Igor Petrenko is a popular Russian actor, known for his films Zvezda, Driver for Vera, Taras Bulba and the Sherlock Holmes TV series. As often happens, his love affairs and marriages interest the public no less than creative projects. This is the third time Petrenko meets her life partner among her fellow actresses. True, the sad experience of previous relationships taught Igor to avoid publicity, so practically nothing is known about his new wife and children.
Family problems and divorce
The news about family problems in one of the most beautiful couples of Russian cinema - Ekaterina Klimova and Igor Petrenko - appeared in the press in 2013 and unpleasantly upset their fans. By that time, the couple were married for the 10th year, they had two wonderful sons, Igor also took care and raised his wife's daughter - Lisa - from past relationships. The actors often gave interviews in which they shared their marital happiness. They did not hide that, at times, it is not easy for them with each other, but love and desire to stay together help to overcome any difficulties.
Therefore, when a scandalous video appeared on the network in which married Yekaterina Klimova was kissing a young musician Roman Arkhipov, not everyone believed in the veracity of this story. Petrenko himself had to clarify the situation. Like a real man, he took responsibility for marriage problems. He confessed that he had problems with alcohol for a long time, recently paid little attention to his family, not showing up at home for months. Therefore, at some point, the wife simply ran out of patience, and she found solace in the arms of another man.
The couple decided to take a break in their relationship to figure out the future of their family. Fans believed to the last in reconciliation and a happy reunion of the couple, but in the summer of 2014 they filed for divorce. True, both did not remain alone for long. In June 2015, Ekaterina married actor Gelu Meskhi, who is 8 years younger than her, and on October 2 they had a daughter, Bella. Igor, judging by the chronology of events, began to build new relationships even before the official divorce from Klimova.
New wife
Petrenko became a father for the third time less than six months after the divorce with Ekaterina Klimova. At the end of December 2014, his first daughter was born. The mother of the girl was actress Christina Brodskaya, who is 13 years younger than her famous husband.
She was born in 1990 into an acting family. Her parents, like her grandparents, played on the stage. The family, together with little Christina, in 1992 decided to change their place of residence. So, the girl was born in Vladivostok, and two years later she and her parents moved to Omsk, where she spent her childhood and youth. Brodskaya, according to her recollections, grew up as a very independent child, calmly remained alone at home from the age of 4. During her school years, at the insistence of her parents, she attended many additional classes: gymnastics, basketball, music and art schools.
In 2003, Christina had a younger brother, Alexander, and she took an active part in raising the boy. Brodskaya began to think about the acting profession at the age of 12. Moreover, she had the opportunity to perform several roles on the stage of the Omsk Drama Theater, where her parents served. After graduation, the girl went to study in St. Petersburg, where she was enrolled in the Academy of Theater Arts. True, at first she chose the Faculty of Economics for herself, but a year later she also wanted to study acting. Therefore, I became a student of two faculties at once.
Of course, it was not easy for Kristina to prepare for a session in two specialties. Fortunately, the father, who came to visit, agreed with the dean's office to postpone some of the exams to a later date. And over time, Brodskaya managed to establish such a parallel study in two directions. In 2014 she received her diploma in acting. At the same time, her parents and brother moved from Omsk to St. Petersburg.
Christina made her film debut in 2011, starring in the crime series "A Matter of Honor" in the role of the protagonist's girlfriend. Then she had many serial works, but the first fame came after the melodrama "Tatiana's Night" in 2014, where Brodskaya played the main character Tatiana Golubeva. Later, the girl admitted that she had been thinking for a long time about participating in this series, since the plot was replete with explicit scenes, and she, due to her natural shyness, is having a hard time getting naked in the frame. By the way, in "Tatiana's Night" and several other projects, Christina starred in early pregnancy. Colleagues for a long time did not suspect that she was in a position, because changes in the figure of the expectant mother became noticeable only by the sixth month.
Family life of Petrenko and Brodskaya
When and under what circumstances the acquaintance of Brodskaya and Petrenko took place, the journalists did not manage to find out. The actors refuse to comment on the details of their personal lives. It was rumored that the eldest daughter of the couple, Sophia-Carolina, who was born in 2014, was not born from Igor, but from another man - Christina's former civil husband - actor Artyom Krylov. He himself fueled these rumors by telling how Brodskaya left him for Petrenko, already pregnant. The other participants in this love drama prefer to remain silent.
Christina shared only the story of her daughter's double name. According to her, she and Igor could not come to a common decision, so they called the baby two names at once, which both greatly liked. In order not to miss important moments in his daughter's life, Petrenko tried to take his family to all his shooting. For example, in the summer of 2015, Christina and her daughter lived with him in Crimea, when Igor was filming Viking.
The lovers decided to officially register the relationship when the actress was pregnant with her second child. In autumn 2016, the press learned that the couple secretly signed and got married in Kaliningrad. The ceremony was attended only by a narrow circle of friends and relatives, including the sons of Petrenko from the marriage with Klimova.
Already in January 2017, the second daughter of the spouses was born, and her parents still keep her name a secret. Two years later, in January 2019, Petrenko and Brodskaya became parents for the third time. They had a daughter again. The baby, like her older sisters, was born in St. Petersburg. Moreover, Igor learned about the joyful event during the play "Arc de Triomphe" on the stage of the Gorky Palace of Culture. The news came as a complete surprise to the fans, since the couple did not advertise Christina's pregnancy.
Despite the expansion of the new family, Petrenko finds time to communicate with Matvey and Korney - sons from Ekaterina Klimova. A father with many children sometimes publishes photographs from family cultural outings with a new wife and three older children. Parents are leaving their youngest daughters at home.
When asked about her husband, Christina says that happiness loves silence and continues to remain silent, leaving family life with one of the most attractive actors in the country under a veil of secrecy.
