Biography of the Yarmolnik

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Remembering the audience in the image of a chicken tobacco from pop miniature, he went a long and difficult way in art. Now he is not only a successful actor and producer, but also an exemplary family man, he worships his wife and does not have a soul in his daughter and grandchildren. In the photo: Leonid Yarmolnik childhood and youth years Leonid was born in the Primorsky Territory, in the small village of Grodecovo is now border, located a few kilometers from the border with China.

To the Far East of his father, Isaac Yarmolnik, was sent for further service after graduating from a combined arms military school. He was followed by the young wife of Faina, a graduate of a medical school, who worked for the whole future life with a laboratory assistant. Seven months later, the first -born Lenya was born in a new place with young spouses, and his younger sister Lyudmila was born.

Leonid Yarmolnik in childhood with his parents from an early age Leonid was distinguished by creativity and artistry and loved to attract attention. Without waiting for the requests of adults, a funny baby climbed on a stool and sang his beloved “Buchenwald Nabat”, comically trying to imitate Muslim Magomayev. Having become older, he began to invent various scenes and show them to parents and friends who simply died of laughter.

In the year, his father was transferred to Lviv, where Lenya went to first grade. He studied at a Russian school, was a solid good, from school subjects he loved physics and literature most of all. In addition to school classes, he had a lot of hobbies: he was engaged in swimming, boxing and skating sports, playing the accordion, attended a drama round at the Leninsky Komsomol People’s Studio Theater-Studio.

Leonid Yarmolnik in school years in high school, like many of his peers, was fond of the work of the Beatles group and even wore long hair and round glasses to resemble John Lennon. But the main passion of Yarmolnik was the scene.

In the People’s Theater, he mastered the basics of theatrical skill, choreography, plasticity and stage speech, played a lot in amateur performances and after graduating from school no longer imagined himself in another profession. Having received a certificate of maturity, the young man went to Leningrad - to enter the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography.

He did not go through the competition, but did not part with the dream of becoming an actor and went to conquer Moscow next year. He was also not accepted to the Schukin school, but Yuri Vasilievich Katin-Yartsev, who headed the selection committee, urgently advised him to come a year later, as he was going to gain his course. Leonid Yarmolnik in his youth in the year Yarmolnik’s dream came true - he not only became a student of the famous “pike”, but also came to one of the best teachers of the school.

In his student years, Leonid became firmly made friends with Alexander Abdulov, with whom he often walked couples and was in a student dormitory. Another of his dream was fulfilled - Leonid loved this theater very much and sincerely admired Yuri Lyubimov and his artists. Leonid Yarmolnik at the Taganka Theater immediately, upon arrival at the Yarmolnik Theater, got the role of Azazello in the play “Master and Margarita”, played in the productions of “Fallings and Living” and “Hour of the Peak”.

In the drama “Ten Days that shocked the world”, he periodically replaced in the role of Kerensky Vladimir Vysotsky, who often excommunicated to shoot and tour. In the year, Yuri Lyubimov was fired from the post of Khudruk, and Anatoly Efros took his place. Serious changes have occurred in the theater: many actors went after Lyubimov, and Yarmolnik decided to change theatrical stages to the set.

At that time, he was already a rather popular actor and had two dozen roles played in the cinema. Roles in the cinema for the first time on the screen Yarmolnik appeared in the year, still a secondary student. He got a small episode in the youth drama of Inessa Selezneva “Are your rights? One of the first film roles of the Yarmolnik “Citizens”, then followed the brightest and most characteristic roles of Viscount de Lus in the historical tape of Gerasimov “Red and Black” and the bandit of the Gnus in the detective of Vladimir Fokin “Detective”.

Leonid liked to act in films - if in the theater he self -critically considered himself a mediocre actor, then he had high hopes for the cinema. A frame from the film "Red and Black" in the year to Leonid came real popularity. In one of the issues of the popular humorous program “Around Laughter”, Leonid showed the miniature “Tabaka chicken”, which glorified it for the entire Soviet Union.

