Honored Artist of Russia - Sergey Valentinovich Kolesnikov - is known to the wide domestic public as a charismatic host of the "Fazenda" program. For six years (2006-2012), he masterly entertained summer residents, builders and architects, on whom, in fact, this television project was oriented, with real theatrical masterpieces with a change of clothes and songs.
It was the unique style and charm that became the hallmark in all theatrical, cinematographic and television productions with his participation.
A native of Moscow and a native of a family far from the world of culture and art (his father is the deputy rector of a Moscow technical university, and his mother is a process engineer) - Sergei Kolesnikov, being the third son in the family, from childhood showed an irrepressible craving for creative amateur performance. The popular artist himself has repeatedly stated in his interviews that if it were not for his desire to rivet the attention of others to his performances at all kinds of concerts and celebrations, he would hardly have even received a high school diploma.
Biography and career of Sergei Valentinovich Kolesnikov
On January 4, 1955, the third son, Sergei, was born in the intelligent capital family of the Kolesnikovs. The typical sloven of his time owes much to his successful future precisely to the guitar for 7 rubles and 50 kopecks, bought by his parents. After all, he did not have the desire to gnaw the granite of science and build his professional career even from school. But there was a desire to amaze the public with his virtuoso ability to perform musical hits of that era.
Anyway, in 1978 Sergey Kolesnikov with a diploma from the Moscow Art Theater School in his pocket (course of Pilyavskaya and Bogomolov) began to build his professional career on the stage. The debut of the actor took place at the Moscow Art Theater with the production of The Life of Galileo. And in 1987 the Gorky Moscow Art Theater became the artist's creative home. Successful roles were played here in the performances: "Enough simplicity for every wise man", "Dead Souls" and "At the Bottom". And then there was a return to "Khudozhka" and continued cooperation with the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky.
The film directed by Georgy Kuznetsov "Only Together" (1976) began Kolesnikov's debut in cinema. And right from the main role. Today, the filmography of the Honored Artist of Russia is filled with the most diverse film works, among which I would especially like to highlight the following: "Our Debts" (1977), "The Man with the Accordion" (1985), "Bindyuzhnik and the King" (1989), "Apartment" (1992), Petersburg Mysteries (1994), The Personal Life of Dr. Selivanova (2007), Daddy's Daughters (2007-2009), Frozen Souls (2009), Chapito Show (2011), Truckers-3 (2012), "Secrets of the Institute of Noble Maidens" (2013), "Black Sea" (2014), "The Martian" (2015).
Since 2017, the actor's television activities have also been discontinued, which suggests that Sergei Valentinovich is ready to devote his entire life to his family.
Personal life of the artist
The first two marriages of the artist in his youth were not long and became hasty due to the immaturity of the spouses. The current wife of Sergei Kolesnikov, Maria Velikanova (film and television artist), gave her husband two sons: Alexander (1981) and Ivan (1983). The youngest son followed in his father's footsteps and today he himself has become a famous actor.
