BIOGRAPHY
Natalia Medvedeva was born and raised in the Moscow region. Her mother is a German teacher, her father is a mining engineer.
Natalia was a very active child: she studied at a music school, sang in a folk group, and danced. Until the 6th grade I participated in all school events. Then the family moved to Odintsovo, the girl entered the local lyceum named after. A.S. Pushkin and plunged into study.
“I remember one day in the 10th grade I was sitting doing my homework... It’s winter, it’s dark, the light above my table is on, I look at the window and realize that I haven’t walked for a year: I haven’t run with friends, I haven’t climbed construction sites, I haven’t wandered the streets... And “It’s been like this for a whole year!” recalls Natalia. Her diligence bore fruit: she graduated from school with a silver medal.
The future actress did not even think about the theater institute. She was best at mathematics, so after school Natalia Medvedeva entered the Russian State Trade and Economic University at the Faculty of Restaurant, Hotel Business and Tourism. In 2007, she successfully graduated from it.
Natalia Medvedeva
Born on March 9, 1985 in the city of Serpukhov, Moscow region. Mother - Olga Borisovna Medvedeva, is a German language teacher and director of school No. 15 in the city of Odintsovo, father - Yuri Andreevich Medvedev, an engineer by profession. There is an older brother - Andrey Yuryevich Medvedev.
She spent her childhood in the city of Chekhov-8, where Natalia lived from birth. From an early age she was interested in art and creativity: she went to music school, danced, sang in a folk group, attended various clubs and participated in all school events and holidays.
In 1997, the family moved to Odintsovo, where Natalia entered Lyceum No. 6 named after. A. S. Pushkin. The new city and the change of environment made her a little withdrawn; Natalia focused on her studies, continued her studies at a music school, but practically did not show herself creatively until she graduated from the lyceum, from where she graduated in 2002 with a silver medal.
I thought about entering a theater school, but on the advice of my mother I abandoned this idea [source not specified 792 days]. In 2007 she graduated from the Russian State Trade and Economic University with a degree in Restaurant and Hotel Business and Tourism. He has no acting education.
At the university in 2003, she began playing in KVN, appearing in episodes for the Megapolis team, which she helped with props. In 2005, she played for the Glamor team in the Moscow Student League and for the Fedor Dvinyatin team in the Baltika League. In 2006, she was invited to the club project “Made in Woman”, which later moved to television screens and was renamed “Comedy Woman”. At the same time, already in the main squad, she played for the team “Fedor Dvinyatin” in the League of Moscow and Moscow Region, in the Northern League, Premier League and the KVN Major League. In 2008, she was recognized as KVN Girl of the Year according to the KVN for Everyone website, but with the release of the television version of the Made in Woman/Comedy Woman project that same year, she left the team and parted ways with KVN.
In “Comedy Woman” she plays the role of a crazy and completely uncontrollable girl. According to the actress, the image was not invented on purpose, but developed by itself.
In 2010, she was invited to the play “Lucky Number” (or “I’m Looking for a Wife. Inexpensive!”) based on the play by Sergei Belov, in which she plays three roles at once. The first performance with Natalia's participation took place on December 10, 2010 in St. Petersburg on the stage of the Vyborgsky Palace of Culture. In 2012, she also took part in the enterprise comedy “What Do Men Want?”, based on the play “Sylvia” by A. Gurney.
On November 1, 2012, the Disney animated film “Wreck-It Ralph” was released worldwide, in the Russian version of which the main character, Vanellope von Cupcake, a character from the game “Sweet Fast and the Furious,” speaks in the voice of Natalia Medvedeva. In an interview with a correspondent of the Metro Moscow newspaper, Natalia spoke about her work on the voice of Vanellope von Cupcake from the full-length animated film Wreck-It Ralph: “The image of a mean girl is close to me, it was not difficult to get used to the role. One of the main advantages of this cartoon is its amazing humor!”
