Biography
Dzhemal Tetruashvili was born into a simple Georgian family. Dad was a driver, and mom was a primary school teacher. When the boy was three years old, his parents brought him to the Belarusian ensemble “Rovesnik”, where Dzhemal danced for 14 years.
“My childhood was eventful. My parents, who spent a lot of time at work, made sure that I was not left to my own devices. I attended many sections and clubs. And one of the sections that entered my life for many years was the dance group “Rovesnik” under the leadership of the wonderful people’s artist Marina Nikolaevna Belzatskaya and Leda Adamovna Mikhailidi. These were two incredible people! And they created an amazing atmosphere in the team. They also engaged in the education of our souls. They gave us a lot of wise advice. And all this casually, unobtrusively, in the process. I can say with confidence that these two people left a very deep mark on me,” notes the artist.
The young man’s creative orientation predetermined his further choice. After school, he entered the Belarusian Academy of Arts, from which he graduated in 1995 with a degree in drama theater and film actor.
Dzhemal Tetruashvili now
In 2020, the actor played one of the main roles in the comedy melodrama “Relatives.” The main conflict of the series is a long-standing quarrel between two brothers: the elder Igor, played by Dmitry Surzhikov, and the younger Sergei, played by Dzhemal Tetruashvili.
Dzhemal Tetruashvili and Dmitry Surzhikov on the set of the series “Relatives”
Both brothers and their families gather for their father's birthday party. In order not to upset the old father, the brothers diligently pretend to be related love and respect, but the father accidentally finds out that in fact his children are at enmity. The head of the family, by cunning and persuasion, forces the entire large family to stay with him in a country house in order to find out the causes of the conflict and reconcile the heroes Surzhikov and Tetruashvili.
Theater
For eight years, Dzhemal Tetruashvili served in many theaters in Minsk: immediately after the academy - in the Free Stage Theater, then in the Molodezhny Theater, the Film Actor Theater, and the Russian Academic Drama Theater. In addition, he took part in the commercial project “Stage Virtuosi”, and also worked under contract at the Puppet Theater.
Theater works
Theater-studio of film actor of the Republican Unitary Enterprise “National Film Studio “Belarusfilm”:
- 1999 - “Filumeno Marturano” - Riccardo
National Academic Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky:
- 1999 - “Feast in Time of Plague” - Angelo
- 1999 - “Scattered Nest” - Symon
- 2000 - “The Tragic Tale of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” - Laertes.
Cinema
Dzhemal Tetruashvili’s film debut took place in 1999 in the Belarusian-Russian series “Accelerated Care” in the role of a nurse of the second team.
Then the actor played in the lyrical comedy “The Guide” by Alexander Efremov, the crime series “The Law” by Alexander Veledinsky, the military drama “In June 41” by Mikhail Ptashuk, the detective story “Lithuanian Transit” by Evaldas Kubilius and the melodrama “Heaven and Earth” by Viktor Sergeev.
In 2002-2003, Dzhemal appeared in episodic roles in the film adaptations of two detective stories by Alexandra Marinina - “Kamenskaya-2: The Stolen Dream” and “Kamenskaya-3: The Illusion of Sin”.
In 2004, Tigran Keosayan’s musical series “Silver Lily of the Valley-2” was released, where the artist starred in the role of a foreman in a warehouse of decommissioned equipment.
In 2005, the actor got the role of Major Nikonenko in three detective films based on the works of the same name by Tatyana Ustinova - “Close People”, “Divorce and Maiden Name” and “Big Evil and Petty Dirties”. According to the audience, Tetruashvili completely fell into the image of his hero.
Jemal often plays in comedies: “Students-1”, “Dad of All Trades”, “Big Girls”, “Grandfather of My Dreams-2”, “Hare over the Abyss”.
In addition, the artist is invited to action films and detective series: “Paid in Death”, “Turkish March” (season 4), “Law and Order. Department of Operational Investigations-4", "Moscow. Promotion”, “SOBR”, “Freud’s method”, “Non-random meeting”.
