Zhizhikin Igor actor biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He starred at Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino, and Stephen Spielberg called him the “best bad guy” after the main role of Colonel Dovchenko in the comedy action movie of the director “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. In the photo: Igor Zhizhikin, the life of the actor himself resembles a dashing tragicomedic western with the elements of a thriller eventually turning into an autobiographical book “I am looking for a homeland, love and work”, which came out in the year.

In the year with his participation, the next season of the television series "Major" was released. Childhood and youth Igor were born in the fall of the year in the family of Muscovites Vitaly and Henrietta Zhizhikin. He has a younger sister Catherine, who was born in the year. Father, Vitaly Sergeevich, headed the postal department of the Ministry of Communications of the Soviet Union.

He was a master of sports in volleyball and the coach of the sports team of central television. In childhood, Igor Zhizhikin, Henrietta Mikhailovna, worked at the Research Institute of Patent Information, but in one of the interviews the actor told about her career in more detail: her mother managed to stay as an actress - at the dawn of “Contemporary” with Efremov, Kvasha participated in a couple of performances.

She told me about them ... But my grandfather forbade her, said that a frivolous profession. Then she worked as an editor in various institutions. And dad was an employee, the head of the post office. He was persuaded to join the party, he did not. There was a very strict person. I could have flogged, but always for business. And on time: the boy had already started to skip the school together with a classmate.

They walked in the airport metro, sat in the hall, and guessed which of the passers -by, what they were doing to the dispute. Then Igor ran to passers -by and was interested in where and by whom they were working. Zhizhikin remained the habit of living feelings forever, he still loves to look at people and “select” a biography for them. The boy did not dare to disobey his father, but he himself liked to engage in gymnastics first, then jumping into the water and swimming.

After he moved to the pentathlon, mastered the run, shooting, became a fencer and a rider. He played volleyball, football, basketball. All this later was very useful for filming in the cinema. After the eighth grade, Igor entered the technical school. The father hoped that his son would follow in his footsteps and go to the Institute of Communications, but the young man at the end of the technical school submitted documents to the Plekhanov Institute, did not go through the competition and went to the army.

The circus was sent to serve in the sports company of Kubinka, where Igor met with circus artists. The acrobats and the equilibrists carried away the young man so much that after the army he entered the State Institute of Physical Culture, and in parallel from a year he worked in Soyuzgosikirka. In the room “Air Flight of Vadim Staykeev” he was a catter - hung upside down and caught partners.

With this number, which was not all over the world, the troupe often went abroad, the artists traveled many countries. Igor Zhizhikin in his youth circus art brought Igor not only interesting trips, but also serious injuries. Over the years of work in the circus under general anesthesia, he underwent 9 operations, but did not stop playing acrobatics and sports. For some time, while recovering, he advanced along the Komsomol line, became the secretary of the Soyuzgospirir Komsomol committee.

In the year, Zhizhikin graduated from the Institute with a degree in “Director of Sports and Mass events”. Then, as part of a creative cooperative, Igor went on a tour of America. Igor Zhizhikin worked in the circus, their producer Nick Kosokovsky fled, grabbing all the money, the artists remained almost on the street without a livelihood. The Soyuzgosikirk troupe helped out, which paid for the flight to Russia.

But Zhizhikin decided to stay in Las Vegas. Familiar Mexican gymnasts convinced him that he could find work and perform. They offered the first time to live with them. Zhizhikin about Russian actors in America but there was no work on the profile, I had to take on any part -time job. Igor was both a janitor and a lawn mower, even picked up a trifle in a casino. The Mexicans lived outside the city, he had to adapt to their schedule, but did not always have time.

Then I spent the night on a bench in the park. He recalled that period: once - a year and a half later - I put my nose in a hotel, which was called "star dust." There was a rehearsal of some show. As a result, they took me to the show, where I was supposed to support the dancers and gave me a salary: dollars a week. I made support on stage and just walked beautifully. At the same time, someone told me that there was a casting on the musical "Samson and Dalila." And then the incredible happened.

I was taken to the role of Samson! They forced to learn all the parties, but I only opened my mouth. Starting to earn money, Zhizhikin began to study the acting profession at the Nevada Theater School. Having studied for two years, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began to give master classes on stage plastic. He began to act free in student directorial work, gaining experience and improving English.Igor Zhizhikin, at the dawn of an acting career from the musical, moved to the Du Sole circus, where he worked for several years, starred in commercials.

