Biography
Matvey Lykov - the son of Alexander Lykova, of the very same Casanov from the television series "Streets of broken lanterns." And in the world of high fashion, he is the "face" of Gucci, one of the most sought-after models, whose name is indicated in the same row with Ben Hill, Mark Varderloo and John Cortairen.A man talks about himself as a man with a specific sense of humor and developed imagination:
"I will walk on the podium while the hair is not falling down."Matvey is interested in acting and director, attracts and producing. Ambitious young man declares that in every new business would like to succeed, because his father taught to work hard and responsible for the result.
Childhood and youth
Matvey Lykov was born in St. Petersburg. His father Alexander Lykov is a popular Russian actor and movie actor. The mother of Alla Lordenko had theatrical education, but was engaged in the economy and the upbringing of children. Matvey has eldest sister Catherine for 2 years.
Another preschooler Lykov junior first appeared in front of the lens of a movie camera. At the age of 5, the boy replenished the image of the small son of King Henry II filmography, when, together with his father, "Thomas Bequet" film expedites. A year later, once again lit up in the episodic role in the movie "Journey to Happy Arabia".
Matthew and thought was not to become an actor. When the houses came about the conversations about the movie or about art in general, he, unlike Kati, began to miss, did not participate in the discussions, but preferred to watch the interlocutors.
In the 7th grade, Lykov asked him to be with the sister to transfer to a specialized school with an in-depth study of foreign languages. They are afraid of Corpel over textbooks to catch up with classmates who have comprehended this science from the 1st grade. By graduation, the young man practically fluently owned English and Spanish, sometimes even replaced teachers. To continue learning languages, Lykov enters the State Pedagogical University named after Herzen to INAZ. In parallel, he operates the tutor in children, and also conducts an English language business course for adults.
After the 4th year of the University of Matvey goes to the United States on the Work & Travel Student Program. She implies that the visa owner has the right to official partial employment. But in the documents of a young man, a typo was made, and the American social service refused the guy in providing qualified work. For several weeks, the remaining without means of Lykov, and then went in search of work in the New York Model Model Model Management.
Model Career and Films
This event affected the further biography of the young man. The agency just searched for a high guy of thin body. Matvey approached the required type - height is 183 cm.
"I could literally to hide behind the mop. In addition, I grew up in St. Petersburg, and my skin color was so transparent green, as usual in North-West. Always looked for 3-5 years younger than his age and thought it was a curse, and now it turned out to be an advantage. "In an interview with TV presenter on the Evening Urgant show, the top model joked that if someone was called "bones" or "skeleton", that is, a chance to conquer the world of high fashion.
Over time, to continue his career, he had to go to the gym and increase muscle mass. In eating Maxim, contrary to the stereotypes, it does not limit yourself, because of the intensive schedule, it is simply not time to eat. But cook loves, however, it is recognized that the wife gets faster and tastier. And the Russians are treating the Russians with garlic.
First, Lykov worked only on New York modes of mod, but later began to go to the podiums of Milan, London, Paris and Tokyo. A happy ticket was the 12-hour casting in Rafa Simons, who served as the Creative Director of the Jil Sander's brand owned by Prada Group. The young man then was nervous, worried that he was wasting time, while it would have time for a dozen views. The director said that Matvey, of course, can leave, but if he suffers a little more, his life will change.
In the service list of Matthew - hundreds of defile, in which he demonstrated clothes and accessories of Jil Sander, Gucci, N & M brands, Kenzo, Rag & Bone. Also in demand as a photo model for advertising products of manufacturers such as Diorhomme and Lanvin, Rafsimons and MarcBymarcjacobs, Phillip Lim and Rad Hourani, Yigal Azrouël and many others. Now Matvey Lykov is considered one of the few men-supermodels of Russian origin, enters the world top-10 mannequins.
In addition, in 2013, Matvey received an invitation to the musician and director John Lemuca, speaking under the pseudonym Woodkid, and starred in the video clip on his song "I Love You". Collaboration turned out to be interesting and fruitful, so Lykov and Woodkid worked again together over the roller on the new composition "The Golden Age".
The acting game of a little-known at that time, the Russian public was impressed by the film director of Timur Bekmambetov, who eventually invited Matvey Lykova to try himself as a professional film actor. In December 2015, fantasy film "He - Dragon" on the novel "Ritual" of the Fortist Sergey and Marina Dyachenko comes to the big screens. Lykov got the image of an unusual revolf - a dragon man named Arman.
Initially, a negative character in the movie is increasingly opens from the romantic side. As Matvey remarked:
"You will not often meet the hero on the screen, in which cruelty and kindness, maximalism and respect for other people, mind and extreme naivety can be combined. He is trying to reconcile in himself a man and a werewolf - and love comes to help him. "In the role of the captains of the Dragon, the princes of Miroslava, Maria Peszaeva starred.
Alexander Lykov rated the work of the Son. The main Casanova of Russian cinema stressed that Matvey conveyed, in essence, his own character is stubborn, ridiculous, but hard.
After that, the junior Lykov was invited to play in the episode of the film "Petersburg. Only for love "in the company Yana Sexte, Renata Litvinova, Maxim Vitorgan and Anastasia Skirik. In parallel with the filming in the film, Matvey graduated from the course of the director in the Paris International School of Cinema and Television. Further professional life he binds to the art of cinematography.
Personal life
When Matvey Lykov lived in New York, he had fans and a lot of fleeting novels. But after 3 years of life in America, the model moves to the French capital and since then lives there all the time. In Paris, the guy met the model and a fessen-designer Jessica Sternos. The girl was mixed with Swedish and Peruvian roots, but she grew up in Spain. In 2013, Matvey and Jessica wore themselves and soon got married.Lykov, except the native Russian, fluently owns English and Spanish, and also knows French and Italian well. The actor claims that due to the ability to quickly overcome the language barrier to Russians with pleasure offered to work abroad. He himself became a polyglot forced - with colleagues on the podium, agents and designers to communicate around the clock.
Matvey Lykov now
In early 2019, Maxim shared with the subscribers of "Instagram" by an event from his personal life - the daughter of Sienna was born in the family.
The portfolio of supermodels was replenished with a clip on the song Boris Grebenchikov "Dark as night". The video series is the adaptation of the novel of the lion of Tolstoy "Anna Karenina". The star composition of the roller includes except Lykov as Vronsky, Maxim Sukhanov, Julia Peresilde and Konstantin Khabensky.
Filmography
- 1992 - "Thomas Beket"
- 1993 - "Journey to happy Arabia"
- 2015 - "He - Dragon"
- 2016 - "Petersburg. Only for love"