Vitaliy Kovalenko is a famous and honored film and theater artist . Success and popularity came to a talented actor from Kazakhstan after he successfully played Napoleon himself in the series “Adjutants of Love”. But in the cinematic and theatrical piggy bank of the actor, a huge number of roles, both episodic and main.
Childhood
Vitaliy Kovalenko was born at the beginning of 1974 in Kazakhstan. Pavlodar became his hometown. His parents had nothing to do with the theater, so no one even thought that Vitaly could become an actor.
Passion for the theater
It is known that back in his school years, Vitaliy Kovalenko became interested in theater. Parents did not share such a passion for their son, but still hoped that over time it will pass. Therefore, they did not interfere with his son, although they dreamed that in the future he would go to either a medical or polytechnic institute.
Vitaliy Vladimirovich in his school years was an active participant in the theater studio "Debut". Secretly, he dreamed that he would enter a theater university, although his teacher Vyacheslav Petrov did not recommend this to him, since everything is ambiguous and complicated in this profession.
Education
Despite the uncertainty about whether to choose an acting profession or not, Vitaly Kovalenko immediately after leaving school with his friends travels to St. Petersburg to take exams in the theater.
But he and his six friends were late for exams, so they decided to go to Yekaterinburg. Alas, the future actor Vitaliy Vladimirovich Kovalenko failed in exams. Therefore, the next year he was preparing for admission and worked. At first, he combined attending performances and participating in theatrical performances with the work of the driver, and then began to work at the thermal power station and even at the furniture factory.
And exactly one year later, the future actor successfully passed the exams and became a student at the Theater Institute of the city of Yekaterinburg. Parents by this time had already come to terms with this choice of their son and even helped him. It is known that in 1996 Vitaliy Kovalenko, whose personal life is always interesting to the audience, graduated from a theater university and received an actor’s diploma. From that time, his theatrical career began to take shape.
The beginning of a theatrical career
For the first time, Vitaliy Kovalenko, an actor whom no one knew at the time, came to the theater stage as a student. He studied in the third year, when it was necessary to take tests by passages from the works of Russian classics. Vitaly Vladimirovich in the play "Uncle Vanya" played Astrova.
Already in his fourth year, he participated in two theatrical productions of the Yekaterinburg Academic Drama Theater, since at that time he also collaborated with the Masks Theater. Only one year after graduation, he worked in this theater, and then moved to Novosibirsk.
Work at the Red Torch Theater
In 1997, Vitaly moved to Novosibirsk, as his friends invited him, and got a job at the Red Torch Theater. His first debut in this theater was his participation in the musical "Hello, Dolly." But in the future he played many roles. These are Khlestakov in the play The Inspector General, and the Cherub in the theatrical production of Zoykin’s Apartment, and others.
Work at the Alexandrinsky Theater
In 2002, Vitaly Kovalenko, whose films the whole country knows and loves, moved to St. Petersburg, as he was invited to work at the Alexandrinsky Theater. But this decision was not easy for him. Not only friends remained in Novosibirsk, but also directors who constantly gave him roles.
Therefore, the first seven years, Vitaly Vladimirovich regretted that he left the theater in Novosibirsk. It was necessary to start all over again: to gain the trust and respect not only of colleagues and directors, but also the love of the audience.
In this theater, Vitaly Vladimirovich also played many roles. So, in the theatrical production of “The Mean Knight” he played Albert, the cynical military man in the theatrical production of “Man =”, and in the play “The Seagull” he got the role of Shamayev. Despite the fact that this role is episodic, and the actor had to appear on stage only four times, he still had to change clothes three times.
Currently, the talented film actor is still working at the Alexandrinsky Theater, and also actively collaborates with the Bryantsev Youth Theater in St. Petersburg and a branch of the Meyerhold Center.
Cinematic career
Vitaliy Kovalenko, whose filmography is diverse and wide, began acting in films in 2001. In the serial film "Agency NLS" he successfully played the role of a chemist. But still, the first cinematic project, where he got one of the main male roles, was the multi-part film “Adjutants of Love”, which was released in 2005. In this film about the most interesting historical events, Vitaliy Vladimirovich plays Napoleon. The main character is Petr Cherkasov, who founded military intelligence and copes with the difficult task of maintaining peace between France and Russia.
While shooting was taking place in this film, the talented actor had to constantly travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow, so he practically had no time to relax. And if there was a free minute, then Vitaliy Vladimirovich tried to study archival documents about Napoleon in order to get to know him better and play it more believably.
By the way, such knowledge about the famous Napoleon later came in handy in 2013, when he played it in the famous TV series Vasilisa. In 2016, he starred in the film "What the French are silent about," where Napoleon also played. Both directors and viewers find a great resemblance between the actor and his hero.
But the actor played diverse roles. You can see in the photo Vitaly Kovalenko in the film "Battalion" (2015). In addition, many other heroes were played by the talented actor. His characters can be found in the films "Sea Devils", where he played Sergei Maly, in the film "Palm Sunday" and others. A talented actor starred not only in historical films, but also in crime series, and in military dramas.
In 2007, Vitaliy Vladimirovich played a major role in the film “Attempt to Flight”. His hero Mikhail Melnikov liked and loved the audience. After that, the film “State Defense” followed. Today, he has more than 40 films in his cinematic piggy bank, where his characters are not only historical figures and law enforcement officers, but also complex psychological characters that require understanding and understanding.
No less interesting is his role in the film "Ladoga", which was released in 2013. In this tragic tape, he played the driver’s foreman, who took people and children out of the besieged Leningrad. To the theme of Leningrad, but already post-war, he returned already in the film "Leningrad 46" directed by Igor Koltsov. In this serial film, he played the journalist Sergei Kvaskov.
According to the plot of the film, which was released in 2015, crime increased in a city that recently experienced terrible and tragic events. This film is about people who tried to fight criminals and tried to clean up the city without sparing their own lives.
In 2017, Vitaliy Vladimirovich Kovalenko starred in the famous mystical film “Gogol. The Beginning ”directed by Yegor Baranov. In the film, based on the plot of the famous work of Nikolai Gogol, the talented actor successfully played the investigator Kovleisky.
The series "Trotsky"
In 2007, the multi-part film “Trotsky” was directed by directors Konstantin Statsky and Alexander Kott, where Vitaly Kovalenko plays Pyotr Stolypin. This film tells about historical events that took place in the twentieth century. But still, the basis of the plot is a story about the biography of the revolutionary leader Leo Trotsky and how he influenced the course of historical events.
The plot of the film takes the viewer to 1940, where on the eve of the war in the Mexican capital of Mexico City a journalist arrives at the Secretary of Trotsky. After the first meeting, Frank Jackson did not like Trotsky. But soon Lev Davidovich begins to tell the journalist about his life, about its main events. From these fragmentary memories is the plot of the whole film.
Vitaliy Kovalenko: personal life, family
The talented actor Vitaliy Vladimirovich Kovalenko does not like to talk about his personal life. But still it is known that he is married and his marriage is happy. His wife has nothing to do with cinema and theater. Nothing is known about the children of the actors.
If Vitaly Vladimirovich has free time, then he tries to spend it with his family. All the photos that are available on the Internet show only his professional activities, and the personal life of the actor is closed.