You can often hear that young actors are not able to play deep roles or reliably portray feelings on the screen. Indeed, on the screen you can see faces who have no talent, but want to be known about them. As a rule, such “actors” appear in a few TV series at best, and then they are happily forgotten about.
Actor Yuri Chursin has talent and charisma that is difficult for the viewer to forget. The guy decided on his future profession while still at school . Students from the theater school who had an internship at the school where Yuri studied helped him with this.
Schoolchildren, together with their mentors, participated in various amateur theatrical productions. The guy enjoyed transforming into various characters so much that in the future he decided to seriously engage in acting.
The closer graduation approached, the more often the question arose about where to go to study next. At school the guy was interested in psychology. He liked to analyze what was happening and people's actions. He even wanted to study this science more deeply. There were many thoughts on this matter, but in the end Yuri decided to fulfill his childhood dream and become an actor . The guy chose a theater university in Moscow to study acting.
He easily became a student at the Shchukin School. During his studies, Yuri showed himself to be a collected and disciplined person. Teachers noted him as a very responsible and purposeful student.
After graduating from the Shchukin School with honors, Yuri easily found a job. He was invited to work at the Vakhtangov Theater. On the theater stage he played many roles, including the main ones. After several years of working in this theater, Oleg Tabakov himself invited Chursin to his troupe. After some thought, the guy accepted the master’s offer and moved to the Chekhov Theater.
After success on the theater stage, Chursin decided to try his roles in films. His first roles were insignificant and the audience was not able to fully appreciate the actor’s talent. Success came to him after entering the screens of the series “Palmist”. Then Yuri received offers from directors and he practically never refused roles.
Because of this, the actor’s collection includes both successful and outright failure films. With experience, Chursin gained an instinct for which films would be successful and which offers it was better to refuse.
Biography
Yuri Chursin was born into a military family. He has an older brother, Evgeniy. Graduated from Lyceum No. 17 in Khimki, Moscow Region. In high school, he became interested in psychology, and in an interview he said that this became his first step in finding his own views on life. “I was fascinated by the student trainees who came to our school from theater institutes. They gave acting lessons, staged school plays, taught us attention training and all those things that happen in the first year. And then in high school the subject of psychology appeared. During those lessons, we performed various tests, which, most likely, were the first step in my search for a more comprehensive outlook on life. I was very interested in all this and gladly devoted time to studying while my classmates were kicking a ball in the yard,” the actor recalled. The young man decided to become an actor. The parents supported their son’s choice, but Yuri Chursin’s mother was not destined to see her son on stage: she died early. Then the future actor promised himself to graduate from school with a gold medal, and from theater school with honors. He was accepted into the Shchukin School the first time. During his student years, studying was always in the foreground for him. Teachers spoke of Chursin as a disciplined, responsible and firm person who you can always rely on.
In 2001 he graduated from the Shchukin Theater School (course of Yuri Shlykov).
Personal life
Yuri Chursin does not like to talk about his personal life, but he knows that he will grow old together with his wife Anna. The man considers himself a monogamist. He believes in great love. According to him, the parents have been happily married for more than 25 years, and this is already an indicator of how true the artist’s assumptions about sincere and honest feelings are.
Yuri Chursin with his wife
Anna Chursina has nothing to do with acting. The woman raises her sons Bogdan and Philip, takes care of the house and garden. Now the couple and their children live in a two-story mansion on Rublevskoye Highway, 30 km from the capital. Chursin says that he is a happy man because his house is cozy and dinner is always on the table.
Fans of the artist’s talent note that in joint photos Yuri and Anna always look happy.
Yuri Chursin with his wife and children
Often, users of Instagram and other social networks, commenting on Yuri’s activities, mistakenly assume that actress Lyudmila Chursina is his relative, but this is not so. It is known that Yuri Chursin and Lyudmila Chursina are namesakes.
