Biography of Vasily Lanovoy


Vasily Semenovich Lanovoy – actor of cinema, theater, People’s Artist of the USSR.

He was born in Moscow, where his parents moved from the Odessa region. Vasily Lanovoy spent his military years in his native village of Strymba.

Unlike his parents, Vasily immediately chose a creative profession. The truth at first for Vasily Lanovoy biography did not foreshadow the actor’s activity – he went to study at the Moscow State University at the Faculty of Journalism. I did not study there for very long, and later entered the Shchukin Theater School, which he graduated in 1957.

As an actor, the biography of Vasily Lanovoy became known in 1954, because it was then that he played his first role. Much more to the audience became known after receiving the first major role in 1956.

I married Lanovoy three times. The first time I married while still a student, I lived with Tatiana Samoilova for several years. The second wife in the biography of Lanovoy was Tamara Zyablova, the third – the actress Irina Kupchenko, with whom he brought up two sons.

In 1957, in his biography, Lanovoy began to play at the Vakhtangov Theater, where he performed many roles. For the entire biography of the actor Lanovoy played in a variety of films. For example, Scarlet Sails, Striped Flight, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Days of Turbins, Seventeen Moments of Spring, Petrovka, 38, Brezhnev, Officers. In 1985 he was awarded the title People’s Artist of the USSR.


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Biography of Vasily Lanovoy