Biography
Leonid Nikolaevich Kulagin - the Soviet and Russian actor who also tried himself in a film maintenance, in writing scenarios and performing performances. For the merit to the culture of the native country, he in 1986 was awarded the title of the People's Artist of the RSFSR. In the new century, the star of the screen found herself on television. His participation in the detective series gave rise to a mass of rumors about the legal profession not only his hero, but also the performer himself.Childhood and youth
Large and saturated biography of Leonid Kulagin originates in the Siberian town of Kirenska Irkutsk region. Up to 7 years old, the boy lived on the banks of the Lena River, and then with his father moved to Nizhny Novgorod.
Mom actor remembers not too well, because she died on the operating table because of the medical error, when Lenya did not even go to school. During his lifetime, she worked as a speaker, she sang well. Father was radio engineering. For 2 years in the upbringing of Young Kulagig, one father was engaged, after which stepmother appeared in his life.
A man took a sister's girlfriend's wife. Although the actor himself argues that today the language does not turn to call it a stepmother. For him, she became the second mom. It was she who taught him a lot, gave rise to culture and taste, caught love for music. The woman gave all his love to the boy, but Leonid did not call her for a long time. Already as an adult, he realized that she had to sacrifice many for him and his father.
Creative and artistic Leonid from the young age fell by passion for the theater. When his dad worked as an electrician in the local dramatic theater, Kulagin disappeared all day after the scenes. He first went on stage in the play "Young Guard". But after a couple of years, the Father quit, and the adolescent access to his beloved place was closed.
But he was not upset: in the courtyard made friends with the musician of the Opera House orchestra and began to go there. By graduation, Kulagin, who did not miss any amateur competition and attended the acting studio at the Palace of Pioneers, knew a little from all the arias from performances and sang well.
Before him was the choice: Being an actor or singer. Initially, the young man's soul was more striving for music, but he realized that Shatod Shalyapin could not sing at the level of his idula. And here even at the Gorky Academic Drama Theater, just opened a studio school, and Kulagin comes there.
Theater
After receiving a diploma, the young man entered the droupe of the DramaTheater. However, Leonid quickly realized that here it, as well as other classmates, continue to be considered a student and are not serious. The guy breaks away from the spot, leaves to the cheat, and later it turns out on the scene of the theaters of Lipetsk and Bryansk. Since 1968, Kulagin is included in the cast of the Taroupes of the Moscow Dramatic Theater named after N. V. Gogol.Time has shown that in his youth, he took the right decision, having left Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod): almost all of its former coarticles remained on the second roles. Leonid Nikolayevich himself performed on the theater stage until 1995.
But when a performance was published about the unsuccessful marriage Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe "After the Fallingness," Kulagin decided to stop acting, which lasted for 35 years. He retrained to theatrical directors, returned to Bryansk, in which he played before moving to Moscow, and became the artistic director and chief director of the local Tyuza.
For 7 years, a talented person put 17 performances, and some of them are still included in the repertoire of the theater. During this time, he did not go to the scene at all and did not starred in the cinema. But in 2004, Kulagin returned to the capital and headed the Production Center "Theatrical Partnership". He again felt interest in acting, began to connect to the entrepreneurial performances. The most beloved work in the XXI century Leonid considers the role of Admiral Nelson in the play "Lady and Admiral". Together with him played famous actresses Marina Mogilev and Vera Glagolev.
Films
Immediately after the end of the Theater Studio, the newly minted actor sent his photos to all the Allied film studios. But waiting for a long time. The challenge came from the Mosfilm film studio, where he was approved for the role of Commissioner Parfenov in the Kovalmanman "The beginning of an unknown century."
This work was supposed to become a starting line in the filmography of Leonid Kulagin, but the Censorship Committee did not miss the tape on the screens, seeing mockery over the October Revolution in it. Therefore, the audience for the first time saw the actor in the main role in the screening of the novel of Ivan Turgenev "noble nest", which the director Andrei Konchalovsky was removed. Together with him, Irina Kupchenko and the star of world cinema Beat Tyshkevich were filmed in the picture.
This success was followed by images in the pictures "about friends-comrades", "Payback" and "Kooming Front". Kulagina and the role of a fascist high-ranking officer in the military film "Comrade General". But the next interest of the fans of the movie to Kulagin was caused by the screening of Russian classics, this time the Drama "Privalov Millions" in the novel of Dmitry Mine-Siberian.
