Vakha Artur Viktorovich Biography

The unusual parents of Arthur Vakha

Due to his rather extraordinary appearance (in which others notice features of eastern peoples, gypsies, as well as Jews and Bulgarians), fans of the artist’s talent often wonder where Arthur Vakha comes from. The nationality of the actor, meanwhile, is Russian; he was born in the Northern capital of the Russian Federation in 1964.

But his mother, Volya Vasilievna, is from Ukraine. Father, Viktor Arturovich, has Estonian-German roots. The artist owes his exotic beauty to this multinational genetic “cocktail”.

Arthur Vakha's parents, however, managed to distinguish themselves not only by their unusual origin. The artist’s mother has an unusual name - Volya. She was named after a beautiful gypsy woman who lived in a camp on the outskirts of Krivoy Rog and became famous throughout the area for her ability to dance and sing provocatively. His mother’s name largely determined his character - all her life she showed herself to be a freedom-loving and persistent person. Having become interested in designing buildings, Volya Vasilievna studied to be an architect, and at one time an entire residential block in Tallinn was built according to her design. Later, the freedom-loving woman lost interest in this profession, became interested in theater and studied to be a director. Having moved to Leningrad, here she met her future husband, actor Viktor Vakha.

Unlike his wife, Viktor Arturovich did not have a specialized education, which did not prevent him from being an excellent actor. For several years the couple lived peacefully, especially since they had a son, who received the name Arthur in honor of his paternal grandfather. But when the boy was barely three, his father left the family. Since then, the artist has not seen him and knows nothing about his future fate.

Left alone with her son, Volya Vasilievna was able to put the child on his feet and build a career. At first she worked as a director in one of the Leningrad theaters. Later she was invited to teach at the Music Hall studio.

Biography

Arthur Vakha was born into an acting family. His mother, Volya Vakha, is Ukrainian by birth and is an architect by first education. She has achieved some success in her profession - a block designed by her was built in Tallinn. However, her love for the theater forced her to change architecture and take up directing. Later, Volya Vasilyevna became a professor, teaching acting. An unusual name was given to her by Arthur’s grandmother, who lived in Krivoy Rog, on the outskirts of which there was a gypsy camp. One of the gypsies named Volya fascinated her with her beauty, singing and dancing. The mother of the future actor was named in honor of the talented representative of the freedom-loving people.

Arthur's father has Estonian-German roots. The surname Vakha is translated from Estonian as “wax”, which is quite consistent with Viktor Vakha’s acting background. He was a traveling artist. He left the family when his son was only three years old. Arthur doesn’t remember his dad well and knows almost nothing about his further fate.

The future actor spent his childhood in the heart of St. Petersburg, near the Liteiny Bridge. In one of his interviews, he said: “My mother and I lived in a large communal apartment in the center of St. Petersburg, and artists, performers, and poets came to visit us every now and then. My mother is an intelligent woman; interesting people gather around her all her life.”

The boy grew up a hooligan and a C student, changed four educational institutions, briefly attended a music school, and thought about becoming a surgeon. However, the creative atmosphere that Arthur absorbed with his mother’s milk predetermined his choice in favor of the stage. “I always knew that I would be an actor,” Vakha admitted later.

First stage experience

At the age of six, Arthur Vakha attended one of the rehearsals of the play “A Man from the Outside” at the Lensovet Theater, where his mother was at that time an assistant to director Igor Vladimirov. During the production process, Igor Petrovich came up with the idea of introducing a child into the play. Quite by chance, Volya’s little son caught his eye. The boy was told what to do on stage, and he coped with his task perfectly. This tiny role was the first in the life of the future artist. He performed it for six years, treating his friends to ice cream with modest fees. Arthur did not yet realize that he was appearing on the same stage with famous actors, among whom were Alisa Freindlich, Anatoly Ravikovich, Leonid Dyachkov.

Student years

After eight years, Vakha went to enter the Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) theater school, but was not allowed to take the exams. He returned home and was enrolled in the Music Hall studio, where his mother taught. While studying to become a conversational artist, he completed his tenth year as an external student.

In 1980, he successfully passed the exams at LGITMiK. The actor later said: “It’s interesting that years later, at the state exam in acting at LGITMiK, Alisa Brunovna found herself on the examination committee and, when she heard the name Vakha, she immediately realized who I was.” He studied on the course of Vladimir Petrov together with Larisa Guzeeva and Alexander Lykov. After college, he served in the army in tank forces.

The childhood years of the future actor

Arthur Vakha spent his childhood in a communal apartment near the Liteiny Bridge. Despite the fact that he and his mother lived rather modestly, the artist retained the warmest memories of this time.

