The talented actress Elena Biryukova, whose biography and personal life is discussed in the article, won the sympathy of many Russian and foreign viewers. The roles played by her leave no one indifferent.
The actress was born on November 7, 1970 in Minsk, in a family of engineers. As a schoolgirl, Elena loved literature lessons. She also enjoyed going to the pool and practicing fencing. She had many hobbies.
Actress Elena Biryukova
Life in Minsk
The girl's relationship with her father was not going well. He, being a gambling man, lost their apartment, dacha and car at cards. He had huge debts. One day, Biryukova’s younger sister encountered bandits who threatened to kill her if her father did not repay the debt.
Elena did not communicate with her dad for many years and could not forgive his actions. Biryukova's parents lived together for 22 years. Now her mother is married to another man. There are many interesting points in the biography of Elena Biryukova and her personal life. For example, the future “star” for a long time did not dare to connect her life with the acting profession.
Elena Biryukova in her youth
In 10th grade, she started going to drama school and there she found her calling. But the shy girl was afraid for a long time to try to enter the theater institute. She considered acting a gift from above and doubted that she possessed this gift.
Biryukova decided to enter the Faculty of Education, but failed the exams. Afterwards she worked in a kindergarten as a nanny and librarian. But she didn’t give up her theater studies.
Over time, the circle that Elena went to became a real “Alternative Theater”. It was in this place that the future famous actress began her career. There she met her first husband, rock musician Alexander Romanovsky. This marriage broke up a year later, but the actress is still friends with Romanovsky.
Elena Biryukova at a photo shoot
Three men of Elena Biryukova
Elena was born in Minsk into the most ordinary family. Together with her, her parents raised her sister, who was born nine years after Elena. Despite the fact that mom and dad were not representatives of the art world, they loved to develop their daughters.
That is why shy Lena found a lot of hobbies for herself since childhood. Music, ballroom dancing, athletics, swimming pool, art school and even fencing. The girl was interested in everything, as if she was trying to try everything and could not settle on one thing.
Teachers testify: Elena was a shy girl. But they immediately add that, despite this, she greedily studied areas of knowledge that were new to her. I studied quite well, but I didn’t want to try to get an A+. She was more interested in extracurricular activities.
School teachers themselves won’t remember why, but in the teachers’ room there was an opinion that Biryukova would definitely become an actress.
The red-haired girl's spontaneous appearance, plus her only, but sparkling role as Kikimora in school amateur performances, left no doubt.
Lena herself considered actresses to be almost divine beings and did not even dream of entering the theater. Having been in love with literature since childhood, by graduation she had read all the fairy tales available to her, and “swallowed” famous Russian writers in collected works.
In the tenth grade, she dared to enter the theater studio at the House of Railway Workers and even began acting in extras, but she never began to take herself seriously as a future actress. After graduating from school, the girl hoped only for a place in the local pedagogical school.
Changes
Hillbilly (2014)
Now we can safely say that, fortunately, she failed her pedagogical exams. The resilient girl went to work as a kindergarten teacher, then changed her job to a library... but while changing professions, she never left the theater studio, which soon grew into an alternative theater.
She had barely turned 18 when, still in the same studio, she met rock musician Sasha Romanovsky. A spark instantly flared up between the young people. They decided to get to know each other better already in marriage and, before the first passions cooled down, they got married.
However, as often happens in young, rash marriages, a year later the couple separated by mutual consent.
Not tied to Minsk by either family or career, Biryukova decides to leave for Moscow in order to enter the very theater university that she was so embarrassed about in her early youth.
Actress
Sasha+Masha (2003−2005)
Elena herself says: when she went to Moscow to enter GITIS, she was an enthusiastic girl who wanted to open people’s eyes to this wonderful world. But in the capital she was faced with lack of money and even hunger.
However, she still got into the acting group of the directing department of the chosen university, the workshop of the famous Leonid Kheifetz, on the first try. At the entrance, she was lucky twice - she was not only enrolled, but met her love. But the spark between student Biryukova and graduate student of the same university Litvin will flare up only in the fourth year, after their collaboration in the play, but for now...
