Olga Ponizova is one of the actresses who played equally successfully in films and on the theater stage. She became famous after the release of the popular film series “Two Fates” on the screens of the country, in which she played one of the main roles. Then the woman played in several more films. But for some reason she stopped acting in films since 2007.
The woman was married only once. She still loves her ex-husband Andrei. The marriage produced the actress’s only son, who tragically passed away in 2020.
Having survived the tragedy, Olga Ponizova began to live alone. She works in the theater for young spectators. In her free time, the actress does charity work.
Height, weight, age. How old is Olga Ponizova
The artist crossed the 40-year mark several years ago. The woman quietly, alone, celebrated her 44th birthday in 2020. Since her only son died, the actress has been trying to ignore all events. She doesn't let anyone into her life. The only exceptions are a few friends with whom she made friends in her youth.
The star of "Two Fates" looks good. It is difficult to find information about her height, weight, age. You can find out how old Olga Ponizova is by looking at official sources. The actress said in an interview several years ago that, thanks to good heredity, she has a good figure. The woman does not deny herself anything. She can enjoy sweets and delicious pies without fear of gaining weight.
Olga Ponizova, whose photos in her youth and now can be viewed on social networks, weighs 175 cm and weighs 49 kg. Age does not affect your figure. The woman remains fragile and beautiful, as in her youth.
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Theater school
The girl’s dream of a stage came true when, in nineteen ninety-one, she entered the Shchukin School to take Alla Kazanskaya’s course. Her classmates were Amalia Goldanskaya and Alexey Kravchenko. Olga became very friendly with them, and sometimes they went out together. The actress’s eccentricity, oddly enough, played into her hands. Having learned about her wayward character, Viktor Sergeev invited her to audition for his film “Sin. A story of passion." To the surprise of many, she soon appeared on the screen with Alexander Abdulov himself. This film became a milestone in the work of the actress. Olga Ponizova gained invaluable acting experience.
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Biography and personal life of Olga Ponizova
The biography and personal life of Olga Ponizova were happy until the time when her only son tragically passed away. The woman currently lives alone. She devotes all her time to working in her favorite theater.
The birth of a girl occurred in the 70s of the last century. They called her Olenka. The mother raised the girl and her younger brother Denis alone, since the father left the family when the children were still small.
During her school years, Olya studied well. But when she became a teenager, she decided that studying was not at all important to her. The girl began to skip classes to study at the capital’s acting school. Ponizova dreamed of shining in films.
Somehow finishing school, the girl became a student at the Shchukin School. The great Alla Kazanskaya becomes the actress’s teacher. During her student years, our heroine became friends with Amalia Mordvinova, who still supports Olga.
Already during her student years, Ponizova began acting in films. At first, she plays episodic roles. Real fame came to the young actress after the release of the film series “Two Fates” on the screens of the country, in which she played the role of Dasha. After this, Ponizova also played in “The Adventuress”, “On the Corner of the Patriarch’s” and in other films. The last time the actress played in a movie was in 2007. Since then, for various reasons, she has refused to act in films.
The star of “Two Fates”, after studying at the theater institute, played for several years on the stage of the “Moon Theater”. Since 2003, the actress has been playing in the capital's theater for young spectators.
In the early 90s, the girl met Andrei Chelyadinov. They spent a lot of time together. Olga Ponizova and Andrei Chelyadinov, photos of marriage registration cannot be found on the Internet, were not happy for long. After the birth of their son Nikita, they divorced. The ex-husband always supported the woman. Currently, former spouses often go to their son’s grave together. Andrey helps the woman in solving household problems.
The star of “Two Fates” is engaged in charitable activities. She helps raise money that goes to help sick people.
Movies
In 1991, Olga Ponizova without much difficulty became a student of Shchukinsky. The girl studied with Amalia Goldanskaya and Alexei Kravchenko. Ponizova was not an exemplary student, just as she was not considered a diligent student before. The student often skipped classes and preferred to live according to the dictates of her mood. But, as it turned out, it was precisely this freedom-loving and eccentric character that was very suitable for the role of the main character in the film “Sin. A story of passion." The director of the film, Viktor Sergeev, approved Olga after the first audition.
