Biography
Cinematic biography of Igor Zizhikin Paradoxal: Russian actor first achieved success in Hollywood, and then in his homeland. The artist began with the profession of janitor, and reached impressive heights in the acting career.Childhood and youth
Igor Vitalyevich Zizhikin was born on October 8, 1965 in Moscow. Father Vitaly Sergeevich was the head of the Postal Department of the USSR Ministry of Communications. Being a volleyball sports master, he trained the Central Television team. Henrietta Mikhailovna's mother was an actress, but the theater career did not work out, so the woman worked in the Research Institute of Patent Information.
Like the peers, the schoolboy was fond of sports, became a wizard in swimming. Another teenager loved to relax in the company of friends and listen to Rock. Dreams to play in the cinema and appear "on TV" from Zigikin was not in childhood or in his youth. The cinema at that time seemed Igor to the sphere, in which the celestials fall. The guy did not see themselves among such lucky.
Having received a certificate of maturity, Igor at the insistence of his father became a student of the metropolitan Communications Communications, planning after graduation to go to the Institute of Communications. But instead of the university Zizhikin fell into the army. In 1982, the applicant called for an urgent service, which became the first link in the chain of events, which led the young man into cinema.
Zhizhkin is a foreman of a sports company, "met with circuschairs. The colleagues earlier worked in the Moscow Circus, and hitting an urgent service, continued to entertain the army public with performances at festive concerts. At first, Igor helped his friends, but soon the circus art was so tightened that he came out with the artists on the scene.
After the demobilization, Zizhikin refused for the previous plans and instead of the Institute of Communications entered the Academy of Physical Culture. To kill at the hospital, the novice artist did not want. Transferring to the correspondence department, he settled in the Moscow State Circus. Since Igor was a master of sports, he did not even have to enter the circus school, the young man found himself a suitable number - acrobats on bicycles - and came around the entire Soviet Union with him.
The second half of the 1980s for Igor - Gastro. At the age of 22, he got into the best number at that time - "Air flight under the leadership of Vadim Stankeev". With this unique idea, which was not analogs, artists rushed almost the whole world. After the injury to Zizhikin was transferred to "light work" - he quickly moved along the Komsomol line and became the secretary of the Komsomol Committee of all Circles of the USSR.
In 1989, Igor received a diploma in the specialty "Director of Sports-Mass Events". In the same year, Cincachi went to the touring tour of America's cities. The producer of the tour took all the money and escaped, leaving the troupe without funds in an unfamiliar country, then the "SoyuzGosirk" paid them to their homeland.
Understanding that the survival and gray weekdays are waiting at home, half the troupe remained in the United States. Among the remaining was Zizhikin, who chosen Las Vegas to stay. The first year the actor had to be difficult: spent the night on a bench in the park, worked as a janitor, a lawn mower, a bouncer. Food in cheap eateries.
Circus and Show
The bright and textured actor (Growth of Zizhikin 1.91 m at a weight of 95 kg) fate smiled after a year: in 1990 he was called to the musical "Include the night", where they trusted silently to walk along the scene. But next year Igor played SMSon's key character in the Jubilee Musical. In this capacity, the artist went to the frame of 5 years. In 1995, the artist settled in the famous "Circus du Soleil", with a troupe of which was 3 years.In 2012, at the first channel Igor was a mentor in the 6th season of the show "Minute of Fame. Dreams Come True!" And led the program "In the Black and Black Room ...".
Films in Hollywood
To increase the professional level, Zizhikin entered the theater school in Nevada, where he studied for 2 years. From the 2000th, the actor began a breakthrough in a creative career. In Los Angeles, Igor gave master classes on stage plastics and acting. The artist met an authoritative agent, a leaving from Russia Viktor Kruglov. With his help, he fell into projects with Hollywood Stars Stephen Sigalom, Clint Nostud, Quentin Tarantino, Angelina Jolie.
From 2000 to 2007, Igor was filmed a lot in Los Angeles in students of directing faculties. It helped to get the necessary experience, and the artist appeared on the screen in the tapes of famous American directors. He starred in the series "Spy" directed by J. J. Abrams, on the set of which he met with Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper and Quentin Tarantino. In the thriller clint, Istuda "Bloody Work" played Russian Mikhail Bolotov. The roles of the second plan went to the actor in the drama "Kleptomania" and the militant "Target".
But the star role in the Hollywood project came to Igor in 2008: the artist appeared in the fourth film of the superpopular cycle of Stephen Spielberg about the archaeologist "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", where the Russian Colonel Anton Dovchenko played. And again a star company, where every name is the legend of Hollywood: Harrison Ford, Kate Blanchett, Schaya Labafe. A 124-minute tape collected $ 786 million at $ 185 million budget.
According to Igor, shooting Spielberg has become the best impressions in his life.