While Elena tried to live with dignity in the capital and realize her potential. Accustomed to constant work in her homeland, here she also could not sit idle. The actress quickly got used to television, began to get small roles in films and TV series and collaborated with the Stanislavsky Theater.
Wife
Love in the Manger (2009)
When Elena was in her fourth year, Litvin had already become her teacher. While working on one of the educational performances, the student fell in love with her own teacher, who reciprocated her feelings.
Later in an interview, the actress will tell you that at that time it was the best relationship in her life. For another ten years they will play the usual roles in romantic relationships - she is a student, ready to catch every word of the teacher, he is a master, whose opinion cannot be questioned.
This time, the already experienced Biryukova agreed to get married only four years after the lovers began dating.
She did not want to repeat the mistake of her youth. In this marriage, the actress’s first daughter, Sasha, was born.
Elena says: after living with Litvin for ten years, she herself felt that she had become an adult, grew out of the student-teacher relationship and wanted to move on. But the wife was satisfied with the existing pattern and did not want to move to a new stage with his wife.
They divorced when Alexandra was 11 years old. There were no particular scandals, but Elena still understood that such a step was painful for the child. She tried to be with her daughter more often, but, barely crossing the border of adolescence, the girl seemed to take revenge.
Elena says: in order to understand Sasha, she even went to a psychologist. But the doctor didn't find anything unusual.
He advised me to accept my daughter and allow her everything she wants. And as soon as Elena did this, the girl lost interest in doing things in defiance.
Aglaya
Treasure Hunters (2011)
The actress does not hide the fact that it was the birth of her second daughter that immediately smoothed out all the corners that began to interfere with her relationship with her new lover, Ilya Khoroshilov.
When they met, Biryukova noticed how he communicated with his daughter from his first marriage, Lisa. Elena saw in the man a real rear, so important and necessary for life together.
He began to court her, introduced her to friends, and they whispered: she’s an artist again! The fact is that the first wife of businessman Khoroshilov was actress Ekaterina Klimova. That relationship was not cloudless, so Ilya’s loved ones were wary of yet another representative of the creative profession.
But the lovers began to live together. The actress recalls how their relationship became tense when they were renovating their shared home.
For some reason, in tension, we went on vacation together to Cambodia, and returned from there almost on the verge of breaking apart. But it was as if providence intervened in the couple’s fate.
“It so happened that we brought Glasha from there,” says Elena in one of her interviews. Both were embarrassed to admit to each other that they wanted to keep the child, and when this difficult conversation finally took place, the actress almost physically felt an invisible wall collapse between them. Everything worked out on its own.
Family
Univer (2008−2011)
Even the obstinate Sasha accepted the reliable Ilya. He did not interfere in her life: he left home when the girl was already at school, and returned when she was already falling asleep, and on weekends he took her and her daughter from her first marriage to hang out. This is how Alexandra and her stepfather developed friendly relations.
Moreover, Biryukova managed to become friends with Klimova. They have nothing to share anymore; they don’t interfere with each other’s families. Moreover, they started a good tradition - getting together with their husbands and children on the road.
After her second birth, the actress became even more in demand. He admits that he loves experiments in dramatic art and agrees to difficult modern enterprise projects.
She also has invitations to the cinema.
The actress is happy that everything is turning out this way, but admits that she has ceased to be the sunny, inspired girl she once came to Moscow with.
The Ideal Wife (2007)
Serious Relationship (2013)
Super Max (2013)
Work in the theater
In 1992, the girl moved to Moscow to enter GITIS. It was very difficult for her in a foreign city. But stubborn Biryukova entered the university. Here the future star met her second husband, director Alexei Litvin. He was her teacher and unexpectedly proposed marriage to the girl. Until 2010 they were together.
Elena Biryukova with her first husband Alexei Litvin and their common daughter
In 1996, the young actress joined the troupe of the Vladimir Mayakovsky Theater. During seven years of work in this theater, she played in the following performances:
- "Lizard";
- “As you will love it”;
- "The Adventures of Pinocchio";
- "A free man enters."
