Natalya Bochkareva in a nurse's costume. Natalya Bochkareva now

The traditions of performing arts strictly delimit the roles, often fixing them for many years. Beautiful young actresses play lyrical heroines or fatal beauties; comic roles require a distinctive appearance. Natalya Bochkareva managed to combine beauty, the ability to achieve success in life and an incredible comic talent.


Truly nationwide fame came to Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva after the release of the popular series "Happy Together" on television screens. The magnificent red-haired Dasha Bukina became one of the highest-rated TV heroines, and for a long time Natalya Bochkareva lived, as it were, in the shadow of her screen image. However, then, to the surprise of her fans, she dramatically lost weight, changed her hair color, then became the host of the Ukrainian STB channel. Given the young age of the actress, there is no doubt that she will surprise everyone with her transformations more than once.

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was born and grew up not far from Moscow. She was born on July 25, 1980 in Nizhny Novgorod (then Gorky). Her parents worked at the famous Gorky Automobile Plant, her mother was an accountant, and her father was a worker; later, another daughter appeared in the family. Natasha grew up as a cheerful and active child. She attended literally all school circles, danced and embroidered, studied at the school theater studio, and over time, despite her small stature, she even entered the modeling school and starred for several magazines. Despite the fact that everyone around noted

the undoubted artistic talent of the girl, she did not even dream of a stage, and in high school, succumbing to the persuasion of her parents, who dreamed of her daughter's material well-being, she attended courses for young entrepreneurs. However, after graduating from school, Natasha did not go into business, but decided to go into journalism. She wrote notes on youth topics for several Nizhny Novgorod publications, and in search of interesting material she often attended performances, interviewed visiting celebrities. Soon Natasha realized that she herself would like to be in the role of an interview.

a popular star, and even argued about this with her aunt, who claimed that she would not work as an actress. Therefore, when the girl caught the eye of an advertisement for admission to the theater school of her native city, she, without hesitation, went to the entrance exams and successfully passed them. Together with her classmates from the workshop of R. Levite, the girl often came to Moscow for the weekend to watch famous performances. Inspired by the performance of the capital's actors, after the first year of school, Natalya tried to enter GITIS, but failed.

Graduation below

City Theater School Natalya Bochkareva played the main character in the play "Orca". This production won first place at the Nizhny Novgorod theater festival, and the role of Bochkareva was awarded a special prize. Then Oleg Tabakov visited the school, looking for talented students for his studio school, and Natalya received an invitation to study at the Moscow Art Theater School, where she was accepted immediately into the third year.

The student years were not easy for the girl. She starved in the literal sense of the word, and even worked as a waitress in a cafe, where

met her future husband, lawyer Nikolai Borisov. In 2002, having already received her second diploma in artistic education, Natalia Bochkareva became an actress at the Moscow Art Theater. Literally from the first days of work, she took part in the most famous productions of this theater. The young actress played in "The Cabal of the Hypocrites" (Rival), "The Last Victim" (Pivokurova), "The Violin and a Little Bit Nervously" (Girlfriend), "The Tattooed Rose" (Flora) and other performances. In addition, Bochkareva played Vasilisa in the famous play "At the Bottom" staged by O. Tabakov, and participated in

entreprise "Russian Lotto" of the Sergey Lavrov Center.

Natalya began her film career as a student, starring in 1999 in an episode of the film "Chinese Service". He was followed by a number of small roles that were not even listed in the credits, but the characteristic external data of the actress and her artistic talent contributed to more and more frequent invitations to shoot.

In 2005, Bochkareva played several minor roles - Lisa in the "Zone", Irina Protvina in "Lawyer-2", Inna in "Kulagin and Partners", etc. Then Natalya received an invitation to the casting of new

th family sitcom, and was approved for the role of Daria Bukina, although her rival was the famous Evelina Bledans. Daria's screen age was much older than that of Bochkareva, she endlessly ate sweets and watched TV, dressed ridiculously, did not understand why a woman needed to work - and at the same time she was simply a resounding success with viewers.

In 2007, during a break between filming, Natalya and Nikolai got married, and soon their first child, Ivan, was born. Natalya, who lost weight after giving birth, at the request of the director, restored her magnificent forms and continued

sorry to shoot. In 2008, her daughter Masha was born.

