Oksana Fandera: latest news, age, biography, personal life, photo, social networks

It’s safe to say about actress Oksana Fander that she was lucky not only in her profession, but also in her personal life. It’s not very often in the world of show business that you find such strong families as this beautiful woman’s.

Of course, over the many years of marriage, everything happened to Oksana and her husband, director Philip Yankovsky, sometimes the marriage literally hung by a thread, but they still managed to maintain their union, overcoming all the difficulties and disagreements.

Oksana Fandera and Philip Yankovsky

Biography and personal life of Oksana Fandera

The famous acting family of the Yankovskys is known for its moral principles and strict family traditions. Therefore, when Philip brought his future daughter-in-law into the house back in 1990, his parents were unenthusiastic about his hasty choice.

Oleg and Philip Yankovsky

It soon became clear that Oksana was expecting a child. Then the father and mother of the groom changed their anger to mercy, and the wedding took place. In October of the same year, the newlyweds had a son, and a few years later a daughter was born.

Oksana and Philip in their youth

By the time she met Philip, Oksana Fandera had already worked as a model, took second place in the capital’s beauty contest and became a student at the theater institute.

Oksana and Philip at the event

She was born in Odessa in the fall of 1967 into the family of a descendant of a noble gypsy family, and the girl’s mother had Jewish roots. Oksana inherited her bright southern appearance and acting abilities from her father; he starred in Soviet films and worked in the theater. The further fate of the young beauty was predetermined, and Oksana herself dreamed of cinema.

A busy work schedule did not prevent the actress from becoming an excellent wife and mother of two children.

It cannot be said that everything was perfect in Oksana Fandera’s personal life; sometimes unpleasant events happened.

Oksana with her son and daughter

In the early 2000s, Yankovsky Jr. made several successful films and video clips and became a prominent person in the world of cinema. The young man's directorial works brought him not only popularity, but also substantial fees. Professional success turned the head of Oksana Fandera’s husband; he started an affair and decided to leave his wife.

At this tragic moment, Philip’s father, the legendary actor Oleg Yankovsky, who was an indisputable authority for his son, took the side of his daughter-in-law. Thanks to his intervention, everything ended well. Oksana Fandera's husband came to his senses, and the couple continued to live together.

The actress has been married for more than 30 years. She calls freedom and justice the main secret of mutual understanding in the family.

Other unfavorable circumstances could not separate the spouses. Later, the actress helped Philip Yankovsky cope with severe addiction and overcome a serious illness.

Children of Oksana Fandera

The family of Oksana Fandera and Philip Yankovsky has two children - Ivan and Elizaveta. Both of them followed in the footsteps of their parents, chose a creative profession and received acting education.

Oksana with her son Ivan

Ivan successfully acts in films, he has been awarded several prestigious awards, including for best actor.

Lisa is just beginning her journey in art, she works in the theater, and in 2020 the young actress made her debut on the set.

Oksana Fandera: “Just raise the blinds”

Oksana Fandera © Photo: Vlad Loktev.
Jewelry: KOJEWELRY 10/11/2017Maria Lemesheva Editor-in-Chief Maria Lemesheva met with the actress and learned not only the secrets of film sets, but also the recipe for raising children, as well as long-lasting love.

a meeting with Oksana Fandera for a long time. But she stubbornly insisted on waiting for the role that was important to her. Finally, everything coincided: Oksana has two serious projects at once - the space drama “Salyut-7” and the retro crime series “The Elusives”. Plus an anniversary! Editor-in-Chief Maria Lemesheva met with the actress and learned not only the secrets of film sets, but also the recipe for raising children, as well as long-lasting love.

Oksana, you are one of those rare actresses who, having gained popularity, decide not to appear everywhere, but, on the contrary, become extremely picky in choosing roles and events. But for an actress, “waiting” is a big risk...

I agree to a project if something seems interesting to me. I only have intuition and the desire to be in a quality process. My master Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vasiliev from the very beginning sharpened us, like pencils, on the process, and not on the result. It should be good, difficult, interesting, that's all.

I really love your Lyuba in “Brothel Lights,” impressed by the small but so bright Needle in “State Councilor” - especially from the scene before the explosion, when the tough revolutionary heroine becomes a fragile, vulnerable girl who only dreamed of love. Which character is especially dear to you?

