Actor Pavel Vishnyakov won national love with his role in the TV series The Return of Mukhtar. And now he has captivated the audience with his participation in the show Dance with stars. Let’s take a closer look at the biography, the best roles and the personal life of the handsome actor.
The charismatic Pavel Vishnyakov is the idol of fans of the cult TV series The Return of Mukhtar. Today, the actor is busy with Ukrainian television and film projects, wins the hearts of the audience of the show Dances with Stars, lives in Kyiv, and, as they say, found his love here. Let’s take a closer look at the popular favorite.
Pavel Vishnyakov – childhood and youth
Pavel Mikhailovich Vishnyakov was born on June 10, 1983, in Mogilev (Belarus). Pavel’s parents were not related to the world of art, both of them are representatives of technical professions. But Pasha himself showed creative abilities from childhood: the boy loved to arrange home concerts, drew well, and made various crafts (cardboard houses, plasticine figures, etc.). He studied well at school, went in for sports and music.
In high school, Pavel enrolled in a local drama club. A handsome, tall, athletic guy was noticed and they began to give him more and more significant roles. This determined Pavel’s further life path: having received a matriculation certificate, Vishnyakov went to Minsk, where he submitted documents to the State Academy of Arts. And got it on the first try!
Pavel Vishnyakov – theater actor
While still a student, Vishnyakov began performing on the stage of the State Musical Theater (Minsk). At the same time, the film debut of the young actor took place: in 2003, he appeared in one of the episodes of the Russian-Belarusian TV series Heaven and Earth.
After graduating from the academy in 2004, Pavel joined the staff of the National Academic Drama Theater. Gorky. He was involved in various productions – “Crocodile”, “Threepenny Opera”, “The Taming of the Shrew” and others. Vishnyakov’s theatrical career developed very successfully, in his creative baggage, there were already more than 20 roles. However, the actor dreamed of a movie.
Pavel Vishnyakov – film career
Between 2005 and 2008 Vishnyakov starred in small roles, as a rule, these were films by Belarusian directors. Everything changed when the series “The Return of Mukhtar” appeared in Vishnyakov’s life.
When in 2009 director V. Zlatoustovsky was going to shoot the 5th season of The Return of Mukhtar, he had to find a replacement for Alexander Volkov, who left the project, in a short time. Pavel Vishnyakov was informed about the samples in the series by Moscow acquaintances. The young actor decided to try his hand – and he was approved for the role of Maxim Zharov.
As Vishnyakov himself later said, in order to get used to the role, he had to purchase DVDs with the recording of the series and watch them all. It’s funny, but before Vishnyakov had no idea about this series!
After the release of the very first episodes of the 5th season of the series “Return of Mukhtar”, 25-year-old Pavel Vishnyakov woke up famous. And soon this project began to take more and more space in the life of a young actor.
Filming took place in Kyiv, and Vishnyakov had to travel there several times a month from Minsk. In 2008, Pavel left the theater and came to grips with the development of his film career.
In 2014, the 9th season of the series was released, and as the actor himself says, he was at a crossroads:
“In 2014, we filmed the last season of the series in Ukraine, and a very difficult period began for me. There was a lot of betrayal from people who became close to me during the filming. They said one thing to their eyes and another behind their backs. I even thought about quitting my job. But when the opportunity to think soberly returned, I considered two options: either I start work from scratch in Istanbul, or I take a vacation and go to Kyiv.”
However, the project was closed in Turkey, and Vishnyakov left for Kyiv. As he recalled to you, he planned to go fishing, but he immediately got on the set of the series. There was a lot of work, there were prospects, and in 2015 the actor made an important decision – he moved to Ukraine.
In 2016, fans could see the actor in two Ukrainian melodramas “Singer” (Sergey Kremnev) and “Ask Autumn” (Igor).
In the spring, a TV series with his participation, “Opera on call” (Vishnyakov plays the main role – captain Artem Trofimov), was released on television.
Pavel Vishnyakov – personal life
According to the actor, he did not regret his move to Ukraine for a second. But to say that the decision was easy for him, he also could not: everything was complicated by the fact that in Moscow he still had a “love thread”.
The series “The Return of Mukhtar-5” turned out to be fateful for Vishnyakov not only creatively, but also personally. On the set of this series, Pavel met actress Svetlana Bryukhanov. In the series, she played the role of police captain Ekaterina Kalina.
Pavel was carried away by a beautiful blonde, he wanted to help her, patronize her. He surrounded her with care, did everything to make her work comfortably, and no one offended her. All this brought them closer.
“We spent a lot of time together. And in one moment it grew into a relationship. We were together for about a year, ”said Pavel Vishnyakov about his relationship with Svetlana Bryukhanova.
At the end of the project, the actors went to their cities. Svetlana returned to Moscow, and Pavel returned to Minsk. They continued to communicate by phone and video, Vishnyakov came to Moscow (he had an apartment there). However, the relationship did not stand the test of distance. And although the media repeatedly married the actors, in the end, Vishnyakov and Bryukhanov broke up.
“After filming, we lived together for a while. Now it’s hard for me to call it love … It was an office romance. No more, ”this is how Pavel comments on his relationship with Svetlana.
How is Vishnyakova’s personal life developing now? The actor is in no hurry, to be frank. By his own admission, his heart is busy. It is known that the actor met his chosen one at the club, just on the eve of filming in Opera on Call. Vishnyakova’s girlfriend is not from an acting environment, which he is very happy about, because he believes that relationships with actresses are relationships on a powder keg.
After the brilliant performance of the duet of Pavel Vishnyakov with Yulia Sakhnovich on the show “Dances with Stars”, all viewers began to attribute to the actor an affair with a charming partner.
However, Pavel commented on the rumors briefly:
“I have the most beautiful and the best partner. And we’ll leave it without comment.”
Pavel Vishnyakov – 5 quotes about changing your image, your shortcomings, and love
- I started going to castings and from the threshold, I heard: “Ah, this is from Mukhtar. We’re not interested.” Because of this, by the way, I shaved my head, I wanted to be different. In 2015, when I moved to Kyiv, I avoided this type and started everything from scratch. No one had seen me bald before and didn’t know me.
- I try to do my own stunts. Fights were the hardest for me. The psychological factor plays, I’m afraid to harm my partner. Therefore, I ask meticulously where and how to beat.
- During times of stress, I sip chocolate on both cheeks.
- I am short-tempered. I can slash from the shoulder but quickly retreat.
- I had a loved one, for whom I was ready for anything. Absolutely everything! This was the girl with whom I wanted to live my whole life. But this story is over. Almost a year has passed since then. But I can’t erase the emotions I’ve experienced from my life. It seems to me that when I feel that this is my person, I will calm down. And, perhaps, I will say goodbye to the status of a bachelor.