Who is Alexander Baluev
Baluev Alexander Nikolaevich is a Russian actor, he has played more than 100 roles in films and about 40 characters on the theater stage, starred in Hollywood blockbusters, and has several film awards.
Russian actor Alexander Baluev
Thanks to his appearance and strong physique, Baluev often has to embody the images of strong and serious heroes, real men. Alexander is a native Muscovite, born on December 6, 1958.
Biography of Alexander Baluev
Alexander Baluev chose a creative path unexpectedly even for himself, because since childhood he dreamed of becoming a hockey player, surgeon or financial worker.
Family: parents of Alexander Baluev
Dad, Nikolai Baluev, served as a career officer. His father wanted Sasha to follow in his footsteps and build a brilliant military career. From childhood, he taught the younger Baluev to strict discipline.
Sasha Baluev with mom
Mom was a sophisticated and intelligent woman, originally from Samara. During the war, the Bolshoi Theater from Moscow was evacuated to this city, and she, while still a girl, ran to watch all the productions. Then she graduated as an engineer, worked at a military institute and often went to the theater and opera. Her love for these types of art was passed on to her son.
Alexander in childhood and youth
Baluev spent his childhood on the streets of Moscow; the family first lived on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, then moved to Smolenskaya Street. During his school years, Alexander loved sports, played hockey and alpine skiing, and in winter he constantly spent time on the ski lifts in Krylatskoye.
Alexander Baluev in childhood and youth
When he was in his senior year, Sasha watched the play “Princess Turandot” at the Vakhtangov Theater, which completely changed his life guidelines. He still remembers in great detail how he heard the sound of footsteps on the wooden surface of the proscenium. Having plunged into the world of theater, Baluev left sports as if it had never existed in his life.
Career of Alexander Baluev: cinema and theater
Baluyev was attracted to the theater by the opportunity to experiment, invent something and fantasize. He liked that on stage he could, while remaining in reality, immerse himself in an unreal world.
1975-1980: studies at the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio
The first attempt to enter the Shchukin School in 1975 was unsuccessful, and Alexander began his career at Mosfilm as a lighting assistant. The following summer, he applied to the Moscow Art Theater School and this time he entered.
Alexander Baluev in his youth
He studied on a course with the People's Artist of the USSR, teacher P. V. Massalsky. In 1980, having received his diploma, Baluev dreamed of working at Sovremennik or Lenkom, he showed up at these theaters, but he was not hired right away.
Theater roles
Several capital theaters nevertheless invited the aspiring actor, and Alexander had to make a choice. Considering that he was facing military service, he settled on the Theater of the Soviet Army. For almost six years he played bright characters here in the productions of “The Lady with Camellias”, “Trees Die While Standing”, “Robin Hood’s Arrow”.
Aspiring actor Alexander Baluev
In 1986, he moved to the Ermolova Theater, where he was immediately introduced to the main cast of the troupe and played exclusively the main roles: Caligula in “Caligula”; Rogozhin in “Besnovataya”; Rodion in “Invitation to Execution”; Danton in the play “The Second Year of Freedom”. It was during this period that he became widely known in theater circles.
Alexander Baluev at the Lenkom Theater
In 1991 he left the theater. As a guest artist he played on various stages - the Producer's Theatre, Lenkom. At the Roman Viktyuk Theater he was lucky enough to play in a duet with Alisa Freindlich in the production of “Autumn Violins”.
Alexander Baluev and Alisa Freindlikh, Roman Viktyuk Theater
Since 2010, he has collaborated with the Red Torch drama theater in Novosibirsk, where he has performed about 100 performances. The first was the role of Arbenin in the production of “Masquerade”. Baluev goes to the Siberians once every two months, he says: “I come here with great pleasure, I play and will play as long as the audience wants it.”
Alexander Baluev at the Red Torch Theater
In 2014, at the Moscow Variety Theater, in the musical and dramatic production “Territory of Passion,” he performed for the first time not only as a leading actor, but also as a producer and director.
Cinema
Film directors did not seem to notice Alexander Baluev for a long time; for seven years he occasionally played episodic roles. In 1984, Baluev received the role of a boat commander in the film “Egorka”.
Alexander Baluev, “Egorka”
In 1988, the drama “The Kerosene Man's Wife” was released, where Baluev played twin brothers Sergei and Pavel Udaltsov. For this work, Alexander received the prize of the festival of young filmmakers “For Best Actor”.
Alexander Baluev “The Kerosene Man’s Wife”
After this film, many directors drew attention to the actor, one after another, films began to be released in which Baluev played strong personalities - military men, oligarchs, intelligence officers, businessmen, and crime bosses. It was during this period that Alexander decided to leave the theater for an enterprise; it became difficult for him to combine filming with constant theater work.
