Actor Viktor Rakov: biography, personal life, films

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

If you read the biography of this actor, you might think that he is just inexplicably lucky. After all, after the acting department of GITIS, he managed to get into the famous Lenkom troupe. After Victor Rakov amazingly played the role of Glumov in the play "The Wise Man", staged by the legendary Mark Zakharov, they began to talk about him as a talented actor.

He was introduced to the play "Juno and Avos". A little later, he begins acting in films. Those viewers who are not avid theater-goers met him in the nineties, when the series Petersburg Secrets was released on the screens. Rakov Viktor, an actor, embodied the character of Nikolai Chechevinsky. Then there were the roles of Mikhail - “Love in Russian”, Alyosha - “Humiliated and Insulted”.

Childhood

On the fifth day of February 1962, a boy was born in an ordinary working-class family, who was named Vitya. His parents and older brother worked at the Molniya machine-building plant. Dad had an amazing voice, he performed at a localPalace of Culture.

The makings of an actor appeared in the boy very early. Already at the age of ten, he very skillfully portrayed his grandmother. All the family loved it. As a schoolboy, he was very fond of drawing. In the company of friends I was going to enroll in the boxing section. But, after talking with my mother, I decided to abandon this idea. He began to practice judo, but, having become a high school student, thanks to the persuasion of his parents, he gave up sports for the sake of the educational process.

From factory to theater

After receiving a school certificate, Viktor Rakov came to work at the same factory where his family worked. He worked there for a year, even managed to get a discharge. But fate was destined for him otherwise, so in 1980 the guy decided to enter the theater, and therefore sent his steps to GITIS, where he easily passed through the competition. Four years later, the future actor graduated from the course of Vladimir Andreev.

Hello Lenkom

After graduation, Viktor Rakov decided that the best choice for him would be the troupe of the Lenin Komsomol Theater - "Lenkom" (although he was even afraid to dream about it, because it was difficult to get there), so he came under the shadow of it these curtains. At that time, the theater was just selecting singing actors to participate in one of the performances.

When viewing his plastic sketches, Mark Zakharov, the head of the Theater, gave a worthy assessment of his work and opened his arms to him. After all, here they always paid attention to how the artist knows how to move, how he sings. It was on this stage that Rakov had a chance to play a lot of bright, memorable roles. These are Thomas Cromwell in The Royal Games and Joaquin in The Star and Death of Joaquin Murietta, Laertes in Hamlet and Menshikov in Jester Balakirev and other equally interesting characters.

From Karachentsev to Rakov

Recently, the piggy bank of his theatrical works has replenished with the role of Count Ryazanov from Juno and Avos. And despite the fact that until now he is involuntarily compared with the magnificent Nikolai Karachentsev, who appeared on stage countless times in the image of Ryazanov, the audience cannot but admit that Viktor Rakov was able to bring something of his own, special, intelligent to the role. His count is no better and no worse than Count Karachentsev. He is just different, but at the same time he remains the same passionately loving person.

In parallel with this project, Rakov is working on the entreprise "Innkeeper". He takes the stage with his theater colleague Tatyana Kravchenko, as well as Valery Garkalin, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Vladimir Murashov, Georgy Martirosyan.

Master, Nikolai Chechevinsky and others…

Victor Rakov, whose films are well-deserved sympathy for viewers of different ages, came to the cinema back in 1983. It was a small role in the television movie "The Oath Record". And only after five long years, Mark Zakharov invited him to a serious, big role in his film Kill the Dragon. Then there was work with Gleb Panfilov in the film "Mother" (the role of Pavel Vlasov).

The year 1994 came, when a decision was made about a new film adaptation of Bulgakov's sensational novel The Master and Margarita. Yuri Kara, who was filming the film, invited the actor to play the role of the Master. Unfortunately, all the footage was somehow incomprehensibly evaporated for a whole ten years. Therefore, the audience saw the series after a long time.

Stardom has passed me

The actor Viktor Rakov, whose biography has been of interest to his fans for more than two decades, received unprecedented fame thanks to the TV series Petersburg Secrets based on Krestovsky's novel, in which the noble Count Nikolai Chechevinsky was Rakov's character. A year later, already being a "star" of Russian cinema, he participated in the filming of the first part of Evgeny Matveev's trilogy about love in the Russian style. A year later, the main role in the comedy Barkhanov and His Bodyguard appeared in his film career.

Rakov is sure that he managed to avoid the "star disease", because he became widely known already in adulthood. Therefore, he already realized everything in a different way, perceived, knew how to avoid this state.

The 2000s are coming. The characters of Viktor Rakov can be seen in many TV shows, but detectives are in the first place - "Dasha Vasilyeva - 3. A lover of private investigation", "Kamenskaya", "Detectives" and melodramas - "Star of the Epoch", "Salome" and others.

Seven years ago, in 2009, the actor became the voice of the TV Center TV channel, and a year later, the audience watched the film "Twilight" with his participation.

Family and hobbies

Viktor Rakov's mother knitted very well. As a child, little Vitya also decided to try to master this art. Viktor Rakov, whose personal life was never brought up for general discussion, never learned to knit, but he loved to embroider - cross stitch and stitch. He had his own hoops, he often bought floss. Much later, when he had already started a family, he even embroidered pictures on his wife's dressing gown. And in childhood, when beads appeared on the free market, he wanted to master this technique as well. But since this was a rather painstaking task, little Vitya never finished his picture. But he paints great pictures. His works were even exhibited in the Bakhrushinsky Museum, in the Yermolova House-Museum.

Today, the actor is married for the second time. In his first marriage, his son Boris was born. In the second marriage, Viktor Rakov and his wife became the parents of their daughter Nastya. At first, they lived without registration, but before the birth of their daughter, they legalized their relationship and even got married in a church. In his family, Victor is a full-fledged owner, because he believes that, as a man, he is obliged to be responsible for his family and people close to him.

From the height of his years, the actor is sure that the appearance of children in his life made him more sentimental. Every time he looks at his son and daughter, he sees himself in them. And despite the fact that both of them (his children) have long gone out of childhood, Rakov dreams of acting in at least one fairy tale. Or direct it yourself.