In 2004, Elena Biryukova, whose biography and personal life we are discussing in the article, left the Mayakovsky Theater. Thanks to her collaboration with, she received a role in the play “Boeing Boeing” based on the play by Mark Camoletti, which soon became very successful.
Elena Biryukova on the stage of the theater
This is a comedy about a young guy from Paris who started romantic relationships with three girls at once - flight attendants.
With the play, in the company of other actors - Georgy Dronov and Peter Krasilov, actress Elena Biryukova made a large-scale tour. The artists were enthusiastically greeted not only in Russian cities, but also abroad.
Elena says that it was as if someone from above gave her the opportunity to become an actress. Since childhood, she felt like a “black sheep.” And only in the theater environment did she realize that she was at home among like-minded people. That's why the profession is so important to her.
20 seconds after the accident...
On August 17, actor NIKITA YEMSHANOV died in a car accident.
, through his fault, 4 more people died... PHOTO CLICKABLE
The fourth victim of the accident in which the young artist died was actress Ekaterina Biryukova. The girl died in the Sklif intensive care unit. Doctors spent an hour and a half trying to save the young actress Ekaterina Biryukova, who was involved in a major accident on the Garden Ring on the morning of August 17. “The girl was brought to us at 7.10 in the morning, at 8.30 we, unfortunately, declared her death,” the Sklifosovsky Research Institute told Life News. — For us, it still passes as unknown. It will be difficult to identify her. It is impossible to even determine the color of the hair - it is burnt. As Life News managed to find out, in the passenger seats of the Mercedes of the young St. Petersburg actor Nikita Emshanov were his 24-year-old girlfriend Katya Biryukova and an actor and colleague at Theater.doc Konstantin Kamyshanov. At first, at the scene of the accident, Biryukova was mistaken for dead, but then the doctors, having felt her pulse, realized that the unfortunate woman was still alive, and immediately sent her by ambulance to Sklif. — Some of the special features of the deceased include tattoos. On the right forearm there is the inscription Rock-n-roll, on the left foot there is a swallow, the doctors say. — The skin on my right leg is burned. Apparently, friends and family will have to identify Katya by this swallow. “Katya had a tattoo on her legs in the form of two swallows,” director Valeria Gai Germanika confirmed through tears. “I can’t believe she’s dead.” We're all stressed... Katya and Nikita have been dating for the last few months. This morning I was waiting for her to come to the shoot, but I couldn’t get through to her! Biryukova was Gai Germanika's best friend. Most recently, they worked together on the project “A Short Course in a Happy Life” on Channel One. (https://www.lifenews.ru/news/66921) video recording of the moment of the accident. The victim in a collision with a Mercedes E280, 40-year-old Pavel Zvir, spoke in detail about how the tragedy occurred on Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Street, which claimed 4 lives. “The Mercedes turned out of the extreme lane into oncoming traffic,” the injured man says heavily. “And I was driving on the far left in the other direction.” It seemed like he even collided with someone and flew straight at me. According to Pavel Vyacheslavovich, the foreign car was completely uncontrollable. The cars collided at high speeds. “He flew under me sideways,” continues Pavel Zvir. “Then the impact threw him away and he caught fire.” The man doesn’t remember what happened next. He did not see whether the Mercedes collided with other cars. Pavel's wife Natalya felt and remembered only a strong blow. “I was sitting behind my husband and didn’t see anything,” says Natalya Zvir. Due to the violent collision, the couple's friend Zvir, who was riding in the front passenger seat, died on the spot from his injuries. His 41-year-old wife Lyudmila Dolgopalova was taken to the Institute with serious injuries. Sklifosovsky. She was admitted to emergency intensive care with multiple fractures of the ribs, hip, brain contusion and burns. Pavel and Natalya Zvir escaped with bruises and fractures. Everyone who was traveling in the Mercedes: actor Nikita Emshanov, his fiancee Ekaterina Biryukova and their 35-year-old friend Konstantin Kamyshanov, died.
