Alexander Dedyushko is a popular Russian actor. Unfortunately, many people know him not only for his work in theater and cinema, but also for his terrible tragic death.
Biography
Alexander was born in 1962 in Belarus in the small town of Volkovysk. Since childhood, he was a very active child, among his hobbies:
- sambo section;
- boxing;
- football;
- amateur performances.
At school, Dedyushko's creative qualities were manifested, he actively participated in various skits, sang, danced, read poetry.
After graduating from school in 1979, Alexander decided to enter a theater institute, but was late with the submission of documents and worked for a year in his hometown as a car mechanic.
Interestingly, a year later he was again late with admission, since the dates for admission to universities in 1980 were shifted due to the Summer Olympics.
Alexander went to serve in the Navy. For three years of service, Dedyushko worked at a cable-laying machine - he laid and maintained cables at the bottom of the sea, was a driver for the chief and at the same time danced in a military ensemble of songs and dances.
After the end of the service, he tried to enter the Moscow theater schools, but failed everywhere. Then he went to Nizhny Novgorod and there he already successfully entered the Nizhny Novgorod theater school. After graduation, Dedyushko worked first in Minsk and then in the Vladimir theater.
Actor career
In 1995, Alexander left to conquer Moscow. At first he got a job with Oleg Tabakov at the Moscow Art Theater, but worked there for a short time and without much success. Prior to his first leading role in The Directory of Death, Dedyushko actively starred in commercials and episodes.
At the end of the 90s, the era of "gangster" and "police" series began, under which Alexander's texture perfectly suited.
Mass fame Dedyushko brought a role in the series "Operational pseudonym". The most popular works by Dedyushko viewers:
- Sarmatov in the TV series "Sarmat";
- Dotsenko - "Guys of Steel";
- Albanians - "Pseudonym Albanian".
Most often, Alexander played the role of strong people with an “inner core”.
In 2004, Dedyushko began to play the role of Ilyin in the theatrical entreprise "Five Evenings" based on the play by Volodin. With this performance, the actor often toured Russia and the Baltic states. Also in "Five Evenings" such honored actors as Marina Dyuzheva, Larisa Guzeeva, Tatiana Arntgolts played.
In 2007 Olga Anokhina specially for Alexander wrote the script for the play "The Sons of His Mistress". Its premiere took place on October 27, 2007 at the Vakhtangov Theater and turned out to be the last performance in the artist's life.
Television works
Since 1998, Dedyushko has worked on television in various programs about sports and healthy lifestyles. It was thanks to these programs that the directors noticed the talented actor.
Since 2006, Alexander has been the host of the "Street of Your Destiny" program, which tells about unknown heroes who live beyond poverty and need all possible help.
In the same year, Dedyushko took part in the popular show of the Russia channel - "Dancing with the Stars". Together with Liana Shakurova, he took fourth place.
Personal life
Dedyushko's first marriage was unsuccessful. His wife was Lyudmila Tomilina, a classmate of the Nizhny Novgorod theater school. The couple had a daughter, Ksenia. Unfortunately, the couple had to live in different cities for a long time, which worsened relations and led to a breakup, but for the sake of the child, the former spouses tried to maintain the most even relationship.
Svetlana Chernyshkova became Alexander's second wife. In 1997, the actor came to friends at the Vladimir Theater and there he met his future soul mate.
Svetlana was a very young girl, a promising actress after graduating from the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Culture.
In the spring of 1997, the couple began to live together, and in 1999, the lovers officially registered their relationship. The couple had a son, Dima.
Together they lived for ten happy years, which is an impressive family experience for an acting couple. There was a difficult year in their married life, after participating in the project "Dancing with the Stars" the press in every possible way hinted and fueled rumors about an allegedly passionate romance between an actor and a dancer. In the end, it turned out to be only a PR move, but it pretty much "tested the strength" of the marriage between Dedyushko and Chernyshkova.
Sports in the life of an actor
Sports have always played a big role in the life of an actor. Since childhood, he was a strong and active child, he was engaged in various types of martial arts, but he loved football most of all.
Dedyushko was convinced that the body for an actor is one of the main working tools that must be kept in good shape.
Almost all his life, Alexander attended the gym, and in Moscow he played in the national football team of the Serial Film Actors Guild. In the apartment he had his own sports corner with equipment. He also instilled in his son a love of sports.
Tragic departure
Unfortunately, many people "got acquainted" with this wonderful artist in connection with the news of his tragic death.
In early November 2007, the Dedyushko family drove to Vladimir in a private car to visit their friends. On the way back, the car, for unknown reasons, drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a Scania truck. The accident was so severe that Alexander with his wife and son died on the spot.
On November 7, 2007, the entire Dedyushko family was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. In 2009, a black granite monument was erected on their grave. Also, a personal monument was erected at the place of their death.
"Life" after the tragedy
After the accident, the police opened a criminal case into the accident. After his death, the actor was not forgotten, many documentaries and television programs were shot about him.
On November 11, 2007, on Khortytsya, participants in the crowd scene of the film "Taras Bulba" planted an oak in memory of Alexander Dedyushko. The tree took root, and in 2015 the oak was already more than seven meters high.
In the actor's hometown of Volkovysk, in 2010, an exposition about Dedyushko was created in gymnasium No. 1, where Alexander studied as a child. In 2014, the gymnasium began to hold annual sports championships in memory of their fellow countryman.
In the winter of 2011 in Moscow, at the CSKA arena, the "Higher Division" company held a football tournament in memory of Alexander Dedyushko. It was attended by football and pop stars. The collected funds were transferred to the mother of the deceased artist.
In 2015, Vladimir hosted the Russian festival of patriotic cinema "Above the Boundary", dedicated to the memory of Alexander Dedyushko.
