Childhood
Nikita Vasilievich Salopin was born in 1970 in Astrakhan. He lived there until 1988, when he decided to move to the capital. His parents were professional actors. Mom, Galina Pavlovna, graduated from the Astrakhan Theater School, and father, Vasily Porfirievich, is a successful graduate of GITIS. At first, my parents worked at the local Youth Theater. And then the whole Salopin family moved to Tambov, which is known for its strong dramatic theater throughout the country.
Nikita's childhood passed behind the scenes of the theater. The father was busy with the entire repertoire, and the boy admired his performance and learned the basics of the acting profession. Nikita watched all his dad's performances. As an adult, he recalled that these were the most valuable life lessons.
Due to family troubles, mother and Nikita returned back to Astrakhan. She continued to work at the Youth Theater, and the boy became seriously interested in the piano and even entered a music school. It is not unusual for a child with acting genes and an excellent education to choose an acting career.
Cinema / Actors
Added by vgyrgn January 13, 2012 906
Nikita Vasilyevich Salopin was born in Astrakhan into an acting family on March 9, 1970. Before coming to Moscow from the lower Volga, Nikita spent his first eighteen years in Astrakhan. To say that his parents were close to art would be an understatement. Both of them were professional actors. His mother, Galina Pavlovna Kladomasova, was among the first graduates of the Astrakhan theater school, which was located at the music school. His father, Vasily Porfiryevich Salopin, successfully graduated from GITIS. For some time, Nikita’s parents worked together at the local Youth Theater until the family moved to Tambov, which is famous throughout the country for its very strong drama theater with deep traditions.
Nikita was not an ordinary boy, because his entire childhood was spent behind the scenes of the theater. Father was very actively involved in the entire repertoire, as a rule, in leading roles, and little Nikita learned the basics of the acting profession, watching his father’s performance with all his eyes. He watched all the performances with his participation. These were the very first and most valuable lessons in his life. A little later, due to family troubles, Nikita, his mother and younger brother were forced to return back to Astrakhan. His mother continued to work at the Theater for Young Spectators, and Nikita divided his student time between a regular school and a music school, where he mastered the piano. It is not surprising that a young man with an excellent education and acting genes chose the profession of an actor for his future .
After graduating from school, Nikita enters and successfully studies at the studio school at the Moscow Art Academic Theater. His mentor was Lev Durov himself. Salopin graduated from it in 1996. And from that time until 1998, Nikita served as an actor in the famous Taganka Theater . After 1998, fate forces him to change his place of work, and he goes to work at the no less famous Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Throughout his time working in this temple of theatrical art, Nikita plays a huge number of roles. Viewers remembered him in the images of Pasteur Lutz from “Meteor”, Robin from “Doctor Faustus”, law enforcement officer Stepan from “The Torchalov Passion”, Krasavin from “Children”, Myshkin from “Fools”, Ignashka from “Golden Apples”, Velimir from “Slavic Follies”, Schwartz and Gilti from “Lulu”, Milonov and Vosmibratov from “The Forest”. He also managed to play several roles in the fairytale play “Flint”.
His film debut took place in the form of a negative character - the thief Kolya, who was an expert in stealing icons from churches and monasteries in The Return of Mukhtar-1 . The series with his participation was called “Features of urban fishing.” The next character created by Nikita Salopin was Sasha in the film “Taste of Murder.” This film became the debut for its director, Anna Legchilova. For quite a long time, Nikita became the “honored policeman” of the country. His palette includes such images as the lieutenant in “One of Our Own,” investigator Kostenko in “Tatya’s Day,” and police captain Ustyantsev in “Crazy Angel.” The second image in Salopin's track record is the military. Such as Andrey Korolev in Charter”, Stepan Boronko in “Airport-2”. A rather strong image played by Nikita, who remained in the memory and hearts of the audience, was Esaul Tokarev in Dmitry Orlov’s film “Koljat’s Gold”. This is a real image of a real hero who confronts an entire gang. This was followed by the no less heroic image of the intelligence officer Maksyuta in the military-themed film “Scouts. The Last Battle”, directed by Alexander Zamyatin.
Such a useful experience for every actor as working in advertising did not bypass Nikita Salopin. He starred quite a lot and often in family-oriented videos. He always got the roles of fathers who, together with their children, absorb yoghurts, juices, pasta and other products. This greatly amused the actor, who jokingly longed to be awarded the title of “the most popular father of domestic advertising.” The actor himself is an exemplary father for his daughter Anastasia. Despite the fact that he divorced his first wife, Nastya’s mother, actress Maria Glazkova, he managed to maintain an excellent relationship with them. Now Nikita is married to Elizaveta, who is a television personality.
his work in the biographical film about the sixties artist Viktor Popkov to be a serious milestone in the acting profession . This film was made by order of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Culture channel. Now Nikita is free and in constant creative search. At this time, he prefers the role of a free artist. He actively records audiobooks, teaches in the creative arts, and is also its founder.
