Vera Sotnikova is a famous TV presenter and actress, who is called one of the most beautiful divas of Russian cinema. Throughout her life, she was accompanied by various men, the most famous of whom is the singer Vladimir Kuzmin.
Biography and creativity
Vera Sotnikova was born in 1960 in Stalingrad, which was renamed Volgograd a year later. The family was a worker: father worked at a factory, mother at a telephone exchange. Together with Vera, her parents raised her older sister Galina. The girls were actively instilled with a love of art, visiting theaters and museums with them, reading poetry and stories together. Vera was also very fond of performing on stage during her school years. After receiving the certificate, she made an attempt to enter the Saratov Theater School, but she did not succeed.
A year later, Vera Sotnikova tried to pass the entrance exams to Moscow State University, but again failed. And yet she was lucky at the auditions at the Moscow Art Theater School, where the girl was accepted to study at the workshop of Oleg Efremov. Vera successfully graduated from the university in 1982 and soon began working at the theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Subsequently, she moved to the theater. Anatoly Vasiliev, having also worked in other cultural institutions of the capital.
In 1983, Vera Sotnikova first appeared on movie screens. She took part in the filming of the film "Find Guilty." After that, the aspiring actress performed small roles in the films "The Most Charming and Attractive" and "Courier". Sotnikova performed more significant roles in the films "State Border" and "Right to the Past." No less successful was the military-themed dramatic film Gu-ha, released in 1989. The next films with the participation of the actress were "Ten Years Without Correspondence" and "Hunt for a Pimp".
The audience was delighted with the talented actress and admired her beauty. She never stopped acting in films, even in the difficult 90s. Sotnikova played in such famous films as "Alaska Kid", "Byron", "Queen Margot" and others. In the 2000s, the actress more and more often got roles in multi-part projects, including "The Fifth Corner", "Dasha Vasilyeva", "Lyudmila". In the same period, Vera Sotnikova made her debut as a TV presenter: she began to host the popular show "The Battle of Psychics" on the TNT channel, as well as the program "Club of Ex-Wives".
Personal life
Possessing an attractive appearance, Vera Sotnikova attracted dozens and even hundreds of men to herself, but she honored the attention of only a select few. She was the first to charm a man named Yuri Nikolsky, who beautifully looked after the actress and said that he was restoring valuable exhibits. They entered into a marriage, in which a son, Yang, was born. As a result, it turned out that Yuri was an ordinary janitor who was unable to feed his family. Soon he left his wife and daughter, and Vera filed for divorce.
At one time, Sotnikova met with an entrepreneur from Germany Ernst Pindur, but she did not dare to marry him. She was so focused on her career that she sacrificed even loved ones: she rejected her longtime boyfriend, and left her son in the care of her mother in Volgograd. Soon, Vera nevertheless found love in the person of the artist Vlad Vetrov, but he was replaced by the extravagant singer Vladimir Kuzmin.
This star couple lived in a civil marriage for more than seven years. Vladimir pondered their future for a long time and eventually decided to part with the woman. He was already married before, and also became a father five times, so he decided to step aside and not make more mistakes in his personal life. Sotnikova did not remain alone for long and began to meet with producer Renat Davletyarov. The couple quickly broke up, unable to find a common language. The same fate befell the next boyfriend of the actress, Donetsk actor Dmitry Malashenko. According to Vera, she sincerely loved each of her men, but fate did not allow her to find personal happiness.
Vera Sotnikova now
Currently, the actress avoids the topic of relationships, and it is not known exactly whether she has a chosen one. In 2018, journalists noted the sympathy that arose between Vera Sotnikova and the finalist of the 19th Battle of Psychics, Grigory Kuznetsov. And yet, the communication of the two TV stars did not go beyond the set.
Now Vera Sotnikova is happy about the fact that she recently became a grandmother. Unfortunately, the parents of Maxim's grandson divorced, and the boy stayed with his mother in Naberezhnye Chelny. The actress maintains a warm relationship with him. She is making active attempts to return to the cinema and has already been announced for the main role in the film "Fools" directed by Artyom Mazunov.