The popularity of the actress made her in demand in other projects. In 2010, she starred in the film "Megajungles", became the host of the show "People Live" on the NTV channel, and also divorced her husband, which no one around for several years had any idea about. In 2011, having completed the fifth season of the sitcom that made her famous, Natalya Bochkareva moved to Kyiv, where she became a member of the TV project Dancing with the Stars. In the process of filming, she not only learned to dance beautifully, but also lost weight.

20 kg, completely transforming himself. This result amazed Ukrainian viewers and directors, and Natalia was invited to host the show "Star and Happy" on the Ukrainian channel STB, the theme of which was the weight loss of its participants. In addition, the actress starred in the crime drama "Quarter" and the melodramatic series "Fathers and Sons". Currently, the actress lives in Moscow. Her children went to school, and Natalia has a great relationship with their father. The popular TV star studies directing courses, is engaged in painting, equestrian sports and loves to travel very much.

Natalya Bochkareva is a Russian actress, screenwriter, director, singer, TV presenter. She graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School under the direction of Oleg Tabakov. She became famous for the role of the caustic housewife Dasha Bukina from the TV series Happy Together.

Childhood

Natalya Vladimirovna Bochkareva was born on July 25, 1980 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), USSR. Her parents worked at the GAZ plant, her father was a worker, and her mother was an accountant. Natalya Vladimirovna has a younger sister, Nadya (born in 1986).

Natalya's parents disappeared at work all the time, so the girl was raised by her aunt. She took Natalya to several circles at once: burning out, ditties, folk songs, drama circle. The girl stood out for her artistry, performed at all holidays and children's matinees. Most of all, she loved to communicate with her father, she went fishing with him with pleasure.


Natalia graduated from the nine classes of school No. 129 in Nizhny Novgorod. As a teenager, according to her, she was an obedient child, “didn’t drive bad companies, didn’t drink port wine in the gateway.”

In 1995, her aunt “on the contrary” pushed her to enter the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School, expressing doubt that Natalia would succeed. For the audition, Bochkareva prepared a monologue of the Little Mermaid. As soon as she uttered the first phrase: “Oh, the sun!”, She was immediately signed up for the second round, where the girl amazed the examiners with folk ditties. She was accepted into the workshop of Riva Yakovlevna Levite.

Studying at the theater became a real test for Natalia. The one-way trip took one and a half to two hours, I had to get up very early. For the first couple, Natalya came half-dead from lack of sleep. And she returned so late that she had to do her homework in the bathroom, sitting on the washbasin, so as not to wake her sister Nadia.


Despite such a workload, Natalya managed to earn extra money as a journalist for a local newspaper - she wrote articles about celebrities who came to Nizhny Novgorod. She was persuaded to work in the newspaper by a former Afghan who lost both legs in the war, a journalist by profession. Bochkareva wrote her first article about Yevgeny Petrosyan. She managed to get to know him, and the master even invited her to Moscow, on a tour of the Laughter Panorama studio.

Her teacher, noticing that Natalya was sleeping in class, lent her money so that the girl could leave her parents and live in a hostel near the school. So at the age of 15, Bochkareva left her parental home and began to live an independent life.

Parents in general did not approve of their daughter's choice - they wanted Natalya to become an economist. Only when Oleg Tabakov called their home phone and asked to call Natalya, the shocked mother and father realized that their daughter was on the right track.

Youth

Natalia did not make big plans for her acting career. There were many good theaters in Nizhny Novgorod, and she wanted to get a job in one of them. Her fate in 1998 was dramatically changed by a meeting with Oleg Tabakov, who brought the play "Death Number" to Nizhny Novgorod. The acquaintance turned out to be a little comical: the fact is that they collided with Tabakov ... in the toilet. Bochkareva, terribly worried, approached him and said that she wanted to study with him.

Oleg Pavlovich was tough on artists, and Natalya was no exception. Oleg Pavlovich took her immediately to the 2nd course. When he introduced her to the students of the Moscow Art Theater School, Tabakov said: “Here is an artist from Nizhny Novgorod, she came to improve our acting skills.” After that, the newcomer was immediately disliked, and she had to work with double diligence to gain respect.

It was Oleg Tabakov who once advised Natalya - and she has naturally blond hair - to dye her hair dark.