Theater
After school, Nikita Vasilievich Salopin, whose personal life will be described below, entered the Lev Durov studio school at the Moscow Art Theater. He graduated in 1996 and immediately got a job at the famous Taganka Theater. In 1998, life circumstances forced him to quit and move to the equally famous Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. During his theatrical career, Nikita Vasilyevich played a huge number of roles. The viewer especially remembers his characters such as Robin (Doctor Faustus), Velimir (Slavic Follies), Ignashka (Golden Apples), Krasavin (Children), Myshkin (Fools), Stepan (Passion according to Torchalov"), Gilti and Schwartz ("Lulu"), Pasteur Lutz ("Meteor"), Vosmibratov and Milonov ("Forest"). He also played a number of roles in the play “Flint”.
Films and theater
Nikita's dream came true. He entered the Moscow Art Theater studio and graduated from the acting department in 1996. The head of Salopin's course was Lev Durov. After studying, he was taken to the Taganka Theater. The actor’s financial situation in his youth was blatantly difficult - no housing, not a penny to his name. At first, artistic director Yuri Lyubimov even allowed him to sleep on the small stage. Today Salopin remembers with a smile this time and the surroundings that accompanied his dream. A portrait of Chaplin looked down from the wall; a piano and candles created a unique atmosphere.
Nikita Salopin as a policeman (still from the series “My Fair Nanny”)
However, the artist did not succeed in his career in the Taganka Theater. He moved to the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, where his beloved Maria Glazkova served. It was 1998. Salopin received several prominent roles at once and remained in the theater for 9 years. At that time, one could see the actor in such productions as “Slavic Follies”, “Doctor Faustus”, “Fools” and many others. He did not refuse roles in children's plays.
Nikita began to be invited to appear in commercials, because he has undeniable talent, inner beauty, attractive appearance, and a harmonious figure (the actor’s height is 175 cm). His face becomes recognizable not only among theatergoers. In commercials, he plays mostly kind, caring fathers.
In an interview, the artist jokingly called himself “the people’s father of Russian advertising.” With his on-screen children, Salopin’s hero managed to taste yoghurts, sweets, and even macaroni and cheese were on his TV menu.
Nikita Salopin as thief Kolya / still from the TV series “The Return of Mukhtar”
At the same time, Salopin participates in film projects. The artist’s cinematic biography began in 2001 - he was offered the role of an artist. Then in “The Return of Mukhtar,” a popular series, he plays a thief. Afterwards, new interesting proposals rained down on him. This is the film “The Taste of Murder” and the comedy series “Unexpected Joy”.
They like to film Nikita in uniform, so he often plays police officers and military men. In the melodrama "Tatiana's Day" he plays the role of an investigator, and in the film "PiraMMMida", which tells about real events with the participation of Sergei Mavrodi, he plays the head of security. The bright pages of Salopin’s creative life were the main roles in the projects “The Heroine of Her Novel” and “Scouts. Last Stand". In the image of a truck driver, Nikita appeared before the audience of the series “Wild”.
Nikita Salopin as Dmitry Proskurin / Still from the TV series “There’s Someone Here”
In 2009, the actor played the main role in the Ukrainian melodrama “House with a Surprise.” The mini-series tells about the semi-criminal showdowns around the house, the urban legend of which says that the rich merchant Korovnikov hid a treasure with gold coins inside. The plot of the series “Someone Is Here” is interesting. Dmitry Proskurin, Salopin's hero, investigates strange mystical phenomena in his own home. In 2011, the actor returned to this role in the 2nd season of the project.
In 2012, the Russian-Ukrainian medical melodrama “Waiting List” was released on television, in which the artist played the main role of a transplant doctor. The series consists of a series of independent stories from the life of the Grokholsky transplant clinic and raises an important ethical and socio-medical topic. Another premiere of the year was the melodrama “Time to Love,” in which Elena Panova became Nikita’s partner. They manage to preserve the romantic feelings that flare up between the characters at the seaside resort.
In 2013, Salopin played the main male role in the melodrama “The Power of Faith.” The main character found herself in a difficult and contradictory situation: her husband left Vera for his mistress, with whom he created a new family and is raising a child. Soon the husband and mistress die due to an accident, and the woman is forced to raise someone else's orphan son.
Nikita Salopin as Gennady Mukhin / Still from the TV series “Good Hands”
In 2014, the actor played the main role of a prosecutor's office investigator in the crime drama Good Hands. The hero's ex-wife is the head physician of the maternity hospital, and also supervises. A woman matches abandoned children with wealthy parents, for which she receives financial gratitude.