Although Volya Vasilyevna tried her best to raise a worthy man from her son, Arthur Vakha grew up as a restless hooligan. He studied poorly at school and constantly played pranks, which is why he changed his place of study four times.

The boy did not think about working in the theater, because he dreamed more of a medical career. But, as they say, the acting profession chose him.

One day Volya Vasilyevna had no one to leave her son with and she took the boy with her to work. At that time, the woman worked as an assistant to the director of “A Man from the Outside” at the Lensovet Theater. During the rehearsal, it was decided that the play should have a child character, who was asked to play six-year-old Arthur, running around idly behind the scenes. The first role, albeit an episodic one, worked out so well for the boy that he played it for several years.

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Born on January 13, 1964 in Leningrad.

His mother is director, professor, acting teacher Volya Vasilyevna Vakha, his father is actor Viktor Arturovich Vakha, of Estonian-German origin[2].

For the first time Arthur appeared on the stage of the theater. Lensovet as a six-year-old boy. His debut was the role of Alyosha Cheshkov in Igor Vladimirov’s production of “A Man from the Outside.”

In 1980, he entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography on the course of V. Petrov, studied together with Alexander Lykov and Larisa Guzeeva.

Upon completion of training, the actor receives an invitation to the Leningrad Comedy Theater. But soon there is some adjustment to the actor’s creative plans: he spends a year and a half serving in the army in the training tank repair battalion (military unit 10836) of the Guards Sertolov Motorized Rifle Division in Sertolovo-1. He completed his service in the village of Sapernoye. Military rank - senior sergeant.

In 1986, he began working at the Comedy Theater, where he still appears on stage today, but as a guest actor. Since 2005, Artur Viktorovich has been accepted into the troupe of the Lensovet Theater.

Work in cinema begins in the 1990s, both on camera (1990 - “Sideburns”) and behind the scenes (1995 - voicing a character in the series “Parallel Worlds”), individual roles and dubbing the series “Gangster Petersburg” and “Streets of Broken Lanterns.” He voiced the character of Michael Ironside in the film “Terminator: May the Savior Come”, the Prophet in “Surrogates”, as well as the character played by Sylvester Stallone in the film “Rocky Balboa”.

Arthur Vakha: biography as a student

Having completed the eighth grade with difficulty, the future actor was expelled from school with very mediocre grades in his certificate. The only future that lay ahead of him was to learn one of the blue-collar professions at some vocational school.

However, by that time Arthur Vakha realized that his calling was to be an actor. Therefore, he went to Gorky, since there was a theater school there that accepted students after the eighth grade. But the young man failed miserably at the entrance exams.

Returning to Leningrad, on the advice of Vakha’s mother, Arthur was enrolled in the spoken genre artist department at the Music Hall studio, where Volya Vasilievna taught.

In the next two years of study, the young man proved that he was capable of much, and graduated from the studio with good grades. Later, he submitted documents to LGITMiK and, having successfully passed all the exams, was enrolled in the first year with V. Petrov.

While studying at LGITMiK, young Arthur Vakha managed to show his amazing talent. The roles he played in numerous student productions managed to convince even the most meticulous skeptics that Vakha would make an excellent artist.

The most famous characters he played during his studies were Fanfan-Tulip from the play of the same name and the young disabled front-line soldier Mihai from Red Wine of Victory.

After graduating from the institute, Arthur Vakha (photo below) joined the army, where he served his time in a repair brigade of tank troops.

The experience acquired during this period of life later came in handy for the artist more than once, because many of his heroes were military men: NKVD Lieutenant Colonel Cherny from the television series “Katya. Continuation", Lieutenant Zamansky from the "White Guard", Major General Shlyakhtin from the film "That's the Way the Stars Aligned" and many others.

Students

After the eighth grade, student Vakh’s report card showed only C grades.
He was not allowed to continue his studies at school, and he did not want to go to a vocational school. Arthur went to Gorky to enroll in drama school. However, he didn’t make it to the exams, so he returned home and entered the Music Hall studio. His mother taught there. He studied the art of conversation, and at the same time completed his tenth year as an external student. Then, in 1980, Arthur Vakha entered Vladimir Petrov’s course at LGITMiK. Alexander Lykov and Larisa Guzeeva became classmates. Already as a student, Vakha gained theatrical fame. Arthur played Fanfan-Tulip and many came to watch him. Fanfana was truly great. The actor managed not to imitate Gerard Philippe, even despite the lack of experience. In addition, in the training production “Red Wine of Victory,” Vakha played a young driver quite touchingly and poignantly.

The first years of work in the theater

Finding himself in civilian life in 1986, Vakha Arthur received an invitation to work at the Comedy Theater. N. P. Akimova.