Olga Ponizova in the film “Sin. A story of passion"
After the release of this film, Olga Ponizova began to regularly receive tempting offers from famous directors. But the girl suddenly again did what was not expected of her: she concentrated on her studies. Two years later, Ponizova again appeared on the screens in Dmitry Astrakhan’s film “Everything will be fine.”
After the release of the film, the artist again “disappears” for a while. After graduating from college, a woman gets married. Soon Olga devotes all her free time to her newborn son.
Three years later, Ponizova returned to the world of theater and cinema. A woman is hired by the Luna Theater, where Sergei Prokhanov helps her get a job.
Olga Ponizova in the film “Waiting Room”
In 1998, the artist starred in the leading role in the joint Russian-Belarusian television series “Waiting Room”. The release of the film on big screens marked the return of Olga Ponizova to the world of cinema and reminded directors of her.
In the first five-year plan of the new century, Olga Ponizova starred in notable and memorable films, the best of which are “I’ll Decide Everything Myself,” “Two Fates,” “Light Up,” “On the Corner of the Patriarch’s,” “Happy New Year, Dad.” The role that Olga was closest to was the role of Inna Malakhova in the film “I’ll Decide Everything Myself.” In this romantic melodrama, the actress played a strong and determined woman.
During this period of her life, the actress experienced financial difficulties. Having played in the film “On the Corner of the Patriarchs,” Ponizova later admitted that she took part in the film for the sake of money, because at that time it was difficult for Olga to earn a living. Nevertheless, this film will be called the best in the actress’s creative biography.
Olga Ponizova in the film "Adventurer"
Olga herself, commenting on a similar situation, explained that she often refused to work. Such inaction led to the fact that the woman had to pay for her own independence in life.
In 2003, Ponizova moved from the “Luna Theater” to the capital’s Youth Theater, where she continues to serve today. The latest films with Ponizova’s participation are “Adventurer”, “You will always be with me” and “A Dozen of Justice”. Olga starred in these films.
Since 2007, the artist took a break again. Today the Russian actress is focused on working in the theater.
Olga Ponizova in the film “A Dozen of Justice”
According to the actress, the main thing in life for her is comfort in communication, because she constantly chooses the environment around her, trying to establish contacts for favorable work. Olga is categorical on this issue, so she immediately breaks off relations with those she does not like.
Family and children of Olga Ponizova
The family and children of Olga Ponizova were unknown for a long time. The artist tried not to talk about them.
Currently, the actress does not have a family. She lives alone. A woman's joy comes only from her favorite work. Olga often visits the grave of her beloved son. She cleans up the burial site and places flowers.
The film actress tries not to talk about her father at all. Olga still has not forgiven the man for leaving the family. She refuses to communicate with him.
The girl's mother was an economist. She tried to do everything so that her beloved children would not be in need. The woman supported Olga at the moment when it was decided whether she would give birth. The mother was taking care of the girl’s son.
The star has a younger brother named Denis. He recently got married and became the father of a charming boy.
PONIZOVA Olga ValerievnaBorn 03/08/1974, Moscow
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Olga Ponizova was born on March 8, 1974 in Moscow. I studied normally at school. The first three years I was an excellent student, then I studied well, but often played truant. What's the point of sitting in physics or chemistry lessons without understanding anything?! A waste of time! In general, she believed that school is a story that needs to be experienced and forgotten, that a person needs school only in order to understand what is interesting to him and, in accordance with this, choose a profession. And even then, in her particular case, everything is different. Everything she has read, seen and learned in her life has nothing to do with her school life.
With all this, Olga Ponizova assures that the teachers at her school were good, she was just interested in completely different things in those years. For example, she was much more interested in film school: communicating with creative people, going to the Film Center, to VGIK for special screenings, going on expeditions. There, at the film school, under the guidance of Alla Ivanovna Stepanova, the girl learned a lot: what books to read, what films to watch. And, probably, it was there that the desire to become an actress arose.
