Most of the acting dynasties of Russia originates in the 60s of the last century. It was then that fathers and mothers came to the profession - the founders of the now most famous acting families.
Professional family dynasties existed almost from the day the monkey turned into a person. Well, or maybe a little later. In the wild tribes, there is still a strict family separation: some are engaged in hunting, others are in agriculture. In the Middle Ages it was impossible to imagine that a tanner, for example, became a bochar or a confectioner.
However, when creative people are engaged in one thing, the proverb about nature and the children on whom she rests will be remembered for sure. Can a talented joiner, firefighter or steelmaker have a mediocre successor to the profession? Does a successful businessman have a mediocre heir? Quite. But, you see, few people will notice this and in an idle conversation at a friendly table they will compare the skills of completely foreign fathers and parents. Unless, of course, the successor of capital to the nines does not go broke in a short time.
And only the successors of creative professions are doomed to constant comparison with their ancestors. They are being followed, they are being discussed with particular passion always and everywhere. Fortunately, in Russia, in most of the well-known acting dynasties, nature has been working for several decades without a break. Here is only a tenth of the current acting families - dynasties. Alphabetically.
Acting and directing Bondarchuk dynasty
The founder of the dynasty is the outstanding film director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk. Sergei Fedorovich had two wives - actress Inna Makarova and actress Irina Skobtseva. In both marriages, children were born who also became artists. And then their children.
From her first marriage to the St. Petersburg theater and film actress Inna Makarova, a daughter Natalya Bondarchuk was born, her daughter Maria Burlyaeva was born from her marriage to the artist Nikolai Burlyaev. In the second marriage, Sergei Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva gave birth to children Alena and Fedor. The son of Alena Konstantin Kryukov and the daughter of Natalia Maria Burlyaev - for now? - The youngest members of a large acting dynasty.
Acting Boyarsky dynasty
One of the oldest acting dynasties in Russia. Its founder was a priest, whose many children under Soviet rule chose a different ministry - another temple. Almost all of them, one way or another, were related to the theatrical art of St. Petersburg. The most famous artists from a large, extensive family are: Sergey Boyarsky, Nikolai Boyarsky, Mikhail Boyarsky, his wife Larisa Lupian and their daughter Elizaveta Boyarskaya.
Ephraim Dynasty x
The founder of the dynasty is the man-era: theater director and actor Oleg Efremov. His children Anastasia (from a civil marriage with actress Irina Mazuruk) and Mikhail (from a marriage with actress Alla Pokrovskaya), who are most directly related to theater and cinema, already have their adult children, Olga Efremova and Nikita Efremov, who also continue to bear the heavy cross of the surname, daily proving their viability and uniqueness of the genus.
Clan Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Founders: artist Pyotr Konchalovsky, his daughter, writer Natalya Konchalovskaya, and her husband, poet Sergei Mikhalkov. Their children: film and theater director Andron (Andrey) Konchalovsky and film director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. Their children from different marriages have long been held in art: directors and artists Yegor Konchalovsky and Artem Mikhalkov, actresses Anna Mikhalkova and Nadezhda Mikhalkova.
Acting dynasty of Urgants
Founders of the dynasty: actors Leo Milinder and Nina Urgant. Their son Andrei, a well-known St. Petersburg actor and showman, married to actress Valeria Kiseleva, gave birth to a son, now famous TV presenter Ivan Urgant.
Jankowski Dynasty
Founders: brothers Rostislav and Oleg Yankovsky. The eldest brother Rostislav, a film and theater artist, who spent most of his life in Belarus and served in the Minsk Drama Theater, was the first to enter the path of acting. His sons Igor and Vladimir also became artists, but subsequently left the profession. The younger brother Oleg became the founder of the Moscow branch of the acting dynasty: in marriage to actress Lyudmila Zorina, his son Philip was born. Now, the already famous film director and actor Philip Jankowski and his wife, actress Oksana Fandera, their first son Ivan takes the first steps in the acting profession.
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