On the stage of this institution, the artist embodied a wide variety of images, which turned out to be surprisingly sincere and natural. It didn’t matter whether his hero was the main or secondary - the artist made each role unique. Among the most famous performances in which Vakha played at the Comedy Theater are “Twelfth Night” (Sir Andrew Egyuchik), “The Shadow” (Theodore-Christian) and “The Importance of Being Earnest” (Algernon Moncrief).

Working at the Akimov Theater, the actor soon realized that he was not fully using his potential. Therefore, in parallel with his main work, he began to participate in productions of other experimental theaters: “The Comedian’s Shelter”, “Farses” and the Russian State Academic Theater of Theater named after. G. Tovstonogov.

Theater

When Vakha graduated from college, he was immediately invited to work at the Comedy Theater. There, the actor was entrusted with the serious role of Sir Aguechick in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. Arthur tried not to be like famous actors who have already played this role, but to play it in a new way, adding his own colors and personal vision of the main character.

Arthur Vakha in the theater

In addition, the artist had many more famous roles at the Comedy Theater, among which it is impossible not to mention Cleonte in “The Passion of Molière,” the Shadow in Schwartz’s play, and the characters in “Talents of a Generation” and “Meal is Served.” Once Arthur even managed to play 5 roles in the enterprise “The Death of Tarelkin”.

Vakha served in the theater until 2002. After this, he submitted his resignation, but did not stop playing at the Comedy Theater. The artist became a kind of “free artist”. And only in 2005 he changed his already native stage to the Lensovet Theater.

Arthur Vakha and Oksana Bazilevich in the play “Five Evenings”

The first role in the new place is Andrei Babich in the premiere of “Conspiracy of Feelings.” Many critics still consider this work to be the most important and best of the entire creative career of Arthur Vakha on stage.

First roles in films and television

While still studying at LGITMiK, Arthur Vakha was invited to act as an extra in the two-part film “Captain Fracass”. And although after graduation the artist focused on his career in the theater, on occasion he did not refuse to act in films, because, as you know, the theater is the place where the actor plays, and the cinema is where he earns money and fame.

In the eighties, the aspiring artist with the exotic name Arthur Vakha was no longer invited to act. His filmography expanded significantly in the nineties, after his role in the comedy film “Sideburns.” Among Vakha’s most memorable characters from that period are the theater administrator from the film “Everything will be fine”, the president of the foundation in one of the episodes “Streets of Broken Lanterns, the namesake racketeer from “Chichi”.

With the advent of the new millennium, Arthur Vakha began to appear a lot in television series. His appearance in individual episodes of the television projects “National Security Agent”, “Deadly Force” and “NLS Agency” led to the fact that the artist began to be recognized on the streets and asked for an autograph.

In 2002, the actor played Katala Khamchik in the crime television series “Named Baron.”

Although the role was small, Vakha performed it simply masterfully. He managed to show the versatility of his hero, who aroused in the audience not only contempt, but also admiration, sympathy and a whole range of other feelings.

After the role of Khachik, Arthur Vakha became incredibly popular in cinema and television. Films and television series with his participation began to appear on screens every year.

Film work

In total, the actor’s filmography includes more than 200 films and serial projects. It should be noted that his first film debut took place in 1984 in the film “Captain Fracasse”, but universal love came to him only 6 years later, thanks to the film “Sideburns”.

In 1999, the actor was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

The actor became popular after participating in the film “Named Baron,” where he played the role of a brave gambler with a gambling streak, skillfully winning the hearts of young ladies. It was 2001.

From that time on, Vakha became attached to the role of a seducer of women's hearts , a hero-lover, a ladies' man and a real adventurer. The actor retreated a little from his image in the series “Women’s Romance” in 2004, where he appeared in the image of a decent man Peter, who, after the death of his wife, suffers from serious depression.

In 2020, he will play in the TV series “Green Van. A completely different story,” appearing in the role of Bosun. In 2006, he pleased with several roles in the series “Cop Wars 3” - Abramov and “Clinic” - Lamitsky, “Friend or Foe” - Gamernik, “Labyrinths of the Mind.”

In 2007, he starred in the New Year’s film “Santa Claus is Urgently Required,” as well as the TV series “Traffic Cops,” in which he was involved until 2010. Further, Arthur could be seen in films and TV series such as:

"Kamenskaya 5";
"Angel's Chapel";
"Dangerous combination";
"A game";
"Katya 2";
"Family Hearth";
"Run";
"Fugitive";
"Military Intelligence: First Strike";
"Heavenly Judgement";
Eighties;
"Real love";
"White Guard";
"Right to truth";
"Heavenly Judgement".

