Biography
Grigory Davidovich Siyatvinda was born on April 26, 1970 in Tyumen.
Mother is a native Russian, an economist. My father is from Zambia and studied to be a doctor. The parents got married and lived in Kharkov. A few years later, after graduating from university, my father took the family and returned to his native Zambia. Gregory lived in Africa until he was 5 years old . Mom, being in a foreign country, was very homesick. As a result, the relationship with the spouse came to naught, and they were forced to divorce.
They returned with their mother to Tyumen. The actor spent his childhood in a tiny apartment with his grandmother, great-grandmother and grandfather. They were also involved in raising the child.
During his school years, Grigory was an excellent student and studied for 4 years in the drama club at the Palace of Pioneers. For the first time I felt like a little actor thanks to the role of Ivanushka from the fairy tale “Two Maples”.
However, as Gregory said, only after watching the film “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers” did he decide to follow in the footsteps of the main character, played by M. Boyarsky.
After graduating from school, I decided to enter the Tyumen Industrial Institute to become a programmer in the future. But before entering the second year, he was drafted by the Soviet army.
He served in the tank forces (Belarus), and upon returning to his native studies, he failed the exams and left the university. After which he went to the theater school named after. B.V. Shchukin, which he successfully graduated in 1995 . Although I initially planned to study at VGIK on the course of A. Dzhigarkhanyan, the attempt ended in failure.
Before entering college, thanks to my mother’s connections, I worked part-time on television. Already, as a student at the Shchukin School, he got a job at the theater. Vakhtangov, where in 1994 he received his first role in the comedy “I Don’t Know You Anymore, Darling” and played it very successfully.
Brief biography of Grigory Siyatvinda
The future actor was born on April 26, 1970 in Tyumen. Gregory’s mother is a native Siberian, and his father, David, is from Zambia, who came to Kharkov to study as a doctor. In this Ukrainian city, Grigory Siyatvinda’s parents met and got married, and his mother went home to give birth.
After David received his diploma, the whole family left for Zambia, and Gregory lived there until he was five years old. His mother missed her homeland and dreamed of returning, but her husband did not want to leave for Russia. Quarrels began to arise between them more and more often, and in the end, Grigory Siyatvinda’s parents divorced, and he and his mother left for Tyumen.
After graduating from high school, Grigory became a student at the Industrial Institute and, perhaps, would have trained as a programmer if he had not been drafted into the army after his first year.
During the two years spent in military service, Grigory changed his mind about continuing his studies at the institute, and, returning to civilian life, he did not re-enter the institute, but got a job on local television on the Region-Tyumen channel as a second assistant director, and then went to capital to enter the Shchukin Theater School.
After graduating from theater school, Grigory became an actor in the theater. Vakhtangov, where he made his creative debut, and then moved to Satyricon, where he serves to this day.
On the stage of this theater, Georgy Siyatvinda created many interesting images - he was involved in such performances as Macbeth, Masquerade, Romeo and Juliet, The Threepenny Opera, Quartet, for which he received two awards - The Seagull and "Idol".
The actor's stage performance was appreciated in the theater world, and in 2003 he received the State Prize of Russia, and in 2006 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.
Grigory Siyatvinda began acting in films in 1997, and his first work was a small role in the film “Don’t Play the Fool...”.
Personal life of Grigory Siyatvinda
Gregory got married at 37 years old. The actor did not consider himself an avid bachelor, he was simply in search of a soul mate. It was this kinship that he felt towards his future wife.
Tatyana is a dancer and choreographer in one person, 10 years younger than her husband . He met his beloved on the set of the film “Film Festival” in 2006, where he played the role of a minister who had to perform a dance with ballet soloists, of course one of them was Tatyana.
Unfortunately, the actor did not have the courage to get to know each other more closely, and after that they lost contact with each other for some time. A couple of months later, fate gave them a meeting on the set of the film “Poor Baby”. The couple's first date was just around the corner, and six months later the future spouses decided to move in together and live together.
The proposal to the wife seemed very sweet and romantic - on the table with a huge number of snow-white roses, there was a box with an engagement ring . Despite the incompatible zodiac signs, their marriage is very strong.
His wife Tatyana leads a sporty lifestyle, despite her husband, who does not show much interest in this matter. Only occasionally goes to the gym and visits the swimming pool. Instead of noisy parties and dancing, the actor prefers a home lifestyle, reading books, walks in the park, fishing, and relaxing with his family.
The actor loves cooking, and even with a meager set of ingredients, he can prepare a sumptuous dish. In one of the interviews he even admitted that he is a fan of Ukrainian cuisine - he really loves lard . Gregory firmly believes in everything mystical and in all kinds of signs from above.
Grigory Siyatvinda spoke about his father from Zambia and his personal life
Honored Artist of Russia Grigory Siyatvinda was remembered by the audience for his first film roles thanks to his bright appearance. The 48-year-old actor’s father was from Zambia - it was there that the boy lived the first years of his life before his parents’ divorce.
Grigory positions himself as a theater actor, but he gained maximum popularity when he began acting in the TV series “Kitchen”, “Hotel Eleon” and “Grand”.
Recently, the artist became a guest of the program “The Fate of a Man” and told how difficult it was for him as a child with a non-standard appearance: Classmates often insulted the boy for his dark skin. “At one time, I was afraid of the words“ Negro ”because I knew that it was talking about me,” Grigory admitted.
