Biography
Igor Chekhov - a popular comedian in Russia. It works on the boundary of the clownade, standa and plastic theater, and also tries to behave as an actor and lead.Childhood and youth
Igor Chekhov was born in the Belarusian town of Smorgon, which next to Grodno, in September 1987. His real names and name - Kozlikin Egor, and the middle name - Sergeevich. By the sign of the zodiac, he Virgo.
The sparkling sense of humor and cheerful temper close and friends of Egori have always noted. At school age, the young man wrote into the KVN team. He successfully joked on stage and laughed listeners, he tried to write scripts and invented humorous scenes. For this in the 9th grade was chosen by the captain of the team.
After receiving the school certificate, Kozlikin entered the Agrarian University of Stavropol, where he was going to receive a specialty mechanical engineer. But here the desire wanted to joke, and the guy began to perform in the university team KVN, where he also chose Captain. Familiarity and friendship with another university humorist Mikhail Kukota identified the future biography of Egor.
First, the guys are called on the KVN scene. Seeing that it would get much better than learn to mechanics and electrics, young people united in the humorous duet of "Kukota & Chekhov" and began a career in the world show business.
Personal life
Igor Chekhov is an attractive man. He has a courageous features of the face, a slim figure, a fashionable hairstyle. Therefore, the success of the opposite sex was provided to him.Not only a career, but the personal life of the showman is happy. For a long time he met with a girl who also has an excellent sense of humor. This is a young actress and a star clip "Leningrad" called "Exhibit" Julia Topolnitskaya.
Now the girl did not need to look for a friend who would reduce her "to the exhibition Van Gogh": he was already in the face of Igor. Artists got acquainted at one Petersburg Tusovka and since then they did not part. Lovers often met in bars, nightclubs and walking around the city. Chekhov loves to give her favorite flowers - pink peonies.
July 6, 2016 Couple played a wedding. The celebration began with a visit to the wedding palace No. 1 of the Northern Capital. Costumes of the bride and friends were withstands in the marine style. Julia brightened in a lush dress with a decolted riding. After the registry office, the spouses and guests went to the restaurant of the hotel W St. Petersburg, where the terrace was covered overlooking the city.
During the event in the accounts of friends and colleagues, newlyweds in the "Instagram" began to appear photo from the holiday, and Svetlana Khodchenkova even took the video process of throwing the bouquet of the bride. In the musical accompaniment of the evening, the music of the Leningrad group was used in the execution of Yulia, not without the rhythms of the bit-boxer.
Now the couple lives happily, travels a lot and shares photographs from family life with subscribers. Spouses are not thought about children, although they are in a relationship for a long time.
Creation
After the end of the Stavropol State University, Yegor realized that he could not be an engineer-mechanic. Humorist, together with the partner, Mikhail Kukota went to St. Petersburg, where he entered the Academy of Theatrical Art. The first performance of showmen in Stand Up format, held in 2008, opened the door to the show business. "Kukota & Chekhov" fell into Comedy Club Petersburg, which also includes such popular comedians like Valentin Sidorov, Vlados Aleshin, Arseny Popov.
Igor Chekhov (Yegor came up with such a stage name) together with a constant partner soon were recognized as one of the most successful humorous duets of modernity. The guys came up with a unique genre, which was determined as "plastic idiocy." But the audience and fans of Chekhov and the unchanging colleague call the numbers of artists by "cartoons".
It is noteworthy that "Kukota & Chekhov" can be mixed, without saying not a word. Clown grimaces, plastic, acrobatic tricks and power techniques, supplemented by crazy charisma, bring the public to full delight. It seems that this is the only duet of Russian showmen, which, for the transfer of his own humorous message, do not need words and long dialogues.
Igor, along with a friend and a partner, has already managed to visit many television programs. They lit up in the well-known TV projectles "not to sleep", "Comedy Battle", "Laughter without Rules", "Bunker News", "Devolina League", "Point Yu" and at the "big difference" festival. And the humorists were noted in the "Anchlage".
Later Chekhov with a partner became resident "Comedy Club". Artists participated in the rooms "Meeting of the State Duma", "30 minutes before the New Year", "Acquaintance of Robots on Aftepati", "First Women's Refrigerator", "Meldonium at the Olympics in Rio".
As part of the tour of the "Comedy Club" participants, Duet Chekhov and Kukoti often tours in the company of another St. Petersburg humorous team - Trio "Smirnov, Ivanov, Sobolev". In 2016, residents visited Siberia: Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul.
In addition to participating in TV projects, the duo performs on open areas. In the fall of 2017, the premiere of the play "SHEXSPIR WERE", which is defined as cross-genre production. The director of the experimental show, which faces the traditions of the British theater and modern interpretations of reading the play of the great playwright, became Ilya Mochkitsky. To create a submission scenario, six popular plays of William Shakespeare were used. The performances of the comedy duet were held in St. Petersburg.
Igor got the first cinematic experience in 2009, but then the film "Mama-Moscow" was not completed and shown to the audience. The next invitation from cinematographers had to wait for 7 years. In 2016, the artist played in the New Year Family Film "Santa Claus. Battle of Mages. " The story of the adventures of the girl Masha (Taisiya Vilkova) in the world of flying fiery creatures and the appearance of this Santa Claus (Fyodor Bondarchuk) collected $ 2.5 million in cinemas.
However, if the appearance of Chekhov in the adventure tape is still predictable, the role in the criminal film was in a novelty for his fans. In the series "Such work" on the investigation of the murders, the Special Unit of the Police, Igor performed the episodic role of Nikolai Borisov in the Numismat series.
In 2017, Igor Chekhov filmography was replenished with another criminal film "Alien face". The premiere took place on December 4 on the NTV channel. The artist of the comedy genre performed the role of dius in the series "Own".
Together with his wife, comedian starred in the painting "PITER by Caste" about the work of the popular music team "Casta". The first showing of the film, where the stars of the Russian cinema of Ksenia Rappoport and Arthur Smolyaninov also played, was held in early 2018.
Igor Chekhov now
News about Igor Chekhov on a regular basis is published in the media and social networks, because the humorist is actively engaged in his career. In 2020, he starred in the TV series "Together". The comedy was successful among the viewers, because the showman appeared in the frame with his wife Yulia Topolnitskaya. Also in Cast included Danila Yakushev, Rina Grishina, Daniel Vakhrushev, Ilya Pale.In August 2020, the premiere of the comedy series "Storiz" was held on the STS TV channel, where Igor also played one of the main roles. In addition to him, Julia Mikhalkov, Anton Lirnik, Dmitry Kolchin, Daniel Vakhrushev, Olga Kuznetsova were filmed in the tape. Each of the actors tried tens of images. The series you can see the metropolitan thing, and a doctor with a calligraphic handwriting, and a blogger grandmother.
Igor Chekhov admitted that the most difficult thing was to change many costumes in one shooting day. It happened, I had to remove 15 sketches, each of which was accompanied by a complete shift of the image.
The humorist also noted that this is not the first experience of filming in Sketches. However, this time he looked at them at a different angle and realized that it was necessary to be calmer and restrain his drive. The quality of humor depends on this.
Filmography
- 2016 - "Santa Claus. Battle Mages "
- 2016 - "Such work"
- 2017 - "Alien face"
- 2017 - "Countdown"
- 2018 - "Holder Crew"
- 2019 - "House"
- 2020 - "all together"
- 2020 - "Storiz"