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Biography

Petr Romanov is a Russian actor and TV presenter, known to movie fans as a participant in the fantasy film “He is a Dragon,” and to travel fans as the co-host of the popular show “Heads and Tails.” So far, the creative biography of Pyotr Romanov includes only a dozen films and TV series, but the actor continues to act.

Peter was born on March 16, 1989 in Moscow. It cannot be said that since childhood the boy dreamed of becoming famous, of being an actor, or something like that.

The boy simply grew up inquisitive and interested in everything that surrounded him. It wouldn’t have worked out otherwise, because Peter’s father, Boris Romanov, became an example for his son that life should be interesting. Dad received a medical education, was involved in boxing, composed and played music. And today Boris Romanov is participating in the International Scientific Expedition “Kon-Tiki-2”, crossing the ocean on two homemade rafts. So the love of travel is in Peter Romanov’s blood.

After school, the young man graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow City University of Management of the Moscow Government, but already in his senior years he realized that business and finance were not exactly the business to which he would like to devote his life. Peter enters the American acting courses at the New York Film Academy, and also begins cooperation with the Roman Viktyuk Theater, where he performs until 2011.

Later, Romanov took an additional course from Igor Voloshin at the Wordshop Academy of Communications, where he received the specialty of music video director. Recently, before getting on television on a regular basis, the actor collaborated with the Polish Theater in Moscow, directed by Evgeniy Lavrenchuk. Peter also repeatedly took part in various photo shoots as a model.

The new presenter of “Heads and Tails” spoke about working with Regina, separation from his wife and new phobias

The team of the project “Heads and Tails” found the permanent presenter Regina Todorenko a new partner: he became the Russian actor and TV presenter Pyotr Romanov.

Readers of “KP in Ukraine” asked how he worked together with Regina and what difficulties arose during the filming of the show.

— What was the most difficult thing for you on the project?

Firstly, the format of the show itself. This is not a movie and here you have to be yourself, you don’t have to act, you just have to talk about what’s happening around you. The cool thing was that I had a team with me, with whom you definitely won’t be lost. If it weren’t for this team, which became a second family, I would have broken down much earlier.

Secondly, before the presenters left for twenty-one days, they somehow got used to it. And here - for three and a half months. The schedule and the very rhythm of filming were sometimes so overwhelming that whether you want it or not, the tears flow.

— Were there any conflicts with Regina?

- No, why bother? After all, there is nothing to divide, everything is divided by a coin (laughs)

— Was your wife not against your participation in the Around the World?

“She was very happy when she found out that I was approved, but then she felt sad. But when I arrived home, I had the feeling that everything had passed like one day. The separation from my wife was very difficult for me. After all, after work I always returned home. At first it was very difficult for me.

— What test did you remember most during your entire trip around the world?

— Every third country in my country is just trash. For example, my phone was stolen in Gaiano. I was walking, talking on the phone with my wife, and then a man comes and just snatches it from my hands. We managed to find the phone using GPS. When I picked up the phone, my wife was still on the line and she was very scared because she heard my screams and the conversation of the thieves. Then I calmed her down for a very long time.

— After the phone theft incident, your wife didn’t tell you to leave the project?

— In general, my wife shares my enthusiasm, but she misses me a lot. She even came to visit me in Portugal. But I felt even worse when she left. We thought. that it would be good for me, but I just had to get over it. Because she left, and there is still a month of filming ahead.

- Perhaps you don’t like adrenaline like Regina?

— I don’t understand the adrenaline that Regina experiences a little. She enjoys everything. After the Around the World trip, my phobias worsened even more. There was an incident in Ecuador when I had to eat worms. I thought I would try some delicacy, but it turned out to be a salad with worms. You definitely won’t forget this. (laughs)

— What did you get sick with while traveling?

— After Iquitos, the itching from mosquitoes did not go away for a long time. Regina gave me an insect repellent bracelet, and then no one bit me in Iquitos. I am a pedantic and squeamish person.

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Films and television

Pyotr Romanov came to the set of a feature film for the first time in 2013. He starred as Philip in the film “Gossip Girl,” which for some reason has not yet been released. Then he took part in episodes of the fantastic comedy “Complete Transformation” and the humorous sitcom “Runaway Relatives.”

