Leonid Barats is known primarily as a member of the Quartet I creative team. This bright and talented actor plays in the theater, starred in several films according to his own script. He is young, active and full of new creative ideas.
The beginning of the creative path
He was born in 1971 into a Jewish family. The name went to Leonid from his great-grandfather, but relatives and friends often called him Alexei. Father Grigory Isaakovich devoted himself to journalism, mother Zoya Izrailevna - to preschool pedagogy. All his childhood passed in Odessa - a "warm and atmospheric city", as Lenya himself said. The family always dreamed of seeing a boy in one of the creative professions. Grandmother, theatrical accompanist from early childhood introduced her grandson to music. Playing the piano did not appeal to him until he became acquainted with jazz. Everything changed in one day. Baraz enrolled in a theater circle and became a frequent guest of the school scene. Journalism also attracted him, and for a long time he could not decide on his future profession.
Quartet And
Acquaintance with colleagues from the Quartet And took place while studying. With Rostislav Khait they were inseparable from the first class of the Odessa school, Alexander Demidov and Kamil Larin joined already in GITIS. Since 1993, close friendship has grown into creative cooperation. At the same time, the collective made their stage debut - staging "These are only stamps".
The first recognition came to the quartet in 2001 after the premiere of the play "Radio Day", where Leonid Barats acted as the author of the script. In addition to the four artists, Nonna Grishaeva, Alexander Tsekalo, Maxim Vitorgan took part in it. A year later, the comedy "Election Day" continued the triumph of the team. The era of the Quartet I tour began. They visited all major Russian cities, visited the CIS countries, and everywhere they were greeted warmly and enthusiastically.
But real fame came to Baraz and his comrades after the screen version of these two performances in 2008-2009. Telefilms made them famous and beloved by millions of viewers. Later they saw the screens of their works "What men are talking about" and the continuation of "What more men are talking about." The team created all their projects together, each contributed, but it was difficult to underestimate the role of Leonid Barats - actor, author, producer. Critics were also supportive of him - they saw in him a talented playwright. Perhaps this is how he tried to find the very “golden mean for the Russian theater", about the lack of which he spoke in his interviews.
The actor has repeatedly agreed to shoot in video clips of famous singers and music groups: "Agatha Christie", "Bravo", "Combination". He tried himself in the scoring of American animated films, and once appeared as the author of a Russian popular cartoon.
