Childhood and youth
Little is known about the biography of Anton Filipenko. The future theater and film actor was born on August 20, 1985 in the Far East, in the city of Khabarovsk, but then moved to the west. The artist also prefers not to talk about his family.
The young man graduated from art school, loved to sculpt, and drew well. As a result, the young man graduated from the architectural institute in Khabarovsk. Then Anton moved to Moscow, where he worked as an architect for a year. But his career didn’t work out: the guy was laid off.
In his youth, Filipenko played in the Khabarovsk KVN team “Botanical Garden”, where he showed himself as a promising young man who knew how to transform into various stage images and make the audience laugh.
After failure in the architectural field, Anton’s friend Dmitry Chebotarev advised his friend to enter the theater school. That's what Filipenko did.
In 2014, the future actor graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts (SPbGATI), and studied in the workshop of People's Artist of Russia Anna Aleksakhina.
Another promising artist studied in the studio at the Lensoveta Theater in the workshop of the Russian director Yuri Butusov, where he received the prize for best actor at the Christmas Parade festival for the play “Irons.”
Group "Leningrad"
At the end of April last year, another video of the Leningrad group for the composition “Ecstasy” appeared on the YouTube video hosting site. The director of the video is Anna Parmas, and the 10-minute video shows a mini-movie with Anton Filipenko and Svetlana Khodchenkova as the main actors. In one day, the video was watched more than 2 million times, which also made Anton more popular.
At the same time, Anton did not get the role right away - he had to go through the casting, and there were a lot of people who wanted to star in the video of the legendary Sergei Shnurov. Anton in the video appears as Vitalik, an auto repair shop worker. And then a rich girl appears in the workshop and confuses Vitalik with her classmate. Vitaly takes advantage of this position.
The clip was filmed with an 18+ restriction, because there are a lot of sex and explicit scenes in the clip. The work in this video was the debut in the entire filmography of the actor.
Movies
In 2008, Filipenko made his debut on television, then he played a cameo role in the TV series “Liteiny”. Then the guy played in supporting roles in the series “Alien District 2” (2012), “Healing” (2013), “Best Enemies” (2014). Aspiring actor Anton Filipenko became recognizable thanks to the detective series of the STS TV channel “Luna”, which was released in 2014 year. There, the young artist played the role of investigator Nikita Shishkin, who was remembered by the audience for his extravagant remarks.
The actor became famous thanks to the historical film by Andrei Shalopa and Kim Druzhinin “Panfilov’s 28,” which premiered on November 16, 2020. Filipenko played the role of Red Army soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitry Timofeev.
Alexander Filippenko now
The last film with the participation of Alexander Filippenko was released in 2011. But in subsequent years, the actor works fruitfully in the theatrical field. Since 2020, the actor has appeared on the stage of the Mossovet Theater with a one-man show “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” based on the work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The artist can also be seen at the School of Dramatic Art in the role of Colonel Richard Cantwell in the production of “Last Date in Venice.”
Alexander Filippenko in the theater
In 2020, Marina Ishimbaeva staged the film play “The Author is Captivity” for her husband, where Alexander Filippenko uses the texts of his favorite writers - Mikhail Bulgakov, Alexander Blok, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Yuri Levitansky. The actor spoke about his creative plans and projects on the air of the Evening Urgant program, which he visited in March 2020.
Now the premiere of Alexander Filippenko’s new one-man show “Hello, Mikhail Mikhailovich!” is being prepared, in which we will talk about two authors close in spirit to the actor - Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko and Mikhail Mikhailovich Zhvanetsky.
Personal life
Anton Filipenko does not like to advertise his personal life, so fans of the handsome tall guy, 182 cm tall and weighing 75 kg, are wondering if the star has a girlfriend. Fans attributed the actor to an affair with his colleague on the set of the series “Moon” Anastasia Akatova, who played Nikita Shishkin’s lover. However, this information was not confirmed, since Anastasia herself does not talk about her relationship.
Then it became known that Anton’s girlfriend was actress Galina Sumina. The couple studied together at the Nikita Mikhalkov Academy. The lovers also played in the play “Metamorphoses”. At the moment, the artists have not become husband and wife, they also do not have children.
