“Nadya! Have you married a mortal ?! ” This phrase throughout the entire series “My Beloved Witch” was often repeated by her heroine, Margarita Nikolaevna, the powerful and very modern Baba Yaga, her only daughter who dared to disobey her parents and start a family with an ordinary person. They have not yet learned who it is? The secret is simple: a talented actress and just a beautiful woman, Marina Esipenko.
"How to understand you, Marina?"
Viewers, both theatrical and watching her play at home, on TVs, usually see her as a strict, sometimes bitchy, tough woman with huge ambitions. But, oddly enough, it turns out that not everything that we can see with our own eyes is actually so. That is why, in order to understand what kind of real Marina Esipenko she is, she should at least once briefly cast her eyes on her personal life, which is usually not put up for general consideration. And only then you can feel how different it is in ordinary life from the images created by it.
She looks so fragile, ephemeral and miniature that it is impossible to believe that last summer she turned 50 years old. But this is absolutely true.
Childhood and dreams
Marina Esipenko began her life journey on July 30, 1965 in Omsk. The family lived in a barrack where there was a stove. To prevent the family from freezing, Marina's dad drowned this stove with wood. Since that time, the confidence has settled in the girl that parents can do everything in their power for their children. The main thing is that the children should feel good.
The acting profession was hardly the limit of her childhood dreams, but fate liked it that way. Future education, the future actress Marina Esipenko found in the Higher Theater School named after Shchukin. Immediately after graduation, she came to the walls of the Vakhtangov Theater, where she goes on stage to this day. Perhaps because of this, her fans know her precisely as the theatrical one, because, in fact, she has been such for many years.
Marina Esipenko is considered a truly Vakhtang actress. She is so noble, truly aristocratic, flying-free, very sonorous and slender, like a birch, musically gifted. Like the rest of the real Vakhtangans, its role cannot be determined.
Her roles were Olya in The Boar, Abigail in The Glass of Water, Princess Turandot in the new edition of Gozzi's play ... And of the four staged performances of Pyotr Fomenko on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater, Marina Esipenko played in three.
In recent years, she began to participate in fewer performances, but each of them has its own zest. And viewers can now see Marina Nikolaevna not only on the familiar scene, but also in the movie roles: Anna Tatishcheva in Alexander Garden, Nadezhda Lifanova in Pete Magnificent, Tamara Nechaeva in The Brothers in Different ways.
The actress exists in the profession very cleanly, deeply and seriously. Thanks to this attitude, she remarkably preserved herself and her creative powers. She does not stop there, but gradually rises, illuminating those around her with her talent.
Unofficial husband
Marina Esipenko was married twice. The personal life of the actress is as if divided in half: life with an unofficial husband and life with an official spouse. This is worth telling in more detail.
The first, although unofficial, husband of the actress was the notorious actor, musician and rebel Nikita Dzhigurda. They began to meet in youth while studying. Their relationship lasted for twelve years.
Now, after a long period of time, Marina Esipenko recalls him as an eccentric, restless, prone to shocking man. And the older he got, the more all these qualities became brighter. They have reached incredible sizes.
Official husband
Her second husband (and if you take the official side, the only one) is Oleg Mityaev - a bard, who is known to almost everyone who is even a little familiar with music. This man is diametrically opposed to that of youth. Actress Marina Esipenko, whose biography with the advent of Oleg began to be replete only with bright events, always says that only thanks to her beloved person she is able to feel a happy woman protected from adversity. Now she is not looking for a variety of ways to earn money and is not grabbing at all the roles in a row, not paying attention to whether she likes the script or not. Marina and Oleg not only protect their home, but also work together: they are the presenters of the "Bright Past" award ceremony.
It was in this very real marriage that Marina and Oleg had a daughter, Dasha. For the bard, this is the fourth child. For Marina - the first, long-awaited and late. Therefore, she tries to cherish every moment spent with her beloved daughter. The actress does not really want her daughter to receive the same profession as she. But the woman promised herself that Dasha would have the last word on the issue of choosing a profession. And she, like a real mother, will always support her daughter and help, if necessary.