Sergey Astakhov was born on May 28, 1969 in the village of Krasny Liman. Parents Viscount Mikhailovich Kozlov and Zinaida Ivanovna Astakhova were military personnel. When Sergei was a baby, his family moved to the mainland of Sakhalin in the Khabarovsk Territory and settled in the port town of Vanino. Sergei was accustomed to discipline from childhood, although he was still known as a hooligan: once the boy almost set fire to his own school. He dreamed of following in his father's footsteps, becoming a military officer and entering the legendary Suvorov Military School.
Sergei Astakhov in childhood
After graduating from secondary school, his parents persuaded their son to apply to the Polytechnic Institute, and he entered the aviation department, majoring in engineering. Technical education was not easy for Sergei; he did not like exact sciences. After studying at the institute for a year, the guy abandoned his studies and was forced to join the army. There was no question of trying to evade service, because Astakhov, who grew up in a military town, perceived the army as an honorable duty for every citizen of the USSR. Thanks to his incomplete technical education, Astakhov was assigned to a tank company as an engineer.
Sergei Astakhov in his youth
After demobilization, Sergei Astakhov went to live with his parents, who by that time had moved to Voronezh. There the guy completely spontaneously decided to enter the Voronezh Theater School, although he had never previously been interested in theater or cinema. Despite the competition, Sergei entered the acting department, where he studied until 1995.
Theater
After graduating from drama school, the actor was accepted into the troupe of the local Academic Drama Theater. He worked there for almost five years until he realized that his career was not moving forward and he stopped developing. In search of an opportunity to change this situation, Sergei decided to go to Moscow. Astakhov came to conquer the capital at a serious age; the man was 30 years old at that time.
Sergei Astakhov in the theater
Only two years later, Sergei found a suitable vacancy: the Et Cetera theater was looking for male actors. Astakhov came to audition, but director Alexander Kalyagin did not accept the actor immediately. At the same time, the rising theater star, on the advice of a friend, changed the dissonant surname “Kozlov” to his mother’s surname “Astakhov”. Literally in the same year, the actor received his first theater award “The Seagull” in the category “Fatal Man” for his role in the play “Hedda Gabler”.
In 2009, the actor came to the stage of the Stanislavsky Drama Theater.
Evgeny Mironov's wife
While the popular film actor is free, the concept of Yevgeny Mironov’s wife is a matter of the future. He has not yet met a woman who could become his beloved wife. In Lera Kudryavtseva’s show “Secret for a Million,” the film actor said that his future wife should be a housewife. According to our hero, such a housewife is his mother and sister. A man is looking for just such a wife.
For a long time he was in a relationship with Marianne, believing that she was able to give him happiness. But the marriage never took place. Currently, as the Matilda star puts it, he is searching, hoping to become a happy husband and father.
Movies
Having become a theater star in 2001, the actor soon began his creative biography in cinema: Sergei Astakhov almost immediately received an offer to take part in the filming of the film “Happy Birthday, Lola!” The artist received the main role of one of two killers and played with actors who would later become incredibly popular: Ekaterina Guseva and Vladimir Simonov.
Actor Sergei Astakhov
The actor became a frequent guest of Russian TV series, he played in “Ice Age”, “Lawyer”, “Poor Nastya” and many others. The actor gradually acquired the image of a “bad guy”, and directors invited him to the corresponding roles.
Sergei became most famous for his roles in the serial films “Black Goddess” and “Palm Reader” in 2005. In the same year, Astakhov made his debut as a screenwriter for the film “Escape.” However, only half of the actor’s original text remained; most of the dialogue was written by Dmitry Kotov and Oleg Pogodin; the producers also made many edits. Sergei received the role of Sobolev, a friend of the main character. Some film critics saw similarities in “Escape” with the film “The Fugitive,” but this did not prevent the project from gaining its audience.
Sergei Astakhov as Korolev
Another notable role of Astakhov was the image of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, a brilliant designer and engineer, thanks to whom Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space became possible. The film premiered in 2007. The role brought the artist the audience award at the annual Constellation festival.
In 2014, the actor played in an incredibly popular commercial for Siberian Crown beer. Astakhov's advertising partner was American actor David Duchovny.
In 2020, Astakhov played the main role in the crime melodrama “My Father’s Son,” which tells about the struggle of two talented neurosurgeon brothers for the inherited clinic.
Every year the actor takes part in several film projects. Sergei Astakhov managed to achieve well-deserved fame and love from television viewers; today he is an extremely sought-after actor on Russian television.
