For many older people, cinema is the most important of the arts. Despite the fact that television and the Internet have taken their place in the daily schedule, viewers “carve out” an hour or two for films and serials. Favorite actors often become virtual family members. These performers include Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha. The person is charming, intelligent and tactful.
Contrary to signs and forecasts
Nowadays, some "stars", in order to increase their rating, tell stories about what kind of hooligans they were in childhood. A serious person with harsh experience and unpleasant events behind him will never flaunt his non-standard behavior. The biography of Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha reflects the different stages of his life path. The child was born in the capital of our Motherland on February 4, 1933. In an intelligent family. Father is a researcher at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. Mother graduated from the Medical Pedagogical Institute and worked as the head of the speech therapy department.
When the war began, my father went to the front and died. The boy and his mother were evacuated to the Siberian city of Leninsk-Kuznetsk. In these places, life is still simple and harsh. On the street, Igor had to defend his own dignity with his fists. A broken nose is a little thing. Since then, he knows well how the younger generation lives in the provinces, and what mean things life brings him. Despite the harsh environment, Kvasha enthusiastically studies in the theater studio of the local House of Pioneers. He was even entrusted with the main role in the production of "Morozko", based on Russian folk tales.
Returning home after the Victory, Igor Kvasha no longer succumbed to the Arbat punks, which crowded together in cramped courtyards and gateways. He was more attracted by amateur performances at school and the usual theater studio in the House of Pioneers. At school shows, Igor almost professionally read poetry by Russian classics and contemporary poets. He decided in advance that after school he would continue his education at the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1950, this is what happened. Friends and relatives were ready for this and were not even surprised.
Cinema and "Contemporary"
The certified actor began to work at the Moscow Art Theater and two years later, succumbing to the charm and assertiveness of Oleg Efremov, moved to a new theater called Sovremennik. This happened in 1957. Working with the cult director was a real pleasure and popularity. Thanks to this coincidence, Igor Kvasha was invited to star in various films. According to some estimates, the actor has starred in more than seventy films during his creative life. It is interesting to note that in the film "A Year as Life" the actor played the role of Karl Marx, and in "The First Circle" of Stalin.
Igor Kvasha did not refuse episodic roles, as in the film "The Man from Boulevard des Capucines." When watching The Stolen Train, the actor's name was not shown in the credits. In "White Guard" the venerable performer reads offscreen text. These facts do not mean that Igor Vladimirovich's career was unsuccessful. Career is still as successful. On the radio, his voice was recorded while reading "Doctor Zhivago", "Planet of People", "Treasure Island". Until the last days of his life Igor Kvasha hosted the program “Wait for me” on television.
The actor's personal life took shape without much drama. The first marriage with a girl, whom he knew from his studies at the House of Pioneers, lasted less than a year. Love came by accident. More precisely, she was born out of a resort romance. Husband and wife adored each other. They had a son, and then there were grandchildren. The popular actor lived with Tatyana Putievskaya for 52 years, until his death in 2012.