"Traffic light"
In 2011, the comedy “Traffic Light”, which immediately became popular, was released on the screen about three best friends: Edik, Pasha and Seva. When you're over thirty, you suddenly notice that your life is like traffic lights. If you are a bachelor, the light is always green for you, everything around you is in motion, and you are free to go wherever you want and with whomever you want. If you're dating a girl, the yellow light is already flashing. On the one hand, you are still in motion, but on the other, you are already preparing to stop. And if you are married, you stand on red. Everything has changed: you can no longer think only about yourself.
For Edik, who is free in all respects, the light is always green, for Seva, who has a wife and daughter, it is red, and for the charming and ambitious Pasha, whose role was played by Dzhemal, the yellow light is flashing - he is dating a very pretty girl and in his immediate plans - wedding.
Jemal Tetruashvili says: “Traffic Light” is a series about everything. First of all, it’s about the friendship of three men who are over 30. The story is actually very voluminous. The script is wonderful. This is one of the few scripts I've read lately that made me laugh. There are such real life situations that I think the viewer will recognize themselves in our heroes...
My character Pasha is a simple young man who lives a completely ordinary life. It's very difficult for me to describe him, and I'm not being flirty. On the one hand, he is an absolutely average guy, on the other hand, he has to think about the future. Yes, we all sometimes think about what awaits us next. Sometimes everything happens by instinct, sometimes by practice. Here Pasha lives for himself and lives with his girl. It seems that everything is fine and okay. In general, he is not so young, but not old either. Why not get married? And the reason is not at all that there is such crazy love there. As you know, they don’t look for good from good... It’s just that this is life.”
For several years now, this realistic comedy about men has not left the screens and is a huge success.
"Relatives"
In 2020, the actor played one of the main roles in the comedy melodrama “Relatives” - Sergei, the youngest son of Mikhail Voropaev.
Mikhail Ivanovich is an honored pensioner, lives alone in a country house. He rarely sees his adult children. On his 67th birthday, his sons and their wives come to visit him. And Mikhail Ivanovich accidentally finds out that the brothers are in a quarrel with each other and are simply acting out a good relationship. The main character, trying to understand the reasons for the disagreements, uses cunning and subterfuge to keep his sons in the parental home.
"Family circumstances"
In 2017, the Rossiya TV channel released a new project by director Olga Dobrova-Kulikova, “Family Circumstances,” about eternal life values. Dzhemal Tetruashvili was also invited to play one of the roles in this melodrama.
Plot: Larisa Zimova (Maria Poroshina) is a successful lawyer and an attractive woman, but has been a widow for several years. She has adult children. Daughter Masha (Antonina Divina) managed to get married and give birth to a child, and son Sanya (Nikita Yuranov) is a student and currently lives in the same apartment with his mother.
The daily life of lawyer Zimova is a constant whirlwind: work, girlfriends, adult children with their no longer childish difficulties, family problems - active mother Galina (Anna Kamenkova) and sick mother-in-law Nina Nikolaevna (Svetlana Nemolyaeva), whom Lara also takes care of.
Everything changes when Nina Nikolaevna urgently needs an expensive operation. A colleague (Yulia Takshina) gives Larisa the phone number of Yuri (Konstantin Lavronenko), a successful surgeon, whom she can contact for advice. Yuri, in turn, asks Larisa to help him resolve property disputes with his ex-wife.
The relationship of the heroes, having begun on a business note, soon develops into mutual sympathy, but Lara does not dare to believe in Yuri’s feelings...
Personal life
This charming actor hid his novels so carefully that no one knew about them. For a long time, fans collected only bits of information about Jemal’s children and family. For example, it is known that the actor has a daughter, Sofiko, who was born in 2008, but the press has been unable to unambiguously confirm this information and find out the identity of the girl’s mother.
Dzhemala Tetruashvili and Olga Medynich
The personal life of Dzhemal Tetruashvili is constantly in the spotlight of his many fans and the media, but this does not help in any way to find out the truth about the actor’s life. There is even a popular account on Instagram under the name Tetruashvili, but this page does not shed any light on Dzhemal’s life.
In the absence of convincing information about the artist’s love affairs, he was credited with an affair with his long-term partner in “Traffic Light” Olga Medynich, and a number of fans even claimed that Olga was Tetruashvili’s wife, the actors simply decided not to let anyone in on their own love story.
