These two pretty one-year-old actresses are often confused. Their name is the same - Maria Mironova and Maria Golubkina. By the way, their middle name is the same - both Andreevna. And even more precisely, we are talking about the same Andrew, the beloved Mironov. Girls have similar eyes, there is something in common in facial expressions and gestures. Nevertheless, both of them, Maria Mironova and Maria Golubkina, are recognized in chorus: “We are not sisters! And not even a gram of total blood. "How so? After all, according to the documents, both are the daughters of the great Soviet theater and film artist, who had passed away from the life of Andrei Mironov. But why don't they consider themselves sisters and why do they have different surnames?
Masha and their parents
The first of them, Mironova, was born in the last days of May 1973. Her parents are the outstanding Soviet actor Andrei Mironov and his first wife, also an actress, Ekaterina Gradova, who became famous for the role of the radio operator Kat from “17 Moments of Spring”. By the way, it was little Masha who was the very little girl that the radio operator held in her hands. The girl was named after her grandmother, mother Andrei, the famous actress Maria Mironova. As for the second Masha, she is not the biological daughter of Andrei Mironov. Maria Golubkina was adopted by him at the age of three when he married her mother. Thus, her mother is the famous Russian-Soviet actress Larisa Golubkina, and who is the father? This question is not so easy to answer. At the time when Masha was born, her mother was not legally married, but lived with Nikolai Shcherbinsky-Arsenyev. It is he who is considered the official father of the girl, although Golubkina chose to give her daughter her last name. However, in some interviews, Shcherbinsky says that he has nothing to do with the daughter of his common-law wife, and he calls Vladimir Dostal, director of Mosfilm, with whom Larisa was legally married, as Maria’s father. However, the real father for the girl was Andrei Mironov, who married her mother when Maria was only 3 years old, and even adopted her. Thus, Andrei Mironov had two same-year-old daughters - Maria Mironova and Maria Golubkina.
Childhood
The first Masha lived with her father under one roof for up to 3 years. However, the love between Gradova and Mironov soon passed, there were disagreements, and Andrei was not indifferent to actress Larisa Golubkina, and then the couple parted. Masha, of course, stayed with her mother and moved with her to her parents - grandparents. On the contrary, his new wife and daughter Maria Maria Golubkina moved to the artist. Andrei Mironov soon became very attached to the girl and decided to adopt her. But the new husband of Ekaterina Gradova (by the way, shortly after the divorce, she moved away from the acting environment), physicist Igor Timofeev, was almost indifferent to his wife’s daughter, he probably knew that he had no chance of competing with the great artist. Since the divorce was quite intelligent, without squabbles and insults, Catherine was not opposed to the father and daughter meeting.
Perhaps this is jealousy?
If Andrei Mironov and Maria Golubkina lived under the same roof, had breakfast and had dinner together, spent evenings, all days off, then Masha Mironova did not see her father very often. Nevertheless, everyone saw in her a lot of similarities with Andrei. She looked like him not only externally - the same blue eyes, the same mouth, the same shade of hair - but also with her manners, sophistication and sense of style. But, unlike him, she was very reserved and silent, immersed in herself. The girl did not think about the profession of an actress, she dreamed of a career as a ballerina, although Gradova did not want to send her to a ballet school, and Masha was content with a dance group. Apparently, she always felt herself abandoned by her father. Once Andrei introduced her to his half-sister, and the girls, to put it mildly, did not like each other. Until now, the relationship of Maria Mironova and Maria Golubkina can not be called close and especially sisterly.
New family, new dad
Andrei Mironov and Larisa Golubkina have been married for 13 years. The new wife was an ideal wife, mother, mistress. Mironov was an excellent father to her daughter. Those who did not know the history of their family thought that Maria Golubkina was Mironov’s own daughter. It’s just that her surname caused everyone questions: why did Larisa give her daughter her surname, and not her father? The girl loved Andrei very much, they had their secrets from their mother. Masha was engaged in equestrian sports, while she was a creative person, often asked her father for advice on a particular issue, and her mother was the ideal of a woman for her and set her an example in everything.
Masha Mironova: joining the profession
As already noted, Maria Mironova in her childhood dreamed of the profession of a ballerina. She dressed up quite a little dress, like a pack, put on a plate with classical music and imagined herself Anna Pavlova or Maya Plisetskaya. However, she did not succeed in becoming a ballerina, her parents did not send her to ballet school, but all her childhood she danced in various dance circles, and, growing up, she honed her skills in clubs. Thanks to this, she had a very graceful gait, excellent plasticity of movements, proud ballerina posture. At the age of 10, she first appeared in films (of course, except for her debut in the series “17 Moments of Spring”). She played the role of the proud Becky Thatcher in the beloved children's film about Tom Sawyer. Many Soviet girls would dream to be in her place and be a partner of handsome Tom.