On December 20, 2012, the first film with the participation of Natalia Medvedeva was released: in the comedy melodrama “New Year's Marriage” by Armen Adilkhanyan, the actress played the role of secretary Elvira. In 2013, she played in the comedy “What Men Do!” and the play “Wedding,” in which another heroine of the star women’s show on TNT, Ekaterina Varnava, participates. In 2013, she played the main role in the comedy series “Shurochka”, aired on the Friday TV channel, and also recorded the song “La Bomba” with Natasha Koroleva and starred in the video for this song. In 2014, the film “Corporate Party” was released on the big screen, in which Natalia also played one of the leading roles. Since April 19, 2014, she has been hosting the program “Such a Movie!” on TNT. In October 2014, she left Comedy Woman of her own free will.
In July 2012, Natalia married the captain of the KVN team "STEPiKO" Alexander Koptel.
KVN
Natalia says about how she got into KVN: “I saw an advertisement: “Actors, singers, sound engineers and dancers wanted” - and decided: I’m not a dancer, not an actor, not a singer, which means I’m not suitable. Well, okay. And she moved on. In the first year, all groups had to prepare some kind of performance for the Autumn Ball. And when we started getting funny, I got so involved in it all - I started choosing music and coming up with jokes. The local KVN team noticed me. I’m an active girl, and active people are needed everywhere.”
A team called “Fedor Dvinyatin” ended up in the Major League of the Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful. The guys began to be shown on TV, and soon Natalia Medvedeva was offered a job in a new project.
Personal life of Natalia Medvedeva
The actress met her current and only husband Alexander Koptel, captain of the Novosibirsk KVN team, while still a student. Repeatedly crossing paths at rehearsals and performances, the young people felt mutual attraction and began to communicate closely over the next few years.
The wedding of Natalia Medvedeva and Alexander Koptel took place in the summer of 2013. Numerous KVN friends were present at the festive ceremony. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon on a tour abroad: they visited Holland, Belgium, France and took a ride along the Cote d'Azur.
At Kinotavr 2015, because of her loose-fitting dress, fans began to suspect that Natalya was pregnant. Their hopes were justified; in September, their first child, Ilya, was born. The birth took place abroad. The family returned to Moscow as soon as the doctor gave permission.
A TELEVISION
First, Medvedeva participated in the Made in Woman project. The girls performed humorous acts in clubs. Over time, this grew into the successful TV show Comedy Woman.
Natalia was one of the most eccentric participants and often improvised. According to the actress, she tries to feel the mood of the audience and relies on intuition. He may start making fun of someone in the audience or unexpectedly jump into the pool if this will benefit the act.
Natalia Medvedeva performed on Comedy Woman for four years and then decided to leave the show. “Maybe a couple of years will pass and I’ll start to get bored, but I doubt it. Still, this is a stage that passed successfully, and I’m glad that it happened,” she said in an interview.
In 2014-2015, the actress hosted the program “Such Cinema.”
In 2020, she took part in the “Saturday Evening” program on the Rossiya TV channel.
MOVIE
Since 2012, Natalia Medvedeva has been acting in films. Her debut work was the role of secretary Elvira in the film “New Year's Marriage.” Then there were shootings in the films “What Men Do”, “Corporate Party”, “Decent People”.
In the comedy series “Shurochka,” the actress created a bright and sweet image of a good-natured girl who constantly finds herself in ridiculous situations. And in the romantic comedy “30 Dates,” its heroine Dasha decides to take her personal life seriously and go on 30 dates in a month.
In 2020, the comedy “I Remember, I Don’t Remember” was released, where Medvedeva also played one of the main roles. Her partners on the set were Polina Maksimova, Konstantin Kryukov, Lyudmila Artemyeva, Anna Ardova, Anna Khilkevich, Sergei Badyuk.