Soon Igor met Viktor Kruglov, who was a famous agent in actors. With his help, a new round began in the creative career of Zhizhikin. The filler of Clint Eastwood “Bloody Work”, in which Igor played the antagonist, Russian criminal authority Mikhail Bolotov, was released on the screens in the year. Since then, Zhizhikin, at least in Hollywood, was fixed by the role of an antagonist.

For some time he tried to resist stereotypes, but then he decided to use it to his benefit, especially since the image of the “Russian enemy” began to seem even flattering to him: “Not to fight with the Chinese of America? Russians are power. " Then, together with Eric Roberts, the actor starred in the criminal detective of Rodion Nakhapetov “Russians in the city of Angels”, and soon appeared in the films “Spy”, “Kleptomania”, “target”.

On the set, he met Bradley Cooper, Quentin Tarantino. Stephen Spielberg offered him one of the main roles in the blockbuster of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. He played the Russian Colonel-Smorozka Antonin Dovchenko. On one of the shooting days, when the scene of the fight of Indiana and Dovchenko was filmed, Ford pushed Zhizhikin too much. He flew off and spread his hand on some kind of piece of iron, but when Spielberg wanted to stop the shooting, he asked not to do this and finished the episode, which incredibly surprised the director.

I just almost killed a man! Right in the heart ”, where the main roles were played by the Chadov brothers. Shot from the movie "Slove. He played the American mercenary of Bob Denver in the television series Morpehi, with Ivan Okhlobystin and Evgeny Podchkin starred in the criminal comedy “Nightingale-Robber”, Igor Vvedensky, an employee of the special services of Vvedensky, embodied in the dramatic action movie “Brigade-2”.

On the set of the Nightingale Robber film, an interesting experience became for the actor for shooting in the international project “Wiy”, where he played the Cossack Monstara Dorosha. Igor Zhizhikin in make -up for the movie “Wii” in the year, a kind of continuation of “Viya” - “The Secret of the Dragon Seal” was released on the screens. Travel to China. " Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger took part in the adventure film.

According to Zhizhikin, the shooting was exciting. In the drama "Priest-san: the confession of the samurai" Zhizhikin talked on the set with the Japanese actor Carey-Khiroyuki Tagava. In the third season, Igor Zhizhikin, in extreme conditions, Igor had to star in the comedy series Polar, where he played the former criminal authority of Arthur. According to the actor, the night shooting in North Kirovsk lasted several days, he and Mikhail Porechenkov Vitya butter had to run to the waist in the snow.

The frame from the series "Polar" in the year several films with the participation of the actor came to the screens: "Black Staircase" Melnikov, "Alice against the Rules" Bogdan, "Unprincipled" Lukyan. In the year, Zhizhikin starred in the militant "Major. The personal life of Igor Zhizhikin according to Zhizhikin, he never had a shortage of female attention, although family life did not develop for a long time.

To obtain American citizenship, Igor married a waitress brand, but soon their marriage broke up. When Zhizhikin got into the American circus show, he met a fox dancer. He really wanted ordinary human happiness, and the girl treated him very warmly. Igor got married, but quickly disappointed: the fox turned out to be a gamer and lowered all the money in the casino. When she was left without work, she began to borrow money from friends that Zhizhikin had to give.

Igor Zhizhikin and his wife Lisa on the right to immediately divorce the unknown wife, the actor could not. The fox threatened that she would declare to the police about the fictitiousness of their marriage, although together they had lived for three years. If the woman was believed, Igor could expel from the country. He continued to pay for the debts of a dice, but in the end he managed to divorce.

After that, Zhizhikin did not communicate with his ex -wife for a very long time and started an affair with Jennifer Garner, whom he met on the set of the film “Spy”. For the third time, Igor married a Russian girl Natasha, with whom he lived for eight years. According to the actor, Paul Las Vegas walked at their wedding. The parting was peaceful, the former spouses remained on friendly relations.

He stated that he had “aggressive” plans on her account and called the new lover of his muse. With Olesya Romashkina, their relationship came to naught when the actor met a girl named Love, almost thirty years younger than him. Just a month after meeting, she became pregnant and gave birth to her son Luke from Zhizhikin. It is noteworthy that before some doctors told Igor that he could never become a father.