Ill-wishers consider this child trafficking, but the doctor believes that he is doing a good deed by saving babies from orphanages. The 18-year-old son of the main characters is killed, and the investigator finds out that the child’s death is connected with his wife’s “business.” In 2020, the actor began filming the melodrama “The Verdict of an Ideal Couple.”
Nikita Salopin as Alexander Solzhenitsyn / Still from the series “Mysterious Passion”
Later, the dramatic series “Mysterious Passion” was released, in which the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn became the prototype of the hero Nikita Salopin. The film, dedicated to the generation of the 60s, also starred Alexei Morozov, Yulia Peresild, Chulpan Khamatova, Philip Yankovsky, Sergei Bezrukov and others.
In 2020, several projects with the participation of the actor were released. Nikita played the main role in the detective drama Patent. The film was created at the Producer Cinema Studio with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The plot of the film is built around a research group that discovers a cure for cancer.
A young scientist is accused of murder, but the investigator leading the medical case suspects that the crime was fabricated to prevent the scientist from registering a patent. A scientist and an investigator team up against corporations and the government to save a new drug.
Trailer for the film “From the Bottom of the Top”
Also in 2020, Salopin appeared in the sports melodrama “From the Bottom of the Top.” He recreated the image of a surgeon on the screen. The film tells the story of a young athlete of the alpine skiing team and the tragedy that happened to him.
In the detective story “Late Repentance,” Nikita portrayed himself as an investigator who is leading the case of the murder of the bride’s mother by her fiancé. The intricate plot was recreated on the screen by Alexandra Vlasova, Evgeny Tokarev, Yulia Galkina and other performers. Another page in the artist’s filmography is the main role in the Ukrainian project “Fatal Song,” created in the detective genre.
Movie
Nikita Vasilievich Salopin made his debut in the film “The Return of Mukhtar”. There he played the thief Kolya, who specialized in stealing icons from monasteries and churches. Next was the role of Sasha in the film “Taste of Murder”. Nikita Vasilyevich’s subsequent participation in detective series brought him the title of “Honored Policeman” of the country. His acting credits include such characters as investigator Kostenko (“Tatiana’s Day”), captain Ustyantsev (“Crazy Angel”) and lieutenant (“Inside Man”). The second most popular image from Salopin’s track record is a military one (Stepan Boronko (“Airport-2”), Andrei Korolev (“Charter”)). The strongest role played by Nikita Vasilyevich is Esaul Tokarev (“Koldzhat’s Gold”). He single-handedly stood up to an entire gang and became a true hero. The actor embodied an equally heroic image in the film “Scouts,” where he played the military man Maksyuta.
Nikita Salopin: biography
Nikita Salopin is a theater and film actor, a former actor at the Malaya Bronnaya Theater, as well as a teacher and co-founder of the theater. Salopin's popularity was brought by his roles in the famous detective series “The Return of Mukhtar”, “PiraMMMida”, “There is Someone Here” and others. The actor is also in demand in other genres: Salopin is invited to play in comedies, melodramas and mystical films.
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Actor Nikita Salopin
Nikita Salopin was born in the city of Astrakhan on March 9, 1970. The boy grew up in a theatrical family: his father graduated from GITIS and was assigned to work in the Astrakhan theater, his mother, a graduate of the theater department of the local music school, performed at the Youth Theater. Nikita also has a younger brother. Both children grew up in the theater, because their parents spent most of their time there. Vasily Salopin was the leading actor, and the boys always enjoyed watching his transformations on stage.
For some time the family moved to Tambov. But soon the sons and their mother Galina Pavlovna returned to their hometown. Nikita cherished Moscow in his plans. Since childhood, he saw himself as an actor in the capital's theater.
Personal life
Since Nikita Salopin is a public person, his personal life is of interest to many. And now we will tell you about it.
The first serious love happened in Moscow, where Nikita Vasilievich Salopin moved from Astrakhan. His wife (see photo above), Maria Glazkova, studied with him at the same university. It was at that time that a romance broke out between the young people. Soon they got married, and Maria gave Nikita a daughter, Anastasia. But then the couple separated. The reason for their divorce was not a quarrel, but the realization that love had passed. To this day they maintain warm, friendly relations. Salopin actively takes part in raising his daughter. He takes her to dance and drawing classes almost every day.
Now the actor has started another family. Salopin's second wife's name is Lisa. She holds the position of assistant director on television and conducts castings. She, like Nikita Vasilyevich, has a child from her first marriage. Lisa regularly attends her husband’s performances. Salopin listens to his wife’s comments and considers her his main critic. They met on the set of the program “What does a woman want?” Lisa herself found Nikita in the acting file and invited him to take part. That's how their romance began.
