Yuri Alekseevich Vnukov is a Russian theater and film actor, who played many diverse characteristic roles: comedic, fabulous, romantic and dramatic. Grandchildren has an outstanding appearance and bright acting talent. And he created on television the character of the children's program "We're going to play" Grandfather Secret was remembered by many young viewers.
Childhood and youth
Yura Vnukov was born on February 3, 1962 in the small city of Novomoskovsk, located in the Tula region. The boy's family had nothing to do with theatrical art. From childhood, Yura dreamed of becoming a train engineer, was fond of everything related to railway transport, he loved to visit the city park with his mother and ride on the children's railway.
When the first-grader Yura was seven years old, his mother took him to a performance at the Novomoskovsk Drama Theater. It was then that the boy decided to become an artist and for all ten school years he went to his goal - he studied at a music school, played in amateur performances, attended theater premieres.
Having received secondary education, Yuri Vnukov became a student in the acting department of the Voronezh State Institute of Arts (VGII). His teacher in acting was the head of the department, Gleb Borisovich Drozdov - the famous theater director, People's Artist of Russia.
Theater work
After graduating from VGII in 1983, Yuri Vnukov by distribution got into the Theater of Young Spectators in the city of Rostov-on-Don. The actor well remembered his first role - Morozko in the play "Morozko", which premiered on a tour in Leningrad; Vnukov is very proud of this fact. After working in the Youth Theater for six months, Yuri was drafted into the army. While he served, his mother fulfilled her old dream: she moved to the village of Tomilino near Moscow, only 25 kilometers from Moscow. Here Yuri lives to this day.
Returning from the army, Yuri Vnukov began to look for work: he went to various Moscow theaters and offered himself as an actor. Without patronage in the capital, he could not get a job, and then Vnukov joined the Tver Theater for a young spectator. Here, the actor was provided with official housing, he worked in this Youth Theater for three and a half years. In his free time, Yuri came to Moscow and continued to search for work.
Once he walked along the Kuznetsk bridge past the Operetta Theater and decided to just go “for good luck”, even though he was a dramatic actor, not an operetta. He was accepted into the troupe as a characteristic artist, whose roles did not require a well-set strong voice, but needed the charisma and skill of the actor. For more than 25 years, Yuri Vnukov worked at the Moscow Operetta Theater, playing comic roles, performing couplets and small arias in performances. Among the roles are a fireman in the operetta by I. Kalman “Silva”, chairman of the house committee Zhundrikov in “Grooms” Isaac Dunaevsky, Porcupine Saga in the musical V. Stashinsky “Mowgli” and others.
Movie work
The most famous is Yuri Vnukov as a film actor. Since 1985, he began acting in films - he played a curly-haired guy in a small episode in the film "Dance Floor". After that, invitations to shoot in films and TV shows literally tumbled down: over the 35 years of his career, Vnukov starred in more than 140 films! These are mostly episodic and supporting roles - the actor’s characteristic appearance also involved the selection of certain characters.
Cinema viewers could see Yuri Vnukov in such films and TV shows as “Soldiers-5” and “Soldiers-10”, “Capercaillie-3”, “The Fugitive”, “Mommies”, the 104th series of “Voronins”, “Univer”, "Daddy's daughters. Superbows" and many others.
One of his main works in cinema, Yuri Vnukov considers the role of businessman Viktor Andreevich Ezhov in the TV series "Game" (2011). Here, the actor happened to create a completely not comedic, but a dramatic and even tragic image of a man who was first deceived, and then completely died at the hands of bandits. Another favorite movie character of both the actor himself and the audience is journalist Alexei Yegorovich Rebushinsky in the TV series Anna Detective.
Currently, Yuri Vnukov starred in two films: "System-X" and "Moses Kolya." The actor also contributed to the work of domestic film studios on dubbing foreign films: many foreign film characters speak his voice.
Work on television
Yuri Vnukov's cherished dream was to work on television. And the dream came true: in 2008 he was invited to the casting of TV presenters of the program for preschoolers and elementary school students “We are going to play” on the children's television channel “Carousel”. There were many applicants, but as a result of the selection there were only two left. Trial episodes of the program were filmed with both potential television presenters and presented to the children's audience. The kids chose Yuri Vnukov as the host of the program, and in 2009 the first issue of “We Go To Play” was released, the characters of which were the fidget Strekotusha, Tishka the bear cub and the funny and wise wizard Grandfather Secret.
In each program, Strekotusha and Tishka had to describe in detail and competently Grandfather any object that they needed for the game, and Grandfather Secret would solve riddles for children, offer various tasks - tongue twisters, poems and songs, dances, so that the children could finally get this subject. All this contributed to the expansion of vocabulary and the formation of correct speech among small viewers, the development of their memory, motor skills, logic and thinking. The program went on the Carousel channel for four years, and teachers - authors of advanced pedagogical techniques, as well as pediatricians, speech therapists and children's psychologists participated in its creation. The role of Grandfather Secret brought Yuri Vnukov a lot of positive emotions, acting experience, as well as popularity among children of our entire country.