Film career
In 2001, Elena Biryukova, whose biography and personal life we are talking about today, received her first role in the film “Yellow Dwarf”.
And in 2003, luck smiled at her - the girl was offered the main role in the sitcom “Sasha + Masha” on TNT. Participation in this project brought her stunning success and many fans. She and Georgy Dronov played a couple so believably that the audience believed that they were together in real life. Even their colleagues on the set considered them husband and wife.
Elena Biryukova and Georgy Dronov in the series “Sasha + Masha”
Elena admits that she has long been accustomed to passers-by calling her Masha and asking her to say hello to her husband Sasha. Although the girl is a little offended that it was this role of hers that was most remembered by the audience. After all, she played in many successful films.
In an interview, the actress admitted that she would like to play a dramatic role that would overshadow the image of Masha that has stuck with her. Elena also claims that in real life she would never throw in her lot with a guy like Sasha. He is too primitive for her.
Elena Biryukova in the movie “Super Grandpa”
In 2009, Elena tried herself in voice acting for a cartoon. It was the cartoon "Thunderstorm of Ants". Its main character is a boy who destroyed anthills. The angry ants decided to take revenge on him and brewed a potion, after drinking which the boy became tiny. Elena voiced the ant in this project.
In 2010, she played in the drama "BagI". The film draws a line between the values of the past century and modern ones. In a week, the main characters need to find 7,000 rubles to save the lives of other people. The people in the film are like broken robots. They devote themselves to unloved work, do not enjoy communication - all their connections are empty and devoid of warmth. Even a person’s life can be valued at a certain amount. Not many people find the strength and desire to change something. The film took part in many film festivals in our country and abroad.
Elena Biryukova in the film "Hillbilly"
In 2011, Elena Biryukova, whose biography and personal life we are talking about today, played the main role in the adventure film “Treasure Hunters.” The plot of the film is quite interesting - 16-year-old teenagers from different countries participate in a reality show. They are looking for treasures hidden by Stepan Razin in the Zhiguli Mountains. The guys are being watched by "Black Diggers", but this does not bother the teenagers. They are sure that everything is within the limits of the show.
Biography[ | ]
Born into a family of employees. Father - Valery Antonovich, engineer. Mother - Irina Alekseevna, engineer. Sister - Anna, head of the HR department.
In 1996 she graduated from RATI (workshop of L. Heifetz).
Until 2003 she worked at the Moscow Academic Theater. Vl. Mayakovsky.
In 2003-2005, together with Georgy Dronov, she starred in the popular television series “Sasha + Masha”.
Since 2004 - film and enterprise actress.
Starring in commercials.
Dancing on Ice
There are many bright moments in the biography and personal life of Elena Biryukova. For example, in 2007, the actress became a participant in the popular television project “Dancing on Ice.” Biryukova had long wanted to take up sports, and the invitation to this project was very opportune.
Before this, she was not familiar with skates, and therefore it was difficult for the 36-year-old actress. She literally bled from her feet during rehearsals. Nevertheless, she proudly showed off her scars to her friends. Dancing on ice gave her great joy and drive.
Elena Biryukova while participating in the “Dancing on Ice” program
The daughter of the actress Alexandra, who was nine years old at that time, enjoyed going skating with her mother. After the show, the actress, along with other participants in the show, went on a big tour.
Second marriage
Elena Biryukova, whose biography and personal life is so interesting to fans, was married more than once. Her first marriage broke up when she lived in Minsk. There were no children in this union. But in 1998, the actress became the mother of a girl, Alexandra, married to her second husband.
Elena Biryukova with her second husband Ilya Khoroshilov
After the birth of the baby, she continued to actively pursue her career. Two months later, Elena resumed acting on stage - playing episodic roles. A year later she returned to full-time work. When her daughter was little, Elena often disappeared at rehearsals. There was catastrophically little time left for family. Now Alexandra is 16 years old. She studies at the theater college in the producing and directing department. He is interested in drawing.
Biryukova says that her eldest daughter is wiser than she is - the girl always supports and reassures her mother in difficult situations. Although at 12 years old Sasha was a difficult teenager.
