Oksana Petrovna Grigorieva became known to wide circles after a fleeting marriage with Mel Gibson and the subsequent scandalous separation, which was accompanied by assault and lawsuits. Also, the fatal Russian beauty at one time won the heart of the British actor Timothy Dalton and lived with him for almost ten years. However, all the stories of the personal life of Oksana Petrovna Grigoryeva completely obscure other aspects of her personality. She is a talented pianist and composer who wrote film music.
Chernukha from Saransk
Oksana Petrovna was born in 1970 in the city of Saransk, Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Then at birth she bore the surname Chernukha, only later correcting it to a more harmonious one - Grigoryeva. The girl was lucky to be the daughter of music professors, hence the appropriate education.
From the age of three, Oksana's mother began to seriously engage in piano development with her daughter, then the inevitable music school followed. She received higher specialized education at the Kazan Conservatory, but the ambitious girl was not going to stop there.
The beginning of the nineties was a difficult time, and the diploma of the conservatory meant little in the realities of modern Russia. The daughter of professors decided to take a chance and try their luck in another country. So in the biography of Oksana Petrovna Grigoryeva, a move to London appeared, where she continued her musical education at the Royal College of Music.
Conquest of Misty Albion
Life in the capital of the United Kingdom is not the cheapest, and a Russian student was forced to find a source for additional income in order to be able to continue her studies at a prestigious educational institution.
Grigoryeva Oksana Petrovna did not disdain any work in those years. She gave piano lessons, but there were not too many students, and she got a job as a companion with an old lady, where she received a stable salary.
After graduating from King's College London, little has changed in Oksana's life. Without influential friends and connections, a foreigner could not count on a quick start to her musical career in Britain. In anticipation of change, she got a waitress in a cafe to earn a living.
One of the regulars at this cafe was Patrick Anson, the official photographer of the royal family and cousin of Prince Charles himself. The bright Slavic appearance of the waitress impressed him and he advised her to try herself in the modeling business. So on the covers of glossy magazines Oksana Petrovna Grigoryeva began to appear, already changing Chernukha's surname to her more sonorous mother's maiden name.
Translator and actress
Whoever Oksana Grigorieva had to work in London. The bright career of the model is interspersed with the respected, but boring work of a translator. However, once again a successful choice of a workplace predetermined a new circle of acquaintances, necessary for further career development.
In 1995, the Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov hired Oksana Grigoryeva as a translator at a London film festival, preferring a Russian-speaking specialist. This opened up simply boundless prospects for the irresistible Oksana, whose spell had already become a victim of charms by that time.
At a representative event, the girl gets acquainted with the famous British actor Timothy Dalton, a short friendship with which develops into a romantic relationship.
Thanks to Dalton, Grigorieva got the opportunity to participate in the author's film A to Zen, where she got the role of a Russian girl. The film received some recognition in narrow circles, and in 1997 was shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The photo of Oksana Petrovna Grigorieva of those years is difficult to identify, because then her appearance has not changed beyond recognition after numerous plastic surgeries.
Return to music
The career of a graduate of the Kazan Conservatory made winding zigzags, but the desire to turn to music did not leave an ambitious girl. In 2005, she again changed her place of residence and moved to Los Angeles. Here she teaches music and even releases her own teaching methodology. In 2006, Oksana Grigoryeva manifests herself as a composer. She wrote the song Un Dia Llegara, which was included in the Awake album by Josh Groban.
In 2009, a full-fledged album was released, in which eleven works by Oksana Grigorieva were collected. The collection was released in collaboration with Charlie Midnight, and the producer was the notorious Mel Gibson. In co-authorship with him was written one of the songs Say My Name, which was included in the soundtrack to the film "Retribution".
Caring mother Oksana also dedicated one of the Angel songs to her son Alexander, who was born in marriage with Timothy Dalton in 1997.
Oksana's men
Many men from Russia to the USA became victims of the beautiful eyes of Grigoryeva. The girl’s first husband was lawyer Igor Baranov. True, Oksana married at the age of nineteen and was not ready for the harsh everyday life of a family routine. Short marriage broke up after three months.
In 1992, already in England, a young Russian woman won the heart of the venerable British artist Nicholas Rowland. She was not stopped by a twenty-year age difference, and she became the wife of a British citizen. Soon, the Englishman realized that it was rather difficult for him to reach for his young wife, and in 1994 they separated, remaining, however, in good relations.
In 1997, Oksana could not resist an actor with worldwide fame and recognition. Relations with Timothy Dalton lasted quite a long time, over the years of marriage, they became parents of Alexander's son and broke up only in 2005. This was a kind of record for Oksana, who had previously parted with her men after a maximum of two years.
