Actress Yulia Silaeva was remembered by viewers for her roles in films and serials, of which there are already more than thirty in her filmography, and theater lovers know her for her acting work in the performances of the Mayakovsky Moscow Theater. In addition, Yulia Silaeva composes music and records songs, gives concerts. She has also been married for many years to the author of The Hangover Book, journalist Nikolai Fokht.
Biography. Childhood and youth
Julia Aleksandrovna Silaeva was born in the Soviet city of Kuibyshev (earlier, before 1935, and after 1991 - Samara) on May 26, 1964. Yulia's family was not at all theatrical: her mother taught English at school, her father worked as an engineer. My daughter showed musical abilities at an early age, and at the age of six, her parents brought the restless, lively and energetic girl to a music school, where she immediately entered the second grade. Teachers praised Julia, noted her abilities, but sometimes scolded for laziness and lack of focus. Already in her youth, the girl began to compose music to the verses of Robert Burns, Anna Akhmatova, A. S. Pushkin and other poets. At the age of 15, she recorded a whole cassette of her songs in her own performance. The songs were not childishly serious, with high-quality musical material, sung deeply and soulfully. Yulia's father, Alexander Silaev, who was a freelance writer for the local newspaper Volzhskaya Zarya, once brought his daughter's audio recordings to the editorial office and made a splash: songs began to gain popularity among the people, and some of them were even printed in the newspaper.
After graduating from high school No. 81 and a music school, Yulia Silaeva entered the Kuibyshev School of Music, the Department of Music. Receiving a classical music education, the girl continued to compose songs and perform with them at various concert venues in her hometown, and also began to participate in television programs. Julia's extracurricular activities extremely annoyed her teachers at the school, since they believed that classical and bard music were completely incompatible.
Yulia graduated from college in 1984 and began working at a music school - teaching solfeggio and musical literature, and in the evenings and on weekends - moonlighting as an accompanist and vocalist in restaurants or dancing in the Kuibyshev park. Gorky. At one of the concerts, Julia performed songs from the repertoire of Alla Pugacheva, and then her students saw the singer. The children were delighted, but they did not tell anyone about this case - otherwise their teacher could have gotten into trouble, up to and including dismissal.
Theatrical career
A talented and creative girl was cramped within the framework of a small city, she wanted a larger-scale activity, and in 1985 she made an unexpected decision: she quit her music lessons, left for Moscow and entered the Lunacharsky State Theater of Theaters at the acting and directing department. Julia got into the course of Andrei Aleksandrovich Goncharov - People's Artist of the USSR, chief director and artistic director of the Mayakovsky Theater. Goncharov appreciated the talent of the aspiring actress and, when she was in her last year, invited her to work in his theater. She got roles in the performances "Sunset", "Anchor, more anchor!", "Tomorrow was the war", "The Adventures of Pinocchio". Yulia Silaeva found herself on the same stage with such stars of the national drama theater as Evgenia Simonova and Natalia Gundareva, with whom, of course, it was very difficult to compete.
In 1990, Yulia Silaeva graduated from GITIS, receiving a red diploma. In the same year, she took part and won the First All-Russian Competition named after Andrei Mironov "Dramatic Actors Sing".
Film career
Often, chance interferes with the creative biography of an actor. This happened with Yulia Silaeva. Once the play "The Adventures of Buratino", where the actress played the role of Malvina, was visited by film director Valentin Mishatkin. He was so impressed with Silaeva's work that he later came to the play again with his little daughter, and then invited the actress to act in films. So Silaeva ended up on the set and in 1991 made her debut as a film actress in Mishatkin's film Meet in Tahiti, playing the main role in it. Since then, she has already starred in more than three dozen films, playing roles of a different plan, transforming into a psychiatrist, then a boarding school teacher, then a thief, a class teacher, a journalist, a store director - the list goes on for a long time. Julia admits that most of all she likes roles that are contrasting and even opposite to her own nature, when she has to “break” herself, “pull out of herself” that which is not at all peculiar.
Among the films and series in which Silaeva starred, "The Big Trap, or Solo for a Cat with a Full Moon" (1992), "At the Corner of the Patriarchs" (1995), the Swedish film "Hamilton" (1997, cameo), "Prince Yuri Dolgoruky”(1998),“Redhead”(2008),“The Island of Unnecessary People”(2011, about the difficulties of surviving tourists who find themselves on a desert island),“Another Me”(2016),“Game”(2019, short). Today the actress is starring in the TV series "About Faith" and the melodrama "Cathedral" (will be released in 2020).
In 2017, Silaeva took part in the program "The Battle of Psychics" as a co-host.
Song creativity
At the age of 15, Yulia Silaeva recorded a cycle of songs of her own composition based on verses by Robert Burns. Having received a professional musical and theatrical education, she continued to engage in songwriting. In 1998, REC Records released an album of songs by Yulia Silaeva called Songs and Fire, produced by the well-known Alexander Shulgin (ex-husband of singer Valeria).
In the same 1998, Silaeva recorded the radio play Violetta's Songs and Fire on Radio Liberty, based on the play of the same name by Nikolai Fokht, Julia's husband. By the way, some songs from her repertoire were written jointly: music by Silaeva, words by Focht (for example, "Loneliness and Snow").
Today, the actress continues to compose and record songs, gives recitals. In addition, she always sings herself in the performances of the Mayakovsky Theater.
Personal life
In 1995, when she was 31 years old, Yulia Silaeva married Nikolai Fokht. He is 1 year older than his wife, was born in 1963 in Moscow, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow University. The husband of Yulia Silaeva is a very versatile personality: journalist, screenwriter, playwright, poet, actor, candidate for master of sports in judo and sambo. Nikolai Vyacheslavovich speaks Polish and Portuguese, worked in newspapers and magazines Izvestia, Stolitsa, Nedelya, etc. Focht is the author of the sensational "The Hangover Book" ("An Encouraging Guide for a Drinker, Drinker, Going to Drink") and others books.
In family life, spouses try to adhere to a healthy lifestyle. Julia does not smoke, walks, eats a lot of fruits and vegetables. She was able to give up bread, but sometimes she allows herself to eat a cake. Her main recipe for beauty and youth is inner harmony, peace of mind: she believes that if a wife likes herself, then she is also attractive to her husband and to other men. Favorite vacation for the actress, according to her, is to lie on the beach listening to the sound of the sea. Julia prefers domestic cosmetics, considering it the best in terms of price-quality ratio. The actress is fluent in English. Silaeva and Foht have no information about the presence of children.
