This artist plays, as a rule, the role of the secondplan. But here, too, he manages to show each of his characters in such a way that even after the picture is finished, the audience has long been impressed. Actor Afanasyev Valery lives the life of each of his hero as his own. Maybe that's why these heroes turn out to be so believable and real.
August 20, a hot summer day in 1949, into the lightthe future national actor of Russia, actor Afanasyev Valery, has appeared. As a child, he played a lot of sports. So, just in case, because he was very afraid that the boys from his yard or neighboring courtyards would not only laugh at him, but also knock down the cuffs.
A little later, he gained a new dream - he decided to becomeworld champion in gymnastics. In childhood, he often had to stay home alone. At this time, he played and presented himself as a real gymnast, trying as best and as confidently as possible to perform various difficult exercises.
Studying at school, little Valery AlekseevichAfanasyev began studying in the theater group, although at that time he could not even imagine that many years later he would become an actor. He just loved to watch the sacrament occur on the stage when the play began. The feelings that the boy felt in this situation are simply impossible to describe. For him, it was some other, unreal life.
He was a shy boy, so go totheater studio he was uncomfortable. Once, in one of the interviews, Afanasyev shared with journalists a story about how he once thought about joining a music club, because he so wanted to learn how to play the clarinet well, which seemed to him a kind of curiosity.
Valera was constantly thinking about it, and when he wentwalk in the guys in his pocket left an application for admission to the circle. The guys from the yard found this piece of paper, and this was the basis for cheerful laughter over the unlucky potential clarinet player. Of course, the fight was inevitable and it took place. But this future dream of actor Afanasyev Valery never implemented.
After graduation, the guy knew exactly whathe wants. He decided to become an artist, so he applied to the Shchukin School. In some magical way, he passes the competition: that year there was a huge influx of people who wanted to study in this theatrical institute.
For a time, Valery Alekseevich Afanasyev,Films with the participation of which several years later will give him the love of the audience, will work in the Moscow Drama Theater (MDT) named after Gogol. In the same period of his life, he met with director Valery Belyakovich. It is this man who will have a huge impact on the fate of Afanasyev, an artist who already has a life, and his reputation was known in the theater and in the cinema. Indeed, thanks to him, Valery eventually leaves the theater. Leaves "nowhere." Leaves - and wins.
Since 1990, the actor Afanasyev Valery enters the troupe Theater in the Southwest.Here on this stage he managed to unleash his talent in full force. He had a lot of interesting and diverse roles that he had long wanted to play. He is always calm, unfazed. His voice is surprisingly rare in its many-sided beauty. Afanasyev has a special gift: he can easily reveal the hidden depths of irony and serious drama. But at the same time, it remains recognizable instantly.
In the movie, Afanasyev, too, everything was going perfectly. His debut film in 1974 was the film The Hottest Month. Since then, he was offered more and more new roles.
True, in his "cinema" piggy bank most oftencome across supporting roles. He starred in different scenes: Fedya the diver in “The Road to Herself”, Dimka the Tinsmith in Blackmail, Yagupov in the sensational Svetlana Druzhinina’s film about the adventures of midshipmen, Major Golodny in Sanit Zones, refugee Maxim in the second part about love Russian, prisoner Kozhukh in “DDD”, Peter Kalitin in “Simple Truths”.
Many Valery Afanasyev worked in the series. What are his roles in the Moscow Saga (the role of Georgy Zhukov), "The Best City of the Earth" (the role of Altufev), and the Guardian Angel (the role of Fyodor Kamenev)?
Не остались без его участия и экранизированные Darya Dontsova's ironic detectives: “Evlampiya Romanova 2” (character - Rodion Gromov named Gvozd), “Viola Tarakanova 2” (character - Vasily Nikitich).
Superbly successful him the role of serious men -military. It creates an absolutely sincere impression that the actor has spent at least half of his life in uniform. This is confirmed by his game: Colonel Svirsky in “Mirror Wars”, General Alexei Savin in Russian Medicines, General Zhukov in Amphibious Bat, Lieutenant-General Prokofyev in Kremlin Cadets, General Valentin Polunochenko in Death to Spies. .
Perhaps a little apart is the series with hisparticipation, released in 2007 - "Fire of love." In it Afanasyev played George the Bird - a real, strong man who, having already met a woman of his dreams at a sufficiently solid age, tries to make everything so that she feels like a queen.
Today, the “artist of large and small roles” is married for the third time. With great tenderness and warmth, Valery Afanasyev always speaks about his half. Wife его практически с первой встречи почувствовала, that she penetrated his heart. He sincerely loved her. Until now, the couple live together. They do not consider themselves to be the perfect couple, because hot disassemblies sometimes happen to them. But this does not prevent them from keeping their hearth.
Valery Alekseevich has three adult sons and five grandchildren.
