Marina Alexandrova is a famous Russian actress, and besides, one of the most beautiful. She is the wife of director Andrei Boltenko and a happy mother of two children. Her career is on the rise, because she was able to fulfill her dream - to act in films.
Childhood and family
Marina Alexandrova was born in Hungary in the small town of Kiskunmaysha in the south of the country. She grew up in a military family and a teacher. Like many employees, her father often changed his place of residence on duty. At the time of the birth of Marina’s daughter, Andrey Vitalievich was in a Hungarian city. He was a lieutenant colonel of artillery troops. Marina’s mother is Irina Anatolyevna. She is a methodologist, and until 2008 she worked at the Herzen Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg.
Marina's date of birth is August 29, 1982. At the age of five, she leaves Hungary with her parents and moves to Transbaikalia, and later they begin to live in St. Petersburg. She recalls her loved ones as a family where mutual understanding and respect reigned. After the change of residence, Marina spent her childhood on Lake Baikal, as well as in Tula. During his school years, he moved to a city on the Neva, where his family still lives.
Parents dreamed that their only daughter would become a translator of the English language, because she had good abilities, or that she would start working as a tourism manager. But later, Marina Alexandrovna realized that her real vocation was to be an actress.
School years
She studied at a school with a mathematical bias. It was much more difficult to study in it than in a regular educational institution. In addition, Marina simultaneously studied at a music school in the harp class. At the age of 14, she came to the Imagine Theater Studio. Parents were skeptical: they did not approve of her choice to engage in acting. Despite this, they did not interfere with the daughter’s decision for one simple reason - they were sure that Marina still couldn’t be an artist.
In the Theater Studio at Channel Five, the girl began to engage in acting: to take part in television shows and creative evenings. The director who worked there was a graduate of the Shchukin school. From him, Marina learned a lot about this place. Gradually, she mentally came to a fateful decision.
The beginning of an acting career
Marina was not yet 17 when she firmly decided that she would go to conquer the capital and fulfill her dream. At that time, the only person who unconditionally believed in her success was her beloved grandfather. On the eve of the granddaughter’s departure to Moscow, by coincidence, the old man falls into a coma and soon dies. On the first attempt, Marina Alexandrova was admitted to the Shchukin Theater School . Her biography has since been saturated with creative activity. Only later did she find out that 10 people claimed her place, but they took her. Even during training in the first year, the girl was invited to a role in the movie.
Marina Alexandrova is an actress, whose photo shows us a confident and purposeful young woman. Her debut work, which opened her way to cinema - the film "Northern Lights", as well as the series "Empire under attack." In the first picture, the then-known partner of the film was Alexander Zbruev. In this picture, the girl played an abandoned daughter who grew up in an incomplete family and then went in search of her father. Famous colleagues helped the still inexperienced actress Marina Alexandrova learn the difficult profession.
Breakthrough
Marina Alexandrova is an actress, now widely known in Russia. The film, which was a breakthrough in her acting career, was Azazel based on the novel by Boris Akunin. The premiere took place in 2001. Three people recommended Marina for the role in this film, and now, finally, she was invited. She played Lisa - the bride of Erast Fandorin. The role was small but memorable. At that time when the film was being shot, there was a genuine interest in the work of Boris Akunin. This factor also played to the advantage of Marina Alexandrova.
After she starred in the film "Azazel", her acting career went uphill, and the girl was regularly invited to act in films.
Theatre
In 2006, Marina began her creative career at the Sovremennik Theater. Here she worked for 5 years in a troupe led by Galina Volchek, who invited her. Unexpectedly for everyone in 2011, Marina applies for dismissal for personal reasons. During this time, she played many roles in performances and was very in demand. Among the works of Alexandrova, one can note such performances as “Woe from Wit”, “Three Sisters”, “Three Comrades”, “Steep Route”. In "Contemporary" she was one of the leading actresses. In addition to creative development, the theater gave her a significant meeting. After two years of work, the woman married Ivan Stebunov, with whom they were colleagues.
