Andrey Myagkov
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Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov ' onMouseout='HidePop("16567")' href="/topics/Saint_Petersburg">Leningrad
, USSR) is a Soviet/Russia
n film
and theater actor
. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov
, such as The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979) and A Cruel Romance (1984).
. Young Miagkov showed interest in theater and acting and participated in a drama club at high school. Upon his graduation from high school he chose to study chemistry
and attended Leningrad Institute of Technology, graduating in 1960 as a chemical engineer
. His first job was engineer-researcher at Leningrad State Institute of Plastics. At the same time he continued to play on stage as amateur actor.
In 1961 he entered the Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Art Theatre
school. After graduation in 1964 Myagkov joined the Sovremennik Theatre
in Moscow. There his stage partners were such notable Soviet actors as Oleg Yefremov
, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
, Galina Volchek, Oleg Tabakov
, Oleg Dal
, Igor Kvasha
, Valentin Gaft
. One of his first stage a play Uncle's dream (based on Fyodor Dostoevsky
's novel of the same name) where he played the uncle. Was noticed by director Elem Klimov
who offered him a role in a film Adventures of a Dentist
(1965). His next work in cinema was a role of Alyosha in critically acclaimed The Brothers Karamazov
(1969) based on Dostoevsky's eponymous novel
, which made him known.
In 1975 he shot to stardom in the enormously popular comedy
-drama
film The Irony of Fate as a surgeon
Zhenya Lukashin. In 1977 he starred in another Ryazanov's hit Office Romance as a timid statistisian Anatoly Novoseltsev, alongside with Alisa Freindlich
, in which he also debuted as a singer. For both roles he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In 1978 he was named Best Actor by readers of Soviet Screen Magazine (Sovetsky Ekran).
In 1977 Myagkov left the Sovremennik Theatre and joined the Moscow Art Theatre
(MKhAT), where he debuted in the leading role as Zilov in Duck Hunt by Aleksandr Vampilov, and eventually established himself as a leading actor in many other stage productions.
His other notable films - Turbins' Days (1976) based on Mikhail Bulgakov
's novel, The Garage (1980), Vertical Races (1983), A Cruel Romance (1984).
In 1990s Myagkov was concentrated on theatrical performances and worked as a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre school. In this period he starred in drama Mother (1990), Leonid Gaidai's comedy film Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach (1992), detective story Contact with Death (1998).
Myagkov played over 50 roles in film and on television. In 1989, Miagkov made his debut as director on the stage of Moscow Art Theatre with Goodnight, Mama (Spokoinoy nochi, Mama). In 2000 he directed a stageplay Retro.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, USSR) is a Soviet/Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and theater actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union....
, such as The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979) and A Cruel Romance (1984).
Biography
Andrey Myagkov was born on July 8, 1938 in Leningrad, USSR. His father, Vasily Myagkov, was a professor at Saint Petersburg Polytechnical UniversitySaint Petersburg Polytechnical University
Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University is a major Russian technical university situated in Saint Petersburg. Previously it was known as the Peter the Great Polytechnical Institute and Kalinin Polytechnical Institute .-Imperial Russia:...
. Young Miagkov showed interest in theater and acting and participated in a drama club at high school. Upon his graduation from high school he chose to study chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
and attended Leningrad Institute of Technology, graduating in 1960 as a chemical engineer
Chemical engineer
In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is the profession in which one works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products, and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment to perform such work...
. His first job was engineer-researcher at Leningrad State Institute of Plastics. At the same time he continued to play on stage as amateur actor.
In 1961 he entered the Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
school. After graduation in 1964 Myagkov joined the Sovremennik Theatre
Sovremennik Theatre
Moscow Sovremennik Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. "Sovremennik" means "Contemporary".-History:Sovremennik Theatre was founded by a group of young Soviet actors during Khrushchev Thaw...
in Moscow. There his stage partners were such notable Soviet actors as Oleg Yefremov
Oleg Yefremov
Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov was a Soviet/Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. People's Artist of the USSR , Hero of Socialist Labour ....
, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev was a prominent Soviet movie and theater actor and one of the founders of Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR ....
, Galina Volchek, Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.-Theatre career:...
, Oleg Dal
Oleg Dal
Oleg Ivanovich Dahl was a Soviet actor.He acted in films, from classics of drama to fairy tales and adventures. His most popular works included Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha , Khronika pikiruyushchego bombardirovshchika , Staraya, staraya skazka , Na Dne , Korol Lir...
