Fyodor Bondarchuk and Paulina Andreeva are a bright star couple who have been in the spotlight since the first rumors about their romance. The piquancy of the situation was added by the fact that for the sake of a new love, the famous director broke up with his wife after 25 years of marriage. Until now, the 20-year age difference between Fedor and Paulina remains a subject of discussion. To the disappointment of the public, Bondarchuk and his young lover talk little and rarely about their personal life, thereby generating even more speculation around their union.
Famous father's son
Fedor Sergeevich has long been accustomed to being under the scrutiny of journalists and fans. He was born in 1967 in the family of the famous director Sergei Bondarchuk and People's Artist of the RSFSR Irina Skobtseva. The fame of successful parents from an early age prevailed over Fedor. Perhaps that is why he grew up a bully, studied poorly and gave his parents a lot of trouble. However, in choosing his future profession, Bondarchuk Jr. listened to his father's advice and entered VGIK as a production director.
The training process was interrupted due to military service, and upon returning home, Fedor plunged headlong into the work of his own film company, Art Pictures Group. As a result, Bondarchuk received his diploma of graduation from VGIK only in 2009, already in the status of a famous director, who proved his creative solvency.
Fedor Sergeevich began his path to fame by filming clips, then there were vivid acting works in the films "Midlife Crisis", "Eight and a Half Dollars", "Down House", "On the Move". Finally, in 2005, Bondarchuk made his directorial debut - the film “9th Company” was released. The picture was recognized as the highest grossing at the end of the year in the Russian box office, and was awarded prestigious awards. Since then, Fedor Sergeevich has been successfully combining acting, producing and directing.
No less than professional success, fans have always been interested in Bondarchuk's personal life. Since the beginning of the 90s, he was officially married to model and TV presenter Svetlana Rudskaya. The couple had two children - a son Sergei and a daughter Varvara. They are now adults. True, Varvara Bondarchuk has developmental features and constantly lives abroad, where an accessible environment for people with disabilities is better organized. Sergey Bondarchuk Jr. continues the family business, acts in films and helps his father in the film business. He gave his parents two granddaughters - Margarita and Vera.
The seemingly long and strong family union of Svetlana and Fedor has been repeatedly tested in the format of gossip and scandalous interviews. In the metropolitan get-together, there have long been rumors about the constant betrayal of the spouses, who turned this marriage into a simple formality. For example, the star of the 90s, singer Lika Star found the courage to admit that she was Fedor's mistress for a long time. Although, despite the constant promises, for her sake, he did not dare to leave the family. Svetlana also had novels. Therefore, at the time of meeting Paulina, Bondarchuk considered himself a virtually free man.
Rising movie star
Paulina Andreeva was born in 1988 in Leningrad. By the way, at birth she was given the name Catherine, and she became famous already with a creative pseudonym. As a child, the future actress was engaged in dancing, played in school productions and delighted her parents with exemplary behavior. Having received her secondary education, Paulina went to study to be a journalist. One, two years later, left the institute and went to Moscow. She managed to enter the Moscow Art Theater School on the course of Dmitry Brusnikin and Roman Kozak.
During her studies, Andreeva made her theater debut: she played in the production of "Okolonol" by the famous director Kirill Serebrennikov. The young actress also began her career in cinema in her student years with small roles in serials. In 2013, her career took off with the release of two notable projects - the series Thaw and the dramatic thriller Locust. In "Thaw" Paulina flashed her vocal skills, soulfully performing the song of the same name by Konstantin Meladze. Andreeva consolidated her first film successes with her acting tandem with Konstantin Khabensky in the detective series Method (2015). To date, her filmography has almost two dozen roles.
Distance acquaintance
Fyodor Bondarchuk repeatedly mentioned in an interview that he first saw Paulina in the play "Number 13D" on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. Andreeva has worked in this theater since 2011 and gladly accepted the offer of Vladimir Mashkov, who took the director's chair in the new version of the legendary production. She got both the comic and sexy role of the secretary Jane Worthington. Andreeva performed almost all the action on the stage in underwear, exciting the imagination of the male part of the audience with a slender figure and model parameters.
The main male role in the play "Number 13D" was played by Igor Vernik. He is friends with Bondarchuk, so he invited him to his premiere. The bright and talented Paulina made a strong impression on Fedor. He began to take an interest in Andreeva's acting work and was pleasantly struck by the variety of genres, courage, natural liveliness of her roles. Soon Paulina and Fedor met personally. True, the famous director does not talk about the circumstances of the first meeting, referring to the privacy of his personal life. His young lover is also silent about this.
New love and protracted divorce
Rumors about the novel by Bondarchuk and Andreeva first appeared in the press in the fall of 2015. They did not find confirmation until, in March 2016, Fedor and his wife Svetlana announced their separation. At that time, the family experience of the Bondarchuk couple was approaching 25 years. In a joint statement, the spouses noted that they would like to remain close people to each other, and they made the decision to divorce without mutual grievances or contradictions.
A few months later, Bondarchuk officially introduced his new beloved to the public when he appeared with her on the red carpet of the Kinotavr festival. Defending Andreeva from attacks and accusations of the collapse of his marriage, Fedor admitted that he had not lived with Svetlana for a long time. And only after the beginning of the relationship with Paulina, he finally decided to settle the formalities with the divorce. True, this process is clearly delayed. The Bondarchuk couple officially broke up three years ago, and according to the papers they are still married.
Journalists give different versions of why Fedor will never become a free man. Among the reasons for the delay in the divorce, they mentioned his quarrel with his son Sergei, who did not take the news of his parents' breakup badly. According to another version, the Bondarchuk spouses cannot agree on the division of property and joint business.
Happy present
However, formalities do not prevent Andreeva and Bondarchuk from enjoying their happiness. In January 2016, the young actress took part in the "Cinema in Details" program hosted by Fedor on the STS channel. Attentive viewers already noted with what delight he speaks about his guest and looks at her with undisguised admiration.
The audience wonders when director Bondarchuk will remove his beloved in his film. So far, the couple's business cooperation has been limited to Andreeva's performance of the soundtrack to the fantastic tape "Attraction" - one of the last works of Fedor. And the participation of the young actress in the projects of his studio Art Pictures is dictated, according to Bondarchuk, solely by the wishes of the directors of these films.
According to him, in Paulina he most of all values decency, honesty and an excellent sense of humor. Andreeva, in turn, notes that their relationship is based on dialogue, although sometimes she does not mind giving up the leadership position to Fedor. At the same time, lovers do not seek to extract additional benefits from their relationship. Although they often appear together in public, their privacy is carefully guarded from increased attention. All questions about the wedding, assumptions about Andreeva's pregnancy do not receive official comments, remaining at the level of rumors. Only occasionally on the personal pages of Fedor, Paulina or their close entourage can you see shots from the couple's travels together, cute informal photos in the family circle or publications dedicated to each other.
Next to his new passion, Bondarchuk does not feel the notorious age difference at all. He says that loving Paulina every day changes his life for the better. Friends of the director also note these changes. They believe that Fedor was lucky to meet his man and build trusting, harmonious relationships.
Bondarchuk and Andreeva do not make far-reaching plans. However, viewers do not give up hope of seeing Paulina in the role of the bride not in the cinema, but in real life. Time will tell whether the star couple will live up to the expectations of the public.