The year 2013 will be remembered by fans of the artist for his roles in the projects: “Chagall-Malevich”, “Jokes of an Angel”, “Gena-Beton”, “Two with Pistols”, “Darling”. In 2014, he starred in the TV series Pregnancy Test and played the role of Oleg Viktorovich Samoryadov, who holds the position of head physician of a St. Petersburg clinic. He was also involved on the set of the sequel to the series “Heavenly Court”.

In 2020, Arthur could be seen in many domestic TV series. Among them is oh, “The Headhunter”, “Argentina”, “Chasing Three Hares”. In 2020 and 2020, Vakha played in the series:

"Shuttle girls";
"Guardian";
In the film: “Icebreaker”;
"Pregnancy test 2". And also films:
“We won’t say goodbye”;
"Butterfly";
“Replacement player;
“Five minutes of silence. Return";
"Salyut 7".

In addition to working in films and filming TV series, Vakha does voice acting. Even his relatives don’t always recognize his voice when watching his projects, marveling at how talented Arthur is.

Lensoveta Theater

Since the artist began acting a lot in the 2000s, he decided to leave the Comedy Theater. N. P. Akimova.

Until 2005, the actor participated in productions of various theaters as a guest performer. Although Arthur Vakha really liked this practice, when he was invited to the Lensovet theater troupe, he could not refuse, because almost every artist in the country dreamed of playing there.

Over the years of work here, the actor played the roles of Andrei Babichev in “Conspiracy of Feelings”, Yegor Cherkun in “Barbarians”, Boris Alikhanov in “Reserve” and Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” and several others.

Unfortunately, due to chronic busyness on set, today Arthur Vakha rarely plays in plays.

Vakha Artur Viktorovich

Roles in the theater

Comedy Theater named after N.P. Akimov

1986 - “Twelfth Night”, dir. Yu. Aksenov - Sir Andrew Egyuchik 1990 - “Shadow”, dir. Yu. Aksenov - Shadow 1993 - “The Passion of Moliere”, dir. V. Kramer - Cleont 1994 - “Hero of the occasion”, dir. Yu. Aksenov - Igor 1995 - “Clavier for those starting a career”, dir. T. Kazakova - Bobyrev 1997 - “The Importance of Being Serious”, dir. I. Makarov - Algernon 1997 - “My Cherry Orchard” by A. Slapovsky, dir. T. Kazakova - Azalkanov 1998 - “Zoykina’s Apartment”, dir. Yu. Aksenov - Amethysts 2000 - “The Country Wife”, dir. T. Kazakova - Mr. Horner

Comedian's Shelter

2000 - “The food is served!!!” based on Russian vaudevilles, dir. A. Arefiev

Farsy Theater

2001 - “The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants”, based on F. M. Dostoevsky, dir. V. Kramer - Bakhcheev

BDT named after G. A. Tovstonogov

2001 - “Talents and Fans”, dir. N. Pinigin - Erast Gromilov

Russian enterprise named after Andrei Mironov

2002 - “The Death of Tarelkin”, dir. Yu. Butusov - Witnesses, testimonies and others

Lensovet Theater

2005 - “Conspiracy of Feelings”, dir. M. Bychkov - Andrey Babichev 2007 - “Barbarians”, dir. A. Nordstrem - Egor Cherkun 2009 - “Reserve”, dir. V. Senin - Boris Alikhanov 2012 - “Death of a Salesman”, dir. O. Eremin - Willy Loman