Elena Biryukova with her husband and children
It was difficult for Elena to accept her daughter for who she is. Everything changed for the better when the actress became pregnant. The mother-daughter relationship has improved. The girl did not want her beloved mother to be nervous.
Personal life
Elena Biryukova is a sweet and charming woman.
Therefore, it is not surprising that already in her youth, representatives of the opposite sex began to pay attention to her. Our heroine first got married when she was barely 20 years old. The chosen one of the future actress was rock musician Alexander Romanovsky. For several years he played in the famous group “Children of Lieutenant Schmidt”. Their marriage lasted about a year. Alexander experienced a so-called “creative crisis”. He increasingly took it out on his wife. After the divorce, Elena went to Moscow and entered a theater university there. The second husband of the actress was Alexey Litvin. Their acquaintance took place at RATI, where he was a teacher and Elena was a student. A romantic relationship did not begin between them immediately, but 4 years later. All this time, Alexey and Elena saw each other almost every day in the audience, participated in the same performances, and so on. Biryukova was in love with her teacher. She felt his reciprocal sympathy. And the man did not dare to admit it for a long time. It all happened when Alexey was sent on a business trip to France for a couple of months. One evening he called Elena and proposed to her. The actress agreed. The lovers decided not to have a grand wedding. They put on casual clothes and went to the registry office. Of the relatives, only the husband's mother and his brother were present. After registration, the newlyweds first went fishing in Dubna, then to their friends’ dacha. In 1998, the couple had a daughter, Sasha. Elena Biryukova and her husband were very happy. However, their marriage soon cracked.
Now the actress lives in a civil marriage with businessman Ilya Khoroshilov. There are rumors that he is the ex-husband of Ekaterina Klimova. However, this doesn't really matter.
Elena Biryukova protects her personal life from outside interference. She is not one of those stars who opens up to journalists and shares the latest events with them. Therefore, the news that the 41-year-old actress gave birth to a second daughter surprised many of her colleagues and fans. This joyful event happened on July 31, 2012. The baby was named Aglaya. Ilya Khoroshilov dotes on his little blood.
Elena's eldest daughter is now 13 years old. The girl studies at school and enjoys music and dancing. She is as beautiful as her mother. Sasha adores her little sister and respects her new dad Ilya. Perhaps in the future the girl will want to follow in her mother’s footsteps and choose an acting profession. At least, all the prerequisites for this exist.
Disease
There was also a dramatic period in the personal life and biography of Elena Biryukova. In 2001, doctors suspected that she was developing cancer. Elena was very worried: what if she died at 31? Who will she leave her three-year-old daughter to? The actress underwent serious surgery on the female part. At that moment, she felt as if she was buried alive.
The actress recalls that her husband Alexei Litvin left home at the moment she was diagnosed. He staged a play in another city. Biryukova was left alone with the disease, and she was very scared. But everything ended well, the actress was even able to become a mother again.
Elena Biryukova: photo
However, Biryukova’s personal life began to crack at that moment. She could not forgive her husband for not supporting her during a difficult period. A few years later, the actress realized that she wanted to break up with this man because she did not love him.
Union with Ilya Khoroshilov
In the personal life and biography of Elena Biryukova, there are moments that are especially hotly discussed by viewers. For example, her union with her current common-law husband Ilya Khoroshilov.
Elena met him while visiting her friend and colleague, Ekaterina Klimova. Together with Alexandra, she came to the birthday party of Khoroshilov’s daughter, Lisa. At that time, Ilya had long since divorced Klimova. Elena liked him immediately, but the relationship began only a few years later.
Elena Biryukova now
Elena and Ekaterina Klimova were already friends then. At first, Katya did not like that Biryukova began to get closer to her ex-husband. But then she reconciled herself and concluded that this was even for the better.
Ilya is not associated with the acting environment, he is involved in jewelry relations. Elena admits that he often pampers her with jewelry.
The actress treats her common-law husband’s eldest daughter well. They often gather in a large group, together with Klimova, her husband and children. Once they even celebrated the New Year together. Their children are very friendly with each other.
