Ksenia Kuznetsova

Born to win

The girl was born into an artistic family - her mother worked as a stage director. But Ksenia’s first childhood dream was not to play on stage, but to work as a cashier. As if spellbound, the girl could continuously watch how store clerks counted money at the cash register.

But either genes or being with my mother every day at work changed the dream. Ksyusha took an interest in dancing and joyfully ran into the choreographic studio. Mom supported this passion in every possible way.

After graduating from secondary school, Ksenia went to Novosibirsk to become a student at the local theater school.

But seeing the applicant’s potential, Siberian teachers advised her not to waste her time on small things, but to go straight to Moscow.

Ksenia listened to this advice and went from Siberia to the capital. From the first time she managed to convince the admissions committee of the Moscow Art Theater School of her abilities.

Kuznetsova studied on a course with Avangard Leontiev, establishing herself as a diligent student from the first year. Ksenia received her acting diploma with honors in 2001.

The career of the young actress did not work out on the theatrical stage. At the Malaya Bronnaya Theater she played in only two productions. She got a job on television, where she hosted the popular program for children “ABVGDeyka”.

Currently, Ksenia Kuznetsova hosts the show “Deed” on the Zvezda TV channel, the participants and heroes of which are people who have shown courage or other human values.

Second husband

The artist’s second husband was a well-known person involved in a scandal related to the death of Igor Talkov. Ksenia married Igor Malakhov, who later changed his surname to a more sonorous one - Rus. Many are still convinced that it was Malakhov who was somehow involved in the singer’s death. At that time, he was dating the singer Aziza, who was also her concert director and bodyguard. It is believed that a conflict arose between Malakhov and Talkov over the order of performance on stage during the concert. The bullet that hit Igor was fired from Malakhov’s weapon, but who exactly shot the singer has not yet been proven.

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Personal secrets of Ksenia Kuznetsova

Ksenia does not like to talk about her personal life. The journalist managed to unearth that she was married twice. The actress’s first husband was a professional colleague, Vladimir Davidenko. If you look up old interviews with Ksenia, you can find out that everything was going well in the acting family.

The wife was only jealous of her husband’s profession and intended to give him a son or daughter. But why the happy marriage fell apart at one point is unknown.

The actress also does not want to talk about her second marriage. In this marriage, her husband was Igor Rus (under the surname of her second husband, the actress appears in the credits of several films), who previously bore the surname Malakhov. It was he who was the concert director of the singer Aziza and the man from whose weapon the singer Igor Talkov was shot.

Some ill-wishers accuse Kuznetsova of marrying for convenience, enjoying her husband’s money.

The couple lived remotely from people in a country house in the Moscow region. The couple had two sons - Rurik and Ingvar. The family led a secluded lifestyle, the boys studied at home, and only occasionally the Rus went out to visit friends.

In 2015, when Igor Rus became seriously ill, Ksenia took her sons and left him. She allegedly refused all her father’s requests to see the children. The actress herself does not comment on her action , and there is too much gloating and dirt in the media to figure out who is right and who is wrong. Ksenia’s husband died suddenly in the summer of 2021.

Currently, the actress is raising her children on her own and calls herself a strict but fair mother. She makes sure that her sons are not only fed and clothed, but also play sports and learn their homework.

First marriage

Very little is known about the actress’s husbands, since since her first marriage she preferred to keep her personal life private. The artist’s first husband was the actor of the theater “At the Nikitsky Gates” Vladimir Davidenko. Ksenia spoke of this union as happy, she loved her husband, and it seemed that complete harmony reigned in their family.

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Close couples said that the girl was already ready to give her husband a child and was dreaming about it. However, suddenly discord began in the union. There is a version that this happened because of her husband’s jealousy towards Ksenia’s career, which was just taking off and gaining momentum. The young actress was invited to appear in TV series, she successfully starred, and the number of her fans increased every day. However, these are only journalists’ guesses, and neither Ksenia nor Vladimir have yet named the exact reason why they divorced.

Not a lot of film roles, but not empty either

Ksenia Kuznetsova's track record of film roles is relatively meager. She has no leading roles to her credit; none of the directors remade scripts for her. But each of the projects in which the actress starred was liked by the audience and won high viewing ratings.

Ksenia’s film debut came in the series “Taiga. Survival Course" . The role was small, but Boris Galkin, Elena Ksenofontova, and Sergei Veksler appeared on the set together with Kuznetsova. The film was filmed not in a “greenhouse” pavilion, but in the extreme conditions of the Adyghe winter.

The second big project in which Ksenia Kuznetsova worked was the series “Provincials”. In it, the actress played the negative character of Ekaterina Lomova (“Cats”), but Ksenia played so convincingly that she aroused sympathy among many viewers. Then she starred in films:

"Stylet";
"Saboteur";
"Alexander Garden";
"Admiral";
"The Hunt for Beria";
“Three days in Odessa”;
"Gypsies";
"Traffic cops"4
"Frodya";
"Heart without a lock";
"Elusive".

