Alexander Baluev: biography, filmography, best films with his participation and personal life

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One of the first Russian actors who became interesting to Western directors and starred in many Hollywood films is Alexander Baluev. The filmography of the artist impresses everyone. He loves his job and is ready to please the audience for a long time.

Baluev Alexander. Biography

The actor was born on December 6, 1958. Alexander Baluev, whose family was not rich, grew up a happy child. His father was a military man. The artist's childhood passed in the old Moscow courtyards of the central part of the capital. The Baluev family had their own apartment on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, and then moved to Smolenka.

Sasha's father from early childhood insisted that his son follow in his footsteps and become a soldier. The actor himself, recalling this, says that the relationship with his father has always been difficult. Despite parental instructions, Sasha built his plans for the future in a completely different way, not at all connecting them with military service. He liked hockey since childhood, and it was with this game that he dreamed of connecting his life. He wanted to be realgreat sportsman. His mother helped Baluev to instill a love for art. She repeatedly took him to the theater, to the ballet and to the opera from a very early age. Sasha, already a teenager, firmly decided to become an artist.

Alexander Baluev. Filmography

If you believe the words of the artist himself, after graduating from the institute, he was simply invisible to filmmakers for nine whole years. But, despite this, the very first roles of Alexander in the cinema were the main ones. Already in 1984, Yanovsky's film titled "Egorka" was released, and five years later the premiere of the film "Kerosinner's Wife", directed by Kaidanovsky, took place. It was he who became the godfather for Baluev in the world of big cinema.

Already since 1989, Alexander has become a sought-after actor, who was called to various film projects more and more often. During this period, the world saw the picture "Muslim" directed by Khotinenko, after - "Mu-mu" from Gromov and "Midlife Crisis" (dir. Sukachev).

Moo-moo is a 1998 movie. Alexander Baluev himself noted the premiere of this tape as a significant event in his life due to the unusual character of the hero. The actor himself says that silence on the screen is a great happiness, and if such silence is also able to say something to the viewer, then this is the pinnacle of bliss.

Despite the fact that the domestic director's cast already appreciated Baluev as a talented actor, true fame covered the actor with its wave just when they started filming him in Hollywood. Especially after the release of movies like Deep Impact andPeacemaker.

Theatre

After graduating from school, the still very young Alexander Baluev failed during his admission to the Shchukin school. Not wanting to part with the cinema, for a whole year he worked as an assistant lighting engineer at the famous Mosfilm. After such work, Alexander got the chance to become a student at the Moscow Art Theater School, where he successfully completed his studies.

After graduating from school, several theaters simultaneously offered Alexander a job, but his choice fell on the famous Theater of the Soviet Army, as the young artist had to serve in the army. Baluev's career in the theater began with performances such as The Clock Without Hands and The Lady with the Camellias.

1987 in the theatrical life of the artist was marked by the transition to the theater. Yermolova, where, under the direction of Valery Fokin, Alexander played the main roles in such performances as The Second Year of Freedom, Caligula and Snow Not Far from Prison. But the artist's desire not to remain tied to one place or one director led to the fact that in the late 80s he left this theater as well.

Awards

Such a famous actor, recognizable all over the world, of course, is the owner of many prizes and awards, which, in turn, are proof of the great talent and recognition of the artist.

In 1990, Alexander Baluev won the award for the best male role, which was played by him in the film "The Kerosene Worker's Wife". The prize went to the artist during the festival of young filmmakers as part of the Mosfilm film studio. Rewardis of particular value to Alexander, because it was the first major achievement in the life of an actor.

Already five years later, Baluev again became the owner of the award in the same nomination, only at an event of a completely different level. Actor Alexander Baluev received the prize for his role in the film "Muslim" at the Kinotavr festival. In the same 1995, he won the Nika Award, awarded to him for his role in the same film, only in the Best Supporting Role nomination.

The next 8 years of work were also not in vain: in 2003, in Y alta, the actor was awarded a prize at the Together competition.

2005 was marked for Baluev by the prize for the best male role in the film "Order", received in Vienna at the international film festival.

In 2006, Alexander Baluev received the FSB award for the best acting work in the film The Fall of the Empire.

In 2007, the actor received an award called the Golden Apple. Baluev received it at the Kino-Y alta festival for the best male role in the film Indy.

Wife and daughter

"I'm monogamous" - this is how Alexander Baluev says about himself. The actor's personal life is very interesting to his fans, but he is not used to putting his feelings on public display. Alexander met his wife Maria during a vacation at a resort where she was vacationing with her children: her son and daughter. The woman was still married, but, as Alexander himself admitted, the presence of her children and her husband did not bother him at all. He fell in love with her immediately and for life, so such little things simply could not matter.

For a long time, lovers lived in what is called two countries. And only after they legalized their relationship, Alexander was able to persuade his wife to move in with him and settle down to live in a cozy house, which he built especially for his family.