They started talking especially loudly about their “romance” after Olga gave birth to her child. The actress herself added fuel to the fire. She did not reveal the name of the baby's father, which gave rise to rumors and speculation. Oddly enough, fan speculation turned out to be true.
Dzhemala Tetruashvili with his wife
The artists themselves admitted only in October 2020 that they were spouses in real life. Olga Medynich declassified her husband on the “Alone with Everyone” program. The actress also showed viewers her then-three-year-old son.
According to rumors, the actors' wedding took place secretly on March 1 of that year. According to the couple's relatives, the actors organized a small celebration, where they invited only family and best friends, and immediately after the wedding, the newlyweds flew to Paris for their honeymoon. Olga Medynich and Dzhemal Tetruashvili are raising their son Dima and enjoying quiet family happiness.
Music
In 1998, the artist starred in the video of the group “White Eagle” for the song “How delightful are the evenings in Russia”, and in 2000 he took part in the filming of Alexander Malinin’s video “We must live”.
"12 chairs"
In 2003, set designer Zinovy Margolin invited Dzhemal to go to Moscow for the casting of Tigran Keosayan’s musical “12 Chairs.” After long rehearsals, the actor was approved for the role of Ostap Bender.
“In fact, it didn’t turn out that easy. There was a fairly strict casting - if I'm not mistaken, more than a thousand people per place. I am very grateful to Tigran Keosayan and Sasha Tsekalo, they opened Moscow for me and, one might say, gave me the opportunity to get a foothold here. I remember this project with great pleasure, despite all the difficulties that haunted me at that time. The atmosphere was truly amazing. It was great!” recalls the artist.
Dzhemal Tetruashvili about comparison with famous predecessors: “Of course, I thought about it. After all, the works of Gomiashvili, Yursky, Mironov are very professional, interesting and not similar to one another. But you need to understand that we have a different genre. Moreover, the program clearly states: the musical is based on the work of Ilf and Petrov, so we presented our vision of the hero. Naturally, I was afraid of comparisons, because the same Mironov, over the course of 12 episodes of the film, became practically a member of the family, they got used to him, they loved him. And coming to the performance, almost every person looked for in my hero the image that these three amazing actors created on the screen, something that was close to him. But we have a completely different story, which, I must say, is closer to me.
For me, Ostap is, first of all, a deeply lonely person. It seems to him that he was born at the wrong time and in the wrong place. This is a man outside of an era: he exists today, he was in the past, he will definitely be in the future. This is a person who seeks but never finds. I can't call him a "cheerful swindler." This is a wise man, perhaps wise beyond his years. And it is he who is close to me.”
“Life is everywhere!”
In 2011, Jemal took part in the musical and choreographic production “Life is Everywhere!” The actor played the role of the Old Man.
This is the first original performance by Yegor Druzhinin. 21 actors on one stage, using only body language, will tell 18 stories - about meetings and partings, about expectations and deceived dreams. In his new work, Druzhinin realized his long-standing plan - he composed a play about love without words, cheerful and sad, full of optimism, good mood, lyrics and faith in people... After all, everywhere, even in a distant Balkan village, on the outskirts of Europe, there is seething, noise, and tears and life dances. There is life everywhere!
The music in the play is predominantly Balkan, fiery compositions by the magnificent Yugoslavian Goran Bregovic, the author of music for the most famous films of E. Kusturica and P. Shero, and gypsy music, and French hot-club, “Besa me mucho,” and American jazz.
Interview
About the roles:
“In general, I have always played quite diverse roles. From Laertes in “Hamlet” to Octave in “The Tricks of Scopen” according to Moliere - in the theater and to all sorts of scoundrels and bandits - in the cinema. Therefore, probably no one has attached any cliché to me yet, although many joke at me, saying: “Look at your face: what a hero-lover you are!”
About popularity:
“For me personally, popularity is just a pleasant part of the acting profession, nothing more. Some people think differently. I am sure that an actor who claims that fame bothers him is really disingenuous. Popularity is always pleasant, but it is advisable that it be dosed. When there is too much of it, it simply interferes with your life.”
