Biography. early years
The future TV presenter was born into a Siberian family during the Great Patriotic War. According to Wikipedia, her father, Mikhail Nikitich, was a fighter pilot and died in the fall of 1944 during a flight to Yugoslavia. Mother, Maria Kuzminichna, after the death of Mikhail, moved with her family to Moscow. There she got a job as an accountant at Vnukovo airport.
After school, Angelina went to the acting department of GITIS. She studied on the course of Grigory Konsky and Olga Androvskaya, who at one time studied with Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. According to her, Georgy Tovstonogov, whose name the Bolshoi Drama Theater in St. Petersburg now bears, tried to lure her to Leningrad, but the young actress refused.
Work biography of Angelina Vovk
In her youth, Angelina Vovk had to earn extra money. She got a job as a fashion model at the All-Union Model House, located on Kuznetsky Most, and even starred in Vasily Shukshin’s film “There Lives a Guy Like This.” In total, Vovk had five shows before she quit this job due to the exhausting workload.
After graduating from GITIS in 1966, Angelina starred in the war film “Farewell,” directed by Grigory Pozhenyan. After that, Vovk had nothing to do with cinema for a long time. For the third and so far last time she appeared on the screen in 1997 as herself in the second part of “Old Songs about the Main Thing.”
Two years after graduating from GITIS, Vovk took a directing course at VGIPKTRTR, which opened under the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. However, she studied there for only a year, after which she left, preferring to improve her qualifications through broadcasting courses at the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.
After completing these courses, Angelina got a job at Central Television. At first she read the news, which she didn’t really like. Therefore, she soon began hosting children's programs - “Alarm Clock” and “Good Night, Kids!”, as well as music programs (“Morning Mail” and “Music Kiosk”).
For 18 years (1988-2006), Angelina Mikhailovna, together with Evgeny Menshov, hosted the main Soviet music festival “Song of the Year”. It was said about the man and woman that they were connected by more than just a working relationship, but later Menshov said that their relationship could hardly even be called friendly. In the same 1988, when the first “Song of the Year” was held, the TV presenter received the honorary title “Honored Artist of the RSFSR.” She also has the title of People's Artist; she was awarded this award in 2019.
Also in the 2000s, Angelina appeared on the Rossiya and TNT channels. On the first of them, she hosted the program “Good Morning, Russia!”, and on TNT, the program “Nanny to the Rescue.”
She was also noticed on Channel One. Together with Gennady Malakhov, she hosted the program “Good Health!”, and together with Lyudmila Khityaeva and Zinaida Kiriyenko, the talk show “Your Business.”
Career
After graduating from university, Angelina dreamed of working in the theater. But immediately after receiving her diploma, the actress had to leave for filming. In her debut film role, in the romantic comedy “There Lives Such a Guy,” where Leonid Kuravlev played the main role, Angelina Vovk played the role of a fashion model. Then the actress starred in the action-packed war drama “Farewell,” but for various reasons Vovk did not pursue a film career.
Vovk’s filmography ends with these pictures. Much later, the TV presenter will play herself in the musical “Old Songs about the Main Thing-2” and the New Year’s musical melodrama “Fairy Tale Boarding House, or Miracles Included.” But there will be no more acting roles in the actress’s life.
In 1968, Angelina sat down at an institute desk for the second time, this time at the directing department of VGIK. True, after studying for only a year and undergoing practical training, the girl understands that this profession is not for her. Leaving directing, Angelina goes back to school and completes a voice-over course.
Having received a new diploma, Angelina Vovk was assigned to the announcer department of the USSR Central Television. At first, the presenter was entrusted with reading the news, but this job was not the best fit for a woman: she could only read from a piece of paper or from a screen with glasses, since she had poor eyesight. In addition, Angelina, as a positive person, constantly wanted to smile, but such facial expressions were not suitable for a serious program.
Vovk was transferred to the children's programs department. Surely many would consider such a change a step back, but in entertainment programs for the little ones, Angelina became famous throughout the country. Sunday “Alarm Clock” and nightly “Good night, kids!” many children watched almost for the sake of “Aunt Lina,” who for a Soviet child occupied the niche of Pushkin’s kind nanny Arina Rodionovna.
Children's programs became the platform on which the TV presenter's own style was honed, which predetermined her future creative biography.
In the 90s, television, as in other areas, fell on hard times. Guide "Good night, kids!" was already preparing to close the program. There was not enough money to update the props or buy new dolls. Then Angelina Vovk managed to change the situation. Speaking at a corporate event at a bank, the presenter turned to bankers for help. Adults who grew up on the children's program gladly responded to the request and paid the necessary costs in full.
Later, Vovk stepped into adult programs. “Morning Mail” with Yuri Nikolaev, “Blue Light” and the “Song of the Year” festival together with Evgeny Menshov turned the presenter into one of the most recognizable and popular media personalities of Russian television. For many years of participation in the music festival, the name of the presenter was included in the Guinness Book of Records. The popularity of the TV presenter was so great among her compatriots that fans of the TV presenter asked at hairdressers to have their hair done like Angelina Vovk’s.
Angelina Mikhailovna appeared in “Song” until 2006, and later hosted the program “Good Morning, Russia!”, as well as “Good Health!” with Gennady Malakhov, “In Our Time” with Tatyana Vedeneyeva and the talk show “Your Business” with Lyudmila Khityaeva.
