Actress Yulia Galkina: biography, family and film career

Biography of Yulia Galkina

Yulia Ivanovna Galkina is a professional actress whose creative career includes more than fifty roles in big movie projects, television series and theatrical performances.

Actress Yulia Galkina on the set of “Vasilkov for Vasilisa”

Among them: the films “Kisses of Fallen Angels”, “Two Lives of Colonel Rybkina” (for this role she was nominated for an award from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service), “Call Husband”, television series “Zhurov”, “Platinum”, “Chapay Passion”, theatrical works “Ondine”, “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, “Return”, “White Rabbit”.

Even the harshest critics noted Yulia's spectacular and bright stage appearance, her natural artistry, extraordinary acting talent, and excellent command of the piano. The actress’s PhD degree in psychology also deserves respect.

Personal life

Of course, such a beautiful and charming girl as Yulia Galkina always had many fans, and she never needed male attention. But her personal life remained in the background for some time, as she tried to devote all her attention to creative development and study. After all, in her opinion, success comes only to those artists who work with full dedication.

But after some time, even with her busy work schedule, Yulia Galkina managed to pay due attention to her personal life: she has a beloved husband and son (see more details on the Wikipedia website).

Julia met her future husband back in 2009. This happened during the filming of the television series “Zhurov”, where Galkina appeared in the image of a young and beautiful student Stepanova, and Makarov was the director and producer.

Yu. Galkina with her husband and son

The actress said in an interview: “It was our first day of filming. I was in a large auditorium at some university, where I was just supposed to listen to a lecture. After filming, a message comes to my phone: “You played very well!” in response I send: “Who is this?” I receive the following SMS: “Greetings from the gallery!”

When I raised my head, I saw almost all the members of our film crew! I was very interested in this situation, so I took from the administrator a complete list of project participants with names and phone numbers. This list was very long. But intuitively, I started checking the numbers from the very end. Only a couple of hours later I managed to find out who decided to do such an act. I was very dumbfounded when I found out that it was our director Ilya Makarov!”

It is worth noting that they immediately liked each other. Moreover, at that time both were free, and nothing could stop them from building their personal lives. It’s interesting that Julia’s future husband proposed to her on the third day of their acquaintance. But Galkina reacted very calmly to such a statement, so she immediately agreed.

On the set of another movie

Some time later, a joyful event occurred in the personal life of Yulia Galkina and her husband - she gave birth to her first child, Mikhail (see joint photo later in the article).

Now only mutual understanding and love reign in their family. Her husband supports her in every possible way and Julia is very grateful to him for this.

After giving birth, the actress recovered very quickly and acquired a slimmer figure. In her opinion, some hormonal changes have occurred in the body, but Galkina is trying in every possible way to maintain her figure: active training in the gym, proper nutrition and a strong family. It is very important for her to feel happy, this is the only way she can surround her family with care and love. It is thanks to this that Yulia Galkina’s personal life is going well: she has a loving husband and son who give her confidence in the future.

The childhood of Yulia Galkina

Julia was born on December 24, 1984 in a family of historian professors from Kursk. In her early years, according to the actress, she was a crazy “kid” - she didn’t like dolls, braids and bows at all, preferring haircuts and boyish games of war, snow forts and snowball fights.

It’s hard to imagine that Yulia Galkina was a “tomboy” as a child.

The girl attended school No. 57 and also studied at a music school (vocal and piano classes). She was an exemplary student, so her parents hoped that Yulia would share their passion for science in the future. But in the 9th and 10th grades, she “fell ill” not with history, but with the stage: she began dancing, attending a theater studio and seriously thinking about an acting career.

Having received a secondary education and heeding the opinion of her relatives, who vied with each other to convince her of the prospects of becoming a psychologist, she became a student at the psychology department of a local state university. But a year later, Julia still went to Moscow in the hope of enrolling in a theater school. And she passed the competition - she was accepted into the Moscow Art Theater School, into the workshop of Igor Zolotovitsky and Sergei Zemtsov. Later, she jokingly claimed that the rain that poured on the day of the exam, which scared other applicants, helped her.

Childhood and youth

Julia spent her childhood in her hometown. From an early age, the girl had a boyish character and habits: she wore sneakers and jeans, had her hair cut short, hung on horizontal bars, and loved to play war games and football with the guys. Before entering secondary school, Yulia communicated exclusively with boys. Her parents and grandmother always gave the girl complete freedom in everything.

When Yulia went to school No. 57 (Kursk), she studied in a physics and mathematics class . Teachers often praised her for her diligence and diligence. For the girl, her father’s word has always been an incentive - she must!