Gregory’s parents met in Kharkov, and the artist himself was born in Tyumen. Soon Siyatwinda moved with his mother to Zambia, where his father lived. When the boy was five years old, his parents divorced. Little Gregory and his mother returned to the Soviet Union and grew up in Tyumen. According to the laws of Zambia at that time, the child had to stay with his father, but the actor’s mother managed by some miracle to take her son out of the country.
“We returned to Tyumen together. Here my mother arranged her personal life. I always had a good relationship with my stepfather, but I considered my grandfather, who always took care of me, to be my real father,” recalls Gregory.
After leaving Zambia, the artist no longer saw his biological father: “We were lost with our biological father. The fact is that when we returned to Tyumen, we moved to a new apartment, and he also often changed his place of residence. So contact was lost. Later I learned about his death, but this news did not evoke any strong emotions in me, even though it was terrible. We practically didn’t communicate, I knew him very poorly,” admitted Siyatvinda.
Grigory Siyatvinda with his wife Tatyana
Grigory built a successful career in the theater and was in demand in cinema, and also tried himself as a TV presenter. At the same time, the actor was unlucky for a long time in his personal life. Gregory married for the first time at the age of 36 and considers his marriage extremely successful.
The artist’s chosen one was dancer Tatyana, who took the surname Siyatvinda after the wedding.
Grigory courted his future wife for a long time, not daring to propose: “I have always had certain problems in communicating with the opposite sex. I never considered myself a ladies' man. Now Tanya and I are absolutely happy and morally matured long ago to become parents. If this happens, we will be very happy,” the artist sincerely admitted.
Grigory Siyatvinda with his wife Tatyana
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Career
The artist's first film debut took place in 1997. In the comedy “Don't Play the Fool,” he got the role of Vasily, the son of a blacksmith. The film tells about a series of incredible situations in a Russian village, and how the black commander-in-chief of the navy encountered his daughter and grandson in Russia.
In 1999, the actor appeared in the melodrama “ Such Free Butterflies ”, and in 2001 in such TV series as “Rostov-Papa”, “Mamuka”.
Most TV viewers are familiar with Grigory in the role of the bandit Eggplant, from A. Balabanov’s action film “Zhmuriki” (2005). Constant extreme sports accompanied the actor in the film “Deadly Force - 6”. Adventures with shootings awaited Gregory in the film “Paragraph 78” (2007), where he played the adventurer Festival.
Soon he became the TV presenter of the program “Morning”, and in 2007 he participated in the show “Ice Age”. In addition, he starred in such films as “Champion” (2008), “Retribution” (2011).
Since 2020, Gregory has been participating in the filming of the TV series “Kitchen” and “Hotel Eleon” as a hotel manager.
Personal life
Tatyana Siyatvinda married Gregory, who was 10 years older than her. At the same time, he insisted that he was not a convinced bachelor, he just couldn’t find his person, his soul mate, for a long time. But I immediately felt sincere feelings for Tatyana.
The lovers met on the set of the feature film “Film Festival”, which took place in 2006. Grigory Siyatvinda played the role of the minister. According to the script, he was supposed to perform a complex dance with ballet soloists. Tatyana was brought in to work with the artists, who helped them stage choreographic numbers.
But then the relationship did not work out. The artist did not have the courage to get to know each other more closely. For some time they separated, even lost contact with each other.
Childhood and youth
Grigory was born on April 26, 1970 in Tyumen. Mom is an economist, dad studied to be a doctor. After they got married, my parents lived in Kharkov for some time. After graduation, their father took them and their mother to Zambia. But the relationship between the parents did not work out; they divorced. The mother and five-year-old Grisha returned to Russia.
The actor admits that he practically does not remember his father. After the divorce, he did not participate in their life, and they saw each other only once, when the boy was 12 years old. Already as an adult, Gregory tried to find him when he was on tour in England (his father moved there), but failed.
Gregory dreamed of becoming an actor since childhood, after watching “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers.” Boyarsky liked the role of D'Artagnan the most; the boy wanted to be like him.
Fulfilling the child’s wish, the mother sent him to a drama club. He went there for 4 years. The first role was Ivanushka from Schwartz’s fairy tale “Two Maples”. Mom was very worried about how the children would perceive the dark-skinned Ivanushka, but everything went well. And the actor himself never had a complex about this.
After school, Grigory entered the Tyumen Industrial Institute to become a programmer, but after studying for 2 years, he quit. He went to serve in the army, in the tank forces. After service, he graduated from the Higher Theater School. Shchukin. Studied on the course of Anna Kazantseva. While still studying, he began serving in the theater.
Studies
After school, the future actor entered the Tyumen Industrial Institute (now Tyumen State Oil and Gas University) at the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics, where, after completing only one course, he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army, and after being demobilized, he never returned, leaving to enroll in theater universities in Moscow. In 1995 he graduated from the Higher Theater School. B.V. Shchukin (Alla Kazanskaya’s course) got there largely thanks to his artistic director, since, as it later turned out, upon admission there was a big discussion at the acting department whether or not to take “a somewhat unexpected character for the Russian stage.” Already studying at school, he began working at the theater. Vakhtangov - the first production with his participation, “I Don’t Know You Anymore, Darling,” was released in 1994.