Already at the age of fifteen, Olga made her debut on the silver screen. Directed by Nikolai Alexandrovich, she starred in the role of Panteleeva in the family drama “We Didn’t Get Along.” The young actress was then lucky enough to work with wonderful artists Irina Miroshnichenko and Alexander Lazarev...
Shchukin School
In fact, Olga Ponizova herself claims that she never intended to become an actress. Here's an art critic - yes. She still has a passion for literature related to cultural studies, philology, history and philosophy.
Be that as it may, after graduating from school in 1991, she entered the Shchukin Theater School. She studied in the workshop of Alla Kazanskaya together with Alexey Kravchenko and Amalia Goldanskaya. But it was difficult to keep her at her desk even here: she and her friends ran away from classes and skipped classes. This is her character...
In the second year, director Viktor Sergeev invited Olga Ponizova to play the main role in the adventurous psychological melodrama “Sin. A story of passion." Her partner in the film was the famous Alexander Abdulov. He played a priest - Father Agafangel, to whom the Lord sends a test in the form of a strong feeling for a young girl, incompatible with his rank. Filming took place in Russia, Germany and Israel, in the monasteries of Novgorod, Valdai and Jerusalem.
"Everything will be fine"
In 1995, Dmitry Astrakhan’s melodrama “Everything will be fine” was released on the country’s screens. Ponizova organically and talentedly played the main role of a provincial girl named Olya. She lives in a small quiet town and is going to marry a guy whom she has loved for a long time. Although... does he love? And now their quiet and measured life is disrupted by the arrival of a millionaire with his son, an intelligent, handsome young man, a Nobel laureate.
If you wish, you can find a lot of attraction, inconsistencies, and falsehood in the picture. A kind of soap opera from the early 90s. You can, but you don't want to. Because the picture truly touches the soul with its naturalness and strength. Paradox? No. In this regard, Dmitry Astrakhan is similar to Ivan Pyryev. “He creates something that is not at all invented and false, but simply different - a second, parallel, in fashionable terms, virtual reality, which, being condensed to the “strength of pure alcohol,” sometimes looks more real than the existing one,” writes critic Sergei Kudryavtsev. And this parallel reality amazingly reflects all the features of our real life, where comedy often turns into tragedy and vice versa.
Illusions and reality
In the same 1995, Olga Ponizova graduated from the B.V. Shchukin Theater School. She got married, gave birth to a son, Nikita, and... decided to leave her profession. Forever. She stayed at home for three and a half years, but then she realized that she couldn’t live without the stage.
Sergei Prokhanov invited her to his Luna Theater, for which Olga Ponizova is very grateful to him. “The theater is my hospital,” says the actress. - Every person must have a consumer of his feelings, otherwise the heart will not stand it. For me it’s the viewer.” According to the actress, the theater takes her out of reality, helping her worry. After all, when the performance is on, no one dies in the world. During this period of time, everyone lives in a beautiful illusion, behind the fireplace of Papa Carlo. Some people need a drug to create an illusion, others need vodka... And Olga Ponizova prefers the theater. Although theater and life are not the same thing for an actress. These are its two different poles.
In those same years, Olga Ponizova returned to cinema. She starred with the same Dmitry Astrakhan, again plunging into a fairy tale. This time Olga played a young teacher at an orphanage in the television series “Waiting Room.” In her heroine, a “runaway” homeless man, a former famous athlete, Victor (Mikhail Boyarsky), finds an understanding friend and beloved woman.
Series
In the late 90s, Olga Ponizova separated from her husband. She remembers him as a wonderful person. It just happened that way. Now I had to sort out my life alone. Acting bread is hard and thankless. Today you are at the pinnacle of fame, and tomorrow... Astrakhan's films, of course, brought Olga Ponizova enormous popularity. But time passed, we had to move on with our lives and work.
TV series became a lifeline for Olga Ponizova. When, thanks to Igor Livanov, she got into the series “On the Corner of the Patriarchs,” the actress had five rubles left in her wallet. Creation? Well, what creativity. I did everything I was told. The actress does not hide her critical attitude towards the series, admitting that she acted for money.
