Childhood and youth
Maxim was born on January 14, 1980. He spent his childhood in Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan), then moved with his family to Kaliningrad. The occupation of Maxim’s parents is not related to cinema or theater. Kostromykin himself admitted that as a child he was an ordinary child who loved to play in the yard with friends and read books.
Young Maxim Kostromykin
Later, he became interested in school amateur performances and found his calling in acting. After graduation, Kostromykin entered VGIK, taking the course of Igor Yasulovich. He became a certified actor in 2006.
Movies
Maxim Kostromykin's film debut took place in 2003. He played a cameo role as a dealer in the TV series “My Relatives.” Over the next few years, directors offered the actor cameos and minor roles. He played the computer scientist Anton in the serial film "Balzac's Age, or All Men Are...", a party boy in the film "Kings of the Game", Zheka in "School No. 1".
Pavel Volya and Maxim Kostromykin on the set of the film “The Bride at Any Cost”
In total, Maxim Kostromykin’s creative biography includes about 50 roles, but viewers remembered him for the drama “Brest Fortress”, in which he played the role of Mikhail, as well as for the role of Leshka Khomutov in the project “You Was Loved...”. Two more striking works of the actor are the films “Everyone Dies, But I’ll Stay” and “Bride at Any Cost.”
In 2014, the actor played the role of Vaska in the mystical thriller “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone". The main characters of the thriller are five young people who are chasing a thief. The criminal behaves strangely, does not hide, but on the contrary, records a video message in which he reveals his own plans: to go to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the city of Pripyat.
In 2020, the actor joined the cast of the detective series “Method” starring Konstantin Khabensky and Paulina Andreeva. “Method” won the love of viewers both in Russia and in other countries and became the first Russian series to top the American and British serial charts.
Maxim Kostromykin in the series “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone"
In the series, Maxim Kostromykin played the role of Zhorik Andreevich in his youth.
2016 brought the actor a number of roles in popular projects. Maxim played the role of Lekha in the comedy series “You All Infuriate Me” about the bitchy journalist Sonya, who becomes the sweetest, friendly person and the life of the party as soon as she drinks a little alcohol. Having returned to normal, the heroine deals with horror with unnecessary relationships and accidentally struck up friendships with people unpleasant to Sonya.
Kostromykin also played the episodic role of Kostya in the episode “The Seventh of September” in the crime-comedy series “Policeman from Rublyovka”. In addition, the actor played the role of an investigator in the festival film about the deficit of parental love, “The Talion Principle.”
In the fall of 2020, the actor played the main male role in the comedy series Olga. The hero of Maxim Kostromykin is the driver of the gazelle “Ritual” Grigory Yusupov, who is in love with his single mother Olga (Yana Troyanova), the main character of the series. The character of Maxim had to be realistic and fairly average, so the actor was helped to get the role by the fact that Kostromykin does not have outstanding external characteristics (height 165 cm, weight 70 kg).
Olga, around whose life the plot of the series is built, a simple Russian woman, as Yana Troyanova once called the heroine, is trying to raise two children from different fathers and care for her father, who suffers from alcoholism. Olga is unable to live for herself, the woman either helps her eldest daughter (Ksenia Surkova), who studies at a vocational school and considers herself more adequate and smarter than those around her, and therefore gets into trouble, or her younger son, who is going through adolescence, or her sister (Alina Alekseeva), forever trying to live on the support of another married man. And only the appearance of the lover Grisha, who does not require constant control and care, begins to change the heroine’s life for the better.
Maxim Kostromykin and Yana Troyanova in the series “Olga”
The television series “Olga” won the love of viewers and in 2020 became the most popular series on the TNT channel. On average, the series was watched by twice as many viewers as any other program or television series on the channel. The rating of the film encyclopedia site "Cinema Theater" awarded it first place, citing the fact that the series was warmly received by journalists and film critics. The series “Olga” also received two awards from the Association of Film and Television Producers in the categories “Best Comedy Series” and “Best Screenplay.”
Career
Kostromykin’s first place of work was the Theater named after.
Stanislavsky. A year later, the actor also began to take part in productions of the Moscow Youth Theater and the Central Children's House. In particular, he played in the plays “Cuba - My Love” and “Cold Autumn”. Kostromykin became acquainted with the world of cinema back in 2003. He got a small role in the TV series “My Relatives”. During his student years and after graduation, Maxim occasionally starred in small roles in films and TV series. His character, the computer scientist Anton, was remembered by viewers of the series “Balzac's age, or all men are the same...” with Yulia Menshova. He could also be seen in a couple of episodes of the TV series “Medical Secret” and “School 1”.
The count of Maxim Kostromykin’s roles has long gone into the dozens
In 2008, he starred in the scandalous drama by Valeria Gai Germanika “Everyone will die, but I will stay.” In the story about the difficult life of three ninth-graders, Maxim introduced Sasha, a guy from the neighborhood who offered the main character the first marijuana cigarette in her life.
Maxim’s first major film role was the role of Seryozha in the melodrama “King, Queen, Jack” (2008). And although the film did not receive high ratings, Kostromykin, “not God knows what a handsome man,” managed to make the audience fall in love with him with his charisma and acting talent.
Maxim Kostromykin. Auditions for the series “Einstein” Kostromykin was often invited to episodic roles and supporting roles in fairly high-profile projects. Since graduating from theater school, the actor has played at least 50 small but striking roles in Russian films and TV series, including the comedy “The Bride at Any Cost” with Pavel Volya and Lyubov Tolkalina.
