Mikhail Polyak (actor): biography and personal life

A graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, an actor of the Lenkom Theater, and in the last years of his life, a talented actor who worked at the Shalom Theater was Mikhail Naumovich Polyak. Today, only those with whom he personally knew, and several dozen people who were ardent fans and admirers of Soviet cinema, will remember him. Mikhail Polyak is an actor with a capital letter, which has remained in our memory as a bright, intelligent, cheerful and talented actor. But, unfortunately, we can judge his talent only by the small video heritage that has survived to this day.

Mikhail Polyak. Biography of a talented Soviet actor

Father - Naum Moiseevich Polyak (1921-1985) was the director of many films. Naum Moiseevich was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and returned from the front disabled. Unfortunately, his musculature of the body was gradually dying, and soon he completely lost the ability to move. A 50-year-old man chained to a wheelchair enthusiastically took up every motion picture offered by Mosfilm. But he soon left the Mosfilm studio and plunged into the world of an ordinary Soviet man. He read many books, listened to music, in particular Vysotsky, composed poetry. He had his own wine-vodka collection, which he replenished, and as a result it reached 500 pieces. During the onset of difficult times, Naum Moiseevich decided to give life to his latest screenplay, Pur la Moore. He created an excellent film group, which worked not for money, but in the name of friendship, kindness and solidarity. Naum Moiseevich celebrated his 60th birthday for a week. The whole group and his close friends walked: Mark Shadur, Sasha Kelstein, Yuri Deryabin and German Eremeev. The first wife Lidia Granova and son Mikhail with their second wife Lena Shanina arrived to congratulate her husband and father.

About the mother of Mikhail Polyak - Lydia Vasilievna Granova (1925-1998) - all that is known is that she was a literary critic and the first wife of Naum Moiseevich Polyak.

Filmography

Mikhail Polyak is an artist who was able to get ahead of his time. He possessed the unique organics that the actors of today's world of cinema have. His most famous role, which won the hearts of many fans of the musical cinema genre, is the role of graduate student Mark in the acclaimed and, as it is now customary to say, box-office musical “Three Bachelors Lived”. Together with Mikhail, no less talented Soviet actors Vsevolod Abdulov and Vladimir Nosik starred in the film. This funny musical film tells the story of three friends who study at graduate school and vowed to each other for 6 months to be devoted to a single life. But they did not expect that she would soon leave them ...

Mikhail Polyak is an actor who was born in a creative family. Since his father worked at Mosfilm, he played his first role at the age of 15, in the film “Listen-ah!” filmed in 1963. The history of the film tells about the beginning of the activities of F.E. Dzerzhinsky during the revolution.

In 1975, the film “This Anxious Winter,” in which Mikhail plays the role of a doctor, was released. Every hour in children's hospitals there is a struggle for the lives of children, and often small patients do not believe in their miraculous healing. With his fervent and sincere game, Pole convincingly showed all the qualities that a doctor treating children must have.

9 films with his participation

It was impossible not to fall in love with his easy and cheerful character Troubadour in the film "Troubadour and his friends." Mikhail Polyak is an actor who starred not only in films, but also brilliantly played in performances. It is a pity that the play "Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta" was not filmed. The charismatic Mikhail Polyak created the spirit and unforgettable atmosphere of the Lenkom Theater. The premiere of the play "Juno and Avos", in which Mikhail Naumovich played an officer-translator, took place in 1981, and for more than 30 years he has not left the stage.

First marriage

Lyudmila Porgina. The wonderful actor Mikhail Polyak, alas, his personal life did not work out. He had three marriages with fairly famous women. The first time he married Lyudmila Porgina in 1965. She was only 17 years old, but her love for Mikhail was so strong that she immediately married him. Like most early marriages, they were completely drowned in domestic and family problems. Their marriage lasted only 2 years, and the family broke up. Later, in one of her interviews, Lyudmila Andreevna will tell how hard she left Mikhail Polyak to Nikolai Karachentsov.

Second marriage

Elena Shanina. Soon, great love came to Mikhail Naumovich. It was the actress who played with him in the Lenkom Theater - Elena Yurievna Shanina. But, unfortunately, this marriage ended in divorce. Elena Shanina fell in love with another handsome man - Alexander Zbruev. In one of the theater's productions, Zbruev and Shanina got the roles of lovers, and the feelings that they played on the stage soon transferred to the real life of the actors. Alexander Zbruev and Mikhail Polyak were intelligent people and well understood that they felt love for one woman, but this did not affect their communication in any way. The love triangle, consisting of Shanina, Zbruev and Pole, played in the Bremen Town Musicians. There is no personal life in the theater, and each actor in sight, soon rumors about this situation spread throughout the "Lenkoy". Joint children Poles and Shanina did not have. It was rumored that Mikhail Polyak began to abuse alcohol, and this was the reason for the divorce. And in one of her interviews, she said: “Misha and I were great friends, and if he had not started drinking, we would have lived a long family life. He was a very smart and intelligent man. But, unfortunately, for such a thin man by nature 70 "They have become a terrible time. Such people more often went into dissent or found solace in alcohol. I did my best to help him. But it’s all useless if the person himself is against such help. And Mikhail didn’t want this. I believe that the illness of the soul is reflected in drunkenness. But, unfortunately, Michael is no longer there. "

Third marriage

Marina Polyak. The third time, Mikhail Naumovich married Marina Alexandrovna , who took her husband's surname. She kept his name, although now she is the wife of M. Shvydkoi. Mikhail Polyak is an actor who was accompanied by failure in matters of the heart ... Maybe that's why his fate as an actor did not work out.

Mikhail Naumovich Pole: reviews from viewers

Bright talent of the Lenkom Theater. No one can overshadow the Pole - Michael is not replaceable. The most charming and talented artist! In the 80s, everyone went to Lenkom just for him. Unfortunately, we left and did not have such fame as other Lenkomites. but fans love and remember him!

This is exactly what the audience says about him. And they regret that so little is known about his life.

The talented actor Mikhail Polyak, whose photo can hardly be found, will remain in our memory just such a charming and bright person.

Actor's death

Mikhail Polyak gave us a lot of characters, but the audience loved the role of a young and sweet graduate student from the movie “Three Bachelors Lived”. He promised his fans that in the future he would become a big star ... but this remained only a promise. What happened, and why the actor’s life has been derailed, will forever remain a mystery. He left us young, he was only 47 ...