Childhood and youth
Maxim Lagashkin was born on October 12, 1976 in Novokuibyshevsk (Samara region). He spent his carefree childhood there: it was like that of all Soviet children - lessons at school, clubs and sections, games with peers.
Maxim's acting talent showed up early - he loved Russian literature, enjoyed going to the theater club and participating in school skits. By his senior year, the guy clearly knew that he would connect his life with cinema.
Maxim Lagashkin in his youth
After school, Maxim Lagashkin went to enter the theater institute in Moscow - he submitted documents to GITIS (RATI) and entered. He studied on the course of A. A. Goncharov, and after graduating from the institute he was accepted into the Mayakovsky Theater.
The young man’s performance in the productions was brilliant, but, by Lagashkin’s own admission, the theater itself did not bring much pleasure. The actor compares theater to an addiction that is not his own. His creative nature always strived for more; he wanted to realize himself in several areas.
Movies
Maxim Lagashkin’s debut was a small role in the famous film by Karen Shakhnazarov “Full Moon Day” in 1997. Two years later, he played a sharper in the crime comedy “Chinese Service.”
Maxim Lagashkin in the film “Chinese Service”
Since 2000, directors have not ignored the actor. He starred in the films and TV series “Kamenskaya”, “Turkish March”, “Family Secrets”, “Diary of a Murderer”, “Citizen Chief”, “Enchanted Plot”, “Palm Reader”, “Yesenin”, etc. He has dozens of roles played.
For his role in the film “Alive,” Maxim Lagashkin received the “White Elephant” award. The film touched on a burning topic - the return of soldiers to civilian life after the Chechen campaign. Maxim’s HR partners were Andrey Chadov, Vladimir Epifantsev, and Alexey Chadov. The next significant projects in the artist’s career are the crime comedy “River-Sea” and the film “I Am Not Me.”
Maxim Lagashkin in the film “Alive”
In 2000, a new stage began in Lagashkin’s creative biography. The actor co-founded Cinematograph and began producing films. He created this company with his friend and fellow student Alexander Robak. The Cinematograph films “Kotovsky”, “Honeymoon”, “Daring Days”, “Russian”, “Palmist” were a success with the audience.
Maxim Lagashkin in the film “Wolf Sun”
Among the top-rated projects that are included in the film actor’s repertoire are also the drama “The Geographer Drank the Globe Away,” the adventure film “Wolf Sun,” and the spy series “Motherland.” The actor is offered not only comedic images. Together with Tatyana Cherkasova, he played the main character of the melodrama “Monosexuals,” which was broadcast on Russian and Ukrainian television in 2012.
Maxim Lagashkin in the series “Island of Unnecessary People”
Another of Maxim Lagashkin’s notable acting works is the role of Gennady Bykov in the TV series “Island of Unnecessary People.” In the story, a group of shipwrecked tourists find themselves on a tropical island, where they have to demonstrate their survival skills.
Filmography[edit | edit code]
- 1998 - Full Moon Day - guy in the yard
- 1999 - Chinese service - waiter
- 2001 - Citizen Chief - Oleg Alekseevich Zhekhov, bandit
- 2001 - People and Shadows - "Tyson"
- 2001 - Dorm -
- 2001 - Family secrets -
- 2002 - April -
- 2002 - Diary of a Murderer - Bashkin, assistant to Pyotr Gennadievich
- 2002 - Law - Sergei “Pump”
- 2002 - Kamenskaya 2 - Seryozha, sergeant
- 2002 - Breed - Egor
- 2003 - Turkish March. New appointment - Artyusha
- 2003 - Honeymoon -
- 2004 - Don’t even think 2. Shadow of Independence - Gonzo, Italian
- 2004 - Russian - “Magellan”
- 2004 - Truckers 2 (episode No. - Timiryazev
- 2005 - Yesenin - Alexey Eliseevich Kruchenykh, Russian futurist poet, artist, publisher, collector
- 2005 - What We Will Not Be -
- 2005 - From 180 and above - Yarik
- 2005 - Palmist - Igor Kertzel, Katya’s husband, Victor’s American partner