Childhood and youth
Sergey Astakhov was born on May 28, 1969 in the village of Krasny Liman. Parents Viscount Mikhailovich Kozlov and Zinaida Ivanovna Astakhova were military personnel. When Sergei was a baby, his family moved to the mainland of Sakhalin, in the Khabarovsk Territory, and settled in the port town of Vanino. Sergei was accustomed to discipline from childhood, although he was still known as a hooligan: once the boy almost set fire to his own school. He dreamed of following in his father's footsteps, becoming a military officer and entering the legendary Suvorov Military School.
Sergei Astakhov in childhood
After graduating from secondary school, his parents persuaded their son to apply to the Polytechnic Institute, and he entered the aviation department, majoring in engineering. Technical education was not easy for Sergei; he did not like exact sciences.
After studying at the institute for a year, the guy abandoned his studies and was forced to join the army. There was no question of trying to evade service, since Astakhov, who grew up in a military town, perceived the army as an honorable duty for every citizen of the USSR. Thanks to his incomplete technical education, Astakhov was assigned to a tank company as an engineer.
Sergei Astakhov in his youth
After demobilization, Sergei Astakhov went to live with his parents, who by that time had moved to Voronezh. There the guy completely spontaneously decided to enter the Voronezh Theater School, although he had never previously been interested in theater or cinema. Despite the competition, Sergei entered the acting department, where he studied until 1995.
Sergey Astakhov now
In 2020, the actor played one of the main roles in the four-part melodrama “Genie,” but the story about an altruistic magician was not to the audience’s taste; it was dubbed a “hodgepodge of cliches,” many complained that it was clear how the authors wanted to make a good family movie, but, as often happens with such series, they didn’t live up to the idea.
Sergey Astakhov today
In 2020, Astakhov began filming the sci-fi action film “Beyond.” In the story, the main character gathers a team of people with superpowers to hit the jackpot in a large casino. Sergei Astakhov will play the owner of the casino.
In the same year, the actor began filming another science-fiction film called “Sorcerers” (second title “Paradox”). The main characters of the film find themselves in a lost research institute, where they find such strange and unusual things as a perpetual motion machine and the philosopher's stone.
Natalya Rogozhkina - wife of Andrei Panin
At the age of 19, Natalya Rogozhkina met the ambitious assistant director Andrei Panin. He was in love with cinema, but soon there was a place in his heart for a young student. They merried. The marriage produced two sons. Their relationship was alive and real. They often quarreled and were not embarrassed to admit it, unlike those who prefer to create the illusion of an idyll in the family. At one time there were rumors that shortly before Andrei’s death the couple separated and began to live separately. But after Panin passed away, Natalya could not love another. She directed all her energy to raising her sons and developing herself as an actress.
Personal life
Charismatic, stately (the actor's height is 175 cm), popular Sergei Astakhov always gave fans the opportunity to gossip about his life. One of the most sought-after actors and the most handsome men in show business, as recognized by both numerous fans and various ratings in fashion magazines, has never known a shortage of women in love.
Sergei Astakhov with his first wife
Sergei met his first wife, actress Natalya Komardina, at the institute. Natalya was in her third year at that time. They met at an informal initiation into students. The young actor literally immediately invited the girl to his place and introduced her to her parents. A few days later, Natalya moved into his apartment, and a month later the young people got married, having a luxurious wedding for a hundred people. After the New Year, the couple got married in church, but this did not save their marriage.
Sergey Astakhov and Victoria Adelfina
Astrakhov married again to Victoria Adelfina, whom he met during the entrance exams. Towards the end of their studies, a romance broke out between them, and in 1994 the young people got married. Four years later, their daughter Maria was born, who is officially the only child of the actor; the press is not aware of other children. Victoria appeared in films more than once with her husband, and later their slightly older daughter Masha joined them. The actor's second marriage lasted until 2011.
Sergey Astakhov and Elena Korikova
And in 2011, sensational news hit the press: actress Elena Korikova was robbed, a large sum of money and personal belongings of Sergei Astakhov were taken from her house. Thanks to this information, the press started talking about a romance between the two actors. The couple broke up with a loud scandal in 2013. It was rumored that Korikova could not stand the jealous nature of her lover.