In 1998, Natalya first starred in a cameo role in Eldar Ryazanov's film "Chinese Service", where Sergey Bezrukov shone.


In 1999, a tragedy happened in Bochkareva's life: her mother died. She fell on the threshold of the apartment, and after 2 hours she died. His father passed away, unable to cope with the loss. The actress called the loss of her parents "a shock, like a discharge of 220 volts to the very heart."

She, a sophomore, who studied from 9 am to 9 pm, had to get a job as a waitress at the B2 nightclub, sending most of her salary to her aunt in Nizhny Novgorod - the woman raised 13-year-old Nadia. Later, the sister moved to Natalia in Moscow.

Carier start

After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School in 2002, Natalya worked at the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov, in the performances "The Cabal of the Hypocrites", "Playing the Victim", and many others. In the Moscow theater-studio Oleg Tabakova was busy in the play "At the bottom" in the role of Vasilisa. Like all the actors of the Snuffbox, she gave 10% of her fee from filming movies, commercials and serials to the budget fund of the theater.


After several years of work, Bochkareva had to leave the Moscow Art Theater - she refused to play the role of a drug addict, who dismembered her daughter in one of the scenes. “It went against my principles,” Natalya recalls. However, the actress never blamed Tabakov for the dismissal. According to her, in those years at the Moscow Art Theater there were frictions between the management, and in the acting environment there was an unspoken taboo on refusing roles.

In 2004, the actress played an episode in Karen Shakhnazarov's film A Rider Called Death, based on the autobiography of Russian terrorist Boris Savinkov.

At that moment, Natalya's sister Nadya began to study at the Academy of Law, but quickly realized that it was not her, and eventually became an Aeroflot stewardess.

"Happy together"

In 2006, Bochkareva received an offer to star in the TV series Happy Together, the Russian adaptation of the American sitcom Married ... with Children. The series was supposed to be filmed at the film studio. Gorky with the participation of consultants from Sony Pictures. She hesitated to agree or not, because it meant constant filming, and she was already loaded in several theaters at once. Oleg Pavlovich helped her to make a decision, in his inimitable style: “I know this series, in America it is very popular. Are you going to play the horse-faced woman? Excellent. Dare!”.


Natalya Vladimirovna was supposed to play Dasha Bukina, a careless lazy housewife, who, nevertheless, attracted the audience with her sense of humor, kindness and easy attitude to life. Initially, Evelina Bledans auditioned for this role, several pilot episodes were filmed with her, but her performance did not suit the producers.


Bochkareva, who was not yet thirty, was supposed to play a 40-year-old woman. To visually age the actress, her hair was dyed red, and vulgar makeup brought the matter to an end. In 2007-2008, the actress had to shoot while pregnant.


On May 4, 2008, a series appeared on the screens in which the heroine Bochkareva in the frame uttered the phrase "I'll go and paint my breasts by Easter." The Moscow Patriarchate filed a lawsuit, but it was rejected due to insufficient grounds.

Happy together. Trailer for new episodes

All the actors of the series were engaged in charity work - they transferred part of their salaries to orphanages. Then Natalya found out that children do not always reach and decided to act differently. Together with model Natalya Vodianova, also a native of Nizhny Novgorod, the actress went to Krymsk, which was affected by the flood. Together they gave concerts for children whose parents drowned during the flood, played with them, and helped financially.

Natalya Vladimirovna was busy in this series until 2013. The last seasons have moved away from the American version and were filmed according to original Russian scripts. She became friends with other actors of the project: Viktor Loginov, who played her screen husband, as well as Daria Sagalova and Alexander Yakin, who embodied the images of Sveta and Roma Bukin.

Later career

On the one hand, this work brought her popularity, on the other hand, the actress became a hostage to one role. After Happy Together, her career began to decline. No one wanted to see the talent of a dramatic actress behind the image of the eccentric Dasha Bukina, who had become attached to Natalia. She had to express herself in other professions.


In 2011, Bochkareva participated in the Ukrainian version of the show "Dancing with the Stars", where she performed in tandem with Evgeny Karyakin. Their couple was twice recognized as the best according to the results of the audience voting. The actress admitted that this show captured her, because all the time she had to fight and overcome herself.