- 2006 - Alive - Nikic, ghost
- 2006 - Insatiable - Leon
- 2007 - Gromovs. House of Hope - Lyokha
- 2007 - Saboteur. The end of the war - the “six” of “Godfather”
- 2007 - Daring days - policeman
- 2007 - Room of Lost Toys - Krasov
- 2007 - Breakaway - Bortach
- 2008 - River-Sea - Veniamin Schneerson
- 2008 - North Wind - Mikhail
- 2009 - Phoenix Syndrome - Vitaly Kharchenko, captain, local police commissioner
- 2010 - Snow on your head -
- 2010 - Kotovsky - Victor Weiner (“Stomach”)
- 2010 - Second - Korzuby
- 2010 - I am not me - Sergey Nikolaevich Nedelin
- 2011 - Reckoning - Gesha “Sledak”, investigator
- 2011 - Island of Unnecessary People - Gennady Borisovich Bykov, Andrei Kamorin’s deputy, Albert’s adopted son
- 2012 - Monogamous - Sergey Yesin
- 2012 - Gloria's Gold - Bill
- 2012 - Until the night do us part - restaurant visitor
- 2012 — Gentlemen, good luck! - shopping center administrator
- 2013 - Geographer drank the globe - Kolesnikov, traffic police officer, Vetka’s husband
- 2014 - Cop 2 - “Melnik”, crime boss in Crimea
- 2014 - Wolf Sun - Aloysius
- 2015 - Clinch - “Drum”
- 2015 - Motherland - Lenya, drug addict
- 2015 - Life is just beginning - Anton
- 2015 - Village novel - Nikolai Kratyuk
- 2015 - About love - policeman
- 2015 - Concerned, or Love of Evil - Petrovich, hunter, Alena’s glitch
- 2017 - Arrhythmia - Vitaly Sergeevich Golovko, new head of the ambulance substation
- 2017 - Hotel "Eleon" (episodes No. 62, 63) - Sergey Ivanovich Gromov, head of security service
- 2017 - Mama Laura - Mikhail Kovalchuk (“Micah”)
- 2018 — House arrest —
- 2018 — Operation “Mukhabbat” — Karyshev, major, investigator of the military prosecutor’s office
- 2018 - Big Game - Leonty Vitalievich Tsvetkov, head of the All-Russian Football Union, Deputy Prime Minister for Youth and Sports
- 2018 - Rostov - Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- 2018 - Call DiCaprio! — Komarov, captain, traffic police officer
- 2019 - Mistresses - director
- 2019 - Happy - Oleg Igorevich Gapochkin
- 2019 - Beetles - Sergei Maslov, village police officer
- 2019 - Storm - Yuri Borisovich Osokin, employee of the homicide department of the Investigative Committee
- 2020 - (Not) ideal man - Vadim Sergeevich Bobrov, store owner
- 2020 - Ice 2 - Nadya's boss
- 2020 - Filatov - Slavik, Filatov’s friend
- 2020 - Magomayev - Savitsky, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater
- 2020 - 257 reasons to live - Oleg Viktorovich, friend of Kostya
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Personal life
Maxim Lagashkin rarely gives interviews, attends social events even less often, and does not talk about his personal life at all. There is no information in the media about the artist’s parents, nationality or anthropometric data (height and weight).
Maxim Lagashkin and wife Ekaterina Stulova
It is known that he is happily married to actress Ekaterina Stulova. Maxim met his future wife at the theater institute. After graduation, the young people worked together at the Mayakovsky Theater, often starred in the same films, and they were able to combine work and family. The student marriage turned out to be extremely strong. The family of actors has two children. In 1999, Catherine gave Maxim a son, Savva. As a child, the boy managed to appear in episodes of the films “Kotovsky” and “Kochubey’s Detachment”. Joint photos of the actor with his wife, Savva and youngest son Luka appear on Maxim’s Instagram page.
Maxim Lagashkin with his son
His passion is cars. Now the actor and producer prefers Audi and jokingly calls himself the “Lord of the Rings.” Maxim still remembers his “first-born” VAZ-2106. He bought the white “Six” with the fee he earned after the first filming: then it seemed to him that he was driving a foreign car.
Almost 20 years have passed, Maxim Lagashkin has changed several cars, but he still sees Zhiguli cars when he comes to his dacha. Now my father-in-law drives this transport.
