Actor Timothy Spivak became a star back in the days of the Soviet Union. He is known to viewers for many wonderful films. For example, the paintings “The Sixth”, “Dust under the Sun”, “The Fourth Year of the War” was still not forgotten. The last tape with his participation was released in 1993, now the actor prefers to dub. What else is known about Timothy?
Actor Timothy Spivak: biography of a star. Childhood
The future lyceum was born in Kherson, there was a joyful event in November 1947. Actor Timothy Spivak is not the person whose future was predetermined. He was born in a simple family and came to success thanks to talent, perseverance and luck.
It is known that in childhood a talented boy dreamed of becoming a musician. His hobby was playing the violin, he attended music school, and teachers noted his abilities.
Choosing a Life Path
After school, the future actor Timothy Spivak entered the airborne military school, but soon became disillusioned with his studies and left him. Then he was forced to do military service, after which he became a student at the Krasnoyarsk Music College. Timothy seriously intended to connect life with music and become a violinist, but fate, unfortunately or fortunately, decided otherwise. Refuse to play the violin of a young man caused a serious injury to his hand.
Young Spivak did not despair, he transferred to the operetta department, successfully completed his studies at the school. After that, he performed for some time at the Krasnoyarsk Theater of Musical Comedy, but the ambitious artist wanted something more. In the end, Timothy decided to move to the capital.
First successes
Timofey Spivak managed to enter GITIS in 1972, when he was about 25 years old. The young man got on the course of Vladimir Andreev, who subsequently with pleasure remembered a talented student. The debut of the young man in the cinema took place while studying at GITIS.
Timothy Spivak is an actor whose path to fame began with a heroic role. Director Yuri Tupitsky decided to entrust the role of partisan commander to an inexperienced lyceum. The painting "The Secret of the Partisan Dugout", aimed at a children's audience, was released in 1972.
Famous roles
The first major achievement of Spivak can be called shooting in the film "My Love in the third year," presented to the audience in 1976. In this drama, Timothy embodied the image of the commissioner, who leads a detachment of builders assembled from students. It was this role that helped the novice actor to attract the interest of the director Marionas Gedris.
Gedris invited the rising star of Soviet cinema to his new film, entitled "Dust under the Sun." Timothy Spivak - the actor who played in this picture of the selfless Lithuanian revolutionary Vareikis. It was this role that finally cemented his stellar status.
Timothy is a person who more often played positive characters than bastards, which did not upset him at all. Often he got heroic roles. Spivak can be seen in many paintings that were popular at the end of the last century. This, for example, such tapes as "Especially Dangerous", "Kombat", "Sixth", "Birth of Eros". In 1993, the last tape was released, the creation of which was attended by actor Timothy Spivak. The biography of the star indicates that he was not filmed anywhere else.
Directing, theater
Spivak is a person with a wide range of interests. Having managed to declare himself as an actor, Timothy seriously became interested in directing. In 1993, he presented to the public his first brainchild, which became the criminal drama "Against all odds." This picture is dedicated to events taking place in Russia in the early 1990s. He not only shot this film, but also created the script, and also embodied one of the key images.
“Woe-ill-luck” is a film shot by Spivak in collaboration with Evgeny Kotov. The action of the picture, which saw the light in 2001, takes place in a fabulous Russian city, with the main characters being the famous characters of fairy tales.
Timofei was successful as a theater actor. He worked for the longest time at the Stanislavsky Theater, took part in many productions popular in his time. For example, Spivak was involved in the performances “Farewell in June”, “Threshold”, “Cyrano de Bergerac”.
A family
Of course, for fans it is also interesting whether the talented actor Timothy Spivak was married. The personal life of the star, fortunately, is not a secret. His wife was actress Ekaterina Vasilyeva, with whom Timofei decided to divorce for unknown reasons after many years of marriage. The audience remembers Spivak's ex-wife by the melodrama “You Never Dreamed,” in which she embodied the image of Alena. The daughter of Mariyana, born in this marriage, also became a famous actress. She can be seen in many popular films and series, such as “Capercaillie”, “Twins”, “Companions”, “Son of the Father of Nations”.