Meet - actor Andrey Kazakov

Today, this actor is very popular and popular in the domestic cinema. Meet Andrei Kazakov.

Childhood and youth

Andrei was born in the town of Ventspils (Latvia), in a working class family, on September 27, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five. My mother worked at AvtoVAZ as a forklift driver, my father worked as a welder on sea vessels and often went swimming. In his school years, Andrew seriously engaged in acrobatics and achieved considerable success in this - he received the title of master of sports, became a member of the national team of Belarus and Lithuania.

As the actor himself recalls, in his childhood he did not dream of gaining a certain profession, and secretly envied his peers who cherished and cherished the cherished dream for many years.

After leaving school, on the advice of his parents, he entered the Pedagogical Institute, studied for one year and left for the army. Demobilized, Andrei Kazakov went to Leningrad. There he began to study on the cabinetmaker-restorer. Sports achievements have come in handy in everyday life. In parallel with his studies he worked in the circus. In the same years, Andrei Kazakov was carried away by amateur performance. Then he first thought about the profession of the actor. From the first time to get into the theatrical failed. But the next year he entered the GITIS, in the workshop to Petro Fomenko.

Studying at the university

With the head of the course, Andrei had very warm, kind relations from the first days. After graduation Andrey was invited to the troupe of Peter Fomenko. Then the theater did not have its own premises, it was necessary to play on different stages, which was not very convenient.

Heavy theatergoers know the work of this actor well on the stage. These are famous performances: "Barbarians", "Adventure" (for this work the actor was awarded the Stanislavsky Prize), "Three Sisters" (the "Seagull" award). Today, Andrei Kazakov not only plays on stage, but also tries his hand as a director. He staged the play "And they lived happily ever after."

Andrey Kazakov: filmography

Cinematographers noticed the actor not immediately. His debut in Russian cinema was an episodic role in the film "Eagle and Tails" by George Danelia in 1995. His partners on the set were such masters as Stanislav Govorukhin, Oleg Basilashvili, Leonid Yarmolnik. After that, the actor stopped being invited to the cinema. This pause dragged on for several years.

Appeared on the screens of the Cossacks only in 2005 in the film "A Walk" by A. Teacher. This work became a springboard for jumping into a big cinematograph. Proposals began to come from the most famous directors.

Today, the filmography of the actor has more than thirty paintings. Andrei is an amazingly versatile and plastic actor. That's why he is successfully shot in action films, in comedies, and in melodramas. He is often invited to the series ("Airport", "Montecristo", "Detective Samovars", "Margosha" and others). The most famous films with the participation of Kazakov - "Vanka the Terrible", "Dark Instinct", "Steel Butterfly", "Bear Hunt".

Andrey Kazakov: personal life

Learn about this side of the actor's life is very difficult. He does not attend social events, rarely gives interviews. It is known that Andrei Kazakov was married to his colleague Tatyana Matyukhova. In the marriage the son of Makar was born. This alliance did not last long. After the divorce, the actor married again, and he had a daughter. Whether he is married now - for certain is not known. The marital status of this charismatic actor is unclear. Some argue that at this time he is married to his daughter's mother, others claim that the second marriage ended in divorce. Even the name of the second wife is carefully hidden, so Andrei's personal life is very much like an action-sensitive detective.