I really love “Board Lights.” And why... The stars just rose that summer: I began to acutely feel the need to thank my mother and the city, which for me is absolutely like a living person. At that time, my mother had been gone for several years. And then Alexander Gordon appeared, who also had a need. Its. His father Harry Borisovich wrote an amazing story, based on which Alexander decided to make a film, and we coincided in the desire to thank the people close to us and our native places. We didn't rehearse - we talked, we just had fun. Sasha, I remember, called me to the monitor, I walked up and shuddered because I saw my mother there... I love the needle. I wanted a role of resistance - something that is not at all organic for me. We did photo tests, and when they were ready, I suggested: let’s just wash my face, pull my hair into a ponytail, draw on freckles, and nothing else will happen. And I was approved. You gave the right examples: I like these works because they make it possible, when discussing the result, to happily remember the process - complex, but of high quality.

How did you bribe Salyut-7?

I wanted to plunge into something that would never happen in my life. I'm a total coward when it comes to heights: that is, everything that flight is, from elevators to airplanes, not to mention rockets, is for me... mmm... a test. But the thought that people did it, are doing it and even enjoy it, made me decide and treat the proposal as some kind of psychoanalysis sessions - perhaps, being inside a spacesuit and alone with my fears, I will be able to overcome the phobias that are painful for me. In general, I accepted this challenge. (Laughs.)

Oksana Fandera in Salyut-7

The film begins with a scene in which your heroine - partly based on the astronautics hero Svetlana Savitskaya - works in outer space. Reveal the secret: did you perform complex stunts yourself?

I didn’t prepare specifically, but I did everything myself. I have to tell you, it’s very difficult to work in a spacesuit: it’s unbearably hot, stuffy, it hampers your movements. In a huge hangar, they built special mechanisms that lowered and raised us on cables. It was necessary to simulate a state of smoothness, as in weightlessness. People in space, in airless space, are in a slightly fetal position, so, for example, they strapped me to a chair so that there was such correct body plasticity.

The series "The Elusive" is coming out soon . There you have the role of a charming thief. Considering your scrupulousness in choosing roles, what was it about Firochka that caught your attention?

Firochka... Esfir Leonidovna Fatinson... French chic and Odessa manners. And boundless devotion to your lover. And a total-fatal love of risk... In general, the key to my nature is the word “Odessa”. As soon as the city in which I was born and raised appears in a conversation, I turn around, begin to look intently into the person’s eyes and say: “Continue...” Volodya Vinogradov began his acquaintance with me precisely from this. The director, who, it should be noted, had never been to Odessa before this project, managed to find such the right words that I believed: he knows this city, this unique human environment, this nature of humor, feels the same way as I do. Plus a brilliant costume department, amazing make-up artists! This is when you understand that this is real creativity!

The series has a 50s aesthetic. The look suited you very well - hats, chiffon dresses, fildepers stockings. What style do you prefer in life?

I don't really follow fashion. Sometimes fashion follows me, because when I act hooliganly or dress something very casually, after some time my friends and acquaintances say: cool, it’s probably fashionable! (Laughs.) It seems to me that clothes, just like speech, are a means of self-expression. And if the body is the clothing of the soul, then, probably, clothing is not so much clothing for the body as for the soul. Therefore, when choosing an outfit, look not only in the mirror, but also deep inside yourself - your feelings will not deceive you.

Oksana Fandera in "The Elusive"

You became known throughout the country as a finalist in the first beauty contest in the USSR in 1988. Since then, the image of a seductive beauty has been firmly entrenched in you. And just after “State Counselor” it became clear that you were ready to experiment with your appearance. Tell me, would you, for example, decide to gain 20 kilograms like Charlize Theron when she was preparing to work in the film “Monster”?

Well, let’s do this: I’ll answer you everything - yes! (Laughs.) I'm not afraid of anything. I don’t think that if someone once called you beautiful, it’s a dogma. Someone, on the contrary, may look at me and think: “How terrible she is.” I can't answer the question of what I would like to play. I only know how to say “thank you” for what I receive. I am sure there are forces that guide us: call them whatever you want, God, Light. It’s just that someone says: “I myself,” and then the Light says: “Okay, I’ll wait a little aside for now, until you yourself...” And someone says: “I completely trust what is happening to me. I know that I am just a means...” So it seems to me that if something can be said and expressed through me, then I am ready to be a conductor.

And since we are talking about beauty: you are the mother of two adult children - slim, young, sexy. Besides genetics, what else is in your arsenal?

In my DNA there is Karl Marx Street, the corner of Deribasovskaya Street, that’s all. I don't play sports, I'm extremely lazy. I’m that nervous type of woman who, when she’s worried, doesn’t eat at all, she just can’t.