Concert Hall Colosseum

2012 - “Five Evenings”, dir. V. Senin - Alexander Petrovich Ilyin

Filmography

1984 - Captain Fracasse - Cardinal's Guardsman 1990 - Sideburns - Hertz 1990 - Anecdotes 1992 - Third take - Singer Oreshnikov 1992 - Chicha - Arthur, racketeer 1993 - Goblin Reserve - Alle-Op (Neanderthal) 1993 - You're the only one I have - Neighbor 1995 - Everything will be fine - Theater Administrator 1995 - The Fourth Planet 1995 - Weekend with a detective 1998 - Streets of Broken Lanterns: “The Reporter’s Case” - Osokin 1999 - Streets of Broken Lanterns: “Operation Clean Hands” - President of the Foundation 2000 - Empire under attack : The Great Provocateur - Socialist Revolutionary 2001 - National Security Agent 5 seasons: 60 episodes - Vasilenko 2002 - Lethal force-2: Double intoxication - Stavridi 2002 - Lethal force-4 - Stavridi 2002 - NLS Agency - Husband 2002 - Named Baron - bandit Khamchik 2003 - Lines of Fate - Suzdaltsev 2003 - Urgent freight - O'Hiddy 2004 - Ivanov and Rabinovich - Rabinovich 2004 - Women's novel - Soldatov 2004 - Good luck, detective! (TV series) 2004 - Repetition of the past - Julius 2004 - Labyrinths of the mind (TV series) 2005 - One shadow for two - Captain 2005 - Brezhnev - Brezhnev in his youth 2006 - Dream 2006 - Clinic - Lamitsky / Schlosser 2006 - Challenge-2 2006 - Opera. Chronicles of the homicide department - Bergoltsev 2006 - 7 booths - Killer 2006 - Cop wars (TV series)-3 - Abramov 2007 - Friend or foe - Gamernik 2007 - Law of the Mousetrap 2007 - Urgently required Santa Claus - Korablev Anton Sergeevich 2007 - Traffic cops 2008 - Game - Viktor Petrovich, massage therapist 2008 - Death to spies. Crimea - Nikolay Matochkin, 2008 - It's hard to be a macho 2008 - Europe-Asia 2008 - A dangerous combination - police colonel Egorov 2009 - Angel's chapel - Father Vladimir 2009 - Breathe with me - Vadim 2009 - Palm Sunday - Mikhail Kuzmich, head of the TV channel 2010 - Golden trap 2010 - Ligovka - “Lekha the Devil”, authority, “king of Ligovka” 2011 - Furtseva. The Legend of Catherine - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev 2011 - Berlin-fried hare - chef of the Metropol restaurant 2011 - International airline pilot - Artemy Aleksandrovich Kruglov, businessman 2011 - Katya. Continuation - NKVD Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Cherny 2011 - Fugitive - Oleg Sveshnikov 2011 - Escape - Arsen Aflidi 2011 - Military intelligence. The first blow - Leonchuk 2012 - Heavenly Court - Don Sergio 2012 - The Eighties - Dmitry Chepelev 2012 - White Guard - Lieutenant Zamansky 2012 - The Abyss - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chirkov 2012 - Breathe with me. Happiness on loan - Vadim 2012 - Freud's method - Colonel Galchansky 2012 - Alien District-2 - Polesov 2013 - Chagall - Malevich - Bella's father 2013 - Darling - Pavel Chausov (Chaus), gang leader 2013 - Detective - Boris Sergeevich Luzhaev, official 2014 - Gena Beton - Fatyanov's assistant 2014 - Godfather (TV series) - Ivan Krai, rock musician 2014 - Craftsmen (TV series) - Starovoitov, artist, ex-husband of "Fox" 2014 - Pregnancy test - Head Doctor 2014 - Headhunters - Vladimir Viktorovich 2014 - Mom Daragaya - Pin 2020 - Battalion - soldier 2020 - Freud Method-2 - Colonel Galchansky 2020 - Investigator Tikhonov - Lekha, sculptor 2020 - So the stars aligned - Major General Shlyakhtin 2020 - Bloodhound - David Vaganovich Sarkisov, restaurant owner 2020 - Shuttlewomen - Grigory Pechenkin (Berkut), crime boss 2020 - Icebreaker - Akulov, professor of medicine 2020 - Contribution - Leonard Varfolomeevich Kalmykov, industrialist 2020 - Five minutes of silence - Fedor Dmitrievich Polyakov, General of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, uncle of the Greek 2020 - Salyut-7 - military psychiatrist 2020 - House with black cats - Warendorp 2020 - Five minutes of silence. Return - Fedor Dmitrievich Polyakov, General of the Ministry of Emergency Situations 2020 - We will not say goodbye - Dmitry Tokarev