Theater
In 2001 he was accepted into the troupe of the Theater named after Evg. Vakhtangov. He played in the following plays: “Night of the Iguana”, “Fairy Tale”, “The Deer King”, “Chasing Two Hares”, “Caligula”, “Lear”, “Othello”, “Princess Turandot”, “The Inspector General”, “Frederick, or Boulevard of Crimes,” “The Tsar’s Hunt.” He worked in this theater until 2005. Since 2005 - actor of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, where he made his debut in the production of “The Forest” (Bulanov). Performances: “Messrs. Golovlevs”, “Forest”, “Divas”, “The Seagull”, “The Pillowman”, “Pickwick Club”. In 2014 he left the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov.
Collaborates with the Studio Theater directed by O. Tabakov (“Idiot”, “Elder Son”) and the Theater named after. Pushkin (“Candid Polaroids”).
Movie
Yuri Chursin's film career began with an episode in the television series "Simple Truths". This was followed by small roles in the detective story “The Failure of Poirot” by Sergei Ursulyak and the series “Three Against All”.
In 2005, Yuri received the main role in the detective series "Palmist". He played student Sergei Ryabinin. This dramatic picture brought Chursin not only fame, people began to approach Yuri on the street asking him to tell his fortune by hand.
In 2006, Yuri Chursin starred in two main roles at once. In Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama “Playing the Victim” he played Valentin. In the film, based on the play by Igor Afanasyev, “The Game of Shindai” - journalist Nick. In 2006, Yuri Chursin appeared before fans in the role of Lermontov in the historical and biographical film “From Flame and Light.” In 2007, new interesting roles followed in the mystical drama “The Smell of Life”, in the crime series “Private Order”, in the psychological detective story “The Third Wheel”. In 2013, the actor played the noble Athos in the next film adaptation of the famous novel “The Three Musketeers,” the film was directed by Sergei Zhigunov. Although Evgeny Tsyganov was initially considered for the role of Athos, he was unable to take part in the filming. In total, Yuri Chursin’s portfolio today consists of more than 40 roles. He continues to act in films and TV series. However, the actor is very selective in choosing film roles, because he does not want to be distracted from the main thing for the sake of trifles - work in the theater.
Fortress of Yuri Chursin
Yuri Chursin does not want to be just an actor. Photo by Alexey Kaluzhskikh (NG photo)
Yuri Chursin is an actor who has made a rapid career by the age of 26. First - the Shchukin School. Then - the theater. Vakhtangov, where he was involved in leading performances (“Caligula”, “The Inspector General”, “Othello”, “The Royal Hunt”). At the Tabakov Studio Theater he played Gavrila Ivolgin in The Idiot. Since 2005 he has been an actor at the Moscow Art Theater. A new round of popularity. Chursin plays in the theater's most high-profile performances associated with the name of Kirill Serebrennikov: “The Forest” and “The Golovlevs.” His last work was in the comedy play “Primadonnas”. In 2006, he starred in the film Playing the Victim. And soon the film “Michel Lermontov” will be released, where Chursin will appear in the image of the great Russian poet. In 2005, he became a laureate of the Triumph youth award, and in 2006, a laureate of the Chaika award.
- Yura, are you a lucky person?
– Everything is not easy for me. I know many of my shortcomings. And since you know your problems, it means you overcome them every time. This does not allow me to evaluate what I did as complete success. I would call everything that happens to me differently. I achieved a certain popularity. But I wouldn’t dare to call each of my performances brilliant. I understand what “cliches” and “irregularities” unconsciously pop up in every role.
– You were accepted into the Shchukin School on the first try – you must agree, it was luck. And you were taken to the theater immediately after college.
– There is a certain percentage of luck in my life. I was going to work at the Satire Theater. He was already a full-time actor. But before the start of the season I was invited to the theater. Vakhtangov. It was a difficult choice... I went to the Vakhtangov Theater, and later ended up at the Moscow Art Theater.
- So you were in great demand - this should inspire confidence in your own talent.