About fate:
“Let's just say that I believe that a person can make his own adjustments. Of course, there are some things that we have no control over, but we still build most of our lives ourselves.”
“In Minsk I worked in many theaters, and, of course, there was no thought from the series “I’ve already done everything here.” That would be too strong a word. I just felt like I had reached a dead end. I never had a dream to go to Moscow, to conquer Moscow, like many of my fellow students. My fate itself steered towards this. I came to the casting, I had no confidence that they would take me, and even for the role of Ostap Bender, but I clearly understood: if it doesn’t work out, I will still stay in Moscow. I’ll go to the theaters.”
About Me:
"I love myself. And I believe (this is generally my very firm conviction) that every person should love himself. Because if he doesn’t know how to love himself, then how will he love another?
I love myself simply because I am me. This is not selfishness or narcissism. No. I can scold myself and judge myself. But I'm not my own enemy. I am my own helper. I want to feel high. Not at the expense of others, but at the expense of yourself. Therefore, I now limit myself in communicating with those with whom I do not want to communicate. If a person doesn’t understand me, or is angry with me, or doesn’t like me, then why should I date this person? Spending time on it, which is so dear to each of us. I generally don’t understand people who can live in constant hatred and anger. And what? So you tried to do a bunch of nasty things to someone, instead of living and taking care of your own life, and life just ended.”
Based on materials from Wikipedia and websites: russia.tv, kino-teatr.ru, kinopoisk.ru, jemal-tetruashvili.narod.ru, 24smi.org, stuki-druki.com, peoples.ru, lifeactor.ru, kinokopilka.pro, ok-magazine.ru, woman.ru, eclectic-magazine.ru.
Childhood and first steps on stage
Olga was born in 1981 in St. Petersburg. Her father, a military man by profession, knows how to organize and manage any process, but her mother, as a believer, has a sense of responsibility and the ability to forgive. The actress inherited all these qualities from her parents; in addition, from her father she inherited the ability to make people laugh and make witty jokes. Her brother also grew up in the family, who later became a prominent artist seeking to conquer America and China.
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The girl willingly took up ballroom dancing, gaining increased attention among her peers. Even during her school years, she also became interested in acting on stage: in the school theater, Olya coped well with the main roles. The parents liked their daughter’s hobby, but they didn’t even think that acting would become her future profession. After graduating from school, Medynich, without hesitation, entered the Academy of Theater Arts, choosing an unusual specialty - “Puppet Theater Actress.”
Filmography: Actor
- Clerk (2017)
- Family Circumstances (2017)
- Champions: Faster. Higher. Stronger (2016)
- Relatives (2016), TV series
- Boarding house "Fairy Tale", or Miracles included (2015)
- Elusive (2015)
- Non-random meeting (2014), TV series
- The Three Musketeers (2013), TV series
- Party for the Champion (2013)
- His Love (2013)
- Freud's Method (2012), TV series
- Traffic light (2011-2016), TV series
- SOBR (2011), TV series
- Promotion (2010), TV series
- Assassination (2010), TV series
- Moscow. Central District-3 (2010), TV series
- Law and order. Operational Investigations Department-4 (2010), TV series
- First Love (2009)
- I'm not me (2008)
- Mirage (2008)
- Paid with death (2007), TV series
- Turkish March (season 4) (2007), TV series
- Dad of all trades (2006), TV series
- Hare over the Abyss (2006)
- Grandfather of my dreams-2 (2006), TV series
- Big Girls (2006), TV series
- Students-1 (2005), TV series
- Divorce and Maiden Name (2005), TV series
- Mistress (2005)
- Rope of Sand (2005), TV series
- Big Evil and Little Mischief (2005)
- Close People (2005)
- Silver lily of the valley-2 (2004), TV series
- Heaven and Earth (2003), TV series
- Lithuanian transit (2003), TV series
- Kamenskaya-3 (2003), TV series
- In June '41 (2003)
- Kamenskaya-2 (2002), TV series
- Law (2002), TV series
- Guide (2001)
- Quick Help 2 (2000-2001), TV series
- Quick Help 1 (1999), TV series