And in 1974, the first in the history of the Soviet Union of the film, which can be counted for the erotic genre, comes to the screens. We are talking about the melodrama "Autumn", in which director Andrei Smirnov decided to recreate the spicy and frank scenes. The partner Leonid was Natalia Ore, the spouse of the director.
And regardless of how these episodes are perceived by the audience, the actors themselves claim: the work was severe, from a moral point of view, and no aesthetic pleasure, and even more so mutual attraction, from participation in the shooting naked they were not tested. The cinematic bosses found that some scenes were removed "too frankly." As a result, the director of Smirnov was longly excommunicated from work.
During the 80s, Leonid Kulagin's films went out one after another and immediately became the hits of the Soviet screen. It is worth allocating the historical adventure picture "The collapse of the operation" Terror ", a film about horses" Killing ", the military drama" Fight at the crossroads ", the spy tape" Password - "Hotel Regina".
The adaptation of the book of Walter Scott "Ballada about the Valiant Knight of Avengo", where Kulagin embodied the image of the father of the chief hero on the screen. The film was recognized by the public due to the star cast and musical accompaniment: all the ballads for the film composed and fulfilled Vladimir Vysotsky.
In the early 90s, Kulagin appeared in the form of the father of the main character in the film for the young childhood "Childhood of Tyoma", as an investigator on particularly important cases in the criminal militant "AU! Train robbery "and in the top ten paintings, the last of which, the drama about World War II" Tragedy of the Century ", was removed in 1993.
Up until the XXI century, Leonid Nikolaevich refuses proposals. Only in 2001, he again begins to act. Kulagin's films are published as the criminal drama "Gold Ugra", the detective "Paris Antikvar" and the second part of the militant "Hunting season".
But the main project of the actor becomes the series on the investigations of "Kulagin and partners". It is noteworthy that at the casting to the main role of the lawyer, the real representatives of this profession were also tasted, but the leadership preferred to them Leonid Nikolayevich, since he did not starrate for many years, and the viewer could have the impression that the artist actually changed the scope of activity.
And just for this reason, in the character scenario, he was renamed, giving him a real surname of the performer. They say this is the only case in history when the actor name is called a series that does not come from the decades from the screens. There were more than 3000 episodes.
In parallel, Kulagin worked on the shooting sites of detectives "Golden Guys" and "My General", the adventure militant "Wolfhounds from the genus of gray pieces", the comedy "bankrupt", the "Paradise Apple" melodrama and many other film projects. In the early 2000s, the artist tried his strength in the voice acting video game. He gave his voice the hero of the Tom Clantcy's Splinter Cell cycle. As a speaker, Leonid Nikolaevich spoke in the game TRINE.
In 2016, the actor participated in the series "The Mysterious Passion", where the writer Vasily Aksenova played. In addition, Kulagina was invited to the RUSSIAN GAME ROMURA. In addition to him, the Russian actress Anastasia Klyuev and the Turkish star Firat Tanish are involved there.
In 2017, the premiere of the picture "Catherine. Take off "- continuing the line of fate of the Great Empress Catherine II, begun in the film" Catherine ". Leonid Kulagin played the Archbishop of Gabriel.
Ready attention and Kulagin director. Back in 1993, Leonid Nikolayevich wrote his own scenario for the Criminal Tape "Wolf" and removed a film about shooting from the French concentration camp during World War II. After 10 years, the director is reiterated for the work and creates the series "Drilling" about young people who go to earnings in Siberia and face a moral choice. In his paintings, Kulagin removed Andrei Ilyin, Anna Selfin, Egor Barinov, Anton Makarsky and other Russian stars.
In 2003, Leonid Nikolayevich was awarded the Order of Honor for many years of fruitful activities in the field of culture and art.
Leonid Kulagin in 2014-2015 participated in the filming of the series "Sasha Dobly, Sasha Angry." Shooting on the territory of Crimea, in Balaclava and Sevastopol.
In May 2018, the actor interviewed Tatiana Ustinova in its author's program "My Hero". He told that he was no longer invited to the movie. But now he is voiced by audiobooks. His first book was the 800-page work of Ivan Shmelev "Ways of Heaven." Leonid Nikolaevich admits that when he spent barely held away tears.