- Come on! A student who had just graduated could not have such a feeling. While still studying at Shchuk, I knew that many young actors who were accepted into the Vakhtangov Theater and served there for five years did not play anything at all! As a result, they were fired from the theater. They were told: “You haven’t declared yourself in any way, and with this we say goodbye to you.” Knowing this, it is impossible to be confident in your talent and in general in your destiny. Similar things happen in any profession with young staff. No work experience - and you can always find yourself left behind.
– How many years did you feel like you were on probation?
– I still feel it. Any new role is an internal panic... Every time I don’t know how to play it. And I am constantly tormented by the thought: am I doing my own thing?
-Are you a Samoyed?
– I can’t say that 24 hours a day my view of the world is optimistic. A sober assessment of everything I do is present every second. It's cooling. Brings it back to normal. Without such a “cold shower” you cannot survive in any profession. It’s nice to be glad that they clap for you when you take a bow. But life is continuous change, everything can change at any moment. But this is neither bad nor good. This is just how I feel about life.
– Many actors constantly study, travel around the world, take lessons in famous Western theater studios. Are you ready to give up everything and move away to continue studying acting?
– If I left everything I was doing here and went, for example, to a drama school in London, I would have the feeling that I had thrown away my favorite things, the way people throw away their favorite toys and rush for something new and more colorful. I can’t do that - it’s probably a trait of my character. This does not mean that I have no need for information. Against. I constantly get the books I need from friends┘
– What books do you get?
– Now I’m hunting for Alexander-System. This book was written by an actor who lost his voice. He was desperate. And he suddenly discovered that his voice appeared at the moment when his head was in one position or another - tilted forward or slightly backward. He realized that the human body is created in such a way that if it is well regulated and tuned, then a state of relaxation, freedom and peace gives him the opportunity to absolutely control himself. This book is something like an encyclopedia of correct behavior. For example, it even describes how to sit behind the wheel so that your body is minimally involved in unnecessary movements. That is, this system tries to eliminate “garbage” from life, not to litter life with unnecessary actions and words. Do not waste energy in vain, but save it. After all, energy is the main source of longevity. By the way, our government also studies according to the same system. I’m not kidding - there are masters who teach the “powerful of the world” the basics of the Alexander Systems. And in theaters in England it has been taught for quite a long time.
– Would you like to master this system in England?
– Difficulties with language. I know 15 words. And acquiring this system in full requires high-quality knowledge of English. There is another reason. I have a busy work schedule. Although... You need to be able to regulate your time and work as hard as you need. For personal development, any overload is a hindrance. I am now trying to escape from the total existence in the “shell” of an actor. Life is wider than the theatrical space. I’m generally against the idea that for an actor everything revolves around the theater. This is a blockade of one's own personality. You only get information from the work you do. You are developing one-sidedly. You find yourself in a vicious circle. On the one hand, you only communicate with the actors; on the other hand, only with a given material. All this imperceptibly turns a person into a professional machine, functioning along one route: from stage to stage. All.
-Where are you going from the theater?
– I always go home. And home turns out to be the point where an adequate attitude towards life begins and ends. Only at home are all your painful fantasies - say, that life is hostile towards your “I” - are swept away. At home, reality is sobering and calming. My home - such happiness happened to me - is the most honest place; Only the house takes all the stress away from me┘
– What does “honest place” mean?
“It means that at home you are no one but yourself.” At home everything comes into a harmonious state. I don’t know whether it’s philistinism or bourgeoisism, but I feel good at home.
– Are you a reserved person, a loner?
– You can’t call me a 100% loner. But, perhaps, there is something similar in me. I often feel comfortable walking somewhere alone; I can sit for several hours, thinking about my own things and not communicating with anyone. There is a lot of joy in this concentrated solitude for me. But everything is relative. Communication with people carries a huge charge of energy, without which you will withdraw and simply eat yourself (smiles). You have to be able to be alone and be able to go out to people. Everything is good in moderation.