The actor’s most famous role at this stage of his career is the character Igor, the groom of the main character in the domestic fantasy “He is a Dragon.” Peter also had experience working in the biographical melodrama about the legendary tiger trainer “Margarita Nazarova.” In the retro melodrama, Pyotr Romanov played the role of football player Denkov. The series premiered on April 18, 2020 on Channel One.

In the same year, Pyotr Romanov appeared in a full-length film. The actor played the role of Danila in the family comedy Odnoklassniki. The comedy tells the story of four friends who meet in Sochi. Katya (Olga Kuzmina) is getting married, and three other girls have come to a bachelorette party on this occasion. In the midst of a bachelorette party, the bride saw her own groom with an unfamiliar girl. In hysterics, the would-be bride promises to marry the next day anyway - to the first person she meets. The friends promise to find a suitable partner.

Actor Peter Romanov

Also in 2020, Pyotr Romanov starred in two more projects. The actor played the role of a pilot in the comedy “High Heels” about the life of a provincial girl who left a town on the Black Sea coast, where she led weddings and children’s matinees, to the capital to enroll in an acting school.

In addition, Pyotr Romanov received the role of Dima in the melodrama “Waiting for Charlotte Corday.” But both of these projects never saw the light of day in 2020 or in 2020. Today, aggregator sites indicate that the films are still in production and promise the premieres of both films in 2018.

In 2020, it became known that the cheerful TV presenter Lesya Nikityuk was leaving the popular travel program “Heads and Tails”, and instead the permanent Regina Todorenko would be accompanied by actor Pyotr Romanov. The first country to visit for filming the new season of the show “Heads and Tails. “Around the World” Peter went, there was a magnificent and contrasting Canada, or rather the city of Vancouver.

Pyotr Romanov and Regina Todorenko in the program “Heads and Tails”

The show's crew is pleased with the new host, as Romanov has brought additional vitality to the show. As Regina said about her colleague, Peter has a lot of enthusiasm, energy and desire to work. And most importantly, the actor is interested in learning and learning new things. Without this, there is nothing to do in such a program. After all, the TV presenter of the show “Heads and Tails” should be more than just an erudite. The TV presenter needs to know in detail about such little-studied things as the history of French Polynesia or the semantic function of Maori tattoos.

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Actor Peter Romanov

, who played the role of Igor in the sensational Russian
film “He is a Dragon
,” evoked many positive reviews from viewers. I was able to meet with Peter to talk with him about cinema, theater, politics and how to become an actor without professional education.

You studied at the Moscow City University of Management of the Moscow Government. Why did the future actor need this education?

To be honest, I didn’t think about becoming an actor at all. I graduated from school with a gold medal. Then all high school students who “went for a medal” were sent to participate in the competition “If I were the head of the government.” This is where it all started. I remember that I had no time at all to prepare the competition project - and I asked my mother to do it for me. A week later I find out that my work won first at the regional competition, then at the district competition, and after some time I got second place at the citywide competition. The reward for winning was preferential admission to the Moscow City University of Management of the Moscow Government. I passed a few more exams and was enrolled in the specialty “Taxes and Taxation.”

At what point did you realize that you wanted to devote your life to acting? In what university year did this happen?

While studying at the university, at the same time I was also involved in sports. I was always missing something. I was in search of myself. One day my mother saw an advertisement that the Roman Viktyuk Theater was recruiting for an acting course. Being an absolutely adventurous person in life, I immediately agreed to try myself in a new field. As a result, I studied there for a year and a half. During this time, I gained enormous experience: acting, tap and break dancing skills, speech technique, stagecraft. But after finishing the course, I didn’t want to go to GITIS or any other theater university - I just got bored. Then I learned about recruitment for the Slava Zaitsev Model Agency. I studied for several months and decided to connect my life with the modeling business. I started going to castings, but they almost didn’t take me anywhere.

Why?