The actress does not miss the opportunity to go beyond the comedy genre. “The desire of any actor is to play more and more diversely,” she notes. In 2020, Medvedeva starred in the short film “Show of the Century.”
“This is a difficult film about the attack of viruses from which people die,” Natalia told Ok! magazine. “I can’t say that I’m tired of comedy, it’s impossible to get tired of it. But I want something new. And I think that the audience would also be interested in looking at me from a different side that is unusual for them.”
VOICE OVER
The actress is often invited to dub foreign films and voice over cartoons. It is in her voice that the brown bear cub Kesha from the animated series “Be-be-bears” speaks.
It’s interesting that Natalia never received an acting education. “I take it more from my gut,” she says. - I need to read it several times, imagine it all. And it comes from within. Images and intonations appear in your head. When you completely relax and give yourself free rein, everything works out.”
INTERESTING FACTS
- Before becoming famous, the actress managed to work as a cleaner, waitress, courier, manager and sales assistant in a clothing store.
- Natalia Medvedeva loves cats very much. The beautiful red cat, who is well known to the actress’s followers on Instagram, has been living with her for seven years.
- The comedian changed many looks on stage, but never dyed her hair.
- Natalia has a signature trick to defuse the situation on set - she scares people. Her unexpected cry of “Baaa!” has already helped many overly stressed colleagues relax. Medvedeva herself also likes to get a little scared. “It’s scary and funny—I like these mixed feelings,” admits the actress.
INTERVIEW
About the first money
“When I first wanted something besides sweets, dad said: “Go and earn money yourself.” It didn't matter to me. I went to sell zucchini from our garden. With the proceeds I bought a cassette by Philip Kirkorov with the song “My Bunny”. It’s very funny to remember now, but then I played the tape all day. And I was terribly proud of myself and my purchase.”
About professionalism
“I have a tough approach to work: punctuality, diligence, and knowledge of the text are important to me. Because of this approach of mine, the film crew often suffers: I become demanding of everyone, I start nagging and blowing everyone’s minds. I want to work with professionals.”
About taboo
“I don’t do sex scenes, I don’t undress and I don’t kiss. Maybe I’ll take the risk of acting for Playboy when I’m 65, because I’ll be an incredibly pumped-up woman with inserted breasts and ass. But for now I will leave everything for my family, my husband, I will keep this secret. Because any actress can always undress, this is the last point she can take. And I will take it with my talent.”
About views on family
“I think that this modern trend - trying to put trousers on a woman - will not lead to anything good. When everything is upside down, it kills romance, relationships, sincere feelings.”
About balance
“I am a very explosive person, expressive, impatient. But lately I think more and more often before I say or do anything. And I don’t forget to ground myself. Sometimes I like to come after a concert and start washing the floors, toilets, and sinks. In general, I enjoy cleaning and doing household chores. This helps to maintain a balance between the spiritual and the everyday, otherwise you can fly away with all these flowers and applause.”
About achievements
“Sometimes it seems to me that I haven’t done anything yet. If, on a scale of one hundred, I note what I have achieved in life, then, probably, I am now only at the level of fifteen points. I am often tormented by the question: why haven’t I achieved more? It seems to me that I still have to plow and plow. But, of course, I don’t regret anything that happened, what I did, what university I graduated from, and in general about everything I did. I only blame myself for being too lazy - I should have worked more. But I still have time to catch up.”
Based on materials from the sites natalymedvedeva.ru, kino-teatr.ru, cosmo.ru, fashiontime.ru, ok-magazine.ru, m24.ru, tele.ru.
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The event itself had little to do with politics, but its guests included Natalya Medvedeva’s ex-husband Eduard Limonov, who now heads the National Bolshevik Party, and the musicians of Metal Corrosion, who, as is known, are also no strangers to radical politics. Due to the thorough security screening of guests, an impressive crowd crowded in front of the entrance, Intermedia reports. Not everyone managed to get to the event on time, however, at exactly 8 pm, as stated in the poster, the film screening began.