Leonid Yarmolnik - Griff and Tabacian chicken in the same year, the cult film of Mark Zakharov “The same Munhgauzen” was released on the screens, where Yarmolnik brilliantly played Kaprizul and Feofil, the son of the baron. Leonid was lucky to be in the company of such stars of Soviet cinema as Oleg Yankovsky, Elena Koreneva, Inna Churikova and many others. His theater teacher Katin-Yartsev reincarnated to the servant of Baron Thomas, and the bosom friend Alexander Abdulov appeared in the image of the lover of the Baroness Henry River.Leonid Yarmolnik, in the role of Theophilus, after his collaboration, Yankovsky called the Yarmolnik “Soviet Robert de Niro”, apparently hinting at the outward resemblance, and he was glad, because he was personally familiar with the American actor and even carried him in his car when de Niro came to Russia and was to the MMKF jury.

The Yarmolnik and De Niro are similar to a huge role in the creative biography of the Yarmolnik, director Alla Surikova played: she highly appreciated his natural comedy talent and willingly used in her paintings. In the year, Leonid played the policeman Maximan in the eccentric detective “Looking for a woman”, in the one -eyed cowboy Martin in the musical comedy “Man from the Boulevard of the Kapucin”.

In the year, the Kokonnoy tragicomedy was released, where Yarmolnik got the role of Tikhon Zaitsev, an employee of the third branch of the imperial police. On the set of the film “Man from the Kapucin Boulevard”, all these characters were quite bright and memorable, but not the main ones, which was somewhat depressed by the Yarmolnik. He wanted to play a key figure, and in the year Surikova provided him with such an opportunity.

In the comedy “Moscow Vacations”, Yarmolnik played a taxi driver Grisha, who accidentally meets an Italian who flew to Russia and falls with her into a variety of ridiculous situations. According to the laws of the genre at the end of the film, the heroine falls in love with her Russian friend and decides to stay with him forever. The frame from the film “Moscow Vacations”, by the way, was the first producing project of Yarmolnik - in the middle of the filming, financing ended, and Leonid Isaakovich personally collected the missing amount, turning for help to his many friends.

The efforts of the actor were not in vain and were awarded the Golden Aries Prize in the nomination "Best Producer of the Year". Leonid Yarmolnik about the creative path of the “Crossroads” of Dmitry Astrakhan is another lyrical comedy with a similar plot in which the Yarmolnik played the main role. His screen partner was Anna Lrychilova, and Andrei Makarevich wrote music for the film in the register of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the leader of the Time Machine group and a close friend of Leonid.

Leonid Yarmolnik in the film “Crossroads” by another vivid event in the creative biography of the Yarmolnik was the role of Don Rumata Estora fantastic drama Alexei German “It is difficult to be a god”. The picture was conceived in the year, starred fourteen years and became the last work of the director. For this work, Leonid Isaakovich received “Nick” as the best male performer. According to the actor, his creative life after the film adaptation of the Strugatsky Roman shared before and after, since the director set a very high bar.

On the set of the film “It is difficult to be God” it is worth noting the creative tandem of Yarmolnik and director Valery Todorovsky, who eventually also grew into strong friendship. Their first joint work was the drama, amazing in depth and drama, “My Famous Brother Frankenstein” with Daniil Spivakovsky in the title role. Leonid Yarmolnik and Valery Todorovsky Leonid played the father of a young man who passed the Chechen war, but never managed to return to former peaceful life.

Trying to protect his family from imaginary enemies, he lost a sense of reality and tragically died in a shootout with the police. The director managed to reveal the dramatic talent of the Yarmolnik, who until that time was hiding behind the mask of the clown and the Figiger. The picture is marked by many prestigious awards and is considered one of the best actor in filmography. The frame from the film “My Family Brother Frankenstein” was the next bright event was the release of the Todorovskiy “Shtilyaga” musical tape, in which Yarmolnik played the father of one of the key characters and again acted as a producer.

Leonid Yarmolnik in the “dudes” and in the year the audience was able to appreciate their third joint work - the film “Odessa”, where Leonid Isaakovich masterfully reincarnated into a typical Jewish dad Grigory Iosifovich. Even devoted confinements were able to recognize the actor here with labor: he played the character much older than himself, and played without makeup, simply changed his hairstyle, shaved his beard and mustache.

The picture was warmly met by spectators and critics and collected a generous crop of prestigious cinema awards. Leonid Yarmolnik in the film “Odessa” in the year of Yarmolnik could be seen in Andrei Smirnov’s historical drama “For you and you”, which takes place during the Stalinist terror, as well as in the new season of the Retro detective “Mosgaz”, where he played the charismatic scammer Fedor Markin.

