Early years, childhood and family of Alexander Samoilenko
Alexander Valeryanovich Samoilenko was born on March 28, 1964 in the city of Tashkent in Uzbekistan. His father was a fairly famous scientist and even had a doctorate in hydrobiological sciences. The future actor’s mother, in turn, worked as a school teacher.
Actor Alexander Samoilenko in his youth
As for his passion for creativity, it developed gradually in Alexander’s soul. First, he began acting in a school amateur acting group, and then became interested in Soviet cinema. In those early years, actors and actresses seemed like real celestial beings to little Sasha. That’s why the magic of cinema always fascinated and bewitched him in a special way.
That is why at one point our today’s hero decided to become an actor. Having collected his simple belongings, Alexander went to his parents to inform them that he was leaving for Moscow. Mom was against leaving, but father decided to let Alexander Samoilenko choose his own path in life. With his blessing, our today's hero went to the Russian capital.
Despite the big competition and a huge number of other applicants, Samoilenko managed to get in the first time. In the early eighties, he became a student at the Shchukin Higher Theater School. Subsequently, it was this educational institution that provided the young actor with a pass into the endless world of Soviet cinema.
Television career
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Since 2007, Alexander Samoilenko, whose actor the whole country knows and loves, decides to try his hand at television. At first, over the course of several years, he participated in several programs as a guest. These are such famous programs: “The Big Debate” and “While Everyone is Home.” But already in 2009, in the popular program “Fashionable Sentence”, he appeared as an independent expert.
In 2010, he became a participant in such programs as: “Give Yourself Life”, “You and Me” and “Big Difference”. In the same year, Alexander Valeryanovich tried himself as a presenter. He hosts several episodes of the “I Want to Know Everything” program. In 2011, he tried his hand as an active participant in the famous entertainment program “Dancing with the Stars.” Alexander Valeryanovich manages to pass the first stage of the competition, but in the second round he is eliminated. In 2013, viewers saw him again in the “Polyglot” program as a participant.
The creative path of actor Alexander Samoilenko, the beginning of his filmography
The talented actor began his career in the world of cinema in 1987, as a final year college student.
During this period, our today's hero played a small role in Eldar Ryazanov's film “Forgotten Melody for Flute.” The debut turned out to be quite good, however, surprisingly, immediately after it there was some break in the actor’s career. Alexander Samoilenko. Dream about a leaving train. Having received a diploma from a theater university, Alexander Samoilenko got a job as an administrator at the Moscow Vakhtangov Theater. Thus, for some time, the talented native of Uzbekistan left acting and took up organizational activities. A little later, our today's hero left the art world altogether, deciding to try himself as a restaurateur. So already in the early nineties a closed club “Mayak” appeared in Moscow, which was located in the building of the Vakhtangov Theater. It was on its basis that Alexander Samoilenko began to implement his ideas in the field of gastronomy. At first, the emphasis in the restaurant was on oriental cuisine, but later the restaurant’s menu turned into a bizarre mix of a wide variety of dishes, styles and trends.
In this context, it is worth noting that the Mayak restaurant-club is still a fairly successful establishment. Alexander works as a restaurateur, but these days he manages to organically combine creativity and business.
Alexander Samoilenko decided to return to the world of art in 1997. During this period, after a long break, he joined the troupe of the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater. Despite the long downtime, our today's hero did not lose his acting skills, and therefore very soon the directors, one after another, began to trust the actor with fairly large roles.
Andrey Kuzichev and Alexander Samoilenko (“About Women”). “Twelfth Night”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Seven Saints from the Village of Bryukho” - these, as well as many other theatrical works, quickly made Alexander a real theater star.
Love-carrots and children
A separate series could be filmed about the personal life of Alexander Samoilenko, the main character of which would be the envy of even Arab sheikhs. The actor's love interests are difficult to count on the fingers of one hand.
Alexander met his first wife Inessa while studying at drama school. The young actors played a wedding, waited for their son Stepan to appear and ran away. One of the reasons for the divorce was that he had to live with his wife’s parents, and the actor could not come to terms with the role of Primak.
Alexander left his first wife almost nowhere. He did not have his own place to live; he spent his first night away from home on a station bench.
At the beginning of the new millennium, Samoilenko married a girl, Elena, who bore him a son, Sasha. The second wife, Alexandra, was leaving after a terrible car accident. But in 2006, he was already courting Evgenia , an employee of one of his restaurants, 18 years younger than the actor. To be closer to Zhenya, Alexander divorced Elena and married a new passion. In this marriage, the actor had a son, Prokhor.
Journalists found out that Samoilenko’s relationship with actress Olga Lomonosova went beyond work and developed into a whirlwind romance. Alexander courted her beautifully, gave her flowers, took her to restaurants, but Olga met another man with whom she united her destiny. Samoilenko and Lomonosova still play in the same play at the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, but the relationship between them is purely professional.
In 2020, Samoilenko left Evgenia and started a new relationship.