, Igor Kvasha
Igor Kvasha
Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He is a leading actor of Sovremennik Theater. Igor Kvasha was one Sovremennik founders along with Galina Volchek, Oleg Yefremov, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev and Oleg Tabakov...
, Valentin Gaft
Valentin Gaft
Valentin Yosifovich Gaft is a Russian and Soviet actor, People's Artist of Russia .-Biography:Valentin Gaft was born in Moscow to a family of a lawyer Iosif Romanovich Gaft and Gita Davydovna Gaft . The family moved to Moscow from Poltava, Ukraine...
. One of his first stage a play Uncle's dream (based on Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....
's novel of the same name) where he played the uncle. Was noticed by director Elem Klimov
Elem Klimov
Elem Germanovich Klimov was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. He is best known in the West for his final film, 1985's Come and See , a powerful tale of a teenage boy in German-occupied Byelorussia during the German-Soviet War,...
who offered him a role in a film Adventures of a Dentist
Adventures of a Dentist
Adventures of a Dentist is a 1965 Soviet dark comedy/drama feature film directed by Elem Klimov on Mosfilm. It is currently unavailable on video or DVD for any audience, but is occasionally screened at film festivals.-Plot:...
(1965). His next work in cinema was a role of Alyosha in critically acclaimed The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov (1969 film)
The Brothers Karamazov is a 1969 Soviet film directed by Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov. It is based on the eponymous novel by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky...
(1969) based on Dostoevsky's eponymous novel
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880...
, which made him known.
In 1975 he shot to stardom in the enormously popular comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
-drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
film The Irony of Fate as a surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
Zhenya Lukashin. In 1977 he starred in another Ryazanov's hit Office Romance as a timid statistisian Anatoly Novoseltsev, alongside with Alisa Freindlich
Alisa Freindlich
Alisa Brunovna Freindlich is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:Alisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the USSR. She is of German and Russian ancestry. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic...
, in which he also debuted as a singer. For both roles he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In 1978 he was named Best Actor by readers of Soviet Screen Magazine (Sovetsky Ekran).
In 1977 Myagkov left the Sovremennik Theatre and joined the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
(MKhAT), where he debuted in the leading role as Zilov in Duck Hunt by Aleksandr Vampilov, and eventually established himself as a leading actor in many other stage productions.
His other notable films - Turbins' Days (1976) based on Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...
's novel, The Garage (1980), Vertical Races (1983), A Cruel Romance (1984).
In 1990s Myagkov was concentrated on theatrical performances and worked as a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre school. In this period he starred in drama Mother (1990), Leonid Gaidai's comedy film Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach (1992), detective story Contact with Death (1998).
Myagkov played over 50 roles in film and on television. In 1989, Miagkov made his debut as director on the stage of Moscow Art Theatre with Goodnight, Mama (Spokoinoy nochi, Mama). In 2000 he directed a stageplay Retro.
Selected filmography
- Adventures of a DentistAdventures of a DentistAdventures of a Dentist is a 1965 Soviet dark comedy/drama feature film directed by Elem Klimov on Mosfilm. It is currently unavailable on video or DVD for any audience, but is occasionally screened at film festivals.-Plot:...
(1965) - The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov (1969 film)The Brothers Karamazov is a 1969 Soviet film directed by Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev and Mikhail Ulyanov. It is based on the eponymous novel by the famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky...
(1969) as Alyosha KaramazovAlyosha KaramazovAlyosha Karamazov is the protagonist in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His full name is given as Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov and he is also referred to as Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alexeichik, Lyosha, and Lyoshenka. He is the youngest of the Karamazov brothers,... - The Irony of Fate (1975) as Zhenya Lukashin
- Dni Turbinykh (TV movie) (1976) as Aleksei Turbin
- Office Romance (1977) as Novoseltsev
- The Garage (1979) as Khvostov
- Gonki po vertikali (TV movie) (1983) as Inspector Stanislav Tikhonov
- A Cruel Romance (1984) as Juliy Kapitonovich Karandyshev
- MotherMother (1989 film)Mother is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Inna Churikova* Viktor Rakov* Liubomiras Lauciavicius* Aleksandr Shishonok - * Dmitri Pevtsov...
(1989) - Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach (1992)
- The Irony of Fate 2The Irony of Fate 2The Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation is a 2007 Russian romantic comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov based on a screenplay by Alexey Slapovskiy produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm...
(2007) as Zhenya Lukashin