Hereditary love for art
The family into which Yulia Rutberg was born has traditionally served art for at least three generations. His father, Ilya Grigorievich, was the head of the unique, only pantomime department in the country; he founded the Our House theater; his mother, a graduate of the Institute named after. Gnesinykh, Suvorova Irina Nikolaevna, taught at a music school. Grandfather and grandmother danced in the Dance Island theater (in the 1930s-1940s, an NKVD ensemble).
Famous artists often visited the house, whom ordinary citizens could only see on the theater stage or television screen. In childhood, Yulia called celebrity artists “uncles” - Semyon Farada, Alexander Filippenko, Gennady Khazanov and many other “celestials”.
Childhood and family of Yulia Rutberg
Yulia was born in Moscow into a family where everything “breathed” theater, cinema and creativity. The girl’s grandfather was a ballet dancer, her grandmother was a dancer, her mother sang in a quartet and taught at a music school, and her father acted in films and was fond of pantomime. She practically grew up at rehearsals and in the thick of creative disputes, being in the theater “Our House” created by her father.
The future actress did not do very well at school. She was not good at exact sciences, but Yulia liked humanitarian subjects more. Rutberg studied at an English-biased school, where some subjects were taught in English.
Yulia Rutberg was a beauty in her youth
Artistic genes could not help but make themselves felt. Around the fifth grade, Yulia already knew for sure that she wanted to become an actress. Her dream was the Shchukin School. The first attempt at admission was unsuccessful, so Yulia submitted documents to GITIS and successfully passed the exams. Rutberg, true to her dream, continued every year to try to enter the Shchukin School. The attempts failed again and again. Only after a phone call from her father to Vladimir Shlesinger, the head of the department of this school, the purposeful student was auditioned again and accepted into A. Kazanskaya’s course.
Theater and life
Of course, artistic genes showed up at school. The girl, in addition to school, learned to play the piano. Having received a certificate, she passed a competition at GITIS, but two years later she decided to continue her education at the Shchukin School.
After graduating from the Higher Theater School in 1988, Yulia Rutberg joined the troupe of the Vakhtangov Theater. The first success came when the play “Zoyka’s Apartment” was staged, in which she made her debut in the leading role.
Since the early nineties, the well-established actress began to be invited to other famous theaters. She played Arkadina in “The Seagull” by Andrei Zholdak (State Theater of Nations), Anna Andreevna in “Khlestakov” by Vladimir Mirzoev (Stanislavsky Theatre), and Mikhail Kozakov, who then returned from Israel, wanted to see her in his experimental project “Strinberg Blues”.
The first roles of Yulia Rutberg
Immediately after graduating from theater school, the artist began working at the Vakhtangov Theater.
In the production of “Zoyka’s Apartment” she played Zoyka, in “Sunset” she created the image of Dvoira, in the play “Two Hours in Paris” the young artist played Durandas. She also created images in such productions as “The Beauty Queen”, “Amphitryon”, “Frequin Julie”, etc., and she almost always played the main roles. We can say that luck accompanied Julia from her very first steps in the theater. Thanks to her superbly played roles, she quickly became loved and recognized by the audience. Rutberg played not only on the stage of her native theater, she was often invited by famous directors to perform in their productions on the stages of other theaters. So, in “Khlestakov” at the Stanislavsky Theater she rehearsed Anna Andreevna, at the Theater of Nations she participated in the experimental play “The Seagull”, and played many female roles in the production of “Doctor Chekhov” at the St. Petersburg Liteiny Theater. The artist played with both Roman Viktyuk and Pyotr Fomenko.
Directing
In the last decade, actress Yulia Rutberg tried her hand at directing, creating the program “All That Jazz,” stylized as a fantastic cabaret, in which she conducts a dialogue with the audience, while simultaneously talking with famous artists separated from us in time and space. This live communication, in which Charlie Chaplin, Liza Minnelli, Edith Piaf and Michael Jackson took part, as well as everyone who came to the performance, became a notable event in the theatrical life of the capital.
Julia Rutberg in TV series
Since 2000, the actress began working in television series.
Series with her participation - “Kamenskaya. Do not interfere with the executioner”, “The Empire is under attack. Whip”, “Moscow Windows”. Separately, it should be noted that Yulia took part in the popular television series with a strong cast, “Don’t Be Born Beautiful.” This story about Cinderella brought fame to the actress. It was difficult for her to walk calmly down the street.