From early childhood, Yulia knew that there was such a word as “I want.” If a girl wanted something, her family never limited her in anything. But this word had a certain meaning: the girl always wanted something useful. For example, study at a music school, dance, and also crochet.

Almost every summer the girl went to the Komsorg children's camp or to her beloved grandmother in the village. Yulia never sat at home. She had absolutely no time to drink beer with the street kids or suffer from unrequited love. Julia knew and clearly understood that if she wants to achieve something in life, she must know a lot.

The girl never made a cult out of clothes and jewelry. She was completely calm about her bright appearance; she did not consider herself a beauty. Also, in Yulia’s family it was not customary to praise the girl and cooze with her.

Yulia’s parents dreamed that after graduating from school she would follow in their footsteps and become involved in scientific activities. The girl often participated in regional and regional reading competitions while studying at school. Mother and father treated their daughter’s hobby as a hobby.

In 2001, after graduating from secondary school, Yulia entered the Kursk State University at the Faculty of Psychology. Yulia liked to study. It was especially interesting to dive into the secrets of the human soul. But the emotional girl longed to do something else.

Julia ended up in the Harlequin theater studio, where the girl really liked acting. It was there that she felt completely free, performing on stage. One day, the head of a theater studio advised the girl to try to enroll in a theater university in the capital, and Yulia made up her mind.

After studying for one year at the university, the girl could not stand it, and having passed the exam ahead of schedule, she went to enroll in a theater university in Moscow. The girl did not tell her parents her purpose for traveling to the capital. The first time, Yulia managed to pass the audition and become a student in the acting course at the Moscow Art Theater School. During the exam, she read prose and poetry fluently and confidently.

The girl studied professional art in the workshop of professor and theater figure Sergei Ivanovich Zemtsov (born in 1957) and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and rector of the Moscow Art Theater School Zolotovitsky Igor Yakovlevich (born in 1961). Yulia's classmates were such famous artists as Maxim Matveev, Ekaterina Vilkova, Anton Shagin and others. Already in her student years, the young actress began working at Chekhov's Moscow Art Theater. Yulia graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio in 2006, becoming a certified actress.

Later, in 2011, the girl defended her PhD thesis in psychology and received a diploma of second higher education . Julia did this so as not to disappoint her parents.

Actor career

The stage debut of the beautiful student took place in her 3rd year on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
This was the role of Maria in the production based on the story by Andrei Platonov “The Return”. Her partners in theater performances were such recognized masters of stage art as Oleg Tabakov, Andrei Myagkov, Alexey Guskov, and among her fellow students were subsequently successful actors Maxim Matveev, Ekaterina Vilkova, Pavel Vorozhtsov, Anton Shagin, Anna Begunova. Having received a diploma in psychology in absentia from KSU, the girl, as they say, decided not to stop there and continued her studies in graduate school. Later, in 2011, she received a PhD in Psychology.

Yulia Galkina – Candidate of Psychological Sciences

In 2006, the young actress (and graduate student at KSU) graduated from the Studio School and joined the Moscow Art Theater troupe. She played Dunyasha in the comedy “The Cherry Orchard,” a nun in “Tartuffe,” Bliss in “Spring Fever,” and was involved in many other productions from the drama theater’s repertoire.

Yulia Galkina in the play “Egg”

In 2013, Yulia reported that she was fired from the theater, but she did not suffer much about this. The actress noted that working on the Moscow Art Theater stage was a great school for her, but the changes that occurred there no longer corresponded to her moral principles and values.

Biography[ | ]

Yulia Galkina was born on December 24, 1984 into a family of historians.

She shared her impressions of her childhood and teenage years in Kursk with reporters from the Kultura TV channel:

In 2001, she graduated from school No. 57 in the city of Kursk, after which, at the insistence of her parents, she entered the psychological faculty of KSU.[1] However, already in 2002 she decided to become an actress and entered the Moscow Art Theater School (course of I. Zolotovitsky and S. Zemtsov), from which she graduated in 2006. Since the same year he has been working at the Moscow Art Theater. Despite her busy schedule, scheduled minute by minute, she received a second higher education in the psychology of creativity and successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in 2011.

In 2008, she made her debut in five films simultaneously,[2] but considers her first film work worthy of attention to be her role in Kisses of Fallen Angels.[3] At the moment, Yulia has managed to play more than 25 roles in theater and cinema,[4] and, as she admits, she likes this frantic rhythm of life:

Yulia Galkina in cinema

The actress's first appearance in a movie took place in 2007. She played a theater administrator in the film “The Artist.” The same year she appeared in the melodrama “Thank you for the love!” Soon she was cast in one of the central roles (the young artist Alena, Roman’s lover) in the film “Kisses of Fallen Angels,” which the artist herself more than once called the start of her film career. At the same time, Julia made small appearances in the sensational serial films “Platinum” and “Gromovs. House of Hope."

