Biography
Villa Haapasalo - Finnish actor and TV presenter, who received unexpected popularity in Russia. Villa Haapasalo starred in the cult films "Features of the National Hunting" and "Features of National Fishing", which is included in the list of paintings, which Russians are happy to revise during the winter holidays. Also, Villa Haapasalo leads a number of documentary travel projects in Russia.
On February 28, 1972, Villa Haapasalo was born in the Finnish village of Lahti. This is perhaps the only actor from Finland, which is popular in Russia more than at home.
In Lahti, where the childhood of the future actor passed, all the inhabitants were sports. Villa also was engaged in sports, I tried forces in hockey, skiing, swimming, played football and baseball: a few sports guy was engaged in parallel.
In adolescence, Villa Haapasalo met the theater and fell in love with him. He participated in amateur productions and thought about how to combine sports and acting profession. I could not combine - I had to choose. Villa chose the theater. He planned to learn in England, she was preparing for the entrance exams for a long time, even paid for them. But the case intervened.
Haapasalo walked to the ticket office, when he met a long-time acquaintance and told about the upcoming trip to England. He convinced him to enter the Russian university, because there the theater school is stronger, and Russia is closer.
Villa Haapasalo listened to him and decided to enter the Theater Institute in Leningrad. I arrived, passed the exams, not knowing a word in Russian. The admission committee did not understand him, but he did not understand what they told him. Despite this, Finnish guy paid his student and became a student.
For the first half a year for Villa were torture - he was sitting at lectures, and after them he had strongly studied Russian. In addition, it was necessary to make a living that in the dashing 90s it was not so simple - for the year Finn robbed nine times. Villa Haapasalo turned out to be a diligent student: in the first year of study he did not find time to get acquainted with Leningrad.
Films
The creative biography of Ville Haapasalo began suddenly and amazing. In the cinema, Villa fell by chance and immediately became a star. It was a comedy A. Rogozhkin "Features of the National Hunting". Villa Haapasalo studied at the last year of the university, and the director searched for a characteristic type. Some of the acquaintances said Rogozhkin that a student from Finland is studying in the theater. Villa was invited to samples. Blonde, high (actor growth 185 cm) Villa with characteristic features of the face immediately approached the image.
That the role was the sign - Ville found out on the streets, they took an autograph from him. He was frightened unexpected popularity and closed from society. After the university, the actor left home and worked as a driver. But then decided to return to the profession. As he himself says, he called him again from Rogozhkin and invited to act in the "features of national fishing."
In Finland, no one knew about the villa Haapasalo for a long time while the film "Cuckoo" was not released on the screens. It was shown in both countries. For the role in this film, the actor received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2003.
Villa Haapasalo took part in the shooting of a romantic comedy "Love in the Big City", fulfilling the role of a furious sauna. The film tells about friends-hiking life that work in a foreign land, and in their free time, "as adults" are broken. But one day the case interferes with the careless and ramped life. The picture was filmed in the USA, in New York. It played such stars as Alexey Chadov, Vera Brezhnev, Vladimir Zelensky, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anastasia Zadorozhnaya, Philip Kirkorov, and others. Haapasalo starred in the following two parts of the comedy, which came to screens in 2010 and 2014.
Today in his filmography - more than 40 roles in Russian and Finnish projects. At Villa has its own film studio, which he opened in Russia.
TV
He began working in Finnish television in 2005, and after two years already appeared in the Russian program "Main Road".
Then there were several documentary projects on the "Fifth Channel" of St. Petersburg. In 2010, Villa, together with Alexander Oleshko, led the program "Minute of Glory".
Often the actor appears in advertising. He starred in advertising attractions Kotka and Hamin, was the face of the FINN FLARE fashion brand, advertised the products of the Sinebrychoff brand.
Drawing cards Haapasalo became projects about travel in the format of "30 days" for TV and radio company Yle. Most gear Haapasalo somehow devoted to Russia.
In 2010, Villa removed the Venäjänhalki 30 Päivässä cycle ("Through Russia for 30 days"). Three years later, this project was broadcast in Russian on the "My Planet" channel called "30 days in Russia with a villa Haapasalo".
In 2012, Villa Haapasalo released "Silkkitie 30 Päivässä" ("The Great Silk Road for 30 Days"). In the same year, Villa became TV presenter Culinary Transfer of the MTV Max channel "Sapuskaa, Harashoo!", Where in each series of Haapasalo, together with popular personalities, preparing local dishes in Russia.
The next concern was the cycle of "SuomenSukuiset 30 Päivässä" about the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia, which was released in 2013. And in 2014, Villa presented a new cycle "Jäämeri 30 Päivässä" ("Northern Arctic Ocean in 30 days" or "30 days in the Arctic"), where he traveled along the northern coast of Russia.
Since 2014, Villa Haapasalo began to produce registered gears. The first such program was "Haapasalo Goes America", in which the TV presenter crosses the United States on the historic road 66.
In 2015, the new Travel cycle "Kaukasia 30 Päivässä" ("Caucasus for 30 days") was released.
Personal life
After the Institute, Haapasalo returned to Finland and met his first wife, Sarah Hedland. The pair of three children.
The marriage collapsed when the actor was fascinated by the director of Tina Barkalay, from whom he met on filming in Russia. Soon the press spoke about their novel and that Tina is pregnant. Villa was born a fourth child.
Tina believes that children should grow in official marriage. The press appeared reports that Villa Haapasalo made her an offer, but they have not yet led the relationship.
The actor dreams quickly retire and engage in forest, revise the films in which he starred, flipping comics, sitting by the fireplace. He has more than 1000 comics in his collection.
Haapasalo loves to drive driving, and it does not matter to him, the snowmobile is or a car, but is also afraid to fly on airplanes. Several times the villa refused flights, listening to the inner voice.
The actor has good physical training. The viewers were convinced of this when Ville Haapasalo participated in the TV show "Ice Age" in a pair with the Olympic champion in ice dancing Tatyana Navka. Couple ranked second.
Villa says about himself, which is a non-conflict man, get it difficult. The main thing is not to invade the personal space, which he determined by one and a half meters around him.
Villa Haapasalo now
In 2016, Villa Haapasalo released two television programs, one on each own popular format: "Volga 30 Päivässä" ("Volga in 30 days") and "Haapasalo Goes Lomalle" ("Haapasalo rides on vacation").
In 2017, Villa Haapasalo attracted the press of the press with a commentary about the fact that the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation issued a warning about the ban from September 1, 2018 to sell alcohol drunk citizens in stores or bars. The TV host said the press, which is very surprised that there is still no such ban in Russia. According to Villa, in Finland, a drunk person will not sell alcohol. But the actor admitted that he was not sure if there was a legal ban or the regulations on this subject, usually the sellers for the eyes determine whether the buyer was very drunk, and decide on their own, sell alcohol or not.
Filmography
- 1995 - "Features of the National Hunt"
- 1996 - "Operation" Happy New Year! "
- 1998 - "Features of national fishing"
- 2001 - "Deadly Power"
- 2005 - "KGB in a tuxedo"
- 2002 - "Cuckoo"
- 2004 - "Queen of the benzokolontka 2"
- 2005 - "Three Musketeers"
- 2006 - "Orange Sky"
- 2007 - "Irony of Fate. Continuation"
- 2009 - "Merchant"
- 2009 - "Love in the Big City"
- 2011 - "Pregnant"
- 2012 - "Suicides"
- 2013 - "Dad rent"