Still from the film “Bride at any Cost”
Also among them is the image of projectionist Kolka in the military-patriotic drama “Brest Fortress” (2010) by Alexander Kott. Like other characters in this film, the hero Maxim became for the audience living embodiments of the heroism of the people.
“Brest Fortress”: Maxim Kostromykin as Kolka
The viewer also remembers the hero named Gena, Katya’s boyfriend (actress Svetlana Smirnova-Martsinkevich) in the series “The Far Side of the Moon” (2012), the young lieutenant Oleg Boevets, nicknamed Sonny, in the detective series “Toptuny” (2012), as well as a senior police sergeant , Denis’s friend (actor Anton Bogdanov) in the comedy “Yolki 3”. Maxim Kostromykin in the short film “Everyone Gone to the Front” In addition, Kostromykin starred in five seasons of the series “Cop in Law,” playing policeman Sanya, an employee of the Bitovo police department. In 2014, the attention of viewers was captured by the new mystical television series “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone,” which takes place in an area considered dangerous after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In it, Maxim played the mechanic Vaska.
Still from the TV series “Cop in Law”
In May 2020, Channel One launched the drama series “Practice,” which tells the story of the work of doctors at a provincial hospital. In it, Maxim played the role of paramedic Vasily, who not only conscientiously does his job at the Ambulance, but also has an affair with a young nurse Bellochka (actress Daria Khoroshilova).
In September 2020, the TV series “Olga” was launched on the TNT channel, participation in which brought Kostromykin the long-awaited popularity and love of millions of viewers. In the series, Maxim reincarnated as Grisha, the cheerful driver of the gazelle “Ritual”, who falls in love with the main character Olga (actress Yana Troyanova). He lives with his grandmother (Rosa Khairullina), who brings many comical moments into the plot.
Actor "Olga": Maxim Kostromykin and Yana Troyanova
The actor admitted that the life and images of the characters presented in the series are familiar to him from childhood, and Olga’s character is a little like his mother. However, Kostromykin had nowhere to “write off” his hero - there are no such “fairy-tale” characters in Maxim’s circle.
Theater
The first year after graduating from VGIK, Kostromykin worked at the Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky. During the year, he played only two roles - the Boy in the production of “Cuba, My Love” and Ivanushka in “The Frog Princess”.
Maxim Kostromykin in the theater
In 2007, the actor moved to the Moscow Youth Theater. On the stage of the Youth Theater his talent grew stronger and developed. He was involved in many performances: “Alinur”, “The Green Bird”, “The Thunderstorm”, “Two Maples”, “Peter Pan”, “The Happy Prince” and others.
In parallel with his work at the Youth Theater, Maxim Aleksandrovich is actively acting in films and continues to collaborate with the Stanislavsky Theater, but now as a guest actor.
Personal life of Maxim Kostromykin
Kostromykin does not like to discuss his personal life with journalists and almost does not talk about private topics in interviews, but it is known that the actor is not married and has no children. Maxim is reluctant to use social networks, has little interest in secular gossip, preferring to devote himself entirely to work. According to Maxim, his only hobby today is sports, namely triathlon: the actor attends training 3-4 times a week.
Actor Maxim Kostromykin is a simple guy from a simple family.
Real success
In September 2020, the comedy series “Olga” premiered on the TNT channel. Maxim Kostromykin got one of the main roles.
His character is a modest and handsome 26-year-old guy Gregory. He rides a black gazelle, Ritual. Because of his field of activity, the young man received the nickname “Grisha the Coffin Carrier.” His heart was won by an adult woman, a mother of two children. We are talking about the main character – Olga. At first, she did not take the young guy’s advances seriously. But Grisha turned out to be a persistent gentleman.
The series “Olga” showed quite high ratings, overtaking “Fizruk” in popularity. In a few months, its continuation (the second season) will be presented to the audience.
Maxim Kostromykin now
On September 11, 2020, the second season of the series “Olga” was released on television screens. In addition, Maxim began filming the crime series “The Yellow Eye of the Tiger,” in which Pavel Priluchny, Katerina Shpitsa, Karina Andolenko, and Agniya Kuznetsova will also appear.
Photos from the filming of the series “The Yellow Eye of the Tiger”
He also appeared in the series “Father’s Shore” about the life of the Morozov family during the Great Patriotic War, and it also became known about the filming of the second season of the series “Practice”, so beloved by viewers, in which Maxim will again represent a paramedic Vasily. In the fall of 2020, viewers of “Olga” saw Maxim in his usual role, but the ending of the second season made adjustments to the script, and Grisha had to fight for the heart of Olga Terentyeva with a businessman played by Gosha Kutsenko.
Filmography
The actor’s creative repertoire includes about sixty roles. He shared the set with such celebrities as: Konstantin Khabensky, Maxim Averin, Agniya Ditkovskite, Yana Troyanova, Ekaterina Shpitsa, Pavel Priluchny, Agniya Kuznetsova, Lyubov Tolkalina and Pavel Volya.
Maxim Kostromykin, films with his participation:
- "Yellow Eye of the Tiger";
- "King, Queen, Jack";
- "Method";
- "Big Money";
- "Love and other nonsense";
- "Year of the Pig";
- "Practice";
- "Third World War";
- "Passion for Chapai";
- "Another side of the moon";
- "Bride at any cost";
- "Stompers";
- “Everyone will die, but I will remain.”
