Actor Dmitry Shevchenko is talented, multifaceted, ironic, like a true Odessa. His work is interesting to both his compatriots Ukrainians, and film enthusiasts from Russia and the CIS countries. Fans regularly “receive” new roles of their beloved actor; he is in demand both in cinema and in the theater.
Gingerbread men from Major, manager Karl Modestovich from Poor Nastya, Colonel Nechaev from Shadow Boxing, brigade commander Alyoshin from the movie Ax - actor Dmitry Shevchenko is known to these Russian films for these and other films. He is recognizable and loved, but what do we know about the biography, career and personal life of this talented lyceum?
Biography of actor Dmitry Shevchenko
Dmitry Valerievich Shevchenko was born in mid-June 1964 in Odessa. The family of the future actor had nothing to do with art, almost all of its members, and their ancestors, were economists or accountants, dreamed that their beloved son and grandson would go the same way. But Dima from childhood dreamed of a movie and the stage of the theater, despite the ban, he attended classes in the drama club at the base of his school.
After school, at the insistence of relatives, Dima went to study a “real” profession - he entered the Polytechnic University in his native city. But here he managed to "break through" into art - he became a member of the KVN team of the Odessa Gentlemen Institute.
After graduating from a university, Dmitry Shevchenko did not want to engage in economics; he went to conquer the northern capital, or rather, to enter LGITMiK. In order for him to be allowed not to work out the prescribed 3 years on the profile of the university, Shevchenko had to contact the Academy of Sciences and prove that a good actor is better than an inferior economist.
According to Shevchenko, he had to painfully corrode the acting skills gained during his participation in the KVN - for the stage of the theater and for performing the dramatic roles in the cinema that he dreamed about, they were completely inappropriate. And his efforts were crowned with success, and we have the opportunity to enjoy the game of a wonderful actor in both cinema and theater.
Theatrical career of actor Dmitry Shevchenko
For two years after graduating from LGITMiK, Dmitry was engaged in an informal theater, worked in entreprises that were interesting to both spectators and directors. The talent of the actor was undeniable, but innate adventurism required versatile development, and Shevchenko accepts the invitation to the troupe of the Alexandrinsky Theater more than willingly. In the legendary theater, he adds roles to performances in his creative piggy bank
- "Game of forfeits" - Nikita,
- "Killer" by Dostoevsky - Porfiry Petrovich,
- "Nightingale" - the image of Death,
- "In the correctional colony" - Arriving,
- "Ring and Rose" - King Zagrabastal.
Since 2012, Dmitry Shevchenko has been playing the role of husband Anna Karenina in the tragicomedy "Karenin" on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater in Moscow. There is also a theatrical classic in his piggy bank - the performances "Three Sisters", "Othello", "Winter's Tale", "Poverty is not a vice" and others.
It was the theater that became the impetus for the development and cinema career. Successful work in St. Petersburg and Moscow did not go unnoticed, theatrical critics have always been supportive of the actor, as well as the audience. Each work of Dmitry Shevchenko was rated highly, attracted attention.
The filmography of the actor Dmitry Shevchenko
Cinema has always attracted Dmitry, but a career in this field of art has developed slowly. "Test pen" this actor in the movie happened in 1986, when he played a small role in the film "Just One Turn". True success came only in 1998, and since then Shevchenko’s filmography has been replenished with 2-3 roles a year. The best can be called work in films
- "Birthday bourgeois"
- "Request stop",
- "Russians in the city of angels",
- "A fight with a shadow",
- "You can’t catch us,"
- "Major" and others.
The last bright work of actor Dmitry Shevchenko is Lt. Col. Pryanikov in the TV series Major.
The audience sincerely fell in love with the heroes of the film, were surprised by the development of the plot. The merit of the success of the film was the talent of the actors, including Dmitry Shevchenko, Pavel Priluchny, Razumovskaya Karina and others.
Dmitry Shevchenko’s partners on the set are both young actors and masters of Russian and Ukrainian cinema. He looks harmoniously in any team, often becomes the central link, and even when his characters are secondary, and this says a lot.