Today on the screens of our TVs we can watch a large number of melodramas in which Marina Alexandrova starred. Photos of the actress and family continually appear in various periodicals.
Personal life
Ivan Stebunov is an actor and colleague at the Sovremennik Theater, as well as now the ex-husband of Marina Alexandrova. The wedding took place in June 2008. Their marriage lasted 2 years, and in April 2010 they divorced.
Prior to her first official marriage, Marina Alexandrova lived in a civil marriage with the famous Russian actor Alexander Domogarov. They met on the set of the movie "Star of the era." Over the course of two years of relationship, this bright couple diverged many times and converged again.
Marina Alexandrova: children
In the United States in 2012, the actress gave birth to a son, Andrei, and three years later a second child appeared - daughter Catherine. The happy father of two children was Andrey Boltenko, the main director of Channel One. The actress met her future husband on the set of the film "Street Racers", in which she played one of the main roles. For a long time they hid their relationship from the press. For herself, the actress decided that she would have at least three children.
TV presenter and participation in television projects
In 2010, Marina began to lead the program "People Live." The protagonists of this project are famous people (movie, sports and show business stars). Marina Alexandrova came to visit them to talk heart to heart and open the veil of their personal life.
The actress also periodically participates in television projects, the most sensational of which was "The Last Hero-3." This show brought Marina fame and popularity.
It happened in 2002. At that time, Marina Alexandrova was very interested in this extraordinary project and understood that she might no longer have such a chance. She wanted to test her strength by taking part in The Last Hero. In addition, the transfer could serve as a good PR for her, which happened. Interest in the beginning actress has increased many times.
Movie List
Films of Marina Alexandrov found their many fans. There are already about 50 works in the cinema in which our heroine was involved. Among them are both full-length feature films and documentaries, as well as series. The acting career began to develop fully since 2002. Despite the fact that Marina was not from the acting dynasty, she managed to get into the cinema and tightly engage in movie roles.
Among the main films, the following can be noted:
- "Empire under attack."
- Azazel
- "Star of the era."
- "Melting snow".
- "My happiness".
- "Street Racers."
- Kotovsky.
- "I will never give you away to somebody".
- "Urgently looking for a husband."
- MosGas.
- "Unreal love".
- "Born by the Star."
- "Cedar pierces the sky."
- “Vysotsky. Thanks for being alive".
- "All inclusive".
- "Duhless-2."
- “The old tradition. When the sun was God. "
Also, Marina was engaged in the voice acting of cartoon characters. A bright role for her was the heroine in the film "Star of the era": in it, the actress played a sexually relaxed blonde, unusual for her role.
Achievements
In 2007, Marina Alexandrova became a laureate of the Triumph Youth Russian Non-State Prize in the field of the highest achievements of literature and art. The Best Debut Award for shooting in the film Snow Melting was received in 2003 at the St. Tropez Film Festival.
Interesting facts from the life of the actress
The real name of Marina is Pupenina. Alexandrova is selected as a pseudonym.
With her husband Andrei Boltenko and the father of her two children, the woman is not officially registered, but at the same time they secretly married in a church. In the past, a man met with the famous top model Natalia Vodianova.
Marina Alexandrova often happens abroad - in the USA she has an apartment in which she periodically lives. She gave birth to two children in the same clinic in the USA.
During the filming of the film "Northern Lights" in a wedding dress, Marina barefoot ran a total of 18 km, although at that time there were already frosts.
When three months passed after the birth of her son, Marina Alexandrova had already started acting in the film “All Inclusive -2,” but she did not want to leave the child with the nanny at that time and took her to the set. Since her student years, the actress has been maintaining a kind of list called “Ten Nonsense of Marina Alexandrova”. In a notebook, she always updates this list, which contains the most stupid 10 of her desires.