Innokenty Smoktunovsky is a famous film and theater actor who has played many roles. His work will forever be remembered by the audience. The biography of Smoktunovsky contains a lot of interesting things.
Childhood, adolescence
Innokenty Mikhailovich was born in the village. Tatyanovka (Tomsk Region) March 28, 1925, his real name is Smoktunovich. The family lived in poverty, starving, they had five children in total. Then they moved to Krasnoyarsk. Father got a job as a loader, mother worked in a sausage factory.
Due to famine in the family in 1932, Innokenty, together with his brother Vladimir, was sent to live with his aunt. She had no children of her own. The boy studied poorly, often fought at school. As a sixth grader, Kesha became interested in theater and enrolled in a drama club, but he could not play a role on stage, and did not stay in the circle.
Innokenty often tried to get to the performances of the city theater, he even forged tickets. After school, he began to work as an extra in the theater, began to study as a projectionist. Then the war began, at first the father was called up, and then Innocent. During the war, he was captured, managed to escape, he was sheltered by a family of peasants.
Postwar years
After the war, Innokenty again got a job as an extra in the theater, sometimes he was invited to play on stage. But he was in conflict with the director, the actor was constrained, spoke quietly. I had to quit my job.
Innokenty moved to Norilsk, got a job in a theater, in the same period he took the surname Smoktunovsky. The team supported the young actor, and he was able to reveal his talent. Smoktunovsky began to receive larger roles.
The northern climate had a bad effect on the actor's body, and he moved to Makhachkala. Smoktunovsky began working in the drama theater, but there were no interesting roles. Soon he went to live in Stalingrad. At that time, he attracted the attention of the press with his role in the play "The Taming of the Shrew", then they began to trust him with more significant roles.
Soon Smoktunovsky became a famous person, but a conflict with the director prevented his further career in Stalingrad. In 1955, the actor left for the capital. There he got a job at the Theater. Lenin's Komsomol, he was not taken to large metropolitan theaters.
Creative career
A lucky chance helped his further career - Smoktunovsky met the girl Shulamith, who introduced him to the famous Ivan Pyryev. He arranged for Innokentiy in the Film Actor's Studio Theater. Another success was the role of Prince Myshkin in the play The Idiot, played at the Bolshoi Theater. The actor became known throughout the Soviet Union.
Smoktunovsky began to get good roles in the BDT, then filmmakers noticed him. In 1960, the actor was fired due to being late for the start of the season. Innokenty Mikhailovich returned to the theater only in the 70s. In the 60s, Smoktunovsky began to work in the filming of films, played more than 100 roles. He also voiced cartoons. The actor died on August 3, 1994 as a result of a heart attack.
Personal life
The first wife of Innokenty Mikhailovich is Rimma Bykova, an actress. He lived with her for 2 years. The second wife was Sulamith Kushnir, who brought the young actor to Ivan Pyryev. The couple had three children: daughter Nadia (died as an infant), son Philip, daughter Maria. Philip works as a translator, Maria became a ballerina.
