Biography of Evgenia Dmitrieva
Evgenia Dmitrieva, a Russian theater and film actress and teacher, taught the subject “Actor’s Crafts” at VTU named after. Shchepkina. As a director, she staged several graduation performances, including “Zoyka’s Apartment” based on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov. She gained wide popularity with her roles in television series. For her role as Azalia Viktorovna in the melodrama “Zaza” she was awarded three prizes: named after Alexander Abdulov, “Golden Star - Best Actress” and the prize of the film festival “A Man Who Knows the World”.
In the photo: Evgenia Dmitrieva
Childhood, youth, family
Zhenya was born in the winter of 1972 into a Moscow family of a simultaneous interpreter and a former ballerina, and at that time a housewife.
Mom tried to introduce her daughter to choreography from early childhood, but the girl had a metabolic disorder, and it was difficult for her, a very well-fed baby, to cope with the load. As a result, she was sent to a music school, where she studied for 7 years. When Zhenya entered first grade, in parallel with her studies, she studied in a theater group at the Kozhukhov House of Creativity. Thanks to teacher Zinaida Skudar, the head of the studio, the girl began to embody on stage the images created by her peers who wrote scripts for performances.
Zinaida Petrovna knew how to notice hidden talents in her students. The studio was, in essence, a creative laboratory, where each child did what he liked best. It had its own graphic designers, lighting specialists, make-up artists, and actors. The latter included Dmitrieva, in whom the teacher considered the undoubted gift of transformation and predicted a great future for Zhenya on the theater stage. The girl at that time was going to enter the pedagogical institute.
My hero. Evgenia Dmitrieva Still painfully experiencing her own completeness, Zhenya began to dream of becoming an artist and turning from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. But while preparing to enter a theater university, furunculosis was added to her obesity. Zhenya came to the entrance exams in bandages and a red dress. She prepared a Spanish dance and a Russian song, which she performed before the selection committee, whose members laughed heartily.
Dmitrieva understood the reason for this laughter only later, when she learned to look at herself from the outside and realized that she looked rather strange during the entrance exams. However, the girl was accepted by two universities at once: the Moscow Art Theater School and the VTU named after Mikhail Shchepkin, where the audition took place in front of Rimma Solntseva herself, whom the applicants were simply afraid of. Zhenya ended up with her, and the stern teacher saw something in the bandaged plump Spanish flu. The girl was enrolled in the first year of Nikolai Vereshchenko’s workshop.
Evgenia Dmitrieva in her youth
Dmitrieva later recalled that they practically lived at the institute from morning to evening, without thinking about the complex socio-political situation of the 90s:
Theater and teaching activities
The talented graduate of the Shchepkinsky School was invited to their theaters by Alexander Kalyagin and Nikolai Gubenko, but, on the advice of Rimma Gavrilovna, Evgenia chose the Maly Theater, which was directed by Yuri Solomin. Next, the actress was introduced to the production of “Independent Work,” but then Dmitrieva seemed to be forgotten for a while.
Evgenia Dmitrieva in the play “The Snow Queen”
There were no new serious roles, and in the early 90s she appeared on stage as the second Horse in “The Little Humpbacked Horse,” Princess Irina in the play “Tsar Ivan the Terrible,” Zina in “Eccentrics,” and a maid in “The Seagull.” During this period, Evgenia received an offer from her alma mater to take up teaching.
Dmitrieva was inspired by the opportunity to teach acting and, together with students, staged several graduation performances at the educational theater of the Shchepkinsky School. The most interesting were the productions based on Mikhail Bulgakov “Black Snow” and “Zoyka’s Apartment”. Her directorial work “Mowgli” was also noted. Version" based on Rudyard Kipling and "Wonderful Night", a version of the works of Nikolai Gogol.
Theater of Nations. Production “Living Pictures”
After seventeen years of teaching at Shchepka, Evgenia was invited as a teacher to the Moscow Art Theater School, where she still works. Over the years of work, she has acquired a reputation as one of the best theater teachers in the capital.
