The actor Anatoly Koscheev gained wide fame in 2004 when he was invited to play the role of ensign in the REN TV series “Soldiers”. The character was so fond of viewers that when, according to the plot of Danilych, they decided to retire, the fans were outraged and did not let it be done.
Biography
Anatoly Koshcheev was born in the Far East on September 18, 1952. Since childhood, he wanted to perform on the stage and from the seventh grade of the school began to participate in amateur performances. Then he entered the Far Eastern Institute of Arts and in 1973 received an actor’s diploma. He played in theaters in Kamchatka, in Kirov, in Kazakhstan. Since the late 1980s Donkey in Moscow.
When the Soviet system collapsed, and difficult times came in the country, Anatoly Koshcheev mastered the specialty of a joiner. In order to survive, he left the theater and got a job on a construction site, was engaged in the decoration of building structures and even received fourth rank. But, of course, I really missed the main profession.
On the stage
At his first stage, in the Theater of the Young Spectator, Anatoly Koshcheev embodied a variety of images: from the cat to Lenin, he played the main character in the play "Krosh's Vacation" by A. Rybakov. In his youth, he dreamed about big roles, but the directors did not give them to him: either the type is not the same, then the age does not fit.
But when the actor moved to Moscow and got a job in the Sphere drama theater in 1989, there were a lot of serious dramatic roles in his repertoire. In 2003, he left the "Sphere" in the theater "Russian House".
Movie
Anatoly Koscheev began acting in films in the 1990s. In total, during his career on his account about 33 film and television works. Among those that you should pay attention to: the role of the shoemaker in the drama “The Thief” by P. Chukhrai in 1997, the role of brother Lykov in the epic-dramatic film “Outskirts” by P. Lutsik in 1998. However, it is unlikely that the audience remembered the actor from these works. The finest hour of Anatoly Koscheev was yet to come.
"Soldiers"
In 2003, the artist starred in the movie "Boomer", and assistant directors invited him to the casting of the new series "Soldiers". In 2004, Koshcheev received the role of ensign Danilych. Then he hardly thought that this character would glorify him throughout the country. But that is exactly what happened.
The actor managed to create the image of a real military, stable and economic, thereby winning the love of numerous spectators. The show went on from 2004 to 2013. The cast has changed more than once. But Anatoly Igorevich worked on the set from the first series to the last. Once, in the story, they decided to retire him, but the audience rebelled, and the scriptwriters had to leave Danilych in the army.
After “Soldiers”, the actor took part in such films as “Svaty”, “Partisans”, “Village Bandit”. His last role is the images of twin brothers, guards of Rosgarantbank, in the short film in 2017, Major Grom.
Personal life
Anatoly Koscheev has been married to a woman named Nadezhda for over twenty years. She used to be a lawyer, but now she is retired. According to the actor, during the life of the couple, the couple survived everything: hard times, and unemployment. Not so long ago they built a house in the suburbs, near Bronnitsy, and moved there from Moscow.
Anatoly Igorevich notes that he loves to plant bushes, dig up beds and grow greens. He says that fishing, which his serial hero Danilych adores, is not particularly interesting to him, but is more attracted to housework, for example, cooking. Among his specialties, he calls manti and pilaf from duck according to a recipe that he personally invented while working in Kazakhstan.
Koshcheev admits that he does not play sports because of laziness, but he can play badminton with his comrades. He also loves to make long walks at a distance of five to six kilometers: he gets up in the morning and goes for a walk with a dog, the Pekingese Tina Turner, who received such a name because of her piercing sonorous voice. Once, the wife of Anatoly Igorevich picked up a dog on the street, and she became a member of the Koshcheev family.