Leonid Yarmolnik in the series "Mosgaz. The Last Cherkasov Business" Television at the beginning of X television journalist Vladislav Listyev, with whom the Yarmolnik was associated with many years of friendship, called Leonid for television. Together with Leonid Yakubovich, they came up with an entertaining and cognitive program “L-club”, which lasted six years and was closed in a year.

By the way, it was Yarmnolik who at one time gave the idea to call the first persons of the state in the KVN. At the beginning, X was invited to the show “exactly the same”, where, together with Gennady Khazanov and the love of Kazarnovskaya, he gave a professional assessment of the speeches of the participants. Yarmolnik and Khazanov-Improvisation Yarmolnik often appears in various talk shows and willingly gives out interviews.

In the year, he and his wife Oksana came to the program “Smak” to Ivan Urgant, where he talked about the imminent birth of his second grandson for preparing the cutlet. Ivan Urgant and Leonid Yarmolnik Leonid Isaakovich and Ivan are associated with a long -standing and strong friendship, so he never refuses to look at the light in the “Evening Urgant” program. Each of its appearance is accompanied by the fireworks of sparkling jokes and funny acting tanks, which are so generous with an actor.

His family in full force could be seen in the program of Timur Kizyakov, “When all houses”, which was aired on the Russia channel on November 3 of the year. On New Year's Eve, Soyuzmultfilm pleased large and small spectators with a festive release of the cartoon “Cheburashka. The secret of the holiday. " Interestingly, in the creation of the cartoon, Leonid Isaakovich took the most direct part.

With his presentation as a composer, Leonid Agutin was invited, while his wife voiced Cheburashka. The actor told about this and other funny moments that took place while working on the cartoon in the December issue of the Evening Urgant program. Scandals Yarmolnik is known for a quick -tempered character, which periodically demonstrates in public. In the year, in the studio of the show "Live", a conflict broke out between Leonid Isaakovich and Doghanter Gennady Osovitsky, who insulted the actor with anti -Semitic statements.

After a sharp verbal skirmish, the actor left the studio, outraged by the indifferent reaction of the public and the unwillingness of the leadership of the canal to restore the offender. Prior to this, the Yarmolnik was a defendant in another scandal concerning animals - his dogs bit and scared a two -year -old neighboring girl. The actor managed to hush up this conflict, although he walked dogs without leashes and muzzles.

Leonid Yarmolnik - a passionate defender of animals does not complain of Yarmolnik and journalists who have repeatedly faced the manifestations of his anger. Even in the distant eighties, the actor defeated the camera with the Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent, and in the year, together with Alexander Abdulov, he attacked Marat Saichenko photoreporter and hit him in the face. In April, the story repeated - Leonid broke the camera to the journalist, who, after the celebration of Alla Pugacheva, dared to ask the Yarmolnik that he gave the primaonna.

The department decided to recover the cost of repairs from the artist and issued him an exorbitant amount that caused a violent indignation among the Yarmolnik. The counterclaim did not bring the expected result, and by the summer of the year the amount increased even more at the expense of court duties and accumulated penalties. The Yarmolnik and his social activities are known - in May he ran for the Moscow Civil Plant, and in the presidential election of the year, he supported the candidacy of Mikhail Prokhorov and became his confidant.

Despite a personal acquaintance with Vladimir Zelensky, Leonid Isaakovich, like many Russian artists, fell under the sanctions of Ukraine, and he is forbidden to enter the country where he spent all conscious childhood. The personal life of Leonid Yarmolnik in his youth Yarmolnik was still known as that womanizer - in his student years, they, together with Alexander Abdulov, defeated a lot of female hearts.

At the Taganka Theater, Leonid twisted a stormy romance with actress Zoe Dynova, who lasted as long as seven years. Lovers were not embarrassed that all this time Zoya was married to actor Vladimir Ilyin, and the whole troupe of the theater knew about their relationship. Actress Zoya Pynovova was a miscarriage to the cause of their break: Zoya lost her child from Yarmolnik and very much experienced this personal drama.

Leonid tried to support his beloved woman, but something in their relationship was irrevocably lost, and the couple broke up. At that time, Yarmolnik often visited one large company, where he met with the granddaughter of Marshal Konev Elena. They made friends. The girl tried to support Leonid in a difficult situation. It got to the point that they decided to get married and really issued an official marriage, whose witness was Alexander Abdulov.