The first significant role of Yulia Galkina (“Kisses of Fallen Angels”)

In 2008, viewers could see the young artist in 4 films – “Alexander. Battle of the Neva”, “Heirs”, “Our Sins”, “Queen”. In the last of these films, in the role of a provincial girl, she starred with Vakhtang Kikabidze, with whom she was later credited with a romantic relationship. She denied these rumors, emphasizing the high professionalism of the film actor and singer, who, according to her, has exceptional charisma and charm. At the same time, Julia again participated in the filming of a number of TV series.

Still from the film “Alexander. Battle of Neva"

In 2009, viewers could see the artist in the leading role of a striptease show dancer in the drama “Heels”, in the comedy film “The Taming of the Shrew” as a model and girlfriend of the main character, as well as in the television series “Zhurov”, “Scythian Gold”, “Bodyguard” 2".

On the set of the film "Deadly Number"

The girl, successful and in demand in her profession, admitted that she was impressed by the dynamics and richness of metropolitan life. She is usually busy with several projects at once. For example, in 2012, 12 films with her participation were released. Among them are “The Passion of Chapai”, where she played Pelageya, the wife of the famous division commander, as well as “The Two Lives of Colonel Rybkina” - the image of a woman of amazing destiny created in it became one of Yulia’s most significant works.

Yulia Galkina in the film “Two Lives of Colonel Rybkina”

In 2014, Yulia’s creative biography was supplemented by filming in the historical television series “Gentlemen-Comrades”, where viewers were captivated by her colorful character “Murka”, in the comedy “Call Husband”, the series “Wild 4”, “Leave to Return”. Yulia Galkina. Behind the scenes: about the film “Rounder”

Film career

When did actress Yulia Galkina first appear on screens? This happened in 2007. In the film "Artist" she played a small role - an administrator. The director was pleased with the collaboration with the young actress. He recommended Yulia to his colleagues.

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In 2007, several films with her participation were released. A beautiful girl with a bitchy character - this is the role Yulia Galkina received. The films in which she stars have an original plot and a certain emotional coloring.

Let's list her most striking and memorable film works:

• “Kisses of Fallen Angels” (2007) – main role.
• “Two Sisters” (2008) - Alla Zaitseva.
• “Gold of the Scythians” (2009) – Albina Ulyanskaya.
• “Ligovka” (2010) – Nyura.
• “20 years without love” (2011) - Oksana.
• “Fights” (2011) – main role.
• “Cornflowers for Vasilisa” (2012) - Alena.
• “The right to love” (2013) - Olga.
• “Tatiana’s Night” (2014) – fashion model Sophie.
• “The Trickster” (2014) – Marina.
• “Call Husband” (2015) – main role.
• “Plague” (2015) – Klavdiya Gromova.

Personal life of Yulia Galkina

The actress is happily married to film director and producer Ilya Makarov. Their acquaintance occurred in 2009 during the filming of his series “Zhurov”, where Galkina appeared in the image of the beautiful student Stepanova.

Still from the TV series “Zhurov”

Interestingly, her husband proposed to her on the third day of meeting her. The actress did not consider his action strange or premature. Later she found out that she looked very similar to her mother-in-law, who died long before her son met Julia. Maybe it was their similarity that made Makarov hurry up.

On December 31, 2009, their first-born Misha was born. The boy’s godfather was her husband’s friend Ilya Lyubimov, the husband of Ekaterina Vilkova.

Yulia Galkina with her husband and son

Mutual understanding reigns in Yulia's family, because her husband knows everything perfectly well about the actors' irregular work schedule, and about long expeditions, and about the unreality of the planned vacation.

Personal life and interesting facts

• Julia is married. Her legal husband is the director, screenwriter, and producer of the Phoenix Film studio, Ilya Mikhailovich Makarov (born in 1963). Love for Yulia came unexpectedly, during the filming of the series “Zhurov”, where she met her future husband. During the filming of the film, he worked as a producer and director. Ilya proposed to Yulia on the third day after they first met. Soon they got married. On December 31, 2009, a son was born into a creative family, who was named Mikhail.
• Today the couple plans to add several more children to their family. For Ilya and Yulia, everything is out of love; they are always very comfortable being together. My husband knows very well what an actor’s schedule is, what 12-hour shifts and long film expeditions are. Julia did not have time to meet her mother-in-law, since she died three months before the meeting of the future spouses.
• Actress Katya Vilkova is a good friend of Yulia. Catherine’s husband, Ilya Lyubimov, became the godfather of the actress’s son.
• The couple have a country house where they like to spend time.
• Yulia Galkina's height is 174 cm, weight - 55 kg. Despite the fact that Julia has a spectacular appearance, the girl has achieved everything in her life thanks to her talent. In life, the actress does not like to attract attention to herself, and she very rarely gives interviews to journalists.
• Julia has a freedom-loving character and frantic energy, which was present in her even in childhood.

