was awarded the title of Honored Artist in 2002.
Leonid Mozgovoy does not pursue awards; he wants to bring joy to his audience, to give unforgettable emotions and moments of life. He does it very well!