In an interview, Filipenko said that he saw Galina in a movie. The friend showed the actor the girl and pointed out the artist’s beauty. Anton took it and got acquainted. Now the couple lives together in the capital of Russia.
In life, Anton is a cheerful guy with a sense of humor: this can be seen on the star’s Instagram page, where the actor posts funny videos and photos. Filipenko loves to travel and willingly shares with subscribers his impressions of being in exotic countries.
In his free time from filming, the actor loves to kick the ball on the football field and spend time in the company of friends. In addition to playing football, Anton enjoys bandy and has the title of candidate master of sports. Filipenko is good at the martial art of karate - he even has a green belt.
In addition to his brilliant skills on the set, the increasingly popular actor can sing and play the guitar.
Biography
In his native Khabarovsk, the future actor graduated from the Architectural Institute. Worked in Moscow. And at the age of 25, he left the profession of an architect and went to St. Petersburg to enter the theater school.
Anton Filipenko says: “My mother is a theater director by profession, she worked as an assistant director at the Drama Theater. And my father is a dashing man of the 90s, an actor in life, but not by profession.
I graduated from art school, I liked to sculpt, and I was also good at drawing. I thought - where to go? And I decided that architecture was a profitable topic, masculine and interesting. So in Khabarovsk I graduated from the architectural institute, after which I moved to Moscow and worked here for a year as an architect. But then the crisis happened and I was laid off. To be honest, I was a so-so architect.
I wanted constant movement, development, and my friend Dima Chebotarev, an actor, advised me to enter the theater school. I myself wanted to go into directing, but I had to take a lot of tests and seriously prepare. But it was easier to enter the acting department. So I went to the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts."
Anton Filipenko now
On April 27, 2020, a new video for the rock band “Leningrad” with the song “Ecstasy”, directed by Anna Parmas, appeared on YouTube. The ten-minute video is a real mini-movie, starring Anton Filipenko and Svetlana Khodchenkova. Within a day, the video received more than two million views, which brought Anton even greater popularity.
To get a role in the extravagant video, the aspiring actor had to go through a casting. According to Anton, there were many people who wanted to be in Sergei Shnurov’s video, but preference was given to him.
Filipenko plays Vitalik in Ecstasy, who works in a car repair shop as a mechanic. But one day, a rich girl comes to the workshop in an expensive car and confuses the guy with her classmate Stas, and Vitaly takes advantage of this.
The video contains many explicit scenes, so the video is restricted to 18+. The work in the video became the debut in the actor’s filmography. According to Anton, he will not appear in Shnurov’s videos if he does not like the script.
One of the main roles was played by Anton in the melodrama “The Happy Gray Mouse”. In the film, the artist got the character Sergei Vinogradov, who works as an artist.
The plot of the film is built around the nurse Natasha. The girl lives alone in a large apartment, which she inherited from her parents. The relatives themselves died in a car accident. Natalya’s son was also in the car with them. Out of grief, the girl’s husband Victor began to drink and eventually went to prison for manslaughter. After the incident, the husband immediately filed for divorce, and Natasha was left alone.
One day, a girl saves a young colleague, Yulia, from the harassment of the manager. The nurses become friends, and Natalya invites Yulia to stay with her. At the same time, Victor returns from the zone, regretting the break with his wife. But the girl had already met her beloved man - the artist Sergei, who jumped out from under the wheels of her car.
Anton's colleagues on the set were Natalya Terekhova, Ilya Sokolovsky, Anastasia Kalashnikova and others.
Then the artist appeared in one of the leading roles in the series “Girls Don’t Give Up,” which started on the STS TV channel in May 2018. The man got a character named Edward. On the set, Filipenko met with Lyubov Tolkalina.
Another important role appeared in the artist’s arsenal after filming in the military mini-series “Black Pea Jackets.”
In July, Filipenko played one of the central roles in the film “Tanks”. The action of the film took place in the period before the German attack on Russia. At the same time, engineer Mikhail Koshkin developed a prototype of the innovative T-34 tank. To prove the uniqueness of the car and show its strengths, the engineer and his team set off on their own to Moscow. But soon the off-road run turns into a race in which the group must prove their skills and the professional suitability of the tank.
