She became known to a huge number of viewers after the release of the series “Closed School” in 2011, where she played the role of Irina Avdeeva, the mother of one of the main characters - Andrei and Nadyusha. Despite the fact that she was seen firsthand only in the last episode of the first season, she instantly won the trust of the audience. Indeed, it’s hard not to sympathize with a woman locked in the dungeon of an elite boarding school with a baby in her arms, who is always told that her older children have died. So, get acquainted - Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka, actress of Russian cinema.
Children's years of the future celebrity
Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka (maiden name Lavrov) was born in the city of Kimry (Tver region) on October 14, 1977. A double surname was formed after marriage: the girl decided not to change her to the name of her husband, but simply to combine them. Ksenia Olegovna is a hereditary actress. Her grandfather served in the Drama and Comedy Theater for a long time. And dad, Oleg Lavrov, is a People’s Artist of the Russian Federation. For many years he appeared on the stage of the Kimra Drama Theater, and now Oleg Alekseevich has been his artistic director for 22 years.
Despite the fact that the girl’s childhood was spent in an artistic environment, until a certain time she didn’t even think about going to the theater or standing in front of a movie camera. While still in secondary school, Ksenia received a musical education in the violin class. The girl developed comprehensively, she had many diverse hobbies. Only at the end of school, Ksenia Glinka, an actress in the future, realized that the scene was of most interest to her.
Behind the scenes ...
After receiving a school certificate, Ksenia Glinka left for Moscow. The actress submitted documents simultaneously to several theater universities. True, she decided to appear only at the Moscow Art Theater School. Here, all her efforts were appreciated, and the girl was enrolled in the course of Oleg Tabakov, where she studied until 1998.
The next step in her career was the work in the Kalyaginsky theater Et cetera. Ksenia Glinka - an actress who was just starting her career, played in only a few productions - in Don Quixote, involuntarily healer, Competition and others. Within these walls, she gained invaluable experience.
A few years later, in 2005, Tabakov received a young actress at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov. And her first works on this wall already showed what this girl is capable of: Alimushkina in “The River with a Fast Flow”, Lyubinka and Anninka in “Golovlevs” ... This is where all the facets of her talent were revealed. Actress Ksenia Lavrova was offered more and more interesting roles: Polly Peach in The Three Penny Opera, Polina in The Kreitsarova Sonata, Katerina Ivanovna in The Crime of Punishment, Rachelle in Vassa Zheleznova, Alla Vadimovna in Zoykina’s Apartment.
One cannot ignore the fact that the Three-Penny Opera has a rather complicated production, to some extent even scandalous. The young actress had to demonstrate not only her acting data, but also her vocal. Later, she recalled how difficult it was at first to combine all this together, because it was necessary to concentrate on three components simultaneously. It was then that the whole troupe realized how much they needed strength, attention and respect for each other while working on the play.
How to become a "slim woman": an interesting fact from the biography of the actress
Now, looking at the beautiful figure of the actress in magazines and social networks, it is difficult to imagine that once, as a first year student, she weighed 70 kg. Ksenia Glinka is an actress who always stubbornly went to her goal. The hostel had a grocery stall where students often resorted to cookies and chocolates. This naturally left its mark. Tabakov even made Ksenia a remark: if she does not lose weight, then she will have to say goodbye to the scene.
The girl, who was just raving about the stage, resorted to a very strict diet: she hardly ate and lost 25 kg in two months. Now, having achieved a perfect figure for herself, Ksenia Lavrova supports her carefully. She loves to cook and eat deliciously, but she has one secret: swimming and going to the gym.
Kinoroli
She got to the set back in 2004, having embodied on the screen two heroines - Albina Lyakhova in the series “Full speed ahead!” and Alena Mukhin in Lola and Marquise. Later there were other roles - Tatyana in "Palmist-2", Lyuba Ivanovskaya in "Heavy Sand", Polyakova in "Escape" ...
The actress Glinka-Lavrova, whose biography is of interest to many viewers, continues to act now. Both genres and the images she creates on the screen are diverse. However, the actress herself admits that she likes emotional, naive and kind pictures more. She loves to play ordinary human relationships, intelligible accurate life.
Despite the fact that by 2011 there was already a sufficient number of paintings in the track record of Lavrova-Glinka, she became unusually popular after filming in the series “Closed School”. The role of Irina Isaeva brought her great fame. Her heroine learns that she is an adopted daughter, and her life is somehow connected with certain experiments on people who were carried out on her. Her familiar world collapses when it turns out that her husband, beloved and loving, knew about everything from the very beginning. Now she has to save the youngest, third child, the son of Igor.
On this stellar role in her fate did not end. There was also the role of the surgeon Evgenia Koroleva in the series “Practice”, where the actress developed a creative tandem with Eldar Lebedev; the role of the owners of fashionable clothing boutique Marina Beletskaya in the Shopping Center, the role of the psychiatrist Tatyana Zhulina in Sklifosovsky ...
Ksenia and Sergey
The personal life of actress Lavrova-Glinka for several years has been causing keen interest among her fans. Let us open the veil and find out at least a little about it.
Almost 20 years ago, in 1997, at a party arranged for theater actors, she met Estonian businessman Sergei Glinka. He noticed her two years ago, but then he was embarrassed to approach an 18-year-old girl. This novel developed very quickly. Already on the first date (in Tallinn), Sergey confessed to Ksenia in love, and on the second, which was already in Moscow, he proposed to marry him.
The girl agreed, without hesitation, because she was confident in her feelings and in him. Their family life was very peaceful, quiet and happy. In the middle of 2000s, a husband who was included in the list of the richest people in Estonia created the most comfortable conditions for his beloved wife for everyday life and her creative plans. They rested in France - first in a rented villa, and then in the acquired house. Children were born in the marriage: in 2000 - the son of Daniel, in 2006 - the daughter of Glasha.
And Dmitry?
All these years, it seemed that this family was the standard of a strong union until November 2014, when Ksenia was noticed in company with the Moscow Art Theater actor Dmitry Gotsdiner. Immediately started talking about the office romance. Neither Ksenia nor Dmitry comment on these rumors, but on the Instagram of the actress there are a lot of joint photos. What is there and how - time will tell. In the meantime, we will enjoy the work of Ksenia Lavrova-Glinka and expect her new theatrical and cinema works.