After the sounding of literary works, it became regular work for Leonid Nikolayevich. In his list, a huge number of classical literature - "Crime and Punishment", "Running on the Waves", "Dead Souls", "Indian Summer", Wolga and Mikula Selininovich, and others. Also, with no smaller enthusiasm, the artist is taken for voicing books for children - he "presented" his voice of the story about a minor and one of the parts of Harry Potter.
Leonid Kulagina had a joint project with Radio Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church, in which he read the history of the Christian church and the New Testament.
In April 2018, the People's Artist of Russia participated in the concert "Mozart. Requiem. Pushkin. Mozart and Salieri, "which was held in the Cathedral of Peter and Paul. He recited the monologue of Salieri.
Personal life
When Leonid ran out the studio, he met the daughter of the People's Artist of Pretty Nelskaya, also final studies, but only in the theater school Yaroslavl. In Gorky, she came with relatives. The family settled in the apartment of the Avesti Kulagin. Relatives among themselves agreed to introduce their heirs and in secret already cherished the dream of their wedding.After the first acquaintance between young people, feelings broke out. The girl in the distribution fell into the cheat, asked the direction and her fiance. Leonid Kulagina's personal life was 1.5 years old, but they quickly understood that their passion gradually subsides, because Leonid and Mila were too different people.
Once he woke up, but there are no miles near. I went to the kitchen, and she writes a love letter to another man - director of the theater. Leonid forgave her, as he loved. But from the moment the attitude of them "fell apart." After parting, the actor his loneliness poured alcohol. Although he did not drink to the meeting with Nelskaya and did not smoke. After parting with his spouse, Mila lived for a long time: the artist died from Belokrovia aged 23 years.
Soon, the artist leaves to work in the Lipetsky Theater and there he meets his current spouse Eleonora Lapitskaya. By the way, his second love performed the same role on stage as the first wife of Kulagin. The actress lived in a civil marriage, but it did not stop Leonid Nikolayevich, since he believed that her husband was "unreal." He cared and sought her arrangement by all the ways. Soon Eleanor married the actor, and since then they are together.
Ele had to withstand drunken her husband and make it impossible: to persuade Kulagig coded. They had a son Alexey, and now there is already an adult grandson Cyril. None of the descendants of Kulagin did not go to his footsteps, although the son, and grandson in childhood were interested in the theater, and Cyril was even engaged in the actor's house on Arbat. Today, the son of Kulagin occupies a leadership position in the advertising agency, the financial sector and the grandson of the actor dedicated to the financial sector.
In all interviews, Leonid Nikolayevich calls himself a fatalist. He is confident that all the events of our lives are defined in advance, and success or collapse depend only on how carefully we treat the signs that fate sends.
Leonid Kulagin now
Most of 2020, Leonid Nikolaevich spent around the city, in the country. Nevertheless, he managed to participate in the voice of the book-trilogy book "Little heroes of a big war", devoted to the topic of children's heroism during the Great Patriotic War. The record was carried out by the forces of the Oksana Fedorova Charitable Foundation "Hurry to do good!" What was reported on the official page of the organization in "Instagram".
In the fall of 2020, the TV series "Grozny" - the third part of the television cycle "Love Story" started on the TV channel "Russia". Russian history". The director of the project was Alexey Andrianov. He also released the first films of the trilogy - "Sofia" and "Godunov", for which two Golden Eagle premiums were awarded. Telefilm became another work in the filmography of Leonid Kulagin. After a 3-year break, it appeared on the screen in the image of Metropolitan Makaria. Acting also entered Sergey Makovetsky and Alexander Yatsenko.
Filmography
1969 - "Noble Nest"
1972 - "Privalov Millions"
1980 - "Crash Operation" Terror "
1983 - "Ballada of the Valiant Knight of Avengo"
1991 - "AU! Train Robbery »
2004 - "The ashes" Phoenix "
2004-2013 - "Kulagin and partners"
2005-2006 - "Golden Guys"
2009 - "Bankrupt"
2014 - "Kuprin. Pit"
2016 - "Mysterious Passion"
2016 - "Catherine. Takeoff"
2020 - "Grozny"