Although most do the opposite.

But then the majority, when everything is fine, can control themselves, but I eat, and, Masha, you don’t need to see how much food I can eat! (Laughs.)

Oksana Fandera © Photo: Vlad Loktev. Jewelry: KOJEWELRY

Your husband, Philip Yankovsky, is a talented director and actor. You often work together. Doesn’t this lead to any unnecessary disputes for the family or, on the contrary, does it bring you closer together?

Philip and I have an unspoken rule: I don’t read the scripts of his films unless he offers it to me. That is, there is no such thing: I’ll read, and then over a cup of tea I’ll say: “Or maybe it’s me, dear?” I clearly understand: if the director doesn’t offer it, it means he simply doesn’t see me there. And, to be honest, Philip, with great reluctance, so it seemed, took me into his paintings. (Laughs.) It so happened that every time I rescued either him or the actress. But I must say: working with him is a special pleasure. And as with a director - he always knows exactly what result he needs, and as with an actor - he is a wonderful artist and a subtle, very delicate partner.

A couple of years ago, you and Philip celebrated your silver wedding, which in our time is already an event among creative people. When I interviewed your husband, he spoke about you with great love and appreciation. What is the strength of your love?

You know... it's like a rope, clothes and a clothespin - all for each other. A clothesline without clothes is not needed outside. Laundry will not hang without a rope. But the laundry will not hang on the line if there is no clothespin. And which of them is what for each other... Our relationship is a certain form of a game, a child’s game. We enjoy the way we exist next to each other. We do not have an obligation, we do not have the coordinate system that is usually accepted in the family. And we continue to learn from each other some very important things for the growth of each of us.

A mother’s special pride is her children. Son Ivan has already become a star, and deservedly so. Recently our magazine awarded him the prize for “Event of the Year” in cinema. Lisa's work is coming up. Are you a strict mom?

Strict, perhaps even excessively. Was. She praised only to the point. When they were little, I was clearly not the kind of mother who supported the child, no matter what and no matter how he did. I admit this with regret. Now I would behave differently, but apparently the fact is that my mother raised me that way, and my grandmother raised her that way. This is probably some kind of Jewish code when they say: “No, you see: Seryozha also has a violin, but he plays better. Look what he achieved!” - and my whole childhood went like this. With my children, I went into this “pedagogical” and extremely indelicate side of education a couple of times, but then I realized that this is a colossal pressure on the child’s psyche. But I was a maximalist and a perfectionist, and I had the same high bar, of course, in relation to children. It was difficult for me to endure the lack of movement, and the children always knew: if you stop, stop growing, developing, then this will entail a serious and not very pleasant conversation with Philip and me. They went to a regular school - I insisted on this, and Philip supported it - there were no expensive cars with drivers and other VIP attributes. This also helped lead to these two people getting their priorities straight. They know: it is important not how, but what, not the form, but the content, not the result, but the process.

Oksana Fandera © Photo: Vlad Loktev. Jewelry: KOJEWELRY

Did you help in any way when you learned that children choose acting as a profession?

No. I said that you need to “marry” in this profession exclusively on your own, so that later there will be no painful “divorce”. Ivan first enrolled with one master, studied for six months at the acting department, and then independently decided to change the workshop and transfer to Sergei Zhenovach for directing and acting. I really like what he does in the theater and in cinema - he is one of those who “want to get to the very essence of everything.” He is categorically not satisfied with proposals where you just have to be, and, yes, I have to admit, he even managed to amaze me with some episodes in the film “Queen of Spades”, when I stopped recognizing him altogether...

And then Lisa decided to go the same way...

...And you, I think, can imagine our shock with Philip! After studying for two years with a very strong teacher, she decided that acting education was not enough for her; she also wanted to be involved in directing. She entered the directing and acting course at GITIS and is absolutely happy. Lisa is an amazing, unique in some sense combination of the incongruous, external and internal. She falls outside the scope of all roles - despite the appearance of an absolutely lyrical heroine, she has a completely rebellious, characteristic, so to speak, content. Thank God, now the time has come when this has become worth its weight in gold. (Laughs.) I go to her for acting exams, and how wonderful it is! This generation is completely different - they are complex, very deep, fast-paced, unusual. And watching how Lisa swims in this “river”, how she dives and emerges, grabs air with her lungs and dives again is a pleasure. I don’t think that the main reason for the children’s development is Philip and me. They just probably chose us because they needed to take something from us and move on. We matched. We needed them to understand something, and they needed us.