Dancing with the Stars: Natalia Bochkareva and Evgeny Karyakin, tango

In August 2011, she became the host of the STB program Call and Happy, an adaptation of the American show The Biggest Loser. Together with a nutritionist and a psychologist, she told how to get rid of extra pounds. The guest of the first broadcast was Larisa Dolina, who managed to lose weight in 7 days. There were 20 participants in the program, divided into 2 teams. Within 5 months they had to lose weight under the supervision of a personal trainer.

Interview with Natalia Bochkareva on Kuban 24 TV channel

The actress knew firsthand what a war with excess weight is. After the birth of her second child in 2008, she recovered to 120 kilograms. She managed to get rid of half of this weight in just a year: she limited herself in food (it was especially difficult to refuse evening snacks), increased physical activity, which Dancing with the Stars seriously contributed to, and soon surprised fans with a figure even more slender than before. .


In 2014, Bochkareva became the victim of a robbery. The robbers broke the window of the apartment, took out a safe with jewelry and a sum of money of 60 thousand dollars.

The actress graduated from the Higher Directing Courses, became a member of the Union of Cinematographers and the Union of Theater Workers. Her graduation work was the short film "On the Road".

Directed by Natalya Bochkareva - the film "Free Day"

In 2016, her directorial debut came out - the mystical drama "Free Day", which tells about how people forget loved ones, striving to climb the career ladder. Filming was carried out at the estate of Mikhail Lermontov. During filming, the actress was nervous and worried. Her boyfriend Alexander Kononenko offered to help with the film, but Bochkareva replied that it was better not to touch her now. When she showed her beloved the finished work, Alexander was amazed: he did not expect such a serious work from Dasha Bukina.


Personal life of Natalia Bochkareva

In 2000, Natalya Bochkareva met her future husband, lawyer Nikolai Borisov. Borisov protected her from being "molested" on the train. Only much later did Natalya find out that Borisov's personal chauffeur and his wife's older brother played the role of "hooligans", and the whole situation was orchestrated.


Nikolai was married and had children, so the actress had to wait 7 years for her beloved to divorce. They both dreamed of children, but Bochkareva received a terrible diagnosis: infertility. The actress went to many clinics in the hope that they would help her somewhere, but all in vain. When she was already desperate, a miracle happened, and she managed to get pregnant. The boy Vanya was born on January 4, 2007.


September 28, 2007 Natalia Bochkareva and Nikolai Borisov finally got married. The wedding was attended only by relatives and actors from the series "Happy Together". The groom drove up to the building of the Meshchansky registry office in a black limousine, and the bride in a white one. Immediately after the wedding, the actress went to the shooting of the series.

On February 22, 2008, Bochkareva gave birth to her second child, a girl, Masha. Also in the family with them lived Alice, Natalya's stepdaughter, Nikolai's daughter from his first marriage.


In 2013, Natalya and Nikolai divorced. The reason was that Borisov did not accept her lifestyle: constant touring, moving, filming. When Bochkareva decided to enter the Higher Directing Courses, Nikolai called her "an eternal student."

Despite the disagreements that arose, the actress claims that the marriage was happy. She spoiled her son and was strict with her daughter, and Nikolai, on the contrary, indulged Masha and put Vanya in the frame.

After the divorce, Natalia, according to some sources, had a short affair with married actor Vladimir Feklenko.


In 2012, the actress traveled to Jerusalem with Masha. Together they walked the Way of the Cross of Christ, the "road of sorrow", and then went to Bethlehem.


In 2014, Natalya Bochkareva had a conflict with singer Natalya Shturm. The singer bought several apartments abroad and earned them by renting. The actress, who was, if not on friendly terms with Natalia Shturm, then definitely not bad, decided to rent an apartment in Spain for a month and made a deposit. But she never entered the rented housing - her apartment in Moscow was robbed. After the robbery, Bochkareva demanded to return her money, citing the fact that she never moved into the apartment. The assault refused, citing the fact that she had lost other clients, and hinting that the robbery of the actress’s apartment was a planned action. Bochkareva called her a "fraud".

Conflict between Natalia Bochkareva and Natalia Sturm

In 2016, it became known that Natalya Vladimirovna was dating Alexander Kononenko, a designer from the School of Repair program. They met in the corridor of the TNT channel, and for the first time they spent the evening together after the concert of Andrei Kovalev. Alexander is 6 years younger than the actress.


