Dmitry Kharatyan, theater and film actor. Biography

Dmitry Kharatyan was born on January 21, 1960 in the city of Almalyk, Tashkent region of the Uzbek SSR. The actor's father Vadim Kharatyan was a teacher at a technical university. Mother, Svetlana Tizenko, worked as a civil engineer. On his father's side, Kharatyan is a quarter Armenian, this nationality at his request was indicated in his first passport.

Parents divorced when Dmitry was six years old. Until then, the family managed to live in Lipetsk, and then moved to Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. Here the future screen star graduated from school number 9, about which to this day keeps warm memories.

In his school years, Kharatyan was fond of music and performed in the school ensemble, becoming a real star of the institution. And in high school successfully auditioned at "Mosfilm" and got his first role - ninth-grader Igor Grushko in the musical melodrama Vladimir Menshov "Rozyгрыш". The director was looking for a teenager who sings well and plays the guitar. Kharatyan perfectly suited to this role.

The movie was released in 1976. The picture became one of the leaders of the box office and was awarded the Central Committee of the Komsomol, the highest governing body of the Komsomol, as the best movie for youth. The budding actor himself did not doubt for a second that his life will be connected with the cinema.

After school, Kharatyan entered the Higher Theater School named after Shchepkin - the famous "Shchepka". Being a student, he continued to film. During this period, tapes with his participation are released "Fox Hunt", "Feast of Lanterns" and a number of others.

Filming had to interrupt for the time of service in the army. In 1984, the young actor, who has already had time to marry and have a child, called to the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He served in the fire department of Moscow. According to the artist, the idea of "otkosit" he did not have and he went to carry out the service with full responsibility, stating in an interview that the army was for him a necessary and useful thing.

After the service, Kharatyan returned to the movies again. In 1987, he starred as Alyosha Korsak in Svetlana Druzhinina's adventure movie "Gardemarines, Go!". It was thanks to this picture actor gained all-union fame and became an idol of millions, four years in a row holding the title of the most popular artist of the country.

Then followed work in the films "Private Detective, or Operation "Cooperation", "Mordashka", "On Deribasovskaya good weather, or on Brighton Beach again it rains", "Secrets of the palace coups" and participation in the continuation of the movie epic about the gardemarines - "Vivat, gardemarines!", "Gardemarines III" and subsequent releases.

In total, in the movie the actor performed more than a hundred roles. Since the late 1990s, Kharatyan actively performed on the theater stage, and played in the musicals "Merry Guys", which was held on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater, and "Love and Espionage" Maxim Dunayevsky, staged on the basis of the play "Eyes of the Day" by Elena Gremina.

In addition, in the 2000s, the artist debuted as a TV host and tried his hand as a producer. He also released several disks with songs of his own performance. His repertoire includes songs from movies, compositions by Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexandra Pakhmutova, Bulat Okudzhava and other authors.

For his contribution to the development of national culture and art, the actor was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. In 2021, he was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree, and in 2024 - the Order of Friendship.

Dmitry Kharatyan has been married twice. The first time he married in his student years to a classmate Marina Burimova. In marriage, the couple had a daughter Alexandra. She received an education in finance, and later trained as a producer. Now together with her husband lives in Sweden. The second wife of the actor was actress Marina Maiko. The couple married in 1997, eight years after meeting. A year later, a son Ivan was born. He graduated from the directing department of VGIK and in the summer began shooting his debut film "Caruso" about the Siege of Leningrad.

In 2025, the main midshipman of the country turns 65 years. His anniversary actor will celebrate the concert, which will sound the famous songs from the movies "Gardemarines, forward!", "Green Van", "The Roast", "Afonja", "The Irony of Fate" and many others. Then the artist will go on tour and release a record with the songs included in the anniversary program.