– Don’t you think that every generation pushes away information that comes from younger people? Are blinders inevitable?
– It seems to me that there are universal things that are the same for all generations. For example, great works of art. Recently I was at a concert by Boris Grebenshchikov - I got there by accident. I listened to his songs for the first time. And I realized that the product he produces brings gigantic energy and paradoxical information to the world. I realized that Grebenshchikov was alive. Do you understand? All his songs are art. And art is necessarily permeated with a divine spark, which is read by everyone who was born human. It doesn’t matter how old he is - fifty or twenty. I don’t agree at all that age is a dividing factor. I have friends much older than me - and the difference between us is only in the amount of information that we have in our heads. Otherwise, we are the same.
– You said: “Grebenshchikov is alive.” What do you understand this to mean?
– A living person is one who does not give in to phantoms and stereotypes, who always has freedom of choice. He is alive who understands that there is no stopping, stopping is death. And time doesn't give up. I have met people who for some reason decided that their entire life today (after the Soviet period or after their youth was gone) was terrible. These are slaves of time. From my point of view, talking about how wrong and bad everything is today and how right and good everything was once is dead!
– You belong to a generation of people brought up on club culture┘
- (Interrupts.) No. Perhaps many of my peers were raised this way. I don’t consider myself one of them. I am generally against classifying myself as a member of any generation. I am different, and we are all different. Just like we are all the same. There are no different generations. There are different people.
– And yet, where do you spend your free time?
– To be honest, my home is so cool that I spend most of my time there. I leave home for a long time only when I buy a ticket to some country and go there for a couple of weeks to see and experience something new.
– I know many people who are about thirty and who are ready to leave Russia forever, ignore higher education and work as gardeners and even toilet cleaners somewhere in Ireland.
– In Russia there are now more opportunities for implementation than in Europe. There, young people are hysterical from the inability to express themselves in society. You can say as much as you like that the environment there is cleaner, that children are not killed there for the sake of political campaigns, that people there are socially protected. But despite all this, young people there have extremely limited opportunities for personal self-realization. A friend of mine who went to Paris cannot get on screen. To do this, she needs to stand in queues of millions at different agencies! Lots of queues, traffic jams! Often a talented person “dies” or disappears into the crowd of losers before he gets a chance to appear on the screen.
– Is it really easier here?
“You can knock on our office and say: “I can.” And they will give you the opportunity if you have ideas. This is still possible in our country.
– How do you feel about ideology?
– If it is created to preserve human life, it is good. If it is created in order to feed itself, this is madness. It is clear that a totalitarian oligarchic system is being built in our country. And there is no hope for a different political structure yet. Of course, you can blame everyone - you don’t vote, you don’t go out into the streets and you don’t tell the government: “What the fuck are you doing?! Why are we not so protected in our country? Why did you, the government, allow this to happen?” We can say that we live in a society that deserves its own government. But it seems to me that throwing out such phrases is stupid. Do you know what this looks like? When parents wave their hand at their child and say: “He’s still a moron, because he can’t even put two words together.” My opinion is that the parents are to blame if the child did not pay attention to culture, did not read, and now poorly articulates his thoughts. He's not a moron. He is the product of efforts on the part of his parents. Or the lack of these efforts.
– What is the history of Russia for you? Boring morality, part of the life of grandfathers and fathers or “empty phrase”?
