Valeria Lvovna Kudryavtseva (russian: link=no, Валерия Львовна Кудрявцева, Лера Кудрявцева; born May 19, 1971), best known as Lera Kudryavtseva, is a Kazakhstani-born Russian television presenter, actress, singer, and dancer.
Biography
Kudryavtseva was born in
Ust-Kamenogorsk
Oskemen ( kk, Өскемен, translit=Öskemen ), or Ust-Kamenogorsk (russian: Усть-Каменого́рск), is the administrative center of East Kazakhstan Region of Kazakhstan. Population:
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in 1971 in an ethnic Russian family. Although initially dreaming of a career as a doctor, Kudryavtseva enters the local cultural institute. While her sister moves to Moscow, Kurdyavtseva stays in her hometown and starts working at the local
House of Culture, organising concerts. One of the concerts happens to be with the then popular boy band
Laskovyi Mai
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. After marrying the band's drummer Sergei Lenyuk in 1990, Kudryavtseva starts working as a backing vocalist and dancer for several bands and artists, including
Evgeny Osin.
Moving to Moscow, Kudryavtseva starts studying at the
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts
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. In 1995, Kudryavtseva passed a screen test to become the co-presenter of the programme ''Partiynaya zona'' on the small television station
TV-6, alongside
Igor Vernik
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Biography
Igor was born in 1963 in family of Emil ...
.
In 2002, she had her big breakthrough as a presenter, hosting the inaugrial edition of
New Wave with
Maksim Galkin
Maxim Alexandrovich Galkin (russian: Максим Алeксандpoвич Галкин; born 18 June 1976) is a Russian comedian, television presenter and singer. Galkin left Russia in March 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was ...
. The broadcast became one the most watched television programme of the year 2002 in Russia. Kudryavtseva has hosted the competition every year since.
Kudryavtseva also became one of the most well-known presenters on the Russian commercial television station
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with programmes as ''Zvyozdy soslish. Next to that, she started presenting the programme ''Secret for a million'' in 2016, in which famous celebrities answer controversial questions about their own life to earn money for charity.
Kudryavtseva has stated that her dream guest would be Russian President
Vladimir Putin
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.
Personal life
From 2004 until 2007 she was married to Matvei Morozov (born 1972).
She was in a relationship with musician
Sergey Lazarev
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev ( rus, Серге́й Вячесла́вович Ла́зарев, , sʲɪrˈɡʲej vʲɪtɕɪˈslavəvʲɪtɕ ˈlazərʲɪf; born 1 April 1983) is a Russian singer, dancer and actor. He is most famous for his sin ...
from 2008 to 2012.
She is currently married to Igor Makarov (since June 2013), the couple had a daughter (born 2018).
References
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1971 births
Living people
People from Oskemen
Russian television personalities
Russian Orthodox Christians from Russia
21st-century Russian singers
21st-century Russian women singers