Ernest Mackevicius. The faces of Russian television

Today it is impossible to imagine the Rossiya channel, its entertainment, journalistic and news programs without the participation of this person. Ernest Mackevicius spent more than twenty years working on television, his merits are awarded with state awards. In 2008, he received the Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, in 2010 and in 2013 - Gratitude of the Government of the Russian Federation, and in 2014 he was awarded the Order of Friendship.

Journalism and television

Ernest Matskevicius came to television when he was 33 years old. The career of the presenter began with the program "13-31", at the same time he collaborated with the TV company "VID". Later there was work in the "Central Express", the program "Archipelago", and "Panorama" on the "First". For about eight years Matskevicius dedicated NTV channel, where he was brilliantly engaged in parliamentary journalism. After NTV came under the control of Gazprom-Media, the leader, along with the entire team, left him. At the beginning of the two thousandth Matskevicius was a parliamentary correspondent on the TV-6 channel. The first Russian project in the reality show genre was not without his participation, in "Behind the Glass" an attractive Lithuanian and his reports looked organically.

Ernest Mackevicius: Biography

The future TV journalist was born in Lithuania on November 25, 1968. His father is the famous director and founder of the "Plastic Drama Theater" Giedrius Mackevicius. He is a Lithuanian by nationality. And my mother Marina Matskeviciene is a well-known journalist of Evening Moscow, the newspaper Trud, the magazine Krokodil. She's Russian. Ernest studied at the school in Vilnius, from childhood wrote poems, small stories and scripts for the puppet theater.

When the boy was ten years old, the family moved to Moscow. Here, Ernest graduated from the general education school.

When choosing a future profession Matskevicius decided to follow in the footsteps of his mother. In 1994, after serving in the army, he became a student of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.

Now Ernest Mackevicius is the most recognizable face of the Rossiya channel. Here the talented journalist has been working for more than thirteen years. During this time, he combines the profession of the author and the host program "Prolog", brilliantly conducts a talk show with election debates between opponents. From the middle of the two thousandth Ernest Mackevicius is the leading rating "Vesti" and "Vesti +".

Millions of Russian viewers remembered him as a constant interlocutor of the president in the annual television version of "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin: A Continuation."

Ernest has repeatedly become a member of entertainment programs. And in the adventure show "Fort Boyard" Matskevicius won. Since 2015, he, together with Marina Kravets, is leading the show "The Main Stage".

Personal life of journalist and TV host

Since 2003, Ernest Matskevicius is married. With a potential spouse, they checked their feelings for five years, and decided to marry him on his 34th birthday. The difference in age with the spouse is thirteen years. But this does not prevent them from being happy, consulting each other and making decisions together.

At thirty-five the TV presenter became a father. Alina's wife gave him his daughter Dalia.

In his spare time, which he does not have much, Ernest Mackevicius is engaged in karate, which has a green belt, plays the guitar and reads.

Interesting Facts

Ernest Matskevicius does not advertise his life outside the camera lenses. He is not distinguished by high activity and talkativeness in social networks.

Acquaintance with the future wife leading Ernest Matskevicius jokingly calls "political." And this is not surprising, because they met not somewhere, but in the Parliament building. It was there that Ernest Mackevičius was engaged in his journalistic issues. His wife, and then still a student of the tenth grade Alina Akhmetova, just came on an excursion.

Matskevicius prefers Lithuanian cuisine, and his favorite dishes are zeppelins and potato pancakes.

In his fridge, there should always be kefir, because this is the only food that he allows himself to take in the evening.

The surname of the well-known TV presenter and journalist does, in spite of the well-known rule of the Russian language, still be written through "yu".

Many viewers are surprised at the discrepancy between the external form and internal content in the leading journalist and Ernest Mackevičius. This is a bright, rather fragile person with a very serious and powerful attitude!