And yet, there are differences between series and series. The series “Two Fates,” where Olga Ponizova played the good daughter Sveta, was remembered by many television viewers. With bated breath, millions of people watched the twists and turns of the plot. For this role, brown-haired Olga had to dye her hair blonde, which somewhat disoriented the audience. Sometimes she heard on the street: “Oh, girl, aren’t you by any chance playing in the film “Two Fates”? Is it true? But for some reason you look fair in the movies...”
The actress admits that she often does not remember the names of her heroines. What remains in the memory is not the stories and names, but the feelings and emotions from the filming process itself. The detective series “Landscape with a Murder” (in which the actress played the main role - the beautiful and mysterious Ksenia, the main suspect) was remembered by Olga because she had the opportunity to stand at the helm of the boat. Everything is for real. Filming took place in St. Petersburg, on the Neva. At first, Ponizova almost killed the entire film crew, stopping the boat literally a couple of meters from the bridge support. Then, nothing, I learned. You could even say she became an ace.
Viewers often associate actresses with their heroines. Of course, this is an illusion. Olga Ponizova admits that she has little in common with the same Sveta from “Two Fates”. But about her other role - Inna Malakhova in the romantic melodrama “I’ll decide everything myself” - the actress once said that her heroine, like her... A woman of difficult fate, as it should be, strong, but vulnerable, honest, but with business acumen .
Although the actress categorically disagrees with the behavior of her heroine: “I play a woman with two children, who suddenly unexpectedly discovers that her husband is a bandit, after which she ruins her entire previous life, and the ordeal begins. I can say that if I were in her place and found out that my loved one, say, killed someone, I think I would still continue to love him. Whatever he did. After all, Gippius also said that when you love a person, you love him the way God intended him.”
Youth Theater
All these years, Olga Ponizova continued to work at the Moon Theater with Sergei Prokhanov. Only in 2003 the actress moved to the Youth Theater. There, Henrietta Yanovskaya just began a significant revision of her own work. She staged Tennessee Williams's most famous play, A Streetcar Named Desire. The annoying voice of the pretty Olga Ponizova - Blanche, who resembles both Svetlana Nemolyaeva and Vivien Leigh, found in Yanovskaya’s performance the integrity that she had long planned.
"Adventuress"
Olga Ponizova’s heroine always captivates viewers with her liveliness and liveliness of character. This, for example, is her Tanya Savicheva in the series “Adventurer” (2005). Actually, in the detective stories by Anna and Sergei Litvinov, the main character is blonde. But after many tests of blonde actresses, the creators of the series decided to settle on the candidacy of Olga Ponizova. So what if the hair color doesn't suit you? It is not important.
The series turned out to be dynamic and interesting. As the plot progresses, Ponizova's heroine, reckless Tanya, an employee of an advertising agency, receives a letter from her French great-grandmother about a mysterious treasure. This is where her exciting adventures begin. Charming Tanya gets into serious troubles, but thanks to her resourcefulness she successfully gets out of them.
The actress herself also happened to be in extraordinary situations. Part of the filming took place in Turkey, where local men, seeing Olga in a light dress that barely covered her body, mistook her for a representative of an ancient profession. Without noticing the film crew, they began to express their emotions with desperate whistles, not without obscene proposals. Only the director's intervention helped.
Personal life
Olga Ponizova loves to feel comfortable first of all for her, and not for those around her. When meeting someone, she immediately makes contact and is open to communication. But, quickly understanding the situation, she interrupts communication if it becomes a burden to her. She has wonderful friends and nothing can affect their friendship, not even big disagreements.
By nature, Olga Ponizova is reserved. Almost never visits public places and does not hang out. She has a lot of beautiful evening dresses in her wardrobe, which she doesn’t wear except on set. In her life there are no occasions where evening dresses are needed.
Realizing that school is a wild place, the actress tries not to torment her son with anything and not demand anything. She can only offer something, and he has the right to either accept it or refuse. A mother has only one requirement for her son: brush his teeth. She does not arrange interrogations: “What did you get?” And he doesn’t even scold you for getting bad marks! Doesn't force you to say anything. If he wants, he will tell you.