Alexander Baluev, “Mu-mu”
Among his best works, it is worth noting his roles in dramas: the janitor Gerasim in “Mu-mu” and Fyodor in “Muslim”. For his second work, Baluev received the Kinotavr prize “For Best Actor” and the Nika film award.
Alexander Baluev, "Muslim"
The series brought Baluev enormous popularity; they all gained very high viewing ratings: “Kamenskaya”, “Beyond the Wolves”, “Death of the Empire”, “Moscow Saga”.
Alexander Baluev in the TV series “Kamenskaya”, “Moscow Saga”
Russian television viewers especially liked Major Klimenty Ivanovich Platov (“Klim”), whose role Alexander played in the 2002 series “Special Forces.” The image of the commander of a special reconnaissance group complemented the gallery of military heroes in Baluev’s creative career.
Alexander Baluev, “Special Forces”
Alexander Baluev had the opportunity to play the complex and interesting role of the Russian sovereign in the drama “Peter the Great. Will". Viewers also remembered his Vyacheslav Izvolsky in “The Hunt for the Red Deer” and Krymov in the film “Life and Fate.”
A. Baluev in the films “Peter the First. Testament", "Hunting for Red Deer"
Alexander acts not only in military and detective films. His filmography also includes comedies (“Eating is served!”) and melodramas (“Nina. Payback for Love”, “Snow Angel”).
Alexander Baluev and Maria Urbanovskaya: the story of their acquaintance and breakup after 20 years of marriage
Russian actor, star of the series “Special Forces,” 60-year-old Alexander Baluev has long called himself a monogamous man, and said that he cannot imagine life without his wife, Polish journalist Maria Urbanowska. However, after more than two decades of marriage, their marriage, unexpectedly for everyone, broke up, and each of the spouses went their own way. In this article we will tell you the story of the acquaintance and love of the actor and journalist, and also try to understand the reasons for the breakdown of their long-term marriage.
Alexander Baluev and Maria Urbanovskaya - a love story
Alexander Baluev's acting career started at the dawn of the 80s, and by the beginning of the 90s he was already a real star. When in 1993 he came to Crimea to film the historical military drama “Richard the Lionheart,” where he played the main role, he, of course, decided to combine work with vacation on the sea coast. There, in one of the resort areas, he first saw the woman who settled in his heart for many years and took the main place in the actor’s life.
At the same time, Polish journalist Maria Urbanowska also came to Crimea on vacation with her children: daughter Olga and son Julius. According to Alexander, it was love at first sight, and he no longer wanted to let this woman go. At that time he was 32 years old, and Maria was almost 40 years old, however, the age difference did not bother them. Alexander later recalled that from the light accent, he immediately guessed that this was a foreigner, but this circumstance only fueled his interest. Urbanovskaya was far from the world of Russian show business, and therefore she did not even immediately understand that a cinema star was seeking her favor.
Photo: milayaya.ru Alexander Baluev and Maria Urbanovskaya with their daughter
A holiday romance broke out between them, but the woman was legally married at that time. Her husband stayed at home while she and her children were vacationing on the peninsula. However, after returning from vacation back to Poland, Maria immediately filed for divorce. After that, she began openly dating Alexander Baluev. At first, their relationship resembled a guest marriage; they were torn between Russia and Poland, living with each other on short visits. However, they soon decided not to separate and acquired a common house in Alexander’s homeland. There is an opinion that Maria could not move to live with her new lover immediately after the divorce, because she did not want to part with her children, and her ex-husband was against her and her mother moving to Russia. Therefore, she and the actor lived in a guest marriage until her heirs grew up.
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In 2003, after ten years of actual marriage, the lovers finally legalized their relationship. That same year, they had a daughter together, who was named Anna-Maria. The first part of the child’s name was chosen in honor of Baluev’s mother, and the second part in honor of his wife. The actor repeatedly said in interviews that Maria was the only woman he loved, and he simply could not live without her. However, in the 00s, Alexander was at the peak of his popularity, and this very popularity had an extremely negative impact on his family life.
Alexander Baluev and Maria Urbanovskaya - reasons for divorce
Due to his heavy workload and incredible demand for films, Alexander appeared at home less and less, and his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated. At that time, the couple were engaged in the construction of a family mansion in the Moscow region, or rather, Maria herself did everything. The actor said that he doesn’t have time for this, he doesn’t know anything about construction and design, and he also completely trusts his soulmate and relies on her taste. But by the time the house was finished and a little lived in, the marriage of Alexander and Maria had completely collapsed.
According to the actor, his wife had accumulated many complaints against him due to his constant absence, and she also did not like the fact that they constantly wrote about him in the press, including attributing affairs to him with other women.