"Ursa Major" by Ms. Vyugina is built according to the classic canons of documentary films. Some amateur and professional video chronicles recorded during Natalya Medvedeva’s lifetime, inserts from her concert performances, fragments of talk shows and television interviews with the participation of the singer, and many, many monologues of people who knew her, recorded after her death. The audience watched the film with intense interest. Its creator managed to construct numerous monologues in such a way that they sounded in the film as if their characters were speaking not to the camera, but to each other.
Following Eduard Limonov's story about how hard it was for him to live with Natalya Medvedeva, there followed the emotional cry of the main character: 'This old goat got me!'
After friends of the singer and writer said that Medvedeva was a real rock star who would never be forgotten, music critic Artemy Troitsky skeptically stated that “in 20 years, if Natalya Medvedeva will be remembered, it will only be for some special occasion.” '. And “Ursa Major” ended with a touching, sentimental story from the mother of the deceased.
The audience greeted the screening with thunderous applause, but Ms. Medvedeva’s last common-law husband, Sergei Vysokosov (aka “Hog” from “Metal Corrosion”) said that he did not like the picture too much. According to him, Natalya was “praised too much” there, but it was necessary to scold her a little for authenticity.
To be fair, it should be noted that not all participants in the film praised her. In addition to the above-mentioned Artemy Troitsky, who also spoke about the “peteushny” orientation of Medvedeva’s musical creativity, there were also monologues by Alla Pugacheva, who once invited the singer to her “Christmas meetings.” However, Alla Borisovna did not scold Natalya and did not deny that she had a bright talent, she only sadly remarked: “I gave her a chance, but I could not be her nanny and deal only with her.”
Following the screening of the film, viewers were treated to the premiere of a video for the song 'I Am Myself', filmed eight years ago, but edited by the creator of 'Big Dipper' only now, and a music festival with the participation of mostly little-known bands - 'Low Frequency', 'Track ', 'E Eastern E', 'Nile 62', 'Ministry of Psychedelics', etc. Each of the festival guests considered it their duty to say a few words about Natalia Medvedeva. Sometimes simply amazing pearls emerged from the stage, for example: “These people revealed to me all the brightness and depth of Natalya Medvedeva” or: “As an actress, Natalya was not like any other woman, and as a woman she was not like any other actress.”
The concert was only enlivened by Umka, who, having been left without a rhythm section due to the drummer’s illness, managed to assemble a new accompanying cast literally from among the spectators who came to the concert and performed with him several killer rock and rolls.
Natalya Medvedeva was born in Leningrad on July 14, 1958. At the age of 16, she left for America, where she began her career as a fashion model. In this role she worked for leading fashion designers on the catwalks of the USA, Japan, and Europe.
Natalia Medvedeva's singing career began in nightclubs, restaurants, and cabarets. Having lived in America from 1974 to 1982, Natalya and her husband, the famous writer Eduard Limonov, moved to France.
In 1985, her first book, “Mom, I Love a Crook,” was published.
In 1989, she returned to Russia, where she collaborated with various periodicals “New Look”, “Foreigner”, “Day”, “Smena”, and in the same year her two novels “Love with Alcohol” and “My Struggle” were published.
In 1994, Natalya Medvedeva, together with the musicians of the group “Kh.Z.” began working on her first Russian-language musical project “Tribunal”. At the same time, the group NATO was formed, in which she took on the role of vocalist. After existing for a couple of years, the NATO project collapsed, and Natalya and her common-law husband Sergei Vysokosov (Borov from “Metal Corrosion”) began working together.
From 1997 to 2003, Natalya Medvedeva wrote the following books: “And They Had a Passion”, “The Night Singer”, “Hotel California”, “My Beloved”, the play “The Diary of Margot Fuhrer”.
On the night of February 2-3, 2003, Natalya Medvedeva died at the age of 45.