Loss
Apparently it was fate, but at the moment when Mironov had a stroke, which took his life, Masha was in the hall and saw everything with her own eyes. She was 14, and this, of course, was a great shock for her. The last time she saw her father in consciousness between the departments of the play in the dressing room, and he shared with her his plans for a trip to Holland. Following the blow several days that the artist spent in the hospital and was in a coma, the daughter did not leave his bed for a single step. It was then that they learned at the hospital that the artist had two daughters - his own - Maria Mironova and daughter Golubkina, also Masha. The second one was also very worried about her father, but she probably understood that the bedside of Andrei Mironov belonged to his own daughter.
Studying at the school named after Boris Schukin
It seems to many that Masha Mironova, after the role of Becky Thatcher, was already one hundred percent sure that she would become an actress. However, it is not. She thought for a long time about her future profession, and at the last moment she decided to enter the Pike. By the way, she later starred in the film “Leading Roles” (2002) directed by Tigran Keosayan about this period of her life. In 1990, Masha became a student of the country's most prestigious theater school. It was here that her father once studied. Her mentor and curator was Yuri Lyubimov. Soon she realized that she liked to play on stage. So she became the continuer of the profession of her parents - Andrei Mironov and Ekaterina Gradova.
The beginning of a theatrical career
After “Pike” she studied at VGIK, and then she joined the Lenkom Theater and quickly became the favorite of Zakharov, who began to trust her with very good roles. In the first year, Maria had an affair with the son of Yuri Yakovlev. By the way, she never finished her studies at the Shchukin school, as being a first-year student, she started an affair with businessman Igor Udalov, whom she had known since she was 9 years old. Then there was the wedding and the birth of a son, whom she named Andrei in honor of the famous grandfather. Looking ahead, we can say that the grandson and namesake of Andrei Mironov also continued the family tradition. After graduation, he entered the same “Pike”, and after graduation he became an actor at the Vakhtangov Theater.
Masha Golubkina: joining the profession
Like the actress Maria Mironova, the daughter of Golubkina, Masha, in her childhood did not dream of an acting career. She thought she would become an athlete, because since 11 years old the girl was passionate about equestrian sport. However, when she decided to become an actress, she decided to enter the Shukinsky school. Thus, both daughters of Andrei - Maria Mironova and Maria Golubkina - began to study at the same educational institution. Daughter Golubkina before entering the "Pike" has already managed to star in a big movie - in the film "Adam's Rib". Unlike her sister, she graduated from college in 1995 and immediately got into the Satire Theater - the very theater where she went on stage as a child, while making money. Here for many years, Andrei and Larisa worked. From 2007 to 2010, Maria Golubkina worked at the Pushkin Drama Theater (Moscow).
Activities
The very first role of Maria Mironova in the Lenkom Theater was Franchett from The Marriage of Figaro. Further, her repertoire expanded greatly and began to include many serious roles. We can say that in this regard, she succeeded more than her sister. As for the cinema, Maria Mironova lost the palm. Actress Golubkina Maria, as already noted, first appeared in 16 years, while still a schoolgirl in grade 10. The machine's first role after Becky Thatcher was in the film "Wedding" by Pavel Lungin. It was she who became the leading woman. By the way, the second Masha also appeared in this picture. Mironova herself chose her partner in the picture: it turned out to be Marat Basharov. The film turned out to be just wonderful, in particular, because the director gathered just a unique cast: Andrey Panin, Marat Basharov, Alexander Semchev, and two sisters - Maria Mironova and Maria Golubkina. The film received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. That was a success! However, Masha is most remembered in connection with the film "Oligarch", where she played the role of girlfriend of Plato Makovsky. In the film “State Counselor”, her partners were Nikita Mikhalkov and Konstantin Khabensky. Further, her list was replenished with roles in such famous films as “Night Watch”, “The Death of an Empire”, “Three Musketeers”, etc.
Maria Mironova and Golubkina: sisters or not?
Despite the fact that they were of the same age and had been familiar since childhood, the girls could not find any special sympathy for each other. Today, everyone who knows them says that women treat each other in a civilized, friendly manner, but this is by no means a sisterly relationship. By the way, in the opinion of many, they are very much alike from childhood: both serious, unbalanced, erudite. Nevertheless, even the little girls who did not understand anything, they did not want to play together, in the presence of each other they became isolated, Masha Mironova even began to obviously feel sad. Then life again wished to combine them and arranged so that both chose an acting specialty. As we have already noted, they even had to play in the same paintings. Both became popular movie actresses, both love to experiment, although Mironova loves exquisite roles more, and Golubkina agrees to play any role, if only she would ideally suit her. So, Masha agreed to star in the film “Scam”, where she needed to appear in the guise of a journalist exposing a scam scientist, then there were the series “Jackpot for Cinderella”, “Crazy”, “Revelations”, “Pearls”, etc. Golubkina also starred in mini-series about Sergei Yesenin and the head of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev. In the mid-2000s, she appeared in action movies, proving that she could do anything. By the way, Moscow Heat is a joint work of Russian and American filmmakers.