But no matter how hard Baluev tried, his wife never managed to fall in love with Russia completely. Maria often traveled to her homeland. The actor's wife never fully got used to the way of life of Russians.

During their life together, the spouses Alexander and Maria had a daughter, whom her father called the double name Maria-Anna. The little girl is now 10 years old. Her father just loves her soul.

The acting career of Alexander Baluev was always incomprehensible to his wife and she did not like it terribly. She never managed to fall in love with Russian bohemia, and her husband's constant tours kept her in suspense.

At the age of 55, the actor became a bachelor again. Baluev Alexander divorced his wife. After parting, Maria left for Warsaw, taking her daughter with her. Alexander Baluev (photo with his wife is presented below) was having a hard time breaking up.

Interesting

Alexander Baluev is often taken to the role of the military, in films he always appears with a weapon. The actor himself in ordinary life absolutely does not show even the slightest interest in any of the types of weapons. Acquaintance with military equipment, which everyone sees in the hands of the characters played by the actor, takes place right on the set. And exactly to the extent that is necessary in order to capture the desired qualitymaterial. The rest of the actor is simply not interested.

Also, the fact of love for sports, with which Alexander Baluev wanted to connect his life, does not go unnoticed (the actor's biography mentions this).

Another interesting fact from the life of an actor: his fans often do not recognize him on the streets. Alexander himself notes that he often hears requests for an autograph from tipsy people.

Work abroad

In 1997, Baluev, unexpectedly for everyone, conquered the Hollywood stage. The director, whose name is Mimi Leder, to the surprise of colleagues and ordinary people, has an amazing talent for making films of high quality that can be called purely masculine. Relying on their pressure and the energy reigning in the frame, Mimi invited Baluev to become a member of several of her paintings. The first of them was the film "Peacemaker", where the actor was lucky enough to play along with such famous personalities as Nicole Kidman and George Clooney. And after this picture, the director again called Alexander to star in a disaster film called "Abyss Impact".

Both Hollywood films featuring Baluev were a huge success. In The Peacemaker, he got the role of a Soviet general who decided to sell a nuclear warhead to terrorists. And in "Clash with the Abyss" - a picture that collected 300 million at the box office - he appeared before the audience as a cosmonaut from Russia.

Peak of popularity

Starting from the moment when the Hollywood pictures with Alexander appeared on the screen, hiscareer has reached its peak. True, after the performance of these roles, the appearance of Baluev began to act on all directors of America in the same way. The roles that he was offered turned out to be too similar. Due to his brutal appearance, Alexander is very suited to the roles of the military, although the actor himself is insanely far from this topic. Hollywood directors preferred to give Baluev the roles of precisely negative characters - Russian officers with bad intentions.

After the actor gained fame and popularity in Hollywood, he decided to abandon the continuation of his acting career in foreign films. According to the actor himself, he is not satisfied that in Hollywood he is seen in only one role, while in Russia he remains a versatile actor. Baluev compares himself to a cardboard template for American directors, claiming that he is creative in his homeland. Baluev decided to give up secondary roles in Hollywood cinema in order to continue playing leading roles in Russian cinema.

Hobbies and hobbies

In order to get a role in "The Best Movie-3D" Alexander had to learn to knit. According to the script, his hero - the leader of a gang engaged in video piracy, is simply inseparable from a skein of thread and knitting needles. Such are the costs of the profession, and Alexander had to give up all his strength in order to learn how to knit. Rumor has it that the actor was so passionate about this occupation that he promised not to stop there, and after filming the film to continue to improvetheir skills in this area. In a nutshell, knitting is a hobby of some Hollywood stars such as George Clooney and Russell Crowe.

In addition to knitting, Baluev is also not indifferent to such an occupation as washing dishes, which the public classifies as a purely female business. The actor himself admits that this is a woman's occupation, although a huge number of housewives hate to do it. The queen of the detective genre, Agatha Christie, did not like this activity so much that, they say, she invented the most terrible and bloody stories when she stood at the sink full of dirty dishes. And for Baluev, this occupation is a kind of occupational therapy. Alexander says that washing dishes can calm him down, especially when he is under stress.

2014 premieres featuring Alexander Baluev

In 2014, the actor is scheduled to premiere the following films: Two Women (directed by Vera Glagoleva), Kings Can Do Anything (directed by Olga Muzaleva) and The Photographer (directed by Waldemar Krzystek). All these films deserve special attention. In the film "Two Women" Alexander plays the husband of the main character. The genre of the film is psychological and historical drama. The actors in it reveal the essence of the relationship between people on the basis of experienced feelings.

In the series "Kings Can Do Everything" Baluev plays King Arthur. This film work presents the behavior of people at different times.

In the film "Photographer" Alexander plays the role of a police major. This is a detective. The main characters are looking for a serial killer. For Baluev, 2014 is a very fruitful year. According to the actor, heplans to film.