Actor Anton Kukushkin: biography, career and personal life

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Anton Kukushkin is an actor of the Russian theater and cinema. Organizes presentations, corporate parties, ceremonies and other events. The viewer is known for his roles in the series "Bomb for the Bride", "Commercial Break", "Captain's Children", "The Tower. New People", films "Time to collect stones", "Horror novel" and others.

Biography

Anton Borisovich Kukushkin was born in Moscow on October 5, 1976 in a family of mathematicians. In 1993, after graduating from school with a mathematical bias, he entered the Moscow State University to study mechanics and mathematics, following in the footsteps of his parents.

Studying in the third year, he became interested in dramaturgy and began performing in the student theater. The artist's first solo number was "Piano Whistle".

After listening to the advice of Alexei Kortnev, a stage colleague, in 1998 Anton Kukushkin entered Panteleeva's course at the Shchukin Theater School. A year later, the young man graduated from Moscow State University.

2002 was an important year for the actor: he graduated from the theater school and became a laureate of the All-Russian Competition of Readers. Smolensky.

Career

In 2001 AntonKukushkin was accepted into the troupe of the Theater of Satire, where he served until 2009. There he played roles:

• Nelkina in Krechinsky's Wedding;
• Bobby Franklin in Too Married Taxi Driver;
• young artist in "We're still having fun…";
• Lucien in the production of "Wait?!";
• Sergey Grantus in Homo Erectus.

Played the role of Yasha in the play "The Cherry Orchard" (in the project of the Stanislavsky Foundation).

In 2008 he took part in the performance of the theater "Modern" ("Once in Paris", the role of Lucien). Since 2010, he has been collaborating with the Praktika Theater (the project Man.doc, the role of contemporary artist Oleg Kulikov).

Working in the theater, Anton simultaneously acted in films and serials. The debut in the cinema was the episodic role of a lieutenant in the famous television series "Brigade" (2002).

In 2003, the actor played small roles in several series at once:

• Stepana in "Bomb for the Bride";
• Administrator in Another Life;
• merchant in "Poor Nastya".

In 2004-2005 there were roles in serials and films:

• "Balzac age, or All men are their own…" (Alla's friend - Kostya);
• "The Forest Princess" (Vasily, Ivan's brother);
• "Time to gather stones" (Lieutenant);
• "Commercial break" (Peter).

In 2005, Anton Kukushkin played the Phantom, his first major film role, in the film Horror Romance.

From 2006 to 2011 there were small roles in films andserials:

• "Russian translation" (Kolokolchikov);
• "The Captain's Children" (Fyodor Kazenav);
• "Happiness by prescription" (manager Anton);
• "One day" (security guard Sasha);
• "Web-1" (Shurik);
• Protection (Kornelyuk);
• "Crazy Angel" (violinist Ruslan Runkovsky);
• "The crime will be solved-2" (Slava Isaev);
• "The Case of the Krapivins" (Zaitsev);
• "220 volts of love" (Anton);
• "Everything is for the best" (Zakolkin);
• "format A 4" (Edik).

In 2011, Anton played the main role (Tolya) in the serial thriller “The Tower. New people.”

Then there was a three-year break in the filming of the actor in the movie. From 2014 to 2016, Anton Kukushkin starred in small roles in films and TV shows:

• Oleg Efremov in "Movie about Alekseev";
• man in "Kitchen in Paris";
• Kirilla in the Goldeneye Project;
• Yana in "Sasha walked along the highway";
• Spitsyn in "Life after life".

Currently, the actor prefers acting on stage and filming a movie, holding various presentations and corporate events.

Private life

Anton Kukushkin does not disclose the details of his private life. It is known that the actor's son Grisha was born in 2004.

The actor, talking about himself, says that corporate parties and weddings for him are an opportunity to be free in art, because he does not need to agree to theatrical projects that he does not like to earn money.