They were first seen together at the Cannes Film Festival, where the actress showed her short film Free Day. After the show, where Alexander helped Bochkareva cope with the excitement, they went to the premiere of Pedro Almodovar's film "Juliet". After the festival we went to Antibes and Monaco. Kononenko on social networks has repeatedly expressed admiration for his talented chosen one. And Natalya called him a wise and kind person who treats everything in life with philosophical calmness.

Alexander established a good relationship with Masha and Vanya. Once, when Natalia needed to urgently go to the shooting, he volunteered to look after the children and spent several days with them.

Natalia Bochkareva's favorite artist is Queen, her favorite song is Show Must Go On. Her childhood idol was Yura Shatunov.

The actress admitted that she did plastic surgery: she enlarged her breasts, corrected her nose and cheekbones.


Natalya Bochkareva now

On May 26, 2018, in the building of the State Duma, Natalya congratulated Vladimir Zhirinovsky on his birthday. She gave the deputy her painting with a view of Lake Geneva. The actress became interested in painting at school, she decorated all her compositions and tests with beautiful drawings. During a lull in her acting career, she staged several exhibitions of her paintings.


December 23, 2018 Natalia Bochkareva began her career as a singer. She posted her debut song "Get Out" online, based on real events and experiences. The song was to become the anthem of "strong and self-sufficient women". When the song hit music platforms at midnight, the actress opened a bottle of champagne. True, the track did not gain many auditions, which upset her very much. Which, however, did not stop her from releasing the next song, the track "Martini".

Natalya Bochkareva - Get out

On September 18, 2019, Natalya Bochkareva published a post on Instagram in which she criticized her subscribers. The claims of the actress were as follows: when she posted a photo with a neckline, likes fell like a cornucopia. And posts about the sick girl Nastya or the arrest of Pavel Ustinov did not get even a tenth of that number of likes. According to Natalya Vladimirovna, society is mired in lust and indifference. Everyone is only interested in who drives which car, what he eats in a restaurant, and what kind of spillikin he wears. The actress urged the public to show more mercy and participation.

A few days later, Natalya found herself embroiled in an unpleasant story. On September 27, the media reported that traffic police officers stopped a Cadillac car driven by Natalya Bochkareva. The behavior of the woman seemed strange to them. In the underwear of the actress found 0.69 grams of cocaine.

Video of the detention of Natalia Bochkareva with cocaine

Despite the fact that the video of the actress's detention got into the network, Natalya and her representatives insisted that the video was either not her, or it was a crude montage. However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that the detainee was actress Natalya Bochkareva. Moreover, 8 unpaid fines by Natalya surfaced.

Natalia's colleagues on the TV series Happy Together agreed that the video was most likely not real, since in all the years of working together they had not a single reason to suspect Bochkareva of using drugs.

The actress gained fame thanks to the role of Dasha Bukina in the TV series Happy Together. However, in the new photo shoot, the actress appeared in a completely different way.

Natalia Bochkareva's driving experience is more than 15 years. The 36-year-old actress has been fascinated with powerful cars since she was a teenager. Therefore, Natalia decided to appear in a new photo shoot in the form of a very sexy auto mechanic.

According to Bochkareva, she wanted to try herself in the image of a strong woman. The actress admits that even as a child she never imagined herself a princess. At the photo shoot, she tried to create the image of a liberated auto mechanic, which is characterized by both femininity and beauty. For Natalia, all this is connected with powerful cars that have always fascinated and attracted her. Bochkareva never had a female small car.

Natalia generally got used to trust only herself. She herself can change the engine oil or check the operation of the carburetor. According to the actress, she knows the structure of the car and has always preferred a car not an automatic machine, but a mechanic. During filming, she even spray-painted a car. Natalya saw a certain romance in getting dirty with fuel oil.

Natalya Bochkareva also admitted that the image of a sexy auto mechanic was also liked by her chosen one, Alexander Kononenko, who supports her in all endeavors.

Now the actress is actively involved in sports and dreams of acting as Lara Croft with a weapon. She wants not just to pick up pistols, but to feel like a female shooter.