Once Angelina Vovk appeared on television as a participant. This happened in 2012, when a 70-year-old woman participated in a pair with professional dancer Oleg Vechkasov in the top-rated show “Dancing with the Stars.” According to the TV presenter, dance classes are especially necessary at this age. Thanks to choreography, health improves and overall vitality increases.
Socio-political views
At the age of 70, Angelina Vovk decided to go into politics. She was elected as a municipal deputy in the Arbat district. She ran as a self-nominated candidate and over 54% of voters voted for her. In 2017, Angelina did not stand for re-election.
Vovk is known for loving to help children. When in the 90s the program “Good Night, Kids” was on the verge of closing, Angelina, at a corporate party that she hosted, agreed with businessmen for help. Also, every summer the music festival “Song of the Year” is held in a children’s room on the Black Sea coast.
Angelina also helps low-income children. In 2007, she was even awarded the Order of the Patrons of the Century charity foundation for this.
The TV presenter also tries to pass on her experience to the younger generation. She is the head of the department of stage speech and a member of the IPCC Academic Council.
Personal life of Angelina Vovk
Angelina Vovk’s first husband was her GITIS classmate Gennady Chertov, who, like her, worked as a Central Television announcer. The couple lived together for 16 years. They divorced only in 1982.
In the same 1982, Vovk married a second time. Her husband was the Czech Jindřich Goetz. He worked as an artist at the Czechoslovak film studio Barrandov and was an architect. This marriage looked somewhat strange, since the couple lived in two countries: Angelina in the USSR and Russia, and Jindrich in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They lived like this for 13 years, until the couple divorced in 1995.
In her declining years, the TV presenter, who had lived alone for a long time, found herself married for the third time. Angelina Vovk’s new lover is music historian Mikhail Kunitsyn, with whom she has an age difference of a quarter of a century. On February 13, 2021, Vovk published a romantic post on her Instagram page with a video from the Griboyedovsky registry office. The video shows that Mikhail met Angelina at the entrance to the registry office, holding an armful of roses in his hands.
Despite three marriages, Angelina Vovk has no children. The media write that this was due to health problems - peritonitis developed due to the untimely removal of the appendix. However, the TV presenter considers her godchildren’s children to be her granddaughters: Angelina, born in 2001, and Anna, born a year later.
Vovk is fond of winter swimming, and at 60 she realized that she really loves skiing. She often goes to the pool, loves to go out into nature, and grows flowers and vegetables in her dacha.
The TV presenter runs her own Instagram page, which has 130 thousand subscribers. On social networks she posts photos with her family and friends.
About how Pugacheva wanted to have a hand in “Song of the Year”
From 1988 to 2006, Angelina Vovk and Evgeny Menshov were the permanent presenters of the “Song of the Year” project. It would seem that everything was wonderful, but that was not the case: pop diva Alla Pugacheva decided to have a hand in this.
One day, Angelina was told the news that Alla Pugacheva had now expressed a desire to engage in a popular project. It is worth noting that initially the singer was presented as a one-time co-host at one of the releases, but then it turned out that the prima donna wanted to write the script for the concert, take part in organizing the performances, and - what is most interesting - she also decided to “reshape” the project itself: from There was almost nothing left of the former “Song of the Year”. Why didn’t anyone even try to contradict Alla Pugacheva on this? Yes, all because at that moment she was actively supported by composer Igor Krutoy.
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After all the changes made to Pugacheva’s project were accepted, it turned out that now the presenters of the concert had to pronounce only a few lines and then from behind the stage - the viewer could not see them. This innovation became a transparent hint that Vovk and Menshov are now simply relegated far from the very foreground and not even to the background. Having looked at everything that was happening, the former presenters of “Song of the Year” decided to leave the project, and no one even tried to stop them. Actually, there were no apologies for such a shameless removal of people from the stage.
Angelina Vovk came to the registry office with her young boyfriend on Valentine's Day
Not much is known about Vovk’s new chosen one. He is a journalist, hosts the “Vinyl” program on the “Echo of Moscow” radio, and before that he was the director of the “Time” program on Channel One for 20 years.
Kunitsyn and Vovk have known each other for a long time. They go to social events together: premieres in cinemas and theaters or exhibitions, from where they run their own section for Instagram - “The Musical Living Room of Angelina Vovk and Mikhail Kunitsyn.” Data on how old Mikhail is differs. Some sources say he is 52, some say he is 50.
At the end of 2019, Vovk stated that Kunitsyn proposed to her. The TV presenter’s friend Anna Shatilova said that the wedding announcement was just a joke for the sake of PR. However, announcer Vladimir Berezin said that the honeymoon of the Soviet TV star and her chosen one would take place in a medieval castle in Brittany in northern France.
“Song of the Year”
So, the TV presenter left “Good Night...”, but did not lose her love for the youngest viewer. After many programs were closed in the Soviet Union, including for children, Angelina Vovk cherished the hope of someday bringing back “children’s” television: more than 20 years ago she came up with the “Song of the Year” music festival for the little ones (similar to the one for adults “ Song of the Year”), the main ideological inspirer of which remains to this day.
But, returning to the long-lived program, Vovk admits that at one time she practically saved “Good Night...” from closure: “I hosted a lot of different events, including for wealthy people. Once, at one of these evenings, I approached the guests and asked them to help fund the program. Many of them had children, and when they learned that the program was “out of date,” they willingly agreed to help.”
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