In the series “Eclipse,” Rutberg played the role of a woman with a complex character. She played Arseny's mother. The actress tried to convey through her play a certain spirit of the times, in which such concepts as faith, love, hope, and selflessness were present.
Movie
In our age, real popularity comes to those artists who act a lot in films. Yulia Rutberg also understood this. Her biography as a film actress began when she was only sixteen, although this experience can be considered symbolic, she did not have to play a role as such, she starred in the crowd. In “The Maid of Rouen Nicknamed Pyshka” (1989), a musical directed by Evgeny Ginsburg, we had to work seriously; the shooting partners were Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Nikolai Lavrov, Alexander Abdulov, Leonid Yarmolnik and Valentina Talyzina, which, of course, required a lot.
A year later, work began on the film adaptation of the dramatic story “Stalin’s Funeral” by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Yulia Rutberg was invited to a prominent, although not the main role. In “Makarov” Elena Mayorova and Sergei Makovetsky were in the foreground, but she was offered a short but very important episode.
1999 was marked by participation in the filming of the films “Tango Over the Chasm-2” (female investigator Vera) and “Check” (one of the first domestic thrillers).
Domestic cinema has been enriched with fifty films in which Yulia Rutberg starred. In all cases, without exception, she decorated them with her performance.
Serial creativity
The fashion for TV series, which arose at the beginning of this century, only increased the demand for such a talented actress as Yulia Rutberg. Films with her participation became events in cinema, and the images she created adorned interesting serials, such as “Empire Under Attack” (Azef’s Wife, Love) and “Kamenskaya”.
True popular love came after the series “Plot” (2003), which was watched by the whole country and the so-called “near abroad”, which preserved the unity of cultural perception with Russia. Yulia Rutberg later said that she herself came up with the fate of her heroine, an intelligent city woman who came to the village after marriage. The desire to delve into the motivation and way of thinking of a character is generally characteristic of this talented actress.
A year later, there was an interesting role in the film “Goodbye, Dr. Freud,” which highlighted the problem of mutual misunderstanding between parents and children during the period of growing up.
Television series “Doctor Tyrsa”, “Saboteur. The End of the War,” “Don’t Be Born Beautiful” and other films demonstrated Rutberg’s ability to cope with complex production tasks, introducing a fair share of her own innate humor into their implementation.
Movies
Yulia Rutberg's filmography includes about seven dozen films. This is largely the result of many years of hard work by the actress herself. Julia's film debut took place in 1989 with the episodic role of Fernanda in the Soviet feature musical television film "The Maid of Rouen, nicknamed Pyshka."
Julia Rutberg
In 1999-2000, the detective television series “Kamenskaya” with Elena Yakovleva in the title role was released on wide screens. Julia Rutberg starred in one of the episodes. This is how the successful serial career of the actress began: Julia played in the action-packed series “Empire Under Attack”, in the telenovelas “ Moscow Windows” and “Family Secrets”. In 2002, the Ukrainian-Russian melodrama Atlantis was released, in which Rutberg played one of the main roles. Two years later, Marina Migunova offered the actress the main role in her debut comedy “Farewell, Doctor Freud!”
Yulia Rutberg in the series “Don’t Be Born Beautiful”
Really wide fame came to Yulia Rutberg with the sensational romantic-comedy telenovela “Don’t Be Born Beautiful,” a Russian adaptation of the series “I, Betty, Ugly.” In this series, Rutberg played the eccentric sister of Alexander and Kira Voropaev, who has little understanding of the company’s affairs and is extremely fond of yoga.
Of the actress’s latest works, noteworthy is her participation in the medical drama “Doctor Tyrsa,” which tells about the everyday life of the department of sports and ballet trauma, as well as in the biographical film “Anna German. The Secret of the White Angel,” introducing the viewer to the secrets of the biography of the great artist. Rutberg superbly performed the role of Anna Akhmatova in this poignant film.
In 2014, the film “Moths”, directed by Vitaly Vorobyov, was released, telling about love against the backdrop of the largest environmental disaster of the twentieth century - the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
. In this dramatic mini-series, Rutberg appeared in the role of doctor Sofia Mikhailovna.
In March 2020, an important event for any actor happened in the life of the actress. Together with Maria Esipenko, Vladimir Nosik and Igor Vernik, Yulia Rutberg was awarded the title of “People’s Artist of the Russian Federation.” The presidential decree stated that Rutberg, together with her colleagues, received this honorary title for “great services in the field of theatrical, cinematic and musical art.”