Personal life and expanding professional scope
Actor Maxim Lagashkin is still very active. Films with his participation are often shown on various Russian television channels. One day he decided that being just an actor was not very interesting to him. Therefore, in 2000, in company with his friend Alexander Robak, he created a film company called Cinemafor. At that time, he was visited by thoughts that he should get into production.
Today the company has its own studio in Yalta, it even cooperates with Yalta Cinema, a Crimean film company. They produce both TV series and feature films. You can remember “Room of Lost Toys”, “Palm Reader”, “Kotovsky”...
Several years ago, Maxim Lagashkin added another interesting role to his creative biography - Gennady Bykov, the adopted son of Albert Bykov, Kamorin’s deputy. Bykov and Kamorin created a company, and then when “danger” happened, they organized a cruise in which Kamorin’s wife and several other “unnecessary people” were supposed to get lost for a while.
Even after becoming a producer, Maxim Lagashkin does not give up acting. His personal life was as successful as his professional one. He has long been firmly married to actress Ekaterina Stulova. They have been married for seventeen years. They are raising a son together.
Maxim Lagashkin now
Maxim Lagashkin’s film career is developing upward; today he is in demand both on television and in feature films. 2020 marked a big premiere. The actor played one of the main roles in the drama “Arrhythmia” directed by Boris Khlebnikov. The film about the life and family problems of an emergency doctor received many awards at international and Russian film festivals.
Maxim Lagashkin and the actors of the film “Arrhythmia”
Maxim Lagashkin appeared on the screen in the negative role of the calculating head of the ambulance substation. Initially, the image of the hero evoked negative emotions in Maxim himself, as he admitted, but in the process of work he changed his mind. The main roles were played by Alexander Yatsenko and Irina Gorbacheva.
There was also a screening of Alexander Robak’s next production work – the comedy “The Walnut”, where Maxim Lagashkin appeared.
Maxim Lagashkin and Alexander Robak
And in the spring of 2020, Russian television viewers were able to appreciate Maxim’s work in the spy series “Operation Muhabbat,” the plot of which was based on the story of the Soviet Romeo and Juliet - the son of a special services general and the daughter of dissidents. The actor tried on a military uniform to participate in the film, appearing before the public in the role of a major.
The artist also made his mark in the top-rated series “Hotel Eleon”, where in the 3rd season he embodied on the screen the image of Sergei Gromov, the head of the Security Service. Another job on the STS TV channel was filming in the sports drama “The Big Game”, where Maxim had a supporting role. The series premiere date is August 27, 2020.
Maxim Lagashkin in the sports drama “The Big Game”. 2020
Another addition to the artist’s filmography is expected soon. Lagashkin is starring in Elena Khazanova’s comedy “Mistresses,” which is about a union between women deceived by men. The cast of the film will delight moviegoers; it includes Paulina Andreeva, Alexandra Bortich, Yulia Alexandrova, Maria Shalaeva, Sergei Garmash and other screen stars.
