Julia Vladimirovna Menshova - actress and TV presenter, mother of two children and wife of actor Igor Gordin. Her name is well known, and today she successfully combines her career and personal life.
Star family
Date of birth - July 28, 1969. Another star appeared in the acting dynasty - Julia Menshova. Her height and weight today is 177 cm, 64 kg.
Let's talk about how her path as an actress and TV presenter developed. Julia Menshova is a child of world-famous cinema figures, and this undoubtedly played an important role in becoming her as an actress. Maternal grandparents - Irina Alentova and Valentin Bykov - are also from the acting community.
Mom - Vera Alentova - played the main roles in a number of films directed by her husband, director Vladimir Menshov.
Vera Alentova was remembered, first of all, for her iconic role in the film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”: it brought her immense popularity, and the film itself was awarded an Oscar. Vladimir Menshov is also an actor, but later he tried himself as a director, and this decision led him to success.
Little Julia, thus, from an early age grew up in a creative atmosphere. She decided to follow in the footsteps of her parents.
School years
While at school, even then she began to show her artistic abilities. Ever since childhood, Julia Menshova was distinguished by her activity and volitional qualities.
Her family was busy with her career and was often on tour, so she spent a lot of time with her grandmother. Parents kept their daughter in strictness, not allowing them to come home late and dress in newfangled clothes so as not to differ from other peers who could not afford to buy expensive clothes in those days.
She loved being in the spotlight and speaking to the public, embodying various images. The girl actively participated in school productions and at the same time went to acting classes. She increasingly understood that she was able to play on stage and win the attention of the audience. By the end of school, it became clear that regarding the choice of a further profession, Julia Menshova had already decided on completely.
First steps to a dream
After leaving school (in 1986), she entered the Moscow Art Theater School, where she studied until 1990. Julia was on the course of Alexander Kalyagin - an outstanding actor and a talented teacher, who discovered new facets of talent in a beginning actress. At first, Menshova hid her stellar surname, not wanting to advertise the fact that she is the daughter of famous actors, but her secret was soon revealed.
Julia wanted to achieve respect for herself thanks to her talent, and not to the fact that she came from an acting family. In addition, many began to say that she entered there only by pulling, and, to prove the opposite, she began to study with great diligence. Then she managed to become one of the best students, and in the end, after graduation, she received a red diploma.
A photo of Julia Menshova, showing us a frame from her acting work, shows how she knows how to transform.
Personal life
For the first time, she almost got married, barely graduating from school. Then Julia met with a classmate, but at the last moment the girl took the documents from the registry office. According to her confession, then she wanted to get married not because there was love, but in protest to her parents.
She met her current husband in 1996. At that time, he was an actor in the Moscow Youth Theater. The meeting took place by accident: Menshova and their mutual friends then appeared in the theater, where they came to the play where Gordin played. After they decided to go to a restaurant, and there they met. The novel developed rapidly, and after a couple of months, the chosen one had already met Menshova's parents. At that time, Yulia was 27 years old, and Igor was 31 years old.
The future husband of Menshova Julia made her an offer after a year of relations. From the very beginning of their acquaintance, mutual understanding arose between them - they could talk with each other for hours and often saw each other, and then completely realized that they could not live without each other. In it, she discerned the qualities of an ideal man, and besides, he turned out to be a caring father.
Divorce with spouse
In 1997, their first child, Andrei, was born. Shortly afterwards, the pair began to say something, and after the birth of their second child, the daughter of Thaisia in 2003, there were only more mutual complaints, and this led to a break, but there was no official divorce.
In 2004, they began to live separately - their separation lasted for several years, and then they converged again, realizing that they could not live without each other. Thus, Julia repeated the fate of her parents, who also some time after parting again decided to be together.
Theatrical activity
During her studies, she first tried herself as an actress on the professional stage. Her first work was in the television play “The Cabal of the Holy” in 1988. In 1990, Menshova began her professional career at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, and in parallel began to act in films. In the troupe, she worked for 4 seasons under the direction of O. N. Efremov. Having suffered from behind-the-scenes intrigues, at some point our heroine decides to leave the theater and asks for blessings from her spiritual mentor, but only after 2 years receives it.
He plays in the performances of the Theater Agency "Art Partner 21 Century". Her work - "Pygmalion", "Mudlock", "Halibut Day".
In 2011, she made her debut as a theater director. Julia staged a play called “Love. Letters ”, in which her parents played.
TV presenter
In the first half of the 90s, she was engaged in an acting career, but then decided to say goodbye to the theater and cinema. Menshova decided to try herself on television, as she understood that within the framework of the actress she was cramped, and she could not reveal herself completely.
When Julia Menshova left the tetra and plunged headlong into a sphere hitherto unfamiliar and distant to her, she could not even imagine that it would be thanks to television that she would gain popularity.
Julia wanted to get to television without the help of her parents, but she managed to break through at once. Once Victor Merezhko - a family friend - offered her a job as an editor in the program "My Cinema".
In 1994, Julia became the editor of the program "My Cinema", and a year later - the host of this program. The main concept was in conversations with famous cinema figures on a professional topic. Later, she was elected to the position of the managing service for the production and preparation of programs on TV-6, and then she became the head of the directorate for the production of programs for MNVK.
Over time, she successfully masters the role of TV presenter Julia Menshova, the growth of her career becomes obvious, and programs are gaining more and more ratings.
In 2001, the production center "Studio Julia Menshova" was opened. Since 2001, she began working on the NTV channel in the program “To Be Continued”.
TV show "I myself"
A new and significant turn in Julia’s career is work in the talk show “I myself”, which was the highest rated in the mid-90s. It was one of the first female television shows in the CIS. The producer and host of the program “I myself” was Julia Menshova from 1995 to 2001.
In the program, women talked about their lives, about the various difficulties they encountered, as well as about relationships with men. Menshova was awarded the TEFI Prize in 1999, she was awarded this award in the nomination “Host of a talk show” for the program “I myself”.
In the fall of 1997, the magazine "I myself" began to appear, where she became the chief editor.
Julia Menshova: quotes about life
- “I believe that in your house there should be not just a man who could stamp the passport, but a person who is not afraid to give birth to a child.”
- “I am convinced that every woman should have her own story.”
- “I am the sign of the zodiac Leo. I'll scatter everyone. If anyone is on my family … what are you! ”
- "Being overweight is a fear of life."
- “There will be a million people in life who say that you are not good. And your parents and home are the place where you love forever and is beautiful in everything. ”
Return to the cinema and new projects
In the mid-2000s, she again returned to television screens, and her role in the TV series "Balzac Age, or All Men Are Own …" brought her great popularity. At the same time, Menshova starred in feature films.
She played in the detective series Crime Will Be Revealed, which went on for three years. Julia Menshova rarely plays in the movies, giving herself to television.
Since 2010, she began working on TV-3 in the program "Teach Me to Live" - all 30 issues are broadcast. This show was attended by ordinary people who changed their lives under the guidance of a host and a team of professionals. In 2013, she has a new project - the program “Alone with everyone” on “Channel One”.
Often, Julia also acts as a host at large-scale celebratory concerts, social events and exhibitions.
