Julia Vysotskaya is a Russian actress and TV presenter, author of popular cookbooks. For many years she has been happily married to the famous director Andrei Konchalovsky, brother of Nikita Mikhalkov.
Biography of Julia Vysotskaya
The future actress and TV presenter was born in 1973 in Novocherkassk. The girl's father soon left his wife and daughter, and Julia's mother married a second time. The stepfather was a military man, and the family often had to change their place of residence. Traveling gave Julia a rather romantic nature, and she began to dream of a creative career. Vysotskaya made the right choice, not becoming involved with Moscow universities, and quite easily entered the Minsk Academy of Arts, where she studied at the acting department.
After receiving her education, Julia Vysotskaya began working at the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater of Belarus. She stayed in this institution until 2004, when she finally decided to settle in Moscow, and later became an artist of the Mossovet Theater. This was preceded by Vysotskaya's successful film career, which began to take shape in the early 2000s. At first, she got insignificant roles, but the actress did not lose heart and gained much-needed creative experience.
One of the first major films with the participation of an aspiring actress was The House of Fools, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. This career experience was closely connected with Julia's personal life: shortly before this, the famous director made her a marriage proposal, and later the actress starred mainly in his works. The audience especially remembered the films "Gloss" and "Paradise", which won many Russian and international film awards. Also in the "piggy bank" the actress has roles in the films "Max" and "Soldier's Decameron", filmed by other, but also experienced directors.
Since 2003, Vysotskaya has been the host of the author's culinary show "Let's Eat at Home!", Which was launched by the NTV channel. For this large-scale television project, Vysotskaya was awarded the prestigious TEFI prize. Over time, the program grew into a brand of the same name, combining several areas of activity of a talented artist and TV presenter. Dozens of popular cookbooks have been published under the Eat Home brand, a culinary studio, several restaurants, an online store and the Edimdoma.tv channel have been opened. Together with her husband, Julia even achieved the opening of a whole network of healthy food under the same name, which is partially funded from the state budget.
Julia Vysotskaya's husband
In 1996, being an aspiring artist, Yulia Vysotskaya attended the Kinotavr festival in Sochi. There she met the famous director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. Soon they began to meet, and Julia everywhere followed her lover, who organized the shooting of his films around the world. In London, Vysotskaya even managed to graduate from the prestigious Academy of Music and Art, expanding her knowledge and skills. Immediately after graduation, the couple played a wedding.
Andrei Konchalovsky is 36 years older than his chosen one. Despite this, they get along well and do not experience difficulties in family life. Julia gave her husband a son Peter and a daughter Maria. In 2013, misfortune came to the family: Masha was in a serious car accident, because of which the doctors had to enter her into an artificial coma. Since then, the couple began to behave more restrained in public, not spreading news about themselves and loved ones. Only once Andrei Konchalovsky told reporters that his daughter's health was gradually stabilizing.
Julia Vysotskaya now
In 2014, rumors appeared that Vysotskaya was pregnant again, but they did not find confirmation. All the family's attention was focused on their daughter, who was discharged from the hospital and transferred to home preservation in Italy, where the family has their own apartment building. Soon, her parents moved Maria to Russia. They are patiently waiting for their daughter to come out of the lingering coma. There are all the prerequisites for this.
Julia Vysotskaya continues to engage in creative activities. She performs on television and on the stage of the theater, develops her culinary projects. In 2018, a talented woman was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. At the same time, Andrei Konchalovsky is busy filming his new film Dear Comrades, in which his beloved wife will again play the main role. The premiere of a large-scale film with a budget of 150 million rubles is expected in 2019.