– I adhere to the point of view that history is the cultural root. Throwing spears and cursing over what happened to all of us in the past is not worth it. But it is necessary to adequately assess historical reality. It is our duty to look objectively, impartially, coldly at the historical background. It's better to know what heroin is. And in the same way, it is better to know what the history of our wars, including civil ones, is. And what follows from this. Don't repeat your own stupidity. This relates to the question – where do you relax? At home. Because home is the real values that will save you and will not allow you to suddenly look back at someone and say: “What are you doing here, on my land? Fuck you┘"
Prizes and awards
2005 - Winner of the Triumph youth award. 2005 - MK Theater Award, nomination “Best Actor” (Bulanov “Forest”, Chekhov Moscow Art Theater). 2005 - Laureate of the festival “Vivat, Cinema of Russia!” in the nomination for best male actor in a TV series (“Palm Reader”). 2006 - Winner of the “Chaika” theater award in the “Double Impact” category for the play “Primadonnas” (together with Dmitry Dyuzhev). 2007 - Winner of the “Seagull” award in the “Synchronized Swimming” category together with his partners in the play “The Pillowman”. Winner of the Oleg Tabakov Charitable Foundation award, together with other creators of the play “The Pillow Man” (Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov, director Kirill Serebrennikov) “For the ability to discover new possibilities of acting in the knowledge of the bizarre twists of the human psyche.” 2007 - “Actor of the Year” according to GQ magazine. 2009 - nomination for the “Theater Star” award (category “For the best ensemble”) together with Andrei Fomin, Sergei Sosnovsky, Evgeny Miller, Yana Sexte for their work in the play “The Eldest Son” based on the play by Alexander Vampilov.
Based on materials from the sites: kino-teatr.ru, 24smi.org, wikipedia.org, moya-semya.ru, uznayvse.ru, peoples.ru, iskusstvo.tv, vokrug.tv
Charming swindler
The director of the detective series “The Wizard” is Mikhail Khleborodov, and the screenwriter is Andrei Kivinov, who is known to viewers for his works “Deadly Force”, “High Security Vacation”, “Streets of Broken Lanterns”. In the story, three best friends decide to earn extra money and come up with a huge scam. Andrey, played by Chursin, pretends to be the psychic Svetozar while his friends help collect information about clients.
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The script took a year and a half to write. Initially, the main character was supposed to be a former police officer who is currently engaged in wiretapping swindlers. However, the plot was slightly changed along the way, making the film even more exciting and exciting.
The auditions went very quickly, since the creators of the series immediately knew who was suitable for the main roles. Chursin’s partner was the Russian actress Anna Starshenbaum, who is known to viewers from the TV series “Psychologists.” By the way, today the premiere screening of the second season starts on STS.
Filmography: Actor
- Wizard (2017)
- Karina Krasnaya (2016), TV series
- Jackal (2016), TV series
- Bitch (2016), TV series
- Beyond (2016)
- Black Cat (2016), TV series
- Sleepers (2016), TV series
- Spider (2015), TV series
- Young Guard (2015)
- Mafia: Game of Survival (2015)
- Steppenwolves (2014-2015), TV series
- Executioner (2014), TV series
- Three Musketeers (2013)
- Karina Red (2013), TV series
- Doctor Death (2013)
- White Dove of Cordoba (2013)
- Fight (2012), TV series
- Escape 2 (2012), TV series
- MosGaz (2012), TV series
- Flint (2012)
- Brigade. Heir (2012)
- 1812th. Domestic. Great (2012)
- Supermanager, or the Hoe of Destiny (2012)
- Chemist (2010), TV series
- Escape (2010), TV series
- Capercaillie in the cinema (2010)
- Short Circuit (2009)
- Palmist-2 (2009), TV series
- Private order (2007), TV series
- The Third Wheel (2007)
- Contract for Love (2007)
- Smell of Life (2007)
- Playing the Victim (2006)
- Of Fire and Light (2006), TV series
- Game of Shindai (2006)
- Messrs. Golovlevs (2006)
- Ticket to the Harem (2006), TV series
- Palmist (2005), TV series
- Candid Polaroids (2005)
- They Don't Kill Clowns (2005), TV series
- Adventurer (2004), TV series
- Forest (2004)
- Three against all-2 (2003), TV series
- Three against everyone (2002), TV series
- The Misfortune of Poirot (2002), TV series
- Thief (2001), TV series
- Simple Truths (1999-2003), TV series