In 2021, viewers had the opportunity to see the actress in the sixth season of Sklifosovsky, where she played the role of Katya. In the near future, the film From the Bottom of the Top should appear on the screens, in which Ksenia Kuznetsova embodied herself in the image of the mother of the main character, the boy Alexei, who lost both legs, but did not lose his fortitude.

In the near future, in addition to film roles, Ksenia Kuznetsova would like to try herself as a producer.

Actor career

Immediately after graduation, yesterday’s student was enrolled in the staff of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. During the year that Ksenia served here, she played the role of Cooper in the play “Unreachable” by Somerset Maugham and the role of Joan in the play “Underground” by Nicholas Bayer.

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She also failed to realize another dream of hers - to join the Pyotr Fomenko Theater. So somehow things didn’t work out for Ksenia on the theater stage. But another direction of her acting activity developed successfully - work on television and cinema.

The young actress’s television debut took place as a teacher in the oldest children’s program “ABVGDeyka”. However, the young actress brought real popularity and recognition to her debut film role – Victoria from the TV series “Taiga. Survival Course" (2002, dir. Alexander Aravin).

The project was filmed in extreme conditions - in frosts and snow storms, which the Adyghe winter is so generous with. Sergei Veksler, Boris Galkin, Elena Ksenofontova, Kirill Pletnev, and Lyubov Rudenko, who worked with Ksenia, helped the girl realize that an artist must not only be talented, but also patient, enduring, and persistent.

Another memorable work in the actress’s early filmography was the melodrama “Provincials” (2002). The girl’s partners on the set of this film were such celebrities as Dmitry Dibrov, Irina Saltykova, Willy Tokarev. Ksenia played the role of Ekaterina Lomova in the film. Although the image of Katya the Cat according to the script was negative, the actress played her character so sincerely that she involuntarily aroused sympathy. And the audience remembered Ksenia.

Already in the early 2000s, Ksenia became a sought-after actress. Her filmography was replenished with bright roles in a variety of films - “Stiletto” (2003, Katya), “Saboteur” (2004, Tanya), “Comedy Cocktail” (2004, Anzhelika), “MUR is MUR” (2004, Galya), “ Hope is the last to go” (2004, Irina).

In 2005, director Alexey Pimanov shot the series “Alexandrovsky Garden”, which tells about the fate of those who had the right to live on the territory of the Kremlin. In this historical detective film, Ksenia played the main role - the daughter of the head of the special sector of the Central Committee, Tanya Shapilina. Her heroine played brilliantly with Alexei Kazarin and won the sympathy of the audience.

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the series “Alexandrovsky Garden”

This was her triumph! Ksenia was vying with each other for various projects - and the actress who became a star happily responded to tempting offers. She starred in such acclaimed films as “Three Days in Odessa” (2007), “The Hunt for Beria” (2008), “Admiral” (2008), “Traffic Cops” (2008-2010), “The Sorrows and Joys of Hope” ( 2011), “Heart without a lock” (2012).

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the series “Three days in Odessa”

Among the successful projects with the participation of Kuznetsova, the melodrama “Frodya” (2012) directed by Alina Chebotareva stands out. Here Ksenia, with pinpoint precision, showed the whole gamut of feelings and emotions of a woman who experienced a breakup in her youth and a meeting in adulthood with the love of her life...

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the film “Frodya”

Ksenia Kuznetsova’s recent achievements also include the role of singer Tamara in the crime drama “Gentlemen and Comrades” (2014), where Kuznetsova’s partners were Alexander Domogarov and Fyodor Lavrov, and the role of Natalya Tsareva in the melodrama “From the Bottom of the Top” (2017) with the participation of Sergei Nikonenko, Nonna Grishaeva, Irina Rozanova.

Since November 2015, Ksenia Kuznetsova has been the host of the “Deed” program (Zvezda TV channel). The heroes of the program are people who are not indifferent to other people’s problems and have a keen sense of justice.

As Ksenia Sergeevna said, work on this project becomes more difficult with each new season. If earlier, for example, the heroes of the program introduced viewers to their stories directly in the studio, now the program is filmed in the format of a documentary film, i.e. Kuznetsova arrives at the scene of the event and collects the necessary material.

Ksenia Sergeevna Kuznetsova. Born on May 9, 1977 in Kapchagay, Alma-Ata region (Kazakhstan). Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter.

Ksenia Kuznetsova was born on May 9, 1977 in Kapchagay, Alma-Ata region (Kazakhstan).

Mother - Tatyana Alekseevna Kuznetsova, was a director of show programs, and later taught dance at the municipal children's theater of Samara.

During my school years I studied dancing.

After graduating from school, she entered the theater school in Novosibirsk. When she was a third-year student, her teacher, actress of the Globus Theater Tamara Ismailovna Kocherzhinskaya, advised her to go to the capital. And at the end of the school year she ended up in Moscow. I entered all theater universities, entered several, but chose the Moscow Art Theater School. A.P. Chekhov.

In 2001, she graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School with honors. A.P. Chekhov, course of Avangard Leontiev.

After graduating from university, she served at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya for about a year.

Among her works is participation in the children's television program “ABVGDeyka” on the TVC channel - teacher Ksyusha Sergeevna.