However, the talented actress lacked the theater and new roles. When Oleg Menshikov founded the “Theatrical Partnership 814” and was going to stage “Woe from Wit,” he was recommended to look at Dmitrieva for the role of Princess Tugoukhovskaya. The director approved her, Evgenia played on the stage of the theater for two years, and was also involved in the play “Kitchen”.
With Nelly Uvarova in the play “Khanuma”
The culmination of the actress's theatrical career was the role of Olga in Three Sisters. The play was staged by the famous British playwright and theater director Declan Donnellan. This production became the main event of the Chekhov Festival in 2005, with which the troupe toured Europe, America, New Zealand and Australia.
Photos from the production “Three Sisters”
After this, Dmitrieva’s popularity as a theater actress increased tenfold. She played in the enterprise Stella Kowalski (“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams), Sonya (“Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov). She collaborated with Tatyana Dogileva in her productions of “Moonlight” and “The Lady is Waiting, the Clarinet is Playing.”
In the Workshop, Petra Fomenko embodied on stage the images of Zoya (“Five Evenings” by Alexander Volodin) and Aunt Pasha Faryatiev (“Faryatiev’s Fantasies” by Alla Sokolova).
Evgenia Dmitrieva and Polina Agureeva (“Five Evenings”)
Another significant event in Eugenia’s theatrical career was the role of Rachel in “The Pickwick Club” based on Charles Dickens. Having learned that her favorite student was invited to the production on the legendary stage of the Moscow Art Theater named after Anton Chekhov, Rimma Solntseva was proud and touched. Dmitrieva recalled how her own knees shook before going on stage.
Film roles
Filming for Evgenia began with Denis Evstigneev’s drama Limita, where she played a student. On the set, the aspiring actress worked with the leading actors Evgeny Mironov, Kristina Orbakaite and Vladimir Mashkov. After the debut, there was a lull for several years, and then Dmitrieva appeared in the roles of Fufygina in Vitaly Moskalenko’s comedy “Chinese Service” and a gymnasium teacher in Alexei Balabanov’s action film “Brother-2”. Evgenia Dmitrieva: interview on Our Radio The roles were episodic, but the opportunity to participate in such projects along with famous actors inspired Evgenia. The actress remembered how Oleg Yankovsky and Sergei Nikonenko looked after her in “Chinese Service”. For example, when a scene with her participation was being filmed in the middle of the night, they woke up to come to the set and play along with the aspiring actress. This would later be “Sklifosovsky” and “Mannequin”, “Fizruk” and “Pennsylvania”, but she remembered the moment when two brilliant actors came to support her forever.
Evgenia Dmitrieva in the film “Chinese Service”
The main roles went to Dmitrieva in Andrei Panin’s comedy “Full Speed Ahead!” (Valentina Kokareva) and in Igor Chernitsky’s drama “Farewell Echo” (gynecologist Alla Denisova). With Anatoly Zhuravlev, the actress appeared in the leading roles in the adventure comedy “Foreigners”, and with Alexander Peskov - in the ironic detective story “Psychopath”. Dmitrieva also embodied the images of the main characters in melodramas based on the works of Victoria Platova (“Taxi for an Angel”) and Ekaterina Vilmont (“Three Half-Graces”).
Still from the film "Euphoria"
Success brought the actress the role of Azalia Viktorovna in Andrei Silkin’s melodrama “Zaza”. The love of a mature woman and a young man, the same age as her own son, attracted the attention of a large audience to the television screens. It was as if Evgenia was playing herself, her Zaza was so organic and sincere. For this role, the artist was awarded three film awards.
