Sergey Zagrebnev - film and theater actor, musician, director, performer of his own songs. His track record includes 47 cinematographic works, including roles in such well-known series as: "Squad", "Saboteur 2: The End of the War", "Lord Comrades", "SOBR". He played his first cinematic role in 2002. He works at the Pokrovka Theater, where he plays roles in theatrical productions and acts as a director of performances. He also serves in the theater. Vl. Mayakovsky. The growth of the actor is 182 cm.
Actor Biography
Sergei Zagrebnev was born in Tula (USSR) on June 28, 1979. The family of the future actor left this city when he was a year old. His father, a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, was invited to work at the research institute in Zhukovsky, where he later moved with his family. Sergei Zagrebnev until the sixth grade studied at school number 5, and then continued to receive secondary education in the tenth school.
In his school years he was fond of reading the works of Dickens, Romain Rollan and Jack London, and today he prefers the works of Kurt Vonnegut. This writer likes Sergei Zagrebnev to write his talent "with kindness and irony about terrible and sad things."
The actor says that little dreamed of becoming a trucker or a policeman. His path to acting began with a visit to the School of Arts, where he wanted to learn to play the guitar, but his mother hastily enrolled him in the White Crow theater group, in which the boy liked the classes. In school, he also practiced karate.
Sergei Zagrebnev could not have become an actor, since, having studied in the physics and mathematics class, he decided to enter the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and applied for documents and submitted documents to the theater school only because the exams passed there earlier. Having successfully passed the exams, he became a student of the Higher Theater School named after M.S. Schepkina.
In 2011, the actor’s interview was published in the Zhukovsky City Journal, in which he spoke about his person.
About personal life
Sergei Zagrebnev said that he was married to Evgeny Malakhova, a poet and artist, vocalist of a musical group. Together with her, he creates performances, performs songs. He notes that his wife is sometimes so keen on music that he forgot to buy groceries and cook food. The actor is glad that his wife is not in the same profession as he, and thus she has the opportunity to evaluate his work from the outside. According to him, it’s not difficult for two creative personalities to live together, but just fine.
About work in the cinema and theater
The actor, intersecting on the set with the masters of Soviet and Russian cinema - Zolotukhin, Usatova, Ulyanov, believes that the modern training system is no different from the old one. According to him, only the material on which young actors are brought up has undergone changes. According to his thoughts, in modern series it is impossible to play a voluminous role, since in them initially there is no depth.
Sergei Zagrebnev admits that at first he was more comfortable playing roles on the chamber stage, where the viewer can see everything and have the opportunity to speak in the same way as in life. Having gained experience on the big stage, participating in the performances of the theater named after Vl. Mayakovsky, changed his perception of roles in the chamber theater and his idea of the theater as a whole. According to him, it is necessary to exchange energy with the viewer.
About Chekhov and not only
In an interview with the television program “The wider circle”, the actor spoke about his vision of the theater. He believes that he was lucky in life, since, having settled in the Theater on Pokrovka, he almost immediately began to play big roles, the first of which was in the production of “Poor Marat”. Then actor Sergei Zagrebnev played Nikolai in “Music Lessons”, portrayed Molchalin in “Woe from Wit”, became Busygin in the play “Elder Son”, showed the image of Glumov in “Crazy Money”.
He believes that the works of Chekhov and Tolstoy are modern. They write about problems that have not gone away, and about things that concern people today.
Commenting on the question about the obsolescence of the language of Chekhov’s plays, he notes that he is not shy on the stage to express his feelings with exclamations “Ah!”, “Oh,” since in order to use them without hesitation, you need to “have a lot to do inside”.
It is said that in the works of the classics there are many meanings, which is not found in modern books, in which there is a lot of chatter, but a small concentration of thoughts. In his opinion, people, when they watch a play, start to think, and it does not matter to them what language (modern or obsolete) they speak. The actor emphasizes that he is not warped by Chekhov’s language, and while reading the works of this writer, he is immersed in this world.
Sergei Zagrebnev says that language does not matter if the characters think in an interesting and diverse way. According to him, today there are practically no such personalities and there are no such meaningful conversations.
About your heroes and modern people
Actor Sergei Zabrebnev says that he corresponded to the age of his hero Treplev in those years when he portrayed him on stage. At the time of the interview, he was learning the role of one of the characters, who, like him, is also about 30 years old. However, the actor believes that a modern thirty-year-old person is different from a figure from a past of the same age. According to him, in today's era, a thirty-year-old is at best a young man according to his everyday experience, and at that time, in the century before last, it was an accomplished, adult person, since, at the age of 18, those people already controlled their own estates. Sergei Zagrebnev speaks out, arguing his position on this issue, that now no one wants to grow up.
According to him, Chekhov’s plays are tough, and therefore they must be played in accordance with this. In his opinion, the heroes of Chekhov’s works can speak about elevated matters, while toughly achieving their goals in lower and more concrete matters.
The entourage (costumes, objects) of those times about which classics write, such as Chekhov or Tolstoy, according to the actor, is important on the stage, as it creates the right atmosphere and allows you to immerse yourself in it. At the same time, Sergei Zagrebnev is of the opinion that the main thing is not life, but relations between people.
The actor has been writing poetry since his student days. He loves Japanese poetry for its concentration.