Voice acting

1995 - Tick Hero - Tick 1995 - Toy Story - Mr. Potato Head 1997 - No Face - Bolt 1998 - Armageddon - Professor from NASA 1999 - Slithers - Rembrandt Brown, "The Crying Man", all seasons 1999 - Star Wars. Episode I: The Phantom Menace - Captain Panaka 1999 - Tarzan - Tantor 1999 - The Thirteenth Warrior - Etho the Silent 1999 - Toy Story 2 - Mr. Potato Head 2000 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 1. “Baron” - prisoner in prison (1 episode) 2000 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 2. “Lawyer” - Chechen “Isa” (3 and 9 episodes) 2000 - Beach - Whale 2000 - Gone in 60 seconds - Mirror 2000 - Me, me again and Irene - Jamal Baileygates 2000 - The weight of water - Lewis 2000 - Angels Charlie - Roger Corwin 2001 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 3. “The Collapse of the Antibiotic” - Bodyguard 2001 - Amelie 2001 - The Princess Diaries - Paolo 2001 - Monsters, Inc. - Bigfoot 2001 - Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra - Goblinus 2002 - Windtalkers - Private Chick 2002 - Xxx - Yorgi 2002 - The Rascals - Tony 2003 - Darkness Falls - Matilda Dixon 2003 - Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Special Forces Leader 2003 - Brother Bear - First Ram 2003 - 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's Adventures in London - Producer 2003 - Gothic - Sheriff Ryan 2003 - Cold Mountain - Reverend Wheezy 2004 - Hellboy: Hero from the Furnace - Hellboy 2004 - From 13 to 30 - Richard Niland 2004 - The Princess Diaries 2: How to Become a Queen - Paolo 2004 - Shark Tale - Hermit Crab Joe-Schizo 2005 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 7. “Redistribution” - General Vladimir Ivanovich 2005 - Bald Nanny: Special Assignment - Shane Wolf 2005 - Guess who? - Percy Jones 2005 - All or nothing - Joy Battle 2005 - The Legend of Zorro - Jacob 2005 - The Master and Margarita - centurion Mark Ratboy, resident of Yalta, dog handler from the NKVD 2006 - Terminal - General Vladimir Ivanovich, chief of Kudasov 2006 - Dutch passage - General Vladimir Ivanovich, Kudasov’s boss 2006 - Big trip - Carmine 2006 - Kiss for good luck - Damon Phillips 2006 - Rocky Balboa - Rocky Balboa 2007 - Reckoning - General Vladimir Ivanovich, Kudasov’s boss 2007 - Oil - Daniel Plainview 2007 - Hitman - Udre Belikov 2008 - Dot shelling - Thomas Barnes 2009 - International - Enzo 2009 - 12 rounds - special agent George Aiken 2009 - Terminator: Let the savior come - General Enshdaus, John Connor's boss 2009 - Surrogates - prophet 2010 - Ligovka - Lekha Chert 2010 - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Leader of the Assassins 2010 - Toy Story: The Great Escape - Mr. Potato Head 2011 - I Am the Fourth - Mogadorian Commander 2011 - Machine Gun Preacher - Sam Childers 2020 - Uppercut for Hitler - Joseph Stalin 2020 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Snoke 2020 - Guardians of the Galaxy . Part 2 - Stakar Ogord 2020 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales - Captain Armando 2020 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Snoke 2020 - League of Legends - Pyke, the Ripper of Bloodhaven

Demand for an actor on television

Over the past fifteen years, Artur Viktorovich has played more than fifty roles. Some of the images he created were so successful that they migrated from project to project. For example, the artist played Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev twice - in the television projects “Brezhnev” and “Furtseva. The Legend of Catherine".

Vakha played a lot of roles of people in power. So, in “Palm Sunday” he was the head of the TV channel, in “Roasted Hare Berlin Style” he was a chef, in the series “Katya. Continuation" - the head of a prison camp, in "Pregnancy Test" - the head physician, and in "The Freudian Method" with Ivan Okhlobystin in the title role - the head of the department, Colonel Galchansky.

Often an artist moves away from his usual role and tries his hand at roles that are unusual for him.

Thus, remembering his youthful passion for non-format music, Arthur Vakha played a rock musician in the television series “The Godfather.” It is worth mentioning that in his free time from work, the artist sings in the group “Flock “FLY”.” And although this musical group has not become widely known, its members have been giving small concerts in St. Petersburg for several years. In one of his interviews, Vakha said that becoming the vocalist of a rock band was his cherished childhood dream, which he managed to realize only on the threshold of his 45th anniversary.

Among the most significant professional achievements in recent years is his role in the film “Battalion,” where he again worked with Ekaterina Vilkova, with whom he previously starred in “Palm Sunday.”

The year 2020 became a particularly fruitful year for the artist: during it, Arthur Vakha took part in 11 projects. At the moment this is his personal record, but it is far from the limit.