Since 2020, the actor has been living with actress Natalya Gromova , whom he introduces to everyone as his wife. The couple looks peaceful and happy.
Alexander maintained friendly relations with all his ex-wives, except Evgenia.
What he didn’t like about his penultimate wife is not mentioned. But he is very worried because Prokhor took the separation of his parents painfully.
The best roles of Alexander Samoilenko
The actor’s career in the world of cinema was also no less productive.
Back in 2000, our today’s hero starred in several parts of the project “Maroseyka, 12,” which instantly made him a real star of Russian television. After this, the actor’s career included the films “Oligarch”, “Atlantis”, as well as the series “Children of the Arbat”, “Two Fates” and some other works. In the mid-2000s, Alexander also appeared in several Russian blockbusters - “Night Watch” and “Day Watch”, as well as in the historical film “1612”. In parallel with this, the director and producer career of Alexander Samoilenko also developed. In 2005 and 2006, he presented to the audience two of his films, “Novel of Horrors” and “Let’s Be on You,” which, however, received rather restrained reviews from critics. Perhaps this is why Alexander no longer worked as a director. But he never left the production craft. To date, the actor’s list of works already includes nine such films.
Actor Alexander Samoilenko now works a lot in TV series
Among the actor’s other “optional” projects, it is worth remembering his work on the radio. In the mid-2000s, our today’s hero hosted a regular program “The Steam Room with Alexander Samoilenko” for the sake of City FM.
Film career
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The talented actor Samoilenko began acting in films during his student years. He needed this to earn some money for his living. So, in 1986, he played in the musical film “Tricks in the Old Spirit,” where he got the role of Napoleon, and the following year he played the forest blackmailer Sasha in the film “Forgotten Melody for the Flute,” directed by Eldar Ryazanov.
In 1990, the young actor played a cameo role as editorial employee Sasha in the film “Family of Ghouls.” After this, Samoilenko did not act in films and returned to cinema again only ten years later. In 2000, he took part in the filming of the serial detective story “Maroseyka, 12”, where he played the role of Ivan Pavlyuchenko. This role helped to re-look at the actor’s profession; Alexander Valeryanovich liked it and the very next year he played in the TV series “Cobra. Black blood".
In 2002, he starred in three films at once: “Atlantis”, “Oligarch” and “Joker”. In 2004, his popularity and fame increased after the release of the film “Night Watch”. In this fantasy film, he plays the role of the magician Ilya. And in 2006, he also successfully starred in the film “Day Watch,” which is a continuation of the first film.
But the greatest success among viewers was his role in the family series “Daddy’s Daughters,” where he plays the role of dentist Andrei Mikhailovich Antonov. His role in the film “Queen of the Bandits” was no less successful. This film was released in 2013. The main character of the film is waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army. But many people like her. And Polina is also liked by the local authority Burov, who is played by Alexander Valeryanovich. Polina doesn’t like Burov at all, she hates him. But it soon turns out that the girl’s mother is sick, so an operation is necessary, which is expensive. And Polina is simply forced to marry Burov.
Currently, his filmography includes more than seventy films, and every year several films are released in which he stars. In 2020, Samoleinko starred in the film “President's Vacation” directed by Ilya Sherstobitov. His role as Cossack chieftain Anatoly Stepanovich Romanov turned out to be successful. The President of Russia decides to secretly go on vacation and visit Crimea to relax there and chat a little with people. But to do this secretly, he resorts to the services of a make-up artist. But only his new image repeats the appearance of Valery from Borovsk. It is known that he had accumulated debts on 40 loans, and in order to hide from collectors, he also went to Crimea. As a result, each hero is mistaken for the wrong person and they are forced to live the way they dreamed. At the end of the film, everything returns to its place.
Alexander Samoilenko today
Currently, the talented actor still often appears in films and also works as a producer.
Among his latest works are the films “New Earth”, “The Irony of Love”, as well as the series “Wanted”, “Queen of the Bandits”, “Alien War”, “Daddy’s Daughters”. It is known that in 2014, the actor will star in at least one more film – the comedy “Easy to Know,” where his co-stars will be Garik Kharlamov and Kristina Asmus. In addition, during the same period, Alexander Samoilenko will also present to the audience his next production work - the film “Be Free”.
Directing career
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Alexander Samoilenko, whose personal life is always of interest to the public, realized his directorial abilities in two films. In 2006, the film “Romance of Horrors” was released, which tells the story of security guard Klim Blinov, who works in an elite sports club. At this time, the unexpected happens and the Phantom, who in the old days, until about 1917, was a prosecutor, releases a new collector. The ghost sees people who, being members of this elite club, are engaged in unclean affairs. Klim and Ghost soon begin to become friends and together try to fight such people.
In 2006, a new directorial work by Alexander Valeryanovich was released. He created the comedy film “Let’s Be on You,” where a bachelor, who is over thirty years old, dreams of marrying off his annoying mother. To do this, he has to meet different people, and because of this, he often finds himself in funny and comical situations.