An excerpt characterizing Lagashkin, Maxim Vadimovich
“Leave him alone,” said Marya Genrikhovna, smiling timidly and happily, “he’s already sleeping well after a sleepless night.” “You can’t, Marya Genrikhovna,” the officer answered, “you have to serve the doctor.” That’s it, maybe he’ll feel sorry for me when he starts cutting my leg or arm. There were only three glasses; the water was so dirty that it was impossible to decide whether the tea was strong or weak, and there was only enough water in the samovar for six glasses, but it was all the more pleasant, in turn and by seniority, to receive your glass from Marya Genrikhovna’s plump hands with short, not entirely clean, nails . All the officers seemed to really be in love with Marya Genrikhovna that evening. Even those officers who were playing cards behind the partition soon abandoned the game and moved on to the samovar, obeying the general mood of courting Marya Genrikhovna. Marya Genrikhovna, seeing herself surrounded by such brilliant and courteous youth, beamed with happiness, no matter how hard she tried to hide it and no matter how obviously shy she was at every sleepy movement of her husband, who was sleeping behind her. There was only one spoon, there was most of the sugar, but there was no time to stir it, and therefore it was decided that she would stir the sugar for everyone in turn. Rostov, having received his glass and poured rum into it, asked Marya Genrikhovna to stir it. - But you don’t have sugar? - she said, still smiling, as if everything that she said, and everything that others said, was very funny and had another meaning. - Yes, I don’t need sugar, I just want you to stir it with your pen. Marya Genrikhovna agreed and began to look for a spoon, which someone had already grabbed. “You finger, Marya Genrikhovna,” said Rostov, “it will be even more pleasant.” - It's hot! - said Marya Genrikhovna, blushing with pleasure. Ilyin took a bucket of water and, dripping some rum into it, came to Marya Genrikhovna, asking him to stir it with his finger. “This is my cup,” he said. - Just put your finger in, I’ll drink it all. When the samovar was all drunk, Rostov took the cards and offered to play kings with Marya Genrikhovna. They cast lots to decide who would be Marya Genrikhovna's party. The rules of the game, according to Rostov’s proposal, were that the one who would be king would have the right to kiss Marya Genrikhovna’s hand, and that the one who would remain a scoundrel would go and put a new samovar for the doctor when he woke up. - Well, what if Marya Genrikhovna becomes king? – Ilyin asked. - She’s already a queen! And her orders are law. The game had just begun when the doctor’s confused head suddenly rose from behind Marya Genrikhovna. He had not slept for a long time and listened to what was said, and, apparently, did not find anything cheerful, funny or amusing in everything that was said and done. His face was sad and despondent. He did not greet the officers, scratched himself and asked permission to leave, as his way was blocked. As soon as he came out, all the officers burst into loud laughter, and Marya Genrikhovna blushed to tears and thereby became even more attractive in the eyes of all the officers. Returning from the yard, the doctor told his wife (who had stopped smiling so happily and was looking at him, fearfully awaiting the verdict) that the rain had passed and that she had to go spend the night in the tent, otherwise everything would be stolen. - Yes, I’ll send a messenger... two! - said Rostov. - Come on, doctor. – I’ll watch the clock myself! - said Ilyin. “No, gentlemen, you slept well, but I didn’t sleep for two nights,” said the doctor and gloomily sat down next to his wife, waiting for the end of the game. Looking at the gloomy face of the doctor, looking askance at his wife, the officers became even more cheerful, and many could not help laughing, for which they hastily tried to find plausible excuses. When the doctor left, taking his wife away, and settled into the tent with her, the officers lay down in the tavern, covered with wet overcoats; but they didn’t sleep for a long time, either talking, remembering the doctor’s fright and the doctor’s amusement, or running out onto the porch and reporting what was happening in the tent. Several times Rostov, turning over his head, wanted to fall asleep; but again someone’s remark entertained him, a conversation began again, and again causeless, cheerful, childish laughter was heard. At three o'clock no one had yet fallen asleep when the sergeant appeared with the order to march to the town of Ostrovne. With the same chatter and laughter, the officers hastily began to get ready; again they put the samovar on dirty water. But Rostov, without waiting for tea, went to the squadron. It was already dawn; the rain stopped, the clouds dispersed. It was damp and cold, especially in a wet dress. Coming out of the tavern, Rostov and Ilyin, both in the twilight of dawn, looked into the doctor’s leather tent, shiny from the rain, from under the apron of which the doctor’s legs stuck out and in the middle of which the doctor’s cap was visible on the pillow and sleepy breathing could be heard. - Really, she’s very nice! - Rostov said to Ilyin, who was leaving with him. - What a beauty this woman is! – Ilyin answered with sixteen-year-old seriousness. Half an hour later the lined up squadron stood on the road. The command was heard: “Sit down! – the soldiers crossed themselves and began to sit down. Rostov, riding forward, commanded: “March! - and, stretching out into four people, the hussars, sounding the slap of hooves on the wet road, the clanking of sabers and quiet talking, set off along the large road lined with birches, following the infantry and battery walking ahead. Torn blue-purple clouds, turning red at sunrise, were quickly driven by the wind. It became lighter and lighter. The curly grass that always grows along country roads, still wet from yesterday’s rain, was clearly visible; The hanging branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and dropped light drops to their sides. The faces of the soldiers became clearer and clearer. Rostov rode with Ilyin, who did not lag behind him, on the side of the road, between a double row of birch trees.