Filmography

1984 - Captain Fracasse - Cardinal's Guard
1990 - Sideburns - Hertz
1990 - Jokes
1992 - Third take - Singer Oreshnikov
1992 - Chicha - Arthur, racketeer
1993 - Goblin Reserve - Alle-Op (Neanderthal)
1993 - You’re the only one I have - Neighbor
1995 - Everything will be fine - Theater administrator
1995 - The Fourth Planet
1995 - Weekend with a detective
1998 - Streets of Broken Lanterns: “The Reporter’s Case” - Osokin
1999 - Streets of Broken Lights: “Operation Clean Hands” - President of the Foundation
2000 - Empire under attack: The great provocateur - Social Revolutionary
2001 - National Security Agent 5 seasons: 60 episodes - Vasilenko
2002 - Lethal force-2: Double waste - Stavridi
2002 - Lethal force-4 - Stavridi
2002 - NLS Agency - Husband
2002 - Named Baron - bandit Khamchik
2003 - Lines of Fate - Suzdaltsev
2003 - Express Freight - O'Hiddy
2004 - Ivanov and Rabinovich - Rabinovich
2004 - Women's novel - Soldatov
2004 - Good luck, detective! (TV series)
2004 - Repetition of the past - Julius
2004 - Labyrinths of the Mind (TV series)
2005 - One shadow for two - Captain
2005 - Brezhnev - Brezhnev in his youth
2006 - Dream
2006 - Clinic - Lamitsky / Schlosser
2006 — Challenge-2
2006 - Opera. Chronicles of the homicide department - Bergoltsev
2006 - 7 booths - Killer
2006 - Cop Wars (TV series)-3 - Abramov
2007 - Friend or Foe - Gamernik
2007 - Law of the Mousetrap
2007 - Urgently required Santa Claus - Anton Sergeevich Korablev
2007 — “GAI officers”
2008 - Game - Viktor Petrovich, massage therapist
2008 - Death to spies. Crimea - Nikolay Matochkin,
2008 — “It’s hard to be a macho” (2008)
2008 - Dangerous combination - police colonel Egorov
2009 - Angel's Chapel Father Vladimir
2009 - Breathe with me - Vadim
2009 - Palm Sunday - Mikhail Kuzmich, head of the TV channel
2010 - Golden Trap
2010 - Ligovka - “Lyokha the Devil”, authority, “king of Ligovka”
2011 - Furtseva. The Legend of Catherine - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
2011 - Berlin-fried hare - chef of the Metropol restaurant Pyotr Egorovich Lomov
2011 - International airline pilot - Artemy Aleksandrovich Kruglov, businessman
2011 - Katya. Continuation - NKVD Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Cherny
2011 - The Fugitive (TV series) - Oleg Sveshnikov
2011 - Run - Arsen Aflidi
2011 - Military intelligence. First Strike (TV series) - Leonchuk
2012 - Heavenly Court - Don Sergio
2012 - Eighties - Dmitry Chepelev
2012 - White Guard - Lieutenant Zamansky
2012 - Breathe with me. Happiness on loan - Vadim
2012 - Freud's method - Colonel Galchansky
2012 - Alien District-2 - Polesov
2013 - Chagall - Malevich - Bella's father
2014 - Gena Beton - Fatyanov’s assistant
2014 - The Godfather (TV series) - Ivan Krai, rock musician
2014 - Craftsmen (TV series) - Starovoitov, artist, ex-husband of “Fox”
2014 - Pregnancy test - Chief Physician
2015 - Battalion - soldier
2015 - Freud Method-2 - Colonel Galchansky
???? - “Heavenly Court”, “Heavenly Court-2” - Head of the Amore clan
2014 - “Daragaya’s Mom” - Pin
2015 - Investigator Tikhonov - Lyokha, sculptor
2016 - So the stars aligned - Major General Shlyakhtin
2016 - Bloodhound - David Vaganovich Sarkisov, restaurant owner

Voice acting work

Among the many talents with which nature so generously rewarded this man is an amazing timbre of his voice. Thanks to him, Arthur Viktorovich mastered the profession of voice and dubbing actor since the mid-nineties.

At first, the main character of the animated series The Tick spoke in the velvety voice of Baja, then Mr. Potato Head from Toy Story and all its sequels, and starting with the film “Face Off,” the actor began voicing and dubbing characters in films.

During his career in this field, Arthur Viktorovich became the voice of many movie characters, but in most cases these were minor characters. But there were exceptions. Thus, the artist voiced the main character of the film Hellboy: Hero from Hell, as well as Rocky Balboa himself in the 2006 film of the same name.