In addition to Anton, Andrei Merzlikin, Aglaya Tarasova, Sergei Stukalov and others played in the film.
Viewers will also see their favorite artist in the series “More than a Coach.” Filipenko again got one of the main roles.
The multi-part film is about a man who has been commenting on football near the TV all his life. But one fine day, the Russian Football Federation decided to make a man the head coach of the country's national team. Anton’s colleagues in the workshop were Kirill Dytsevich, Dmitry Vlaskin, Anna Kotova-Deryabina, Sergei Lavygin and other famous artists.
Filmography
Although the actor did not come to the profession early, he has a fairly rich filmography. It contains both films and TV series produced in Russia, in which the actor received both main and episodic roles.
Filipenko participates in at least two or three large projects a year. Moreover, at the same time, he helps creative friends and colleagues in the implementation of their own projects. The man often talks about them on his Instagram account.
List of main projects:
- “Alien District” (2012);
- "Hounds-5" (2013);
- “Metamorphoses” (2014);
- "Moon" (2014-2015);
- "The Hijacker" (2015);
- “Under the Electric Clouds” (2015);
- "Inspector Cooper 2" (2015);
- “28 Panfilov’s Men” (2016);
- "Carefully! Entry permitted" (2016);
- "Hidden Camera Agency" (2016);
- “Unlucky” (2016);
- “The Happy Gray Mouse” (2017);
- “Rime” (2017);
- “Girls Don’t Give Up” (2017);
- “Black Pea Jackets” (2018);
- "Tanks" (2018);
- “More than a coach” (2018);
- “Let's Get Divorced” (2019);
- "Behappy" (2019).
Participation in the video of the group “Leningrad”
Anton Filipenko’s participation in the video for the song “Ecstasy” deserves special mention. Its director was Anna Parmas.
The structure is a whole ten-minute movie, in which Filipenko and Khodchenkova received the main roles. Within a day, this clip collected more than two million views, which only increased the popularity of the young actor.
As Anton himself later admitted, he went through a difficult casting: the band’s frontman Sergei Shnurov personally participated in the selection of suitable participants.
In “Ecstasy” Anton plays car mechanic Vitalik. One day, a wealthy, pretty girl comes to his workshop and confuses the worker with a former classmate named Stas, and the enterprising Vitalik quickly realizes that this is his chance...
The clip includes many explicit scenes, so it has an age limit of 18+. But this did not affect his popularity on the Internet.
The actor himself had conflicting impressions from working with Shnurov and Leningrad. Once he even stated in an interview that he would refuse another similar project if he did not like the script.
Maturity: film career and prospects
Anton himself calls Nikita Shishkin from the mystical series “Moon”, filmed for the STS channel, his first leading role. To celebrate, the actor spent his entire fee for the film: he visited Goa, decided to move closer to the center... and the money ran out. But ahead of him were roles in the film by Alexei German Jr. “Under Electric Clouds” based on the script by Krzysztof Zanussi and the television series “A Stranger’s Own.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUrwkDEgLrB
The iconic role of Nikolai Trofimov, one of the 28 Panfilov men from the film of the same name, brought the actor well-deserved recognition from the audience. On the set, Filipenko met Alexander Ustyugov, Amadou Mamadakov, Alexei Morozov, and other “Panfilovites” participating in the historical drama.
Anton Filipenko in the film “28 Panfilov’s Men”
After the release of the film, Anton was invited to the projects “Hidden Camera Agency” (detective), “Caution! Entry allowed" (melodrama), "Girls Never Give Up" (series for STS). Also in 2020, Kim Druzhinin’s military blockbuster “Tanks” and the mini-series “Black Pea Jackets” with the participation of Filipenko were released. Both films were criticized for historical errors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnMnsKSMG18
Filipenko considers filming in the video for Sergei Shnurov’s group “Ecstasy” to be successful. More than nine million views on YouTube in two weeks made Anton a recognizable personality. They began to recognize him on the subway, and he also enjoyed working together with Svetlana Khodchenkova.
