Actress Elena Drobysheva followed in the footsteps of her famous parents and became famous throughout Russia. However, the actress's love life is not very happy. Celebrity biography on her 61st birthday remembered Starhit.
Acting family
Elena Konyaeva was born in Moscow on December 3, 1964. Her parents are creative people: Vitaly Konyaev and Nina Drobysheva met on the set of the film “Clear Sky”. The artists seemed to be an ideal couple, but the union broke up after 9 years of marriage. Even though they broke up, the ex-husband and wife were still able to maintain their friendship. Lena was mainly raised by her grandmother – her parents constantly disappeared in theaters and on film sets.
“I always missed my mother. I was obsessed with her, always waiting for her, asking about her. To me, she seemed like a real angel, with whom everything was fine,” Drobysheva said.
Konyaev did not disappear from his daughter's life and enrolled her in a prestigious school that favored the French. Despite the attachment to her father, at the age of 16 the girl decided to change her surname to her mother's. Meanwhile, Nina Drobysheva married Vyacheslav Butenko. This marriage also broke up, but the actress gave birth to a daughter, Christina – Elena admitted that as a child she did not get along with her sister, but later they became close.
Fate brought Elena Drobysheva to the theater studies department of GITIS, she dropped out after the first year. During her training, the student realized that a critic should not scold an actor but should guide and create. The girl decided to become an artist herself and entered the Shchukin school, although her mother was skeptical about this idea.
Success in career
After receiving her diploma, the artist joined the Moscow Drama Theater named after Ruben Simonov, where her teacher Evgeny Simonov was the artistic director. After the death of the artistic director in 1994, the atmosphere in the institute changed. Drobysheva decided to move to the Mossovet Theater, and then to the Theater and Directing Center.
The public knows the artist from movies. Drobysheva first appeared on the screen in the 80s, playing in the film Meeting Before Parting. Then she got the main role in the movie “Pedestrian”, and after a while she played the central character in the projects “If I Knew…”, “French and Russian Love” and “Seventeen Left Boots”.
In the 00s, her career continued with roles in dozens of television series: she played both the wife of oligarchs and a single mother. Many people remembered her in the films “Heart Arrhythmia” and “Anna Karenina” by Sergei Solovyov. In recent years, Drobysheva continued to be invited to participate in famous projects – “T-34”, “Old Piano”, “Infidels”, “Soldier's Mother”, “Hunting”.
The marriage was not successful
At the Shchukin school, the artist met playwright Dmitry Lipskerov, who had long been courting her. Drobysheva's mother initially did not approve of their marriage.
“Love. Pointless fighting against the goal. And everyone saw and understood this. Her mother, Nina Ivanovna, was so unimpressed with the marriage of Lena and I that she even tried to organize a small riot at the wedding. The reasons were somewhat bad: sweets, the youngest daughter… Either she ate too much, or vice versa,” said the playwright.
According to Lipskerov, during the marriage, Lena's grandmother took over all the household chores, and the couple did not know how to rebuild their life. The playwright felt like a foil to his mother-in-law. In addition, she exerts control over her daughter – for example, she persuades her to organize a boycott of her husband after he sells a bracelet he found on the street. After a month of silence, it turned out that according to some unwritten rules, the man was obliged to give the found jewelry to the woman. So Nina Ivanovna got the bracelet.
However, Drobysheva did not just listen to her mother on the matter of jewelry found on the street. One day, she took her daughter to have an abortion.
“At the time they made this decision, I dragged myself to the Central Writers' House with my pitiful pennies to buy my wife the tomatoes that she had loved so much during her pregnancy. In winter, they were sold with almost no pink color, but I was convinced that at least some vitamins remained in them…”, says Lipskerov.
The playwright realized that he and his wife had different worldviews – this was the reason for the separation.
“Let Dima not be offended, but this marriage was a mistake. We divorced 11 months later and I was very relieved. At the same time, we remained in contact,” Drobysheva said later.
New marriage and rumors about son
The second time, Elena Drobysheva married her colleague Alexander Koznov. The marriage produced a son, Philip. In the 90s, the couple faced poverty, leading to quarrels and divorce. The boy became the pride of his mother: he studied to become an economist, worked in France and then returned to Russia.
At the same time, in 2019, rumors appeared that Philip left the business and began to lead a bohemian lifestyle, which is why he had to return to Russia. Some media reported that the artist's son is being treated for drug addiction. The family did not want to comment on the rumors.
Then, in 2023, Elena's mother died. Two months later, her father also passed away. Meanwhile, Philip appeared in the studio of the program “Life and Fate” – he showed no signs of addiction. The nephew shared that he took care of Nina Ivanovna during the last months of her life. The actress's son at that time was studying at a theater university.