Voice acting

1995 - Tick Hero - Tick
1995 - Toy Story - Mr. Potato Head
1997 - Without a face - Volt
1998 - Armageddon - professor from NASA
1999 - Sliding - Rembrandt Brown, “The Weeping Man”, all seasons
1999 - Star Wars. Episode I: "The Phantom Menace" - Captain Panaka
1999 - Tarzan - Tantor
1999 - The Thirteenth Warrior - Etho the Silent
1999 - Toy Story 2 - Mr. Potato Head
2000 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 1. “Baron” - prisoner in prison (episode 1), bandit “Sibiryak” (episode 4), bandit “Hans” (episode 5)
2000 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 2. “Lawyer” - Chechen “Isa” (episodes 3 and 9)
2000 - Beach - Whale
2000 - Gone in 60 seconds - SLR
2000 - Me, Me and Irene - Jamal Baileygates
2000 - The Weight of Water - Lewis
2000 - Charlie's Angels - Roger Corwin
2001 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 3. “The Collapse of Antibiotic” - bodyguard of “Antibiotic” (episodes 1-8), bandit interrogating “Pleischner” (episode 7)
2001 - Amelie
2001 - The Princess Diaries - Paolo
2001 - Monsters, Inc. - Bigfoot
2001 - Asterix and Obelix: "Mission Cleopatra" - Goblinus
2002 - Windtalkers - Private Chick
2002 - Three X's - Yorgi
2002 - Fraudsters - Tony
2003 - Darkness Falls - Matilda Dixon
2003 - Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - special forces leader
2003 - Brother Bear - the first ram
2003 - Gothic - Sheriff Ryan
2003 - Cold Mountain - Reverend Weezy
2004 - Hellboy: Hero from the Furnace - Hellboy
2004 - From 13 to 30 - Richard Niland
2004 - The Princess Diaries 2: How to Become a Queen - Paolo
2004 - Shark Tale - Mad Joe
2005 - Gangster Petersburg. Film 7. “Redistribution” - General Vladimir Ivanovich, Kudasov’s boss
2005 - Bald Nanny: Special Assignment - Shane Wolfe
2005 - Guess who? — Percy Jones
2005 - All or Nothing - Joy Battle
2005 - The Legend of Zorro - Jacob
2006 - Terminal - General Vladimir Ivanovich, chief of Kudasov
2006 - Dutch passage - General Vladimir Ivanovich, Kudasov’s boss
2006 - Big Journey - Carmine
2006 - Kiss for Good Luck - Damon Phillips
2006 - Rocky Balboa - Rocky Balboa
2007 - Reckoning - General Vladimir Ivanovich, Kudasov’s boss
2007 - Oil - Daniel Plainview
2007 - Hitman - Udre Belikov
2008 - Point of Fire - Thomas Barnes
2009 - International - Enzo
2009 - 12 rounds - special agent George Aiken
2009 - Terminator: Let the Savior Come - General Enshdaus, John Connor's boss
2009 - Surrogates - Prophet
2010 - Ligovka - Lyokha Devil
2010 - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Nazi leader
2010 - Toy Story: The Great Escape - Mr. Potato Head
2011 - I am the fourth - commander of the Mogadorians
2011 - Machine Gun Preacher - Sam Childers
2015 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Snoke

Arthur Vakha: personal life

Very often, when admiring a movie character, viewers tend to believe that the performer of this role also has similar character traits. Arthur Vakha was no exception, a biography whose personal life is not at all similar to the fate of his heroes, but this often goes unnoticed by his fans. So, many of the characters he played are ladies' men. However, as the artist admits, he is not like that. Although now Arthur Viktorovich does not have a permanent life partner, this is not due to his supposedly numerous novels, which the yellow press sometimes attributes to him, but to the fact that he has not yet met the woman with whom he would like to connect his life.

In the past, Arthur Vakha had a failed marriage with actress Irina Tsvetkova, with whom they played together at the Akimov Comedy Theater. Despite their common profession, Arthur Vakha was never able to build a lasting marriage with the charming Irina.

After the divorce, the actor’s wife stayed to live with their common daughter Masha. Although they broke up with the girl’s mother, the artist takes an active part in the fate of his daughter. So, both Arthur and Maria are fond of tourism, so they have already traveled with tents almost all of Russia and the neighboring countries.

By the way, Masha Vakha recently graduated from school and decided to continue her acting dynasty by entering the theater institute. Although her parents were not delighted with their child’s choice (knowing firsthand how difficult it is to succeed in this simpler field), Irina and Arthur still accepted their daughter’s choice.

Interesting facts about the actor

After the divorce, the artist began to live with his mother again. And to make it more fun, they got a cat, Varvara. Despite the Slavic name, the animal’s breed is uncharacteristic for Russia - the Sphynx (the cat has no hair).
Even in his distant childhood, while playing his tiny role in “The Man from the Outside,” Vakha had the opportunity to work with Alisa Freundlich herself. And a few years later, at an audition at LGITMiK, this actress was on the admissions committee and, recognizing her former “colleague,” helped him get admitted.
In 1999, Artur Viktorovich was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.
The actor loves poetry very much and knows a lot of them. Moreover, he writes his own depending on his mood. Although a lot of poems have accumulated over the years, Arthur Vakha is not yet planning to publish his collection, but does not exclude such a possibility.
Arthur Viktorovich’s favorite dish is Irish stew, but not in its traditional form, but the way it was prepared by the heroes of the book “Three in a Boat, Not Counting the Dog.” In other words, the actor tends to add whatever is in his refrigerator to the stew.

Although this artist has already passed his fifth decade, he is full of strength and optimism. At such an advanced age, Arthur Vakha is not afraid to engage in extreme sports, such as diving and parachute jumping, believing that one should enjoy life to the fullest while such an opportunity still exists.