The starring role of Dasha Bukina in the acclaimed comedy sitcom "Happy Together" has become the hallmark of the cinematic work of Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva, a Russian actress and TV presenter. However, few fans know that she is an acting theater actress, and her filmography is filled with many dramatic and multifaceted roles.
A native of Nizhny Novgorod and a native of a family far from the world of culture and art (her father is an employee of the GAZ plant, and her mother is an accountant), Natalia Bochkareva has dreamed of becoming a famous actress since childhood, for which she made every effort. Today, behind her shoulders there are already many theatrical projects and film works, in which her talent shone with great brightness.
Biography and career of Natalia Vladimirovna Bochkareva
On July 25, 1980, a future film star was born in an ordinary Nizhny Novgorod family. While studying at a secondary school, Natasha was intensively engaged in vocals, choreography and even attended children's art clubs on embroidery. Her irrepressible energy, which demanded a constant release, regularly pushed her into the thick of events, which is why she decided to become a journalist, signing up for a youth newspaper.
However, after receiving a certificate of secondary education, Bochkareva, at the insistence of his aunt, submits documents to the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School (course of Riva Levite). But the new world that opened before her was overshadowed by the death of her mother, and after a while her father. At the age of nineteen, she and her minor sister immediately became independent and adult.
And then there was an unsuccessful attempt to enter the capital GITIS, graduating from the Nizhny Novgorod School in 2000, a debut in a local theater with the play "Killer Whale" and immediately winning first place in a city theater competition, meeting with Oleg Tabakov and studying from the third year at the Moscow Art Theater School, entering the theatrical stage of the Moscow Art Theater during training and joining the troupe of this theater after receiving a diploma.
Currently, Natalia Bochkareva is one of the leading actresses of the A. P. Chekhov Theater and has more than ten theatrical projects under her belt. In addition, she is actively involved in the entrepreneurial projects of the International Theater Agency "Art-Partner XXI" (performances "Halibut Day" and "Henpecked") and the Producer Center of Sergei Lavrov (performance "Russian Lotto").
Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva made her cinematic debut in 1998, when she took part in the filming of the film "Chinese Service". And real fame came to her after the release of the popular sitcom "Happy Together" (2006-2013), where she played the main role of the inept housewife Dasha Bukina. It is noteworthy that at the age of twenty-five she had to transform into a woman "under forty."
Currently in her filmography there are quite a variety of films, among which the following should be highlighted: "Horseman named Death" (2004), "Yesenin" (2005), "Zone" (2005), "Advocate 2" (2005), " Kulagin and Partners "(2005-2011)," Both fathers and children "(2012).
In 2016, Natalya Vladimirovna made her directing debut with the short film "Free Day". Bochkareva presented this philosophical and mystical drama not only to the Russian public, but also to sophisticated and demanding spectators in Cannes.
Personal life of the actress
Behind the shoulders of the family life of Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva today there is one broken marriage with lawyer Nikolai Borisovich, in which son Ivan (2007) and daughter Maria (2008) were born.
In 2014, information was leaked to the press that the marriage was terminated, and the actress herself began to appear in public in the company of actor Vladimir Feklenko, who is nine years younger than her.
The latest rumors about Bochkareva's romantic life were those that in 2016 linked her visit to the Cannes Film Festival with the society of designer Alexander Kononenko.
