Gela Meskhi is a Russian theater and film actor. Young and talented, he confidently goes to success. Films with the participation of Gela are always marked by an interesting plot and excellent acting.
Name: Gela Meskhi
Date of birth: May 13, 1986
Occupation: theater and film actor
Zodiac sign: Taurus
Marital status: married
Childhood and youth
Gela Meskhi was born on May 13, 1986, in the Georgian city of Gori. Such an unusual name was given to the boy by his father, in whose family there were Spanish and Georgian roots, Gela’s mother is Russian. The boy’s childhood passed not in Georgia, but in Russia. The civil war forced the family to move to Moscow.
In Moscow, Gela went to school, but as he himself says, he failed to study for “5”. The boy preferred to spend time on the football field or participate in school activities. When it came to the final exams, Gela realized that he would not pass them.
At school, Gela was supported by his teacher of Russian language and literature, who noticed in the boy a talent for reciting poetry. So Meskhi began to travel to all kinds of reading competitions and receive his first awards.
As a schoolboy, Gela Meskhi began to study at Spesivtsev’s theater studio. There he mastered the basics of the acting profession and soon realized that he had found his job. After school, the young man submitted documents to GITIS.
After studying at GITIS for a year, Gela wanted to act in films and decided that VGIK would help him with this. But there, the aspiring actor also did not study for a long time and transferred to the Moscow Art Theater School. The actor Konstantin Raikin became the master of the Meskhi course. Gela liked the teacher’s approach, so studying was easy and interesting for him.
Actor career
During his studies, Gela Meskhi began to play at the Moscow Art Theater in the productions of Silence is Gold, Valencian Madmen, and Hamlet. As soon as Meskhi finished his studies at the Moscow Art Theater, he was invited to star in the film Hamlet. XXI”. Gela got the lead role in the film and received the Best Actor in Film award for it at the Amur Autumn Film and Theater Festival.
In 2011, the popular TV series “Physics or Chemistry” was released. In it, Gela Meskhi also played the main role – the young man Alexei “Alex” Weinstein, who is in love with his teacher. The series brought the actor wide popularity.
Then the actor starred in two more films “Astra, I love you” and “It’s simple.” The roles were small but generally successful. In parallel, Meskhi began to play in the theater. Stanislavsky.
In 2013, the actor gets the lead role in the film “Son of the Father of Nations.” This is a difficult picture that tells about the fate of the son of Joseph Stalin – Vasily. The life of the protagonist was very tragic and it was a difficult task for Gelato to convey this on the screen. The actor gained 10 kg for the film and was very convincing in his role.
A year later, director Sergei Ginzburg, with whom Meskhi worked on the film “The Son of the Father of Nations,” again offered the actor to collaborate. In 2015, the film “Wolf Sun” was released, it tells about the events in Poland in 1924. Gela Meskhi played the main character – an employee of the OGPU Mikhail Ostanin. During one of the scenes, Gela was injured – a cart ran over his leg, but the actor did not interrupt the scene and continued to play. The film received positive reviews from critics and was warmly received by the audience. Filming took place in Lviv, the Khmelnytskyi region, and Minsk.
Then the actor starred in several more films. Critics have repeatedly noted that Gela Meskhi is a talented actor and is able to embody any image. Very often, the actor is compared with his colleague Sergei Bezrukov. Between them, they notice not only external but also acting similarities.
Another successful project in the actor’s career was the Black Cat series, filmed in 2016. The crime drama was based on real events that took place in the city of Krasnogorsk after World War II. Meskhi again took on one of the main roles. Some of the characters in the series were based on the characters in The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed.
In 2017, Gela Meskhi took part in the large Sobibor project. The film was the directorial debut of Konstantin Khabensky. The picture is very complex, it reveals the events of the Second World War and in particular the only successful uprising in the Nazi death camp Sobibor. Many of the characters in the film are real historical characters.
Konstantin Khabensky invited Meskhi to work on the image of his hero on his own. And it is worth noting that the actor did a great job. For the film, Gela lost 6 kg.
Personal life of Gela Meskhi
Gela Meskhi is married to Russian actress Ekaterina Klimova.
The couple met on the set of the film “Wolf Sun”. Gela immediately began to show signs of attention to Catherine, but at first, she did not reciprocate. Then Catherine divorced her husband Igor Petrov. But still, the actress gave up and she and Gela began to meet.
No one knew any details about the personal lives of the actors and the secret wedding of the actors in July 2015 became a sensation. A year later, their daughter Bella was born. Gela and Ekaterina are also raising Klimova’s three children from previous marriages.
Filmography of the actor
- 2009 – Hamlet. XXI Century
- 2010 – Adult daughter, or Test for …
- 2011 – Physics or Chemistry
- 2012 – Astra, I love you
- 2012 – It’s simple
- 2013 – Son of the Father of Nations
- 2014 – Wolf Sun
- 2015 – Shot
- 2015 – Men and women
- 2015 – Guardian
- 2016 – Bouncer
- 2016 – Black cat
- 2018 – Men and women
- 2018 – Embassy
- 2018 – Barge 752
- 2018 – Sobibor