Due to her external similarity, Yulia Rutberg is often compared to singer Alena Sviridova.
Personal life, children and husbands
It so happened that the actress had three marriages. The famous musician Alexey Kortnev remained her husband for almost a decade. However, he did not consider this civil marriage serious. After breaking up with him, Yulia began a relationship with Alexander Kuznetsov, who was known as a Casanova at the Shchukin School. The wedding took place at Yar; there were many guests, including fellow students. The hopes that after the solemn wedding the young husband would moderate his romantic ardor were not justified. Even the birth of a son and the extreme tolerance of his repeated affairs on the part of his wife did not affect the situation in any way. One fine day, Alexander announced his intention to emigrate to the United States, knowing for sure that Yulia would not want to follow him. The parting was difficult.
Personal life of Yulia Rutberg
Julia Rutberg was married three times. The actress lived in a civil marriage with Alexei Kortnev for almost ten years. Unfortunately, their relationship ended.
Actress Yulia Rutberg looks like her father Ilya Rutberg
The second husband was Alexander Kuznetsov, who at the Shchukin School was considered a real conqueror of women's hearts. The husband’s romantic fervor did not diminish even after the magnificent wedding. He continued to have affairs on the side. The birth of his son did not change Alexander's mood. Soon he announced his desire to move to America. Kuznetsov knew for sure that Yulia would not follow him. This is how the actress’s second marriage broke up. Rutberg's third husband was Anatoly Lobotsky. By that time, the actress’s father was already very ill, so she spent almost all her free time at her parents’ house. Anatoly could not like such a family life. In order to save family relationships, Rutberg started building a house in Chekhov. However, even this did not save the crumbling marriage.
Julia's son Gregory entered the International Institute of Advertising. The actress believes that her son’s attraction to acting will take its toll, but she is not going to push him towards it.
Lobotsky
Anatoly Lobotsky appeared at the right time, considering the depression in which Yulia Rutberg was. Her personal life was complicated by the illness of her father, whom she always revered as an ideal man. Money was required, and a lot of it, so the actress took on any job, spending almost all the time remaining after filming, touring, creative evenings and enterprises in her parents' house. Lobotsky was not delighted with this image of family relations, but treated the situation adequately and with understanding. Meanwhile, reports persistently circulated in the press based on rumors of an imminent divorce. In addition, Rutberg had the idea to build her own house in Chekhov, which was to play the role of a “nest” that would cement the marital relationship, which, of course, did not add leisure time.
Lobotsky, for all his merits, lived a difficult life before he met Yulia Rutberg. His biography was complex, he has a son from his first marriage, Stanislav (born in 1979), and has many novels behind him. He left repeatedly, publicly announcing his freedom, but returned just as often. One can only be amazed at the patience with which the actress continues to wait for her beloved man. Yulia Rutberg's family has broken up twice, but for the third time she apparently intends to fight.
The actress is a believer. She professes Orthodoxy. Julia Rutberg accepted the rite of baptism at a conscious and mature age.
Personal life
The personal life of Yulia Rutberg was often discussed in the press. This was due to the fact that in her youth the actress literally attracted members of the opposite sex, and all the men in the actress’s life were bright and extraordinary personalities.
Yulia Rutberg and Alexey Kortnev
For a long time, the actress’s life included the charismatic frontman Alexei Kortnev, whom they met during a student skit at the Actor’s House. The life of this couple did not leave the covers of glossy publications until the breakup, which, according to rumors, occurred due to Kortnev’s affair with gymnast Arina Zaripova. Rutberg and Kortnev did not officially sign, but for a long time positioned themselves as husband and wife. They had no children.
Yulia Rutberg and Alexander Kuznetsov
Rutberg's first official husband was actor Alexander Kuznetsov, with whom the actress studied together at Shchukinsky. Despite Kuznetsov’s reputation as a notorious womanizer, their romance ended with a wedding and the birth of their son Grigory. However, after some time, Alexander decided to emigrate to America, leaving his wife and little son in Russia.
Julia Rutberg and Anatoly Lobotsky
The actress’s next chosen one was also her acting colleague Anatoly Lobotsky, known for the films “Zhiharka” and “Envy of the Gods.” Due to her father’s illness, Julia spent all her free time with him, which negatively affected her relationship with her husband. The marriage eventually fell apart.
Yulia Rutberg with her son
The only son of the actress Gregory became a student at the International Institute of Advertising. But his mother is sure that the desire to become an actor will outweigh him, although she will in no way push him towards this.