Evgenia Dmitrieva in the film “Zaza”
In Oleg Shtrom's documentary project “Catherine the Third,” Evgenia appeared before the viewer in the role of the legendary “Iron Lady of the USSR” Ekaterina Furtseva. For the actress, as she admits, creating the image was not easy: The actress herself noted Bandersha Marusya Portkova from Oleg Pogodin’s crime detective “The Cry of an Owl” among her favorite film roles. In a series of mysterious events taking place in a small town in the fifties of the last century, her story stood out especially. To get used to the character of Dmitriev, on the director’s advice, I even re-read Yulian Semenov’s early works, and then joked that “I got used to him so much that even Tatyana Dogileva didn’t recognize me on the screen.”
Still from the series “The Cry of an Owl”
Dmitrieva’s performance was interesting in the role of Annushka in Alexei Zlobin’s tragicomedy “Lorik”. The film was shot in Russian, Armenian, Serbian, and Swiss spaces. The actress was also natural in the image of Lieutenant Colonel Maria Shimko, the new commander of the rescue search team of the Ministry of Emergency Situations from the adventure detective “Five Minutes of Silence. Return".
Evgenia Dmitrieva in the film “Lorik”
In the melodrama “Moscow Romance” Evgenia starred together with Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Sergei Chonishvili, Kirill Pletnev. There she appeared in the guise of the librarian Sonya. In total, the actress’s filmography currently includes more than one hundred and twenty roles.
Evgenia was born on December 19, 1972 in Moscow. Dmitrieva’s youthful passion for theater led her first to the theater studio of the Kozhukhovsky House of Creativity, and then to the famous Higher Theater School named after M. S. Shchepkin. After graduation, Evgenia was invited to join the Maly Theater troupe, where the 21-year-old actress began her creative journey. She first appeared in films only at the age of 27. She played a small role as Fufygina in the film “Chinese Service” (1999). Then there were episodic appearances in such popular films as “Brother 2”, “Woe from Wit”, “Bless the Woman” and others. At the beginning of her acting career, unlike in cinema, Evgenia received major roles on the theater stage. Thus, she played Olga in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” in the project of British director Declan Donnellan. With this performance, Evgenia traveled to many countries, winning the respect of the theater world.
After 30, the actress begins to actively act in films and on television. At the age of 32, Evgenia played the main role in the series “Farewell Echo” (2004), dedicated to the longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams. And also the main role in Andrei Panin’s directorial project “Full Speed Ahead!” (2004), also about reflective former classmates. Next, Dmitrieva starred in episodes of such famous films as “Poor Relatives” (2005) by Pavel Lungin and “Euphoria” (2006) by Ivan Vyrypaev.
In 2006, Alexei Kolmogorov invited the actress to play the leading role in the comedy “Foreigners,” where she played a woman who, in the midst of a family celebration, informs her husband about the divorce. Next she appeared as a single mother, who witnessed a crime and recognized the killer as the father of her child, in the Ukrainian film “Psychopath” (2007). In the same year, Dmitrieva became the heroine of Olga Perunovskaya’s television comedy “Husband for an Hour,” where her character is forced to pass off a male repairman as the father of her child.
The work in Andrei Silkin’s film “Zaza” (2008) became significant for Evgenia. The 36-year-old actress played the main role, which brought the actress an award - the Alexander Abdulov Prize “For Best Actress in a Domestic Debut Film” at the Spirit of Fire film festival. Her heroine Zaza comes to Moscow to visit her son, but unexpectedly faces a cold reception. In the capital, a woman finds her past - her first love and the father of her child. The already middle-aged Zaza falls in love again, but with a young friend of her own son, and goes to great lengths... The actress manages to accurately convey the subtle psychology of a dissatisfied woman.
Evgenia agrees to roles both in TV series and in full-length author’s films. So, in 2011, she became the heroine of Oleg Pogodin’s acclaimed drama “Home.” In this film, which tells about the collapse of several generations of the Shamanov family, living in lies, misunderstanding, vulgarity and debauchery, she played the role of the eldest daughter Tamara. Her heroine comes to her grandfather’s anniversary from Moscow with her husband, but the only thing the daughter is concerned about is the admission of her son, for whom she asks her crime boss brother. A selfish woman, devoid of spiritual sensitivity, also dies in the finale, like the entire family of the “dying out” Shamanovs.
