How a sailor from a long voyage Kirill Zaitsev got on the big stage and became a screen star

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Recently unknown actor Kirill Andreevich Zaitsev was born in Volgograd on August 16, 1987. He is a theater actor in Russia and Latvia, he also appears in some famous films.

Childhood and school

From childhood, little Kirill Zaitsev was fond of dancing, music and sports sections, especially basketball. Parents had nothing to do with theatrical life. Both were involved in athletics and graduated from the physical education academy.

The boy studied at gymnasium No. 1 in the city of Volgograd. Friends always advised him to enter a theater school, in literature lessons he could get used to the image under discussion, those around him still appreciated the makings of a young artist.

Adult life

After graduation in 2005, the young man went to St. Petersburg and entered the State Maritime Academy. Admiral S. O. Makarov. Faculty he chose navigator. During his studies, he had the opportunity to start a practice and travel around European countries. Even then, Kirill Zaitsev understood that he did not like boring everyday life at all. All timewas looking for a place for creativity, but the captain landed it, focusing on the main work. At the same time, the student was studying in the USA.

In 2011, Kirill Zaitsev finishes his studies at the academy and leaves for Riga. This is where his acting career begins. By coincidence, he finds an announcement by Igor Konyaev and Elena Chernaya about the recruitment of an acting course at the Riga Russian Theater. M. Chekhov. Deciding to still try himself in a new field of activity, but so close to his soul, he successfully passed the selection and began training.

Already in 2014, the actor Kirill Zaitsev graduated from the Academy of Culture in Latvia, the course of I. G. Konyaev and E. I Chernaya.

The main work of the actor in the Riga Russian Theater in 2013

This is:

• "Forest Glade";
• "Forest";
• "Although the date took place, but…";
• "Master's Comedian";
• "Teenager";
• "Two gentlemen from Verona";
• "Princess Mary";
• "The Snow Queen";
• "Sasha";
• "Blessing of love";
• "Hunter's Notes";
• "The Good Man of Sezuan";
• "King Lear".

Already in 2016, the actor began acting in films, his debut film was "The Chronicle of Melania", in the film he got the role of the NKVDist Sarma.

Peak of popularity - "Move up"

Then gets one of the main roles in a famous movie"Upward movement". The film was shot on the basis of real events, based on the book by S. Belov. The actor also portrayed him - a player in the basketball team in the USSR. After the release of this film, Kirill's acting career went up rapidly.

He thoroughly prepared for filming. All his free time he was engaged in basketball, shaking his legs to increase the jump. His goal was to score the ball from above into the ring, the height of which is 3.05 meters. The growth of the actor himself with diligent training made it possible to make such a jump. With his 75 kilograms, the actor is 194 cm tall.

To get the maximum similarity, the actor became a brunette and grew a spectacular mustache, but this was not enough to get the perfect image for the main role. Then Kirill began to improve his body and skills.

To achieve his goal, the actor constantly watched training videos, Belov's master classes and various video collections with tricky elements. Kirill constantly spent time on the basketball court, played anywhere, no matter with whom.

After starring in the film "Move Up", the actor was at the peak of popularity. The tape became the leader of the box office. All invested funds paid off in just two weeks after the release on the big screens. It was equated with such projects as "Crew" and "Legend No. 17", which were filmed by N. Mikhalkov's studio together with the Rossiya channel.

You can see below in the photo of Kirill Zaitsev in the image of the protagonist of the movie "Move Up".

The premiere of the film did not go smoothly and without force majeure. The widow of Alexander Belov filed a lawsuit against Mikhalkov's film studio. She argued that the images of the actors do not correspond to real heroes. But the conflict was settled, and the film was successfully released on the screens and made popular actors whose names few people knew before.

Kirill Zaitsev: movies

After graduating from the academy, the actor still worked for 3 seasons in the troupe, as he had a contract with the theater. Then he moves to permanent residence in Moscow, and returns to his native walls and to the stage only by invitation to the play.

The actor has a lot of fans, especially female. Fans just started tearing up Cyril's phone and storming social networks. New works will appear soon, in which Zaitsev also participates.

In 2017, he starred in the short series "Troitsky", directed by Konstantin Statsky. On the set, Kirill worked with such famous actors as Konstantin Khabensky and Olga Sutulova, in this film Zaitsev gets the role of Fedya Raskolnikov.

After the release of the film "Moving Up", which was filmed in 2016, the actor actively starred in new projects in which he was fully involved. During the preparation of the film for the premiere, he manages to take part in several large projects: the film "Gogol" and serial films "Trotsky" and "Kop".

Then the actor is invited by Sergey Bezrukov toProvincial Theater to play the role of Tsar Nicholas I in the theatrical production of "Pushkin".

Personal life of Kirill Zaitsev

The young man carefully hides his personal life. On social networks, Kirill shares only working moments and personal travel photos. So it is still unknown whether Zaitsev's heart is free or not. Fans in love are trying in every possible way to contact the actor, through social networks or by phone, and want to meet him personally in the hope of continuing communication.