Sergei Astakhov and Evgeniy Mironov
In 2013, a scandal erupted around the name of Sergei Astakhov. On his page on the social network Facebook, the director of the Moscow theater Kirill Ganin reported that the artist entered into a same-sex marriage with actor Yevgeny Mironov, which was registered in Germany. Astakhov himself was extremely outraged by the news that he allegedly married Mironov, and stated that he was not in the mood to comment on such nonsense.
After rumors and conversations related to Astakhov’s name, information about the actor’s affair with Victoria Savkeeva was leaked to the press. The girl is 16 years younger than her chosen one and has nothing to do with the world of show business - she is a primary school teacher. Sergei spoke very warmly about Victoria. There was talk in the press about a possible wedding of lovers.
Sergey Astakhov and Anastasia Volochkova
In 2020, the public started talking about Astakhov’s affair with Anastasia Volochkova. The famous ballerina shared with her Instagram subscribers a romantic photo in which she was captured with Sergei. In the photo, Anastasia and Sergei are sitting in an embrace on the same chair and reading something, the ballerina is almost lying, leaning on a man.
Fans assumed that the celebrities were studying the script for the play “Lady,” in which they would play together, and the sudden meeting occurred under the pretext of the need for rehearsals. Anastasia also hinted to her fans on her blog that she had already won the actor’s heart.
Biography
In 1966, on November 29, the future star of the screen and theater was born in Saratov. Our hero spent his childhood and youth in a small military town called Tatishchevo-5. It was located at a considerable distance from the regional capital. Later it was renamed Svetly. He grew up in a simple family, his parents were far from art and the theater stage.
My father worked as a driver and turned the steering wheel every day, my mother at first was a salesperson in a nearby store, and later got a job at a factory where she produced Christmas tree decorations. Later, the family welcomed a daughter, Oksana, who made a successful career as a ballerina. Mom and dad had no idea that their children would grow up to be great people and become famous throughout the world. They enveloped the children in warmth and love and supported every step of the young discoverers.
Even though the parents were simple social workers, in their free time from work they loved to spend creative evenings, actively took part in amateur performances, and loved to sing and dance. They had their own tradition of celebrating every holiday together and cheerfully, but after the death of the head of the family, this ritual ceased to exist.
From an early age, Evgeniy dreamed of becoming an artist and getting on the theater stage. After some time, his mother enrolled our hero in a music school, where he mastered the accordion, but this did not make the young man happy; he wanted to learn to play the piano.
The guy’s real passion was amateur performances; he participated in all local productions and performances. This evoked in him indescribable happiness and a storm of emotions, which he tried to throw out onto the stage with a barrage of blows that he directed at the viewer. It was after this that he took a significant step in his career and entered the theater school in the city of Saratov. At that time he had just turned 14 years old.
At this time, his sister Oksana entered the choreographic school. For her achievements, she was transferred to the Leningrad Ballet Academy. After completing her studies, she got a job in an academic theater. The actor recalls that at his graduation performance at the school, all his relatives gathered among the spectators. From that moment on, a tradition arose in which they began to accompany him at every performance. Relatives came to every performance and supported him.
During his student life, he and his sister went to Moscow every holiday, where they visited all the theaters, and upon returning, the guy shared his impressions with his classmates and his mentors. Everyone around began to notice that Evgeniy was growing into an ambitious and talented person. After graduating from college and receiving a diploma, he did not stay long in his hometown. Despite the offer to play in the local Youth Theater, he set off to conquer Moscow.
It was very difficult to leave my home, the separation was difficult, my mother cried and worried all the way on the plane. After boarding the train, the guy collected his thoughts and finally felt freedom. He realized that all doors were open to him.
He dreamed of taking a course with his idol and fellow countryman Oleg Tabakov. It was 1986, but unfortunately, Tabakov did not recruit new students during this period. Could this have stopped our hero? He guarded his idol near the entrance to the Moscow Art Theater for several days and waited for him. The guy asked for an audition. As a result, Evgeny Mironov was immediately enrolled in the second year of study at the school-studio at the Moscow Art Theater.
The great actor remembers his student years as hungry, but very happy. A quiet and shy guy was placed in a dormitory in the same room with a hooligan and reckless young man Vladimir Mashkov. It was from this moment that a strong friendship arose between them, which has survived to this day. They repeatedly starred in joint projects, and their tandem became a cult favorite among movie lovers.
After successfully completing his studies at a prestigious acting institution, he received offers from three theaters simultaneously - Tabakerka, Moscow Art Theater and the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, but our hero preferred the first option. It is from this moment that Evgeniy’s professional career on the big stage begins.