The following year, 2012, Dmitrieva portrayed the exemplary wife Lida, a sewing workshop worker who is faced with her husband’s betrayal, in the television drama “Late Love” (2012). In 2013, Evgenia became the heroine of the biographical short stories about the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva “Mirrors”. Over her 14-year career, Evgenia Dmitrieva starred in more than fifty films.
Personal life of Evgenia Dmitrieva
Dmitrieva’s first great love was her classmate Andrei Kaykov. The seemingly unremarkable young man ignored the girl who was in love with him. Later, the actress joked in one of her interviews that it was only in her third year that she “outed” her chosen one, since she followed him with her tail. Andrey proposed to Zhenya; in Bryansk, in his homeland, they played a cheerful student wedding. At first they began to live in a hostel, then they moved to their grandmother Dmitrieva. Love experiences and marriage accomplished something unprecedented.
Andrey Kaikov in his youth
Zhenya, who had previously been unable to lose weight, turned into almost a beauty, having lost almost twenty extra pounds. Family life revealed something that had previously cared little about the girl: there was a catastrophic shortage of money. Both took on any part-time job, Zhenya acted as the Snow Maiden during the New Year holidays. The young family's first joint purchase was a sofa, which Dmitrieva was proud of, because it was bought with her own money. But the purchase did not strengthen family life. After living together for two years, the couple decided to divorce.
They did not have children together, although the yellow press attributed to Kaikov the paternity of Evgenia’s son, Mark, whom she gave birth to in 2011, when she was 39 years old. Since the relationship between the former classmates remained friendly, the actress, having read this “news,” sent her ex-husband an SMS in which she jokingly demanded alimony for the boy. Andrey, at that moment already a popular artist of the “6 Frames” show, joked in response in his inimitable manner.
In 2021, it became known that Dmitrieva was expecting a child again. It was then that it turned out that the actress was happy in her family life, and the father of the child was actor Vladimir Kimmelman. They met when the young man came from his native Omsk to enroll in the famous Shchepka. And although, like the heroine Dmitrieva Zaza, the relationship began between an adult woman and a guy eighteen years younger than her, their love only grew stronger over the years. Together they even starred in Elena Bychkova’s comedy “Warrior.com”, where Kimmelman played the main role of Ignat Kuprin, and Dmitriev - his mother.
Still from the film “Warrior.com”
Evgenia’s son studies at a music school, from an early age he travels with his mother to film sets and goes to the theater. They volunteer together. And in January 2021, a girl appeared in the family, whom her older brother suggested calling Marusya. The baby became the favorite of not only her grandparents - Mark had long been asking his mom and dad for a sister.
Vladimir Kimmelman
The actress considers her family life happy and harmonious, as well as her professional activities. The similarity of temperaments between her and her husband allows both to feel comfortable, despite the difference in age. Both do what they love, go on theater stages and film sets.
Evgenia Dmitrieva with her husband and son
Biography of actress Evgenia Dmitrieva
Little Zhenya was born in Soviet Moscow on December 19, 1972. As Evgenia Olegovna herself says, her childhood was wonderful. The girl was brought up in a good family and enjoyed attending the theater studio. Since childhood, she perceived her obesity as the norm, happily devouring her favorite fried potatoes. The girl didn’t have any complexes about being overweight even after joining Shchepka. Moreover, she was not at all upset by the furunculosis that developed as a result of increased appetite. The future actress gained a toned figure thanks to... love! Having suddenly fallen in love with a classmate, the student began to literally pine for him! Less than two months have passed, and Evgenia Dmitrieva forgot about seventeen extra kilos forever!
