Biography of Anatoly Vasiliev: career and personal life

The biography of Anatoly Vasilyev, known to a wide audience on the series "Matchmakers", is quite simple and does not shine with scandalous events.

Vasilyev Anatoly Alexandrovich was born on November 6, 1946 in the Sverdlovsk Region, Nizhny Tagil. Classmates recall that he was a cheerful guy, performed at concerts, was the soul of any company - with guitar, jokes and songs of the Beatles in the repertoire.

Further biography of Anatoly Vasiliev continues in the engineering college, where he entered, after graduating from high school. And to be Tolya an engineer, but suddenly he takes the documents and, deciding to go into the acting profession, he leaves Bryansk, where he lived, in the capital. In Moscow, he successfully passes the exams and becomes a student at the Moscow Art Theater School, which he graduated in 1969.

Now the working biography of Anatoly Vasilyev begins - from 1969 to 1973 he works at the Moscow Satire Theater, and a year later passes to the Theater of the Soviet Army. Deep man's voice, textured manly appearance and temperament - all this makes the young actor special and in demand.

Biography of Anatoly Vasiliev beautifully continued at the Mossovet Theater in a comedy role. Khudruk Theater in 1995 met Anatoly and invited to his troupe for the role of a rogue in the comedy "School of non-payers."

Mikola Dymov in the film "Steppe" (directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, 1977) is the first notable film that Anatoly Vasilyev played. His biography in the cinema was very successful - in the filmography of the actor more than fifty films. This one of the first roles of the critics was evaluated positively.

The main role was played by Valentin Nenarokov in the film "Crew", which was brilliantly played by Vasiliev Anatoly Alexandrovich. His biography as an actor from this moment was predetermined: almost all of his subsequent roles were similar to this - a soft dramatic hero, which arouses sympathy of the viewer.

Then came the roles:

• The father of Lomonosov in "Mikhailo Lomonosov";
• Shubnikov in the "Corps of General Shubnikov" (the main role);
• Fomin's role in "Hope and Support";
• Glory in the film "Favorite woman mechanic Gavrilov";
• Fyodor from "Lady's Tango";
• "Adventure company" and others.

There were unexpected roles in the life of the actor - in the nineties he appeared in front of the viewer as a vampire in the film "Your fingers smell of incense."

Anatoly has two children - the son of Philip from his first marriage with Tatiana Vasilyeva and daughter Varya from the second marriage. The son, as well as his parents, is an actor of the theater. With his ex-wife Tatyana Vasilyev performing in one play, "Drawing", where they play the role of former spouses.

In 2012, the actor left the project after four successful seasons of the popular humorous series "Matchmakers." As Anatoly explained in his interviews, because of disagreements with the actor Fedor Dobronravov, who played the second matchmaker. Intelligent Vasiliev could not continue to play improbable plots and wanted to bring everything closer to real life, which the team working on the project did not accept and understood.