Actor Igor Volkov: biography, career and personal life

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Igor Volkov is an actor of Soviet and Russian cinema and theater. He is known to the audience for the role of the young Mikhail Lomonosov in the film of the same name. In total, the actor has more than 40 film roles. The heroes embodied by him on the screen are courageous, courageous, charismatic personalities. This is why fans love the artist.

Biography

Volkov Igor Yurievich was born in the city of Velikie Luki, Pskov region, on July 5, 1959. There were no people of creative professions in the artist's family. His mother worked as a sales assistant in a store, his father worked as an ordinary driver. Only Igor's grandmother, Irina Yegorovna, had little to do with creativity - she knew and loved Russian poetry and managed to instill this love in her grandson.

Igor himself from childhood dreamed not of the stage and filming a movie. He really liked history. The young man read historical novels and monographs, dreamed of becoming a student at the Faculty of History of the Leningrad University. Pushkin.

But fate decreed otherwise. Without a clear plan for where he would go, Igor came to Moscow. I went to the theater school. Shchepkin, read poetry and made a strong impression on the selection committee. He was accepted to the course of V. Monakhov, which he successfully completed in 1981.

From 1982 to 1983 Igor Volkov was an actor of the Central Theater of the Soviet Army, from 1987 to 1992 - the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.

Film career

The film debut for Igor Volkov (photo above) was the role of the young Mikhailo Lomonosov in the television series of the same name, which was released in 1986. The first success came to the artist, many fans appeared.

Then there was the main role in the series "Defeat" (1987), in which the artist played a young physicist Sergei Krylov. In 1988, the actor had two main roles at once: in the military-historical drama We Remain Faithful, in which he played in a duet with Elena Yakovleva, and in the serial melodrama Earthly Joys, in which he played Mark Lemekhov. In 1989, he starred in the film Love with Privileges, playing the role of Boris.

Igor Volkov actively acted in the 90s. All his characters were noble and courageous. Among his roles:

• Vova Bogomolov in Pimp Hunt (1990);
• Nikolai in the film "Dina" (1991);
• Jäger Osetrov in "Predators" (1991);
• priest in The Witch of Yatrin (1991);
• Frank in The Alaska Kid (1993);
• Basov in the film "Russian singer" (1993);
• Andrey in the film "I myself" (1993);
• Arkady in The Silent Witness (1994);
• banker Sudakov in Ricochet (1997);
• Alexey Varlamov in the Botanical Garden (1997);
• Sergei in "Tango over the Abyss" (1997);
• Yeremey in Siberian Spas (1998).

Despite a five-year break in his career, the actor appeared on the screens in the 2000s. Then Igor Volkov began to play not only positive, but also negative characters. Among his works:

• Lieutenant Colonel Fokin in Operational Pseudonym (2003);
• Humus in The Temptation of the Titanic (2004);
• Semyon Bent in Sarmat (2004);
• General Chizh in the film "Anna" (2005);
• Stepan Soldatov in the film "The Last Fight of Major Pugachev" (2005);
• Dima's father Mikhail in the film "I'm not coming back" (2005);
• lieutenant colonel in the film "Victory Day" (2006);
• Mikhalych in Armed Resistance (2008);
• Elanchuk in "The New Life of Detective Gurov" (2008);
• Captain Nemov in "Heart of Captain Nemov" (2009);
• businessman Sapun in Provocateur (2011);
• Mezentsev in "Gold Reserve" (2012);
• psychotherapist Romanov in "Turns of Fate" (2013);
• Major Ostrovsky in the action movie Save or Destroy (2013);
• Anatoly Zatevakhin in The Executioner (2014) and others.

One of the last film works for Igor Volkov was the role of "Gogol" in the biographical drama "Dovlatov", released in 2018. The actor does not serve in the theater.

Private life

Igor Volkov does not talk about his family. It is known that he is married. The wife's name is Natalya. The actor does not like parties. He prefers going to the cinema and theater to them. He is rarely seen on television.

For Igor Volkov, what is inside a person is more important. After all, what is destroyed on the outside, the external, can be restored, but the inner world can be very difficult to restore.