After the divorce, she never married. No, Olga is not at all disappointed in men and does not at all believe that all men are bastards. In her opinion, they are just, rather, funny. Yes, she herself has a lot of male friends. And romantic stories happen to her... And, most likely, someday she will marry again. Maybe once every six months or even a year, returning late in the evening from a performance, the actress no, no, but thinks about the fact that no one is worried about how she will get home...
Ekaterina TUR, Igor BIN
Materials used: Encyclopedia of Cinema of Cyril and Methodius; “Ponizov was booed by the audience”, newspaper “Life”, https://www.zhizn.ru; “Olga Ponizova was confused with a prostitute,” NEWS.rin.ru; “Tram “Nostalgia”, interview, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”; Stas Chelnik, “Olga Nepomnyashchaya”, magazine “7 Days”; “Homebody”, interview with the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”; Natalia Korneeva, “Selfish Olga Ponizova”, “Arguments and Facts”; Information about the film “I’ll decide everything myself” https://www.ntv.ru; Tatyana Petrenko, “Olga Ponizova: “I made a wish and chose the viewer,” Newspaper “Culture” No. 3 (7411) January 22 - 28, 2004; Ksenia Vladimirova, “Find the criminal in the “Landscape with Murder”, https://www.kp.ru
Son of Olga Ponizova - Nikita Chelyadinov
In the mid-90s of the last century, our heroine became a mother. She gave birth to a baby, whom she named Nikita. Soon after the boy was born, his parents divorced. The artist did everything for the sake of her beloved son. She allowed him literally everything.
During his school years, Nikita studied well, despite absenteeism from school, which was allowed to him by his beloved mother. The boy was creative. He played the guitar well, loved to draw, and dreamed of becoming a pilot.
In 2020, Olga Ponizova’s son, Nikita Chelyadinov, died tragically. He crashed his car. This terrible tragedy changed the woman. She began to spend more time alone.
Childhood and family
Olga Ponizova was born in Moscow on March 8, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-four. Her creative career is connected with the capital. At school, Olya initially studied “excellently”, and then interest in studying began to disappear, and she simply began to serve “duty”, and even later began to skip classes. It is interesting that already at that time the girl had her own views on many issues. She was firmly convinced that school was needed to demonstrate to a young man all the available disciplines so that in the future he could decide which subject was more interesting to him. Most likely, it was for this reason that Olga Ponizova began to skip classes more and more often, because school disciplines were not part of her interests.
From her youth, the girl was interested in film school. Only here could she communicate with interesting, extraordinary people, discuss premieres, and stage performances on her own. The biography of Olga Ponizova could not have turned out differently. After all, only at the film actor school did she feel comfortable and confident. Quite early, Olga realized that the stage was her life.
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Confidence in the right choice was added by the role in the film “The Characters Didn’t Match,” where our heroine starred at the age of fifteen. From that moment on, Olga Ponizova lived only through art. She practically abandoned classes at secondary school and began to intensively prepare for admission to drama school.
Olga Ponizova's ex-husband - Andrey Chelyadinov
The meeting of the future spouses took place at one of the social events. They were introduced by mutual friends. From the first meeting, the girl felt in love, which later turned into great love. A few months later, the lovers decided to get married. The wedding was quiet. Only close friends were present at the celebration.
The family was replenished with a son. But suddenly the young husband filed for divorce. It turned out that the man fell in love again. He did not deceive his wife, so he divorced her, maintaining friendly relations.
Olga Ponizova’s ex-husband, Andrei Chelyadinov, often communicated with his ex-wife and son. He supported the woman in the terrible moments after Nikita’s death. Now the man hosts one of the popular television programs.
Olga Ponizova. Children and personal life in the biography of the actress
The only man with whom Olga was in a family relationship is Andrei Chelyadinov. He is her first love. However, some time after the birth of the child, the couple separated. Olga’s ex-husband works as the general director of Russian Extreme.
