Meet the actor Andrey Kazakov

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Today this actor is in great demand and popular in the domestic cinema. Meet Andrey Kazakov.

Childhood and youth

Andrei was born in the city of Vengspils (Latvia), in a family of workers, on the twenty-seventh of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five. Mom worked at AvtoVAZ as a loader driver, my father worked as a welder on ships and often went sailing. During his school years, Andrei was 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, as a child he did not dream of getting any particular profession, and secretly envied his peers, who for many years cherished and cherished their cherished dream.

After graduating from school, on the advice of his parents, he entered the Pedagogical Institute, studied there for one year and joined the army. Demobilized, Andrey Kazakov went to Leningrad. There he began to study as a cabinetmaker-restorer. Sports achievements are useful in everyday life. In parallel with his studies, he worked in the circus. In the same years, Andrei Kazakov became interested in amateur performances. Then he first thought about the profession of an actor. From the first time it was not possible to get into the theater. But the next year he entered GITIS, inworkshop for Pyotr Fomenko.

Studying at the university

Andrey had a very warm, kind relationship with the head of the course from the first days. After graduating from the institute, Andrey was invited to the troupe of Pyotr Fomenko. At that time, the theater did not yet have its own premises, they had to play on different stages, which was not very convenient.

Avid theater-goers are well aware of the work of this actor on the stage. These are well-known performances: "Barbarians", "Adventure" (for this work the actor was awarded the Stanislavsky Prize), "Three Sisters" (the Seagull Prize). 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

Filmmakers did not immediately notice the actor. His debut in Russian cinema was a cameo 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 was no longer invited to the cinema. This pause dragged on for several years.

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

Today, the actor's filmography includes more than thirty paintings. Andrei is a surprisingly versatile and flexible actor. That is why he successfully starred inaction movies, comedies and melodramas. Often he is invited to the series ("Airport", "Montecristo", "Detective Samovars", "Margosha" and others). The most famous films with the participation of Kazakov are "Vanka the Terrible", "Dark Instinct", "Steel Butterfly", "Bear Hunt".

Andrey Kazakov: personal life

It is very difficult to learn about this side of an actor's life. He does not attend social events, rarely gives interviews. It is known that Andrei Kazakov was married to his colleague Tatyana Matyukhova. In marriage, the son Makar was born. This union did not last long. After the divorce, the actor remarried and had a daughter. Whether he is currently married is not known for certain. The marital status of this charismatic actor is unclear. Some claim that he is currently married to the mother of his daughter, while 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 reminiscent of an action-packed detective story.