My height is 183 centimeters. And this turned out to be completely insufficient for the podium. And the worst thing is that no one saw me as either a model or an actor. But then in 2010, luck smiled at me, I was cast in the “Crazy Cola” advertisement. This was my first advertising experience. The video was shown on almost all channels from morning to evening, banners with my image hung all over Moscow. After that, they began to recognize me at castings. And I could no longer associate myself with the model.

In general, after graduating from university, did you work in your specialty?

Under a contract with the university, I was supposed to work for the Moscow Government for three years. But I was lucky and didn’t go to work in my specialty. By the end of my studies, I was so uninterested in my specialization that I even defended my diploma with a C grade.

Maria Shukshina once said: “I’m glad that I don’t have an acting education. I am not spoiled by acting cliches, techniques, techniques...” Do you agree that professional acting education spoils an actor?

You know, even on the set of advertising, I was able to work with professional actors. And I noticed that they behave completely differently than people without acting education. For directors of large projects, of course, in 99% of cases it is very important that you finish. I always answer honestly that I have no acting education, but I insistently ask you to listen to me. And, just in the case of the film “He is a Dragon,” this played a key role. It seems to me that advertising is more honest in this regard. Here no one cares about your education – what matters is what you can do. After all, we have a lot of actors with professional education who are actually nothing of themselves.

Aren't you afraid of getting star fever over time?

It is very difficult for me to characterize this concept for myself. Because “pretending to be a star” and “being a star” are completely different things. In my opinion, there are no stars in Russia now. For example, I could call Muslim Magomay or the actors of Soviet cinema a star. And the people who are now pretending to be stars are not stars, they are fake values.

Agree that a tax specialist is a serious profession. At least by saying it, you earn people's respect. The acting profession can still be called frivolous. Even Oleg Tabakov himself said in one of his interviews that “An actor is a clown, this is a kind of very frivolous profession, because he must pronounce other people’s words all his life.” Aren't you offended that the acting profession is treated like this?

I would describe the actor as a performer, a person who has many faces. It seems to me that Tabakov was talking more about theater actors. For example, I don’t like theater. I’m not immersed enough in what’s happening on stage because I understand that none of this is real. I like cinema better.

Do you think an actor has the same motivation: when he acts in films or when he acts in the theater? And yet different?

I can’t answer this question for you, because I never wanted to play in the theater.

When you perform in the theater, you have close contact with the audience. You feel the emotions and energy of those sitting in the hall. But the movie is still about something else.

Yes, I understand that. But I'm a film buff myself. This is why cinema is closer to me.

Is it because cinema is more popular than theater?

No, I just love movies.

Let's talk to you about how you got into the film He's a Dragon?

I must say that this is my debut in a full-length film. Before that, I only acted in the series. One day, from the agency where I was a member, I received an invitation to audition for the role of Igor. The next day I arrived, auditioned, met Indar Dzhendubaev, the director of the film, and left. Then there was agonizing waiting and more tests. And only a few weeks later, when I was asked to come for a costume fitting, I learned that I had been approved for the role of Igor. You can’t even imagine what a storm of emotions overcome me at that moment! I was absolutely delighted!

Is it true that actors have a tradition of taking souvenirs from filming? What did you take away from the filming of He's a Dragon?

We had nothing to take (*laughs). The scenes where I was involved were filmed in sound stages on green screens. And all I could take was a paper dragon. But I think someone took it.

Let's imagine this situation. You're going through a casting. You get the role of a hero who is completely unpleasant to you; his actions seem immoral to you. What will you do?

If we talk about my character Igor, I don’t like him. I wouldn't be like that. But I am attracted to roles where you need to be an inveterate scumbag. Being an absolutely domestic person in life, I always wanted to play negative characters. This is my alter ego.

What you have achieved, what you have now, did it happen to you “thanks to” or “in spite of” some events in life?

Without hesitation, I can say “thanks.” Everything I have achieved now is thanks to my mother. She is my main motivator.

Doesn’t it scare you that successful people, which undoubtedly include sought-after actors, have a crowd of “fans” voluptuously waiting for their failure?

I try not to pay attention to public opinion. After the film came out, I was interested in reading the reviews. I went to one site. And I was surprised that among the many positive reviews I came across one negative review. Moreover, the person who wrote it does not justify his opinion in any way. It said something like “... I didn’t like Peter Romanov at all...” And that’s all. I always want to ask, what didn’t you like? What was the person guided by when he wrote this? If my mistakes were pointed out to me, I would happily try to correct them in the future.

