Anatoly Kotenev is a famous Soviet and then Belarusian theater and film actor. He is one of the most famous artists of Belarus.
Biography
On September 25, 1958, the future artist Anatoly Vladimirovich Kotenev was born in the Abkhaz SSR. A year later, the family left Abkhazia and moved to Stavropol, to the city of Nevinnomyssk. The actor's childhood was spent there. Anatoly did not have any prerequisites for acting, he grew up in an ordinary working-class family. Mom worked in a kindergarten as a teacher, and dad worked as a simple machinist at the enterprise.
At school, the boy was very fond of modeling and attended various circles. Anatoly dreamed of a real male profession - he wanted to become a sailor. But in the seventh grade, he attended one of the rehearsals of school amateur performances and was simply fascinated by the game on stage. Despite a great desire to connect his life with acting, Anatoly, at the insistence of his father, entered the school to get a serious profession. Kotenev learned to be a turner and even worked for some time at a factory.
After some time, he nevertheless decided to continue the path of the actor and went to the city of Sverdlovsk. There he easily entered the theater school, but a year later he was drafted into the army. After the "demobilization" the actor did not return to Sverdlovsk, he decided to conquer the capital and went to Moscow. In 1984 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater, but he could not find a warm place in Moscow, after that he accepted an offer from one of the Minsk theaters.
Career
In the same 1984, Anatoly Kotenev made his film debut. He took part in the filming of two films at once. He performed cameo roles in the films The Unknown Soldier and Islands in Distant Lakes. The demand for the talented actor has grown rapidly, to date he has more than 60 films in his account. In 2015 he played one of the most memorable roles in his career: Anatoly played the role of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev in the drama film "Chief". Due to his striking appearance, Kotenev became practically a hostage of the image: he is mainly invited to the roles of high-ranking officials or military commanders. It is worth noting that the characters are mostly positive.
One of the last works of the actor is the dramatic film "Time of the First", which tells about the events of the 60s, in the film Anatoly played the role of a rather colorful character, General Nikolai Kamanin.
Personal life
The famous actor is married and has two children. Anatoly married at the age of 31 to a student at a theater school. Svetlana Borovskaya came to the theater where Kotenev worked to watch the rehearsal. There they met, and then fell in love with each other. The couple are raising two sons, Vladimir and Klim. Today the actor continues to work in the Minsk theater. His wife works on the Belarusian television as a TV presenter.