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Since the release of the picture on large screens, the name of Zizhikin became famous, and the financial situation is enviable: according to some information, the actor received a million fee for work in the adventure project. A colonel doll has appeared on the sale - an external copy of the artist.
In 2009, the Russian actor with a bright type was invited to Ruslan's fighter, where he starred with Stephen Sigal. In the same year, the artist received a role in the dramatic series "Black Tag".
No less saturated was 2010: the artist starred in the melodraman "Tourist", in which Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp played the main characters. Zhizhikin got a bright hero with the name Virginsky. Igor confessed in an interview that after work in the project believed in the materialization of desires. After all, before shooting in the film, I looked at the picture of Florian Henkel von Donnersmarka "The Life of others" and thought that it was unbelievable with such a director - incredible happiness. Soon, Donnersmark called Russian to his new project.
Later, the artist appeared in the comedy television series "Chuck" and the crime thriller "Defender", where Jason Steate played the main role. In the past 15 years, Igor alternates shooting in Hollywood and Russia.
Career in Russia
Since 2001, Russian directors have been offered the actor. He played the roles in the series "Devoloic Power", "Special Forces in Russian" and the second film "Love in the Big City". In the last project, Zizhikin got a silly character with the talking name Oleg Podba. The artist says that it was convinced by the director Marius Weisberg to complete a funny image. Pavel Derezko and Vladimir Yaglych became the colleagues of Igor on the set in this project.
The brightest roles got Igor in the projects "Viy", "Major", "Brigade. Heir ", in which Zizhikin played with Catherine Guseva and Yuri Chursin.
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On the first channel, the premiere of the Dramatic Murca Drama project (2017) was held, where the artist got the role of Taras Korshun. In the series, the stars of Russian cinema Mikhail Porechenkov, Sergey Garmash, Janik Fayziev starred. Removed the project in Moscow, Sevastopol and Evpatoria.
In 2019, the tapes "Territory" and "Polar" were published. The shooting of the "polar" was held in extreme conditions near Murmansk, as well as in Moscow, but the artists accounted for both in the cold, and in the heat to walk in equal fur coats. But the performer of the leading role of Porechenkov 2 times agreed to undress in the frame.
In the series "Black Staircase" (2020) a lot of action - from Drak and shooting to extreme scenes on the roofs of high-rise buildings. The project involved a whole team of cascaders under the leadership of Vladimir Karpovich, although many tricks performed by the leading role of Alexey Ushakov independently.
Personal life
In the youth, the personal life of the artist did not make up - he had 3 marriage. The first time Zhizhikin married the brand's waitress for the sake of obtaining American citizenship. The second spouse was also American - a fox dancer, a musical partner, but the marriage turned out to be a short - too different mentality soon turned a couple in other people's people. The children in the family never appeared.The third wife Igor is Russian. With a woman named Natalya, the actor lived 8 years old, but this union burst. With the former wife, the Russian-Hollywood artist supports friendships and glad that she found happiness after parting. The former spouse lives in America.
In 2016, Igor had a new beloved - the former wife of Bari Alibasov - the younger Olesya Romashkin. Joint with Olesya photo Actor published in "Instagram". In an interview with the Russian editions, Zizhkin called Romashkina his muse and recognized in serious - "concurrent" intentions.
After 2 years, the artist met the girl named Love - the age difference from the lovers is 29 years old. Couple lives in a civil marriage. At the beginning of 2019, Luka boy was born in the family.
Now the actor, along with his beloved and his son, lives on a permanent basis in the United States, but often comes to Russia on shooting. In Los Angeles, Igor has a chic mansion built back in 2007. Zizhikin allowed friends to use the house as locations for filming clips and movies.
Igor Zizhikin now
In 2021, the actor's filmography was replenished with a comedized militant "Major. The film ", which is the full-length version of the series" Major "with Pavelilica in the lead role. Due to coronavirus, the film was not shown in cinemas. The tape was released on January 2 in the online cinema "Kinopoisk HD" and installed a record for the number of views on New Year's holidays. 10 days after the premiere, the comedy looked half a million service subscribers.
Filmography
- 2003 - "Russians in the city of Angels"
- 2008 - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull"
- 2009 - "Ruslan"
- 2011 - "Moray"
- 2014 - "The Secret City"
- 2014 - "Business Batagi"
- 2014-2018 - "Major"
- 2015 - "Third Duel"
- 2015 - "Ierie-San: Samurai Confession"
- 2018 - "Island-2"
- 2018 - "Joker-3. Hunt for beast »
- 2019 - "Polar"
- 2020 - "Black Staircase"
- 2021 - "Alice against Rules"
- 2021 - "Sergeant"
- 2021 - "Criminal Doctor"
- 2021 - "Ampire V"