Christian Bale lost almost 30 kilograms for filming The Machinist. Charlize Theron gained 13 kilograms for her role in the film “Monster”. What lengths are you willing to go to for a role?

For all! Honestly! Lose weight, gain weight – whatever! The only thing you need to understand is why you are doing this. For a Hollywood film, such transformations are justified; for a Russian film, these are too radical measures.

Can fame and popularity exist separately from politics?

Provocative question. I would never participate in any political actions on my own initiative. In general, I try to stay away from politics.

What do you think is the main ideology of Russian cinema?

There is absolutely no ideology in 90% of our films. They are about nothing. Let's take Zvyagintsev's Leviathan. Awesome movie! And most people will watch it and say that it’s some kind of boring movie and it’s all untrue. Yes, that’s exactly how it is with us. It’s worth driving a few kilometers beyond the Moscow Ring Road and you will see all the beauty of Russian reality. Almost all Russian films are entertainment films that do not convey anything.

In Eastern culture there is such a thing as a wall of desire: when you attach photographs of what you would like to receive in the future to a piece of paper. What would be on your wall?

It’s hard to say... I’ve become more relaxed about material things. It's all coming and going. The main thing is that family and friends are alive and healthy.

Many thanks to Vladimir Gorokhov for the photographs provided.

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Personal life

Peter Romanov does not talk much about his private life in interviews, although it does not seem that the actor hid his own romantic relationships too carefully. It is known that on August 28, 2015, the actor married his girlfriend Anna Pavlova, who after the wedding took her husband’s surname and became Anna Romanova.

Peter Romanov with his wife

Even before the official wedding ceremony, the couple lived together for a long time. By the way, Peter’s wife has nothing to do with show business. The girl graduated from the Faculty of Customs Affairs of the Moscow State Economic Institute, and today she collaborates with one of the charitable organizations.

It is also worth noting that even before appearing in the travel show “Heads and Tails,” Peter Romanov visited several beautiful countries, such as Greece and Turkey. So getting to know the sights and getting to know interesting corners of foreign cities is not new to him.

Peter Romanov now

In 2020, Pyotr Romanov again played the role of Danila in the continuation of the romantic comedy Odnoklassniki: A New Turn. In the new film, as in the real world, a year has passed since the events of the first film. The main characters gathered again for the wedding. Now another friend is getting married, and this celebration also faces problems that the bridesmaids will solve.

Pyotr Romanov in the series “Street”

On October 2, the premiere of the project “Street” took place on TNT, in which Peter played the role of Stas. The creators of the series and television viewers define the series as a multi-genre project that mixes reality series, comedy, drama and melodrama, classic soap opera, thriller and partial interaction with the participation of television viewers.

“The Street” focuses on the storylines of the residents of one street in a residential area. The format of the series does not allow us to clearly distinguish main and secondary characters. The plot revolves around 30 characters of different ages and social status: workers, managers, schoolchildren, students, housewives and even oligarchs - the creators of the series tried to show the life of a typical street in all its coherence, so for each storyline the main characters of other lines and episodes will become secondary characters and vice versa.

The premiere of the thriller “Khovrino” was planned for July 20, 2020. Blog from the Underworld,” in the filming of which Pyotr Romanov participated. But the film never came out. The film follows a group of student researchers who infiltrate an abandoned hospital to dispel urban legends about the place.

Peter Romanov

Also today, two more films with the actor’s participation are at the post-production stage. Pyotr Romanov played Prince Trubetskoy in the TV series “Winners”. The series takes place in 1895 and tells the story of three brilliant lawyers who take on the most difficult criminal cases and win, both defending their own clients and exposing the true criminals in the courtroom.

The actor's second expected film was the science-fiction film Project Gemini, in which Pyotr Romanov played Peter Taylor. The film tells the story of a future in which humanity is faced with overpopulation and is looking for habitable planets to create a twin of Earth there. At the same time, a signal comes from space that causes physical anomalies that deprive people of control over the Earth.