Among the artists of his generation, there are few worthy competitors for the talent of Valery Storozhik, who has several dozen roles in theater and cinema behind him. And his work as an understudy for thousands of characters from foreign films and TV series, as well as computer games made him a real "voice" of Russia.
The theater and film actor, as well as a dubbing specialist - Honored Artist of Russia Valery Stepanovich Storozhik - devoted his entire creative life to the Mossovet Theater. He is known to the general public for such films as "The Joker", "Stalin's Testament", "The Aroma of Rosehip", "Tales of Wanderings", "General Therapy".
Biography and career of Valery Stepanovich Storozhik
A native of the Ukrainian village of Kotelva was born on December 7, 1956. Since Valeria's mother sang well, wrote poetry and painted, from childhood, a craving for creativity and everything beautiful was brought up in him.
From the age of twelve, the teenager began to appear at the Film Studio. Gorky. His creative development took place quite rapidly. At first it was a music school, then - the directing and choral department of the Tver Musical College. And then there was a disastrous admission to GITIS and study at the Schepkinsky school, which he graduated in 1979.
From that time to this day, Valery Storozhik serves in the troupe of the Mossovet Theater, despite the fact that after graduating from the theatrical university he received an offer to perform on the stage of the Maly Theater. The beginning of his career took place alongside such masters as Faina Ranevskaya, Leonid Markov, Rostislav Plyatt, Georgy Zhzhenov, Margarita Terekhova and others.
The play "Arrival Day - Departure Day" became the actor's debut. And even in spite of the unsuccessful performance in the second production of "Black Midshipman", where he got the role of lieutenant of the submarine Alexei, he soon became a favorite of the public. They started talking about him as a promising artist after reincarnating into the character of a captured German in the play "Sashka".
Today, the Guardian has dozens of successful roles on the Moscow Soviet scene, but the main role in the legendary production of "Jesus Christ is a Superstar", which he played from 1996 to 2002, remains significant. An interesting fact is that in his first attempt in 1989 to be embodied in this iconic historical character, Valery missed, saving himself in front of difficulties. Then this role passed to Oleg Kazancheev.
Valery Stepanovich Storozhik began to act in films from the beginning of the "eighties", which was promoted by the director Alexander Mitta, who noticed him when staging the play "Sashka". And then there was a successful ascent to Olympus of fame in cinema, which is eloquently reflected in his filmography: "The Lives of the Holy Sisters" (1982), "The Tale of Wanderings" (1983), "Boris Godunov" (1986), "Tutor" (1987), "Mediator" (1990), "Stalin's Testament" (1993), "Empire of Pirates" (1994), "Repete" (2000), "Unknown" (2005), "La Gioconda on the Pavement" (2007), "Icy Passion" (2007), "General Therapy" (2008), "Such an Ordinary Life" (2010), "Rosehip Scent" (2014), "You Will Have a Baby" (2014), "Groom for a Fool" (2017), "Bunches grapes "(2018)," Sphinxes of the northern gate "(2018).
The title of Honored Artist of Russia was awarded to Valery Stepanovich in 1995. And he has become a master of duplicating characters in computer games and foreign films and television series since the late seventies. Currently, thousands of heroes speak in his voice.
Personal life of the artist
Despite the fame of a romantic, Valery Stepanovich does not like to talk about his personal life, and therefore there is very little information on this in the press. It is known that the Storozhik was married to actress Marina Yakovleva until 1991.
In this family union, sons Fyodor and Ivan were born.
The actor's favorite phrase is: “My family and home are theater”, which succinctly reflects his views on family happiness.
