Balakirev Konstantin: a promising supporting actor

Balakirev Konstantin is a young promising Russian actor. During his eight-year career, he managed to play in 29 pictures and gain popularity with the audience.

Facts from biography

About the family and childhood actor known bits of information. He was born in Moscow on May 25, 1980. After graduation he joined the army. He fought in Chechnya, was awarded the Order for Courage. In 2001 Balakirev Constantine decided to master the acting skills and entered the Theater Institute named after B. Shchukin. He studied at the course of Yuri Shlykov. In 2006, after graduating from the institute, Alexey Balabanov turned his attention to the young promising graduate.

About the personal life of the actor does not apply, almost does not give interviews, rarely appears on secular events, he is completely captured by the magic of cinema. This is not surprising, for 8 years of his career, Constantine played in twenty-nine paintings. The schedule of his filming is very dense, despite the fact that many of his roles are secondary.

Start at the cinema

In 2007, there was an ambiguous picture of Alexei Balabanov "Gruz 200". This story is based on real events, so the author spurred interest in his masterpiece. As Balabanov himself assures, all these events were in real life, something he faced personally, something was told by friends. He "blinded" them in one movie. Many talented megastars of the national cinema refused to participate in the film, but the young Konstantin Balakirev did not reject the script, but, on the contrary, touched his scandal. He was invited to the role of Koli Gorbunov, the corpse of a soldier from Afghanistan, brought in a zinc coffin. He played his young actor so believably that many spectators, and critics, thought it was a mannequin.

In 2007, another picture appeared with the participation of Balakirev. This time, for the episodic role of Capka, he was approved in the movie Valery Todorovsky "Vices".

The next picture was for a young star actor. Director Valery Todorovsky decided to shoot the musical "Dandies". Balakirev Konstantin enchantingly turns into a reckless Drin. His character was remembered by the audience, and the actor began to recognize in the streets.

Work in serials

Balakirev Konstantin Nikolaevich is mainly involved in serials. The benefit of the domestic film industry produces them in huge quantities. So, in 2007 the actor played the character Okhryatin in the megapolar series "Liquidation".

In 2008, the role of Gesha Vagin in the series "No one but us" followed. In the film "Isaev" Balakirev realized a small episodic role of the border guard. From 2007 to 2014, the actor took part in more than twenty serials. His roles were episodic, but ambiguous and colorful. Constantine in each of them tried to reveal his hero as much as possible. In 2013, the actor played Andrei Petrishchev in the series "Ash".

In 2014 in the series "Bear's grip" Balakirev Constantine played the role of the second plan. Soon the series will be broadcasted on one of the country's channels.

"Territory"

Konstantin Balakirev is an actor who has not yet revealed his potential. Despite numerous roles, his big debut on wide screens is yet to come. In 2014, the actor was lucky enough to play in one of the most significant projects of 2014 - the film "Territory." The picture tells about the work of geologists and the search for gold in the Far North. Balakirev skillfully embodied the role of a gold digger called Kefir. A year and a half in extreme conditions, the shooting of a new Russian movie masterpiece based on the novel by Oleg Kuvaev. Actors on their own skin felt all the delights of life in the cold. Filming took place even in those reserved places where the human foot did not walk.

As Konstantin himself admits, working with such a galaxy of national film stars has become an invaluable experience for him. He did not play his character, but lived.