Photo: milayaya.ru Alexander Baluev with his daughter Anna-Maria
Baluev had only two possible options: to completely leave his acting profession, or to divorce his wife, and the man, after much deliberation, chose the latter. This decision was not easy for both of them, because at the time of the divorce they were both far from young. Alexander was already over 50 years old, and Maria was approaching her 60th birthday, but, having properly discussed the current situation, the couple came to the conclusion that they were no longer connected by anything other than their common daughter.
After the official divorce was filed, Maria decided that she would not lay claim to half of the jointly acquired property, and therefore, by mutual agreement, the house near Moscow remained with Alexander. True, after his wife moved out of there, both the house and the plot fell into severe desolation, because no one else looked after the garden with such trepidation and love, kept order in the house and did not strive to create comfort and harmony there.
Alexander Baluev and Maria Urbanovskaya now
After a divorce from her famous husband, Maria returned to her homeland in Plsha, along with her ten-year-old daughter. But, despite leaving Russia, Anna-Maria was not at all deprived of her father’s attention and care; Alexander, whenever possible, visits his only heiress, pampers her with gifts, and tries to ensure that she does not need anything. Every window that opens between filming, he boards a plane and flies to Warsaw to visit the child. Maria, after her second broken marriage, never remarried, and devoted herself entirely to her growing children.
As for the actor, almost immediately after the divorce, it became known about his relationship with makeup artist Olga Matveychuk, who, by the way, is the mother of the famous actor and singer Gleb Matveychuk. Many suspect that their office romance began during the period when Alexander was married.
Photo: milayaya.ru Alexander Baluev with Olga Matveychuk’s family
During the tour, when Baluev became seriously ill, Olga looked after him and took care of him, and she also stood up for him when a scandal broke out in the press due to the actor’s alcohol addiction. However, they do not want to talk openly about their relationship, because Alexandra’s current chosen one is married, and, apparently, she does not plan to file for divorce, at least not yet. But Olga can already freely follow the actor everywhere, because they work together. In public, the actor and his make-up artist always behave with restraint, do not make any statements and do not show their feelings in any way, however, family photographs appeared on Gleb Matveychuk’s profile on one of the social networks, in which Alexander Baluev is present with him, his wife and mother .
Personal life of Alexander Baluev
In interviews, Alexander Baluev prefers to talk about creativity rather than about his personal life; he does not advertise this side. The only thing that the actor does not hide is that he never had affairs with his partners on the set. And Alexander chose a journalist from Poland as his wife.
Baluev's wife - Maria Urbanovskaya
The future spouses met in Crimea, in the city of Koktebel, where the actor starred in the film “Richard the Lionheart”, and Maria was vacationing with her children (she was married then). Urbanovskaya is eight years older than Baluev; she spoke Russian well, but with a slight accent. When Maria's vacation came to an end and she left, the actor realized that he missed this woman, that he wanted to see her next to him every day.
Alexander Baluev and Maria Urbanovskaya
Endless calls to Warsaw began, then trips. Maria divorced her husband and began to live with Baluyev in a civil marriage, such a relationship lasted for ten years. They became official spouses on the eve of the birth of their daughter. They got married in Poland, since Urbanovskaya wanted to register the marriage in her home country.
Alexander Baluev with his wife and daughter
They had a good family; the couple built a large country house. But at some point, Maria ceased to understand bohemian life and the constant absence of her husband; all household concerns fell entirely on her shoulders. When the child was ten years old, she decided to leave Alexander. In 2013, Baluev and Urbanovskaya filed for divorce, their daughter moved with her mother to Warsaw.
Maria Anna - daughter of Alexander Baluev
In 2003, Baluev’s daughter, Maria-Anna, was born. Alexander really wanted a girl to be born. He is proud that his daughter looks like him, she has grown up to be a beauty with thick dark hair and green eyes.
Alexander Baluev with his daughter
Dad affectionately calls her Marusya. Maria-Anna is a creative person, loves to dance and sing, studies at a music school, plays the piano, takes part in all school concerts and competitive events.
Daughter of Alexander Baluev - Maria Anna
Baluev often calls his daughter, at the first opportunity he boards a plane and flies to her in Poland; he really misses his only child. When they meet, Marusya gives her drawings to her dad.
First wife
Despite Baluev’s enormous popularity, fans know little about the artist off the television screen. Alexander does not put his life on public display. Little is known about the family of the Russian actor. Sasha met his first wife, Polish journalist Maria, in adulthood.
The lovers met in the early nineties in Crimea, where the thirty-two-year-old actor was filming. For a long time, the couple could not have children, so they did not see the need for an official marriage, and lived in a civil marriage.
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