Sumchenko Spartak Valerievich is a Russian theater and film actor who acts in the genres of melodramas and crime films. The son of the famous bodybuilder, the husband of actress Olesya Zheleznyak.
Biography
The actor was born in the Russian capital in the spring of 1973, the name Spartak was given to him by his father, inspired by the image of a heroic Thracian from ancient legends. The family of the future actor was famous. Mother, Marina Mikhailovna, is a well-known university teacher and psychologist in Moscow, director of one of the elite private schools in the capital. Father Valery Evgenievich is a coach and mentor, popular among fans of wrestling and bodybuilding. It was he who, one of the first in the nineties, founded the athletic section in the capital.
From an early age, Spartak was brought up in the tradition of strict discipline and martial arts. He attended karate and judo sections, studied at his father's home. But this did not help much in his studies - the child stubbornly skipped school and caused a lot of trouble for his parents with his hooligan antics. He was eventually expelled after finishing eighth grade.
After that, his parents sent him to a pedagogical school, wishing that his son would follow in their footsteps. There, Spartak also lacked stars from the sky and was rather careless about his own education. But unexpectedly for everyone, he was carried away by creativity, took part in the performances of the local theater, at the same time he entered a music school in the class of balalaika and double bass.
Parents were in no hurry to support their offspring financially, and to pay for his studies, Spartak took on any job: a janitor, a physical education teacher. Having received his diploma, on the advice of his teacher Belyaev, he applied to VGIK, which he brilliantly graduated in 1999.
Career
Back in 1997, Sumchenko Spartak Valerievich began acting in films, and in 1999 he went to work on the stage of the capital's youth theater. He became known to a wide circle of viewers after his first major role in cinema, playing Dmitry Khokhlov, a tough and trained special forces soldier who is trying to adapt to everyday life after the hardships of military service, in the film "Code of Honor-1".
Then every year he starred in many Russian films and TV series, the most notable of which are "Lyuba, Children and the Factory", "Who's the Boss", "Soldiers. Dembel is inevitable”and others. In the creative piggy bank of the actor, there are more than forty movie roles and many performances on the theatrical stage, and his characters are invariably attractive to the audience.
Personal life
As a child, carried away by karate, Spartak is still engaged in its variety, karate-kyokushinkai. He is married to Olesya Zheleznyak, a popular Russian actress. The happy couple has four children - sons Savely, Thomas and Prokhor, and daughter Agafya. Spartak is a loving husband and caring father; he spends his leisure time with his family and does not like to devote journalists to the details of his life.