Yulia Galkina now

In 2020, the television series “Black Cat” was released on screens across the country, based on the story of a legendary gang that operated in the Moscow region in the 1950s. The actress was accompanied by Igor Petrenko, Mikhail Boyarsky, Gela Meskhi and Maria Andreeva.

Still from the series “Black Cat”

The actress also got a role in the television story “Good Sasha, Evil Sasha,” launched in January 2020, from the author of “Capercaillie” and “Pyatnitsky” Mikhail Yuzovsky. The series, starring Vladimir Yaglych and Roman Madyanov, tells the story of the dangerous and exciting adventures of a Moscow investigator in Crimea, where he was sent to help solve complicated crimes.

Yulia Galkina as a blonde (“Pearls”)
The talented actress has no shortage of offers from film directors. She is able to be equally convincing in the role of both character and lyrical heroines. Any of them - sometimes serious and decisive, sometimes sensual and seductive, always becomes memorable and unique.

Dreams Come True

In 2006, Yulia became a certified actress and began full-time work at the A.P. Chekhov Theater. Viewers saw her in the following projects:

• "White Rabbit";
• "Spring fever";
• "The Little Humpbacked Horse";
• "Oblomov."

Julia copes well with roles of various subjects. For example, she perfectly got used to the role of a nun in the Tartuffe project. And a role that is absolutely different from the previous one - Maria in a production called “The Return”.

The professionalism of the actress is growing every year, she continues to serve in the Art Academic Theater. Theatergoers can also see her on the stage of the O. Tabakov Theater.

Yulia Galkina: The rain helped me become an actress!

The TV series star became related to Katya Vilkova thanks to her husband Ilya Lyubimov

On Channel One, the broadcast of the series “Rounder” has ended. The main villain in the film was played by 28-year-old Yulia GALKINA. The actress now has a lot of leading roles. At the same time, she still manages to take care of her little son and be a caring wife for producer Ilya MAKAROV.

- Moscow does not believe in tears. You came eleven years ago from Kursk, became a famous actress, and live in a country house. Did the capital easily conquer you?

- Without excessive mental anguish. After graduating from school in Kursk, I entered the Psychological State University. A year later I went to Moscow. All that I read when entering theater institutes in Moscow were excerpts from reading evenings, school, regional competitions in which I participated. My parents treated this as a hobby and were very surprised when I showed a serious intention to become an artist. They thought it was stupid and said that I wouldn’t do it without money and connections. In general, in Kursk I passed the exam ahead of schedule and arrived in the capital with a thousand rubles in my pocket. Using the metro map, I figured out where to go and first of all went to the Moscow Art Theater School. And they took me. By mistake, I went straight to the second round. It was raining wildly, which drove away all the applicants. I was confused, I only had a minute to prepare...

—Your course turned out to be very stellar. Maxim Matveev, Ekaterina Vilkova, Anton Shagin - the favorite student of your director Zolotovitsky, prima of the Pushkin Theater Anna Begunova...

— This all worked out because they recruited us very correctly: according to type, texture. Most of the guys came from the provinces, no one imagined that something could come of us. A sea of ​​ambitions and a sea of ​​desires - that’s what everyone definitely had! And you’re wrong about Shagin - I don’t think Anton was a favorite. He couldn’t pronounce any letters; he was from a tiny town.

- What about novels? Didn’t you really have cupid with the same handsome Matveev?

- We are friends - what are you talking about?! I didn’t have any affairs - I’m a serious girl. Although we even had a wedding during our studies: Shagin married our Veronica Isaeva . They made a wonderful couple. But in terms of careers, everyone immediately took off. From the course, Valery Todorovsky recruited actors for the film “Hipsters,” and then for “Vise.” By the way, I auditioned for the role of the main Komsomol member in Hipsters.

— In the end, she was played by Todorovsky’s wife, Evgenia Brik! Should you have auditioned?

- This is all understandable... But then I didn’t think about such things. On the other hand, I am friends with Zhenya Brik , she is a good actress, and I have no resentment. The acting profession is a lottery: you can quickly achieve success, or you can be nothing. Nevertheless, I am sure that if you work honestly, sooner or later you will succeed.