Fans of your Instagram, and there are many of them, also know about Fandera’s talent as a photographer. Where does this passion come from?

My son opened Instagram for me, he said: “Mom, well, you’re a modern person...” I hung a single photo there (it was Odessa). And I forgot about the page. And then there was an argument with one of my friends, I successfully lost it and received an assignment: to post at least one photo every day for a year. Thanks to this bet, I learned to take photographs and completely fell in love with this world through the eyes of a phone. Sometimes, when I start looking at photographs that I have clicked a huge number of in a couple of minutes, I am amazed to discover some details that I did not see during the shooting. And it becomes a kind of drug - to catch and discern the signs that are sent to you. In general, I am a kind of pearl fisherman who now knows for sure that pearls are scattered everywhere, you just need to see them, collect them and... give them away. Because he is for everyone.

On November 7 you celebrate your anniversary...

...I have a humorous attitude towards this. Anyone who knows me very closely would tell me that I am not lying at all when I fall into a stupor when asked about my age: at that moment a comical intense work begins inside me. The fact is that I have an extremely difficult relationship with numbers and memory in this regard, and this has always been the case. This is a kind of mathematical dyslexia: every time, in order to answer how old I am, I am forced to subtract from the present year, which is now, the year of my birth, and thus I remember and understand how old I am now. (Laughs.)

Yes, I didn’t want to ask about age! I'm just talking about the celebration - are you planning something grandiose?

I have a difficult history with birthdays... You know, I had a wonderful, happy southern childhood, I ran home when they shouted from the balcony: “Oksana, cutlets!” And then “Good night, kids!” and at 9 pm you had curfew, there was a routine. But nevertheless, in this happy childhood of mine there were no marks... Or were there, but I don’t remember? (Thoughtfully.) I don't like my birthdays. When I got older, I began to think: what’s the matter? Then I realized that the reason, perhaps, is not quite the right attitude towards myself, or something... I love to congratulate myself, I love to give gifts, but I suffer to the point of headache if all this concerns me and I need to live up to all the praise addressed to me. A few years ago, my friends gathered at night under my house in their cars: champagne, balloons, flowers laid out on the hood, my favorite music from the speakers throughout the whole area... Because, knowing me, they didn’t even expect me to invite them to the house. And I, standing on the balcony, laughed, cried and begged: “Don’t, please... God, please don’t.” It’s such a feeling of inadequacy - they really think I’m like that, but I... So I’ll try to escape this time too. I would, you know, fall asleep on the 6th and wake up immediately on the 8th - that would be an anniversary. (Laughs.)

You laugh so charmingly. Do you often feel the urge to smile? And how have your emotions changed over the years?

They haven't changed at all! I am not protected from tears: with age, I have not built up a defense against situations, words, people and events that lead to them... But! The most wasted day is a day without laughter. I love to laugh and I just love to see and hear people laughing. And yes, it seems to me that nothing has changed, I’m still the same. It's just that you either raise the blinds or you don't. And behind them is the same child, he is not going anywhere. Just raise the blinds!

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Nationality of Oksana Fandera

As a child, Oksana suffered a lot because of her Jewish roots, so she preferred to call herself Ukrainian. Moreover, Fander’s surname originates from the Ukrainian word “fanda”. There is also a version about the Romanian origin of the actress’s surname.

Oksana is proud of her family, so even after marriage she did not want to become Yankovskaya. Born in Odessa, the woman still has a special relationship with this city and remains its devoted fan.

The mixture of Gypsy, Ukrainian and Jewish blood provided Oksana with a daring character and explosive southern temperament, which are noted by all her acquaintances.

Latest news about Oksana Fandera's family. Instagram actress

In 2020, the actress turns 53 years old. She still looks great, retains her external attractiveness and girlish slim figure. With a model height of 171 cm, Oksana weighs 62 kg.

Oksana Fandera with her husband and son

The woman actively maintains her page on Instagram, where she often posts new photos. There are many pictures on her account with her daughter Elizabeth, everything suggests that they are quite close and understand each other well. Many of Oksana’s posts are dedicated to her pet – a large white dog, which the actress adores and calls by various affectionate nicknames.

Oksana's daughter Liza Yankovskaya

Fandera often attends social events with her husband Philip.

This beautiful couple looks great together. Apparently, Oksana and Philip are one of those people for whom the years spent together can only benefit them.

Oksana appreciates her belonging to the famous Yankovsky artistic dynasty, to which she also pays a lot of attention on social networks.