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In her biography, Dmitrieva admits: “I was dying of love.” Soon the object of her passion reciprocated the actress’s feelings: soon Andrei Kaikov, the future actor of Russian cinema, became her husband. The passion soon passed: divorce followed. Not at all upset by this circumstance, yesterday’s graduate began teaching acting at her native theater school. Bring together her students ─ Egor Beroev and Alexey Dubrovsky. Dmitrieva’s students simply adore their favorite teacher. Calling her “the easiest person to get up to”, they openly admire her adventurism, her ability to light up from any interesting, inspiring idea. Starring in detective series, melodramas, comedies, and historical films, the actress never tires of surprising viewers with her ability to “live a different” life. Evgenia even once said that more than anything else she was afraid of “losing herself among the roles.”
Evgenia Dmitrieva in her youth, during her studies
Evgenia Dmitrieva on the stage of the theater
While working at the Maly Theater, she was loved by the audience at the Bolshoi Cinema. Dmitrieva’s most famous works are “Zaza”, “I am not me”, “Husband for an hour”, “Psychopath”, “Lyuba, children and”, “You don’t choose times”, “Mom detective”, “Sklifosovsky” and many others. According to the latest news about the actress’s work, we will soon see her in the 5th part of the series “Sklifosovsky” and in “The Bride from Moscow.”
Evgenia Dmitrieva in cinema
Evgenia Dmitrieva now
In August 2021, Evgeny Shelyakin’s comedy film “Happy End” was released. In this film, the actress played the owner of a hotel in Thailand, Irina. According to the plot, the filming of a film about an eccentric man (played by Mikhail Gomiashvili) who did not remember how he got to the beach and what his name took place took place in this location. The comedy was one of the first to be released after the period of self-isolation, and Evgenia believes that, despite the mask regime and fear of infection, watching such a life-affirming and bright movie will serve as a guide to action for many.
Evgenia Dmitrieva in the film “Happy End”
Another interesting project (Dmitrieva played the role of investigator Zoya Nikodimova in it) is the adventure comedy “Apricole” by Dmitry Koryavov, which was released in November 2021. The main role of the billiard player German, whose house went missing relic, played by Dmitry Pevtsov. The artist will also appear in the continuation of the series “Sklifosovsky”, “Fortune Teller-2”, “Five Minutes of Silence. New Horizons”, as well as in the new films “The Idealist”, “The Gift”, “Russian Prisoner”, which are in production. Evgenia Dmitrieva about the film “Happy End” The joint Japanese-Russian film “Hachi and Palma”, directed by Alexander Domogarov Jr., promises to be unusual. Evgenia will play the head of the flight squad, Lyubov Zhurina. The plot is based on real events about the German shepherd Palma, who, like the Japanese Hachiko, patiently waited for several years for her owner, who left her at Vnukovo airport. The script was written by Alexander Domogarov Sr. In Japan, the film is planned to be released in the summer of 2021 in more than a thousand cinemas in the country.
Actress Evgenia Dmitrieva about herself, life and dreams
Despite her plumpness, in her youthful dreams Evgenia Dmitrieva often imagined herself as a ballerina, and now she calls her role “clown” and “collective farmer.” In an interview, she once admitted that she would like to take part in a film about “Sherlock Holmes in a skirt” and try herself in the role of Jack Sparrow. The actress is embarrassed when she is recognized on the streets, calls herself a very happy person of “late development” and wonders why she is so rarely invited to film festivals. Afraid of heights, Dmitrieva trains at the climbing wall, studies English, and continues to act, work, and teach.
Pregnant Evgenia Dmitrieva
Delicious recipe! Breast with mushrooms in cream in a frying pan
The personal life of Evgenia Dmitrieva, according to the actress herself, was very successful. Yes, she does not have an official husband, and her only marriage broke up in the 1990s. For her, family is her son Mark and her beloved students. Viewers know: many wonderful points will appear in the actress’s biography, and her filmography will be replenished with dozens more films.