- Do not speak! There are many beautiful, talented actresses similar in type to Ekaterina Vilkova, but it was she who became a star without even playing in the theater.

- Katya is my friend. I'm happy for her, she got it, that's important. By the way, we are almost relatives: Ilya Lyubimov , Katya’s husband, is the godfather of my son Misha, who will be four years old on December 31. My husband Ilya and Ilya Lyubimov became friends. They are mature, smart, very well-read Jewish men!

Saved Khabensky

— You devoted several years to the Moscow Art Theater. Why did you leave the most expensive theater in the country?

— I’ll be honest: I was fired. At the end of the contract, I still played plays, but now I don’t play anymore and, honestly, I don’t suffer much from it. Probably, at that time the theater did not need my type. I don’t like what’s happening at the Moscow Art Theater now. It’s like in a supermarket: if you want drama, comedy, vulgarity - no problem. My moral principles are somewhat different from what is happening in the theater now, which is why I was objectionable. But I am incredibly grateful to both Oleg Pavlovich and my partners - Alexey Guskov, Andrey Myagkov . This is a big school for me!

— At the Moscow Art Theater they go mainly to Khabensky, Porechenkov, and everyone else...

- This is true. And I think the commercially correct move is to invite super popular actors to the theater. Although, for example, Konstantin’s wife, Olga Litvinova , amazingly played Ophelia in Hamlet when he was Claudius.

— Khabensky somehow quietly married Litvinova. Was their romance advertised in the theater?

- No no. Neither Kostya nor Olya work for the public, they do not put their personal things on display. And probably right. I'm happy for them. Litvinova helped Khabensky a lot, supported him after such a tragedy, simply pulled him out. He had deep psychological trauma. Olya has chosen a difficult path for herself, she is ready to be the wife of SUCH a man. After all, Kostya could choose any girl throughout the entire former Soviet Union, point his finger at any one, and she would go. But he chose her, Olya, which means she is close to him. God bless them!

- Well, how is it going with your husband? He is also a difficult comrade.

— My husband, Ilya Makarov , is the artistic director of the Phoenix Film studio. Director and producer. We met on the set of his film “Zhurov”. And three days later Ilya proposed to me. At that moment, we were both free, but we understood that we had to be together. With Ilya, everything is honest, out of love, I am very comfortable with him. My husband knows very well what an actor’s schedule is, what 12-hour shifts and long film expeditions are. It’s a pity that I didn’t have time to meet his mother - she passed away three months after Ilya and I met. She and I look very similar in appearance - we have a portrait of her at home. Apparently, this played some role.

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* Yulia GALKINA was born in 1984 in Kursk into a family of historian professors.

*In 2006 she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. He also has a second degree in psychology.

*In 2010, she became a laureate of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Award for her role as Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya-Rybkina in the film “The Two Lives of Colonel Rybkina.”

*She starred in films and TV series “Gromovs. House of Hope”, “Platinum”, “Two Sisters”, “Zhurov”, “Hairpins”, “Comrade Policemen”, “Cornflowers for Vasilisa”, “The Right to Love”, “The Passion of Chapai”.

*Married to Ilya Makarov, producer and artistic director of the Phoenix Film studio. There is a son, Mikhail (b. 2009).

Films and TV series

Thanks to the melodrama “Kisses of Fallen Angels,” Yulia Galkina became a sought-after actress. Films and TV series with her participation began to appear more and more often. In 2008, the rising star played a striking role in the comedy melodrama “The Queen.” Its heroine is the provincial Nina, who dreams of conquering Moscow and finding her happiness. Nina is catastrophically unlucky in her personal life, but she never stops hoping for the best.

The next prominent role went to the actress in the film “Fights: The Two Lives of Colonel Rybkina,” released in 2012. She reincarnated as intelligence officer Zoya Voskresenskaya, ready to sacrifice her own life for the sake of an idea in which she believes. In the series “The Passion of Chapai” the girl created a vivid image of the unfaithful wife of division commander Pelageya.

The audience was greatly impressed by the role of Julia in the crime-historical television project “Gentlemen-Comrades”. The actress embodied the image of an extravagant heroine nicknamed Murka. Of course, these are not all the famous roles played by Yulia Galkina. Films and TV series with her participation, released in recent years, are also worthy of attention. “Call Husband”, “The Kidnapping of Eve”, “Deadly Number”, “Alien Happiness”, “Guardian Angel”, “Good Sasha, Evil Sasha” - just a few of them.