After the divorce, Ponizova was not married and was not in a relationship. At one time there were rumors that the former married couple had a future together. Andrey helped and today does not stop helping his ex-wife and takes an active part in her life.
In the summer of 2020, a tragedy occurred in the actress’s life: her only child Nikita passed away. He died in a car accident. According to some reports, the young man was sitting in the passenger seat, and an examination showed alcohol in the blood of driver Alexander Tikhonov. The car drove into a pole at high speed.
After the incident, Ponizova did not contact the press for a long time and became isolated.
Olga Ponizova after the death of her son today
In 2020, the only guy whom the artist called her most beloved man died tragically. Nikita was in the car with a friend. The guy died instantly. This loss became a tragedy in the life of the actress. She refused to communicate with others for several months after this. Only her favorite work brought the woman some peace.
Olga Ponizova remembers her son’s funeral in a fog. Photos from the funeral ceremony did not appear on social networks.
Olga Ponizova refuses to talk to the press after the death of her son. Today, a woman often plays in the capital's Youth Theater. The actress often visits one of the capital's orphanages. She communicates with the kids and brings them gifts. Recently there was information that the artist decided to adopt a child.
Olga Ponizova now
In 2020, the actress turned 43 years old. Today, women do not participate in the filming of films.
Fans explain this decision of the actress by a tragedy in her personal life, because the death of her son was a real blow for Olga.
Actress Olga Ponizova
In 2020, information appeared in the media that the person responsible for the death of Ponizova’s son would be punished. Alexander Tikhonov, who was accused of Nikita’s death, received a sentence of 3.5 years in prison and a fine of 60 thousand rubles.
Russian media reported that during the investigative actions, strong pressure was put on Nikita’s friend, and the culprit of the fatal accident himself changed his testimony more than once - he said that his car was stolen, then he claimed that he accidentally saw Nikita and decided to take his friend to the hospital. The reckless driver's acquaintances unanimously asserted that he led a sporty lifestyle, did not drink alcohol at all, and had never driven a vehicle while intoxicated. At the same time, among the participants in the fatal party at the dacha there were those who caught Tikhonov using drugs. Law enforcement officials ignored such information; Tikhonov was not tested for drugs at the hospital, and no one explained the reason for such inaction.
Olga Ponizova
The driver himself, who was found guilty of the accident, stated that Nikita lost consciousness and leaned on the steering wheel. Eyewitnesses to the fatal incident claim that the driver was drunk. The dash cam video clearly showed that at a speed limit of 40 km per hour, Tikhonov was racing four times faster. The driver's blood alcohol level exceeded 2.5 ppm.
Instagram and Wikipedia Olga Ponizova
Olga Ponizova’s Instagram and Wikipedia contain rather scant information about the star of “Two Fates”.
On Wikipedia you can find out where the artist starred. The page contains a little information about the woman’s personal life and the tragedy she experienced two years ago.
The actress is not registered on social networks. There are no pages on Instagram either. On Odnoklassniki, a page named after Olga Ponizova is run by one of his fans. He spoke in detail about the artist’s family, her school and student years. Here you can find out which film works have brought the greatest success. Separately, information is presented about the death of Nikita’s son and the actress’s activities after such a loss.
“Everything will be fine” (1995), melodrama
The basis of the plot is the eternal story of Cinderella, slightly complicated by a love triangle. Russian province, workers' hostel, where poverty, dirt, and squalor reign. In this godforsaken corner, a millionaire from the capital, Konstantin Smirnov, unexpectedly appears with his son Petya, a very young but very talented man - a Nobel Prize laureate. Konstantin meets his old love in this town, indulges in memories, and at the same time prepares the wedding of the beautiful Olya and her fiancé, Zhenya, who has just returned from the army. Meanwhile, Peter falls in love with Olga...
“Two Fates” (2002), drama series
The plot consists of two women's stories. Early 60s, Lida and Vera are young and beautiful. Ivan is courting Vera, and Lida is not deprived of male attention. It would seem that their fates are predetermined to the hour. But, as often happens, chance intervenes in history. The arrival of Moscow specialist Ivan changes all plans. The friendship of two women falls apart because of a man...
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