She made her film debut in 2002 in the melodrama “Provincials,” playing the role of Ekaterina Lomova, nicknamed “Cat.” The film is a story about a young couple who came from a small town to conquer Moscow. She wants to become an actress, he wants to become a boxer. But the cycle of the capital's intrigues and passions separates the lovers.

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the film “Provincials”

Widespread fame came to her in 2005, when the historical detective series by Alexei Pimanov “Alexandrovsky Garden” , in which she played Tanya Shapilina (during the course of the film she becomes Kazarina). The film tells about families living in the Kremlin.

She also played in the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the series. The second season (“Three days in Odessa”) tells about the cleansing of Odessa from banditry. The plans of the military are confused by a particularly dangerous criminal named “Accountant” who has appeared in the city. According to available information, he is an employee of the MGB and is hunting for the file of the occupation Romanian police, in which his name appears. Nobody knows what the criminal looks like. Tatyana and Alexey Kazarin become direct participants in these events.

In the second part of the film (“Death of the Team”), Tatyana Kazarina, a correspondent for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, receives the task of writing an article about a gang of criminals operating in besieged Leningrad, who, taking advantage of the plight of people dying of hunger, bought private collections of paintings and antiques for next to nothing. The threads of the crime stretch to Moscow to a famous singer.

In the third season, Alexey Kazarin and Vlad Koltsov learn that Stalin was killed by order of Lavrentiy Beria. Beria gives the command to eliminate both.

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the series “Alexandrovsky Garden”

Later she played the main roles in the films “Gypsies” (Polina Andreevna), “The Sorrows and Joys of Nadezhda” (Nadezhda Korobova), “Frodya” (Frodya), “Heart without a Lock” (Marina Chudakova).

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the TV series “Gypsies”

Ksenia Kuznetsova in the series “Frodya”

In 2018, she played the mother of the main character in the sports film From the Bottom of the Top.

In the fall of 2021, the melodrama “Lost Happiness” directed by Gleb Yakubovsky was released, in which the actress played the main character, Valentina Bondarenko. Her husband dies, Valentina decides to move to Moscow to earn money and take her daughter and mother to the capital.

Since 2015, she has been the host of the “Deed” program on the Zvezda TV channel. The program talks about different people who have done things in their lives. For example, Ksenia talked about trainer Vitaly Smolyanets, who was in an accident and lost his legs. Literally a year later, he managed to get back on his feet and return to his profession; he is the only trainer in the world who enters the arena on prosthetics, and at the same time trains lionesses. Ksenia Kuznetsova said: “Few people talk about the heroes of our time, about people who do significant things.”

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Ksenia Kuznetsova's height: 170 centimeters.

Personal life of Ksenia Kuznetsova:

She was married twice.

The first husband is Vladimir Davidenko, an actor at the Nikitsky Gate Theater.

Ksenia Kuznetsova and Vladimir Davidenko

Second husband - Igor Rus (real name - Malakhov). Ksenia's ex-husband Igor Malakhov gained scandalous fame as the former lover and bodyguard of singer Aziza. He was accused of the death of Igor Talkov at the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg on October 6, 1991. At some point, he changed his passport details to Igor Rus.

The couple had sons Rurik and Ingvar.

Igor Rus was seriously ill and died in the summer of 2021. Even earlier, Ksenia broke up with him. As Igor Rus’ mother, Galina Stepanovna Malakhova, said in the “Live Broadcast” program, Kuznetsova refused her husband’s request to see the children.

Ksenia Kuznetsova and Igor Rus

Filmography of Ksenia Kuznetsova:

2002 - Taiga. Survival course - Victoria 2002 - Provincials - Ekaterina Lomovaya ("Cat") 2003 - Stiletto - Katya 2004 - Hope is the last to leave - Irina 2004 - MUR is MUR - Galya, waitress 2004 - Comedy cocktail - Angelica 2004 - Friendly family 2004 - Saboteur - Tanya Skryabina, radio operator 2005 - Alexander Garden - Tanya Shapilina 2007 - Route - Tanya, head of the archive 2007 - Alexander Garden-2 - Tatyana Kazarina 2008-2010 - Traffic cops - Tatyana Skvortsova 2008 - Gypsies - Polina Andreevna 2008 - The vicissitudes of fate - Dasha 2008 - Alexander Garden-3 - Tatyana Kazarina 2008 - Admiral - Nina Podgurskaya 2009 - Admiral (TV series) - Nina Podgurskaya 2011 - Sorrows and joys of Hope - Nadezhda Korobova (credited as Ksenia Rus) 2012 - Frodya - Frodya (credited as Ksenia Rus) 2012 - A heart without a lock - Marina Chudakova 2012 - The first autumn of the war (was not completed) - Masha 2014 - Gentlemen and comrades - Tamara, singer at the Eldorado restaurant 2021 - Sklifosovsky (season 6) - Katya, lawyer 2021 - From the bottom of the top - Natalya , Alexey's mother 2021 - Lost happiness - Valentina Bondarenko 2021 - Fallen leaves

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