Actor Andrei Astrakhantsev was remembered by the audience mainly for his roles in numerous television series. But with these works, his creative biography is by no means exhausted. This biography is currently under active development and is very far from complete.
Individual facts
Astrakhantsev Andrey Petrovich was born in December 1967. With the choice of a life path, the future actor decided very early and stubbornly went to the intended goal. Andrei Astrakhantsev received his higher professional education in Moscow, at the Shchepkin Theater School. He made his debut on the big screen in 1992 in an episodic role in the film adaptation of the famous novel by F. M. Dostoevsky "Demons". For a long time, the actor has been in the permanent troupe of the Russian Entreprise Theater in St. Petersburg. But the general public sees him most often not in the theater, but on the TV screen. Since 2008, Andrei Astrakhantsev has successfully acted as a director of television series.
In the format of the series
The actor’s talent was fully revealed at the beginning of the 2000s, when criminal, adventure and historical series began to appear on television in droves. Andrei Astrakhantsev played one of the first notable roles in the famous Gangster Petersburg. Despite the fact that his role in this film was ranked by the background, the image he created for the chief editor of the criminal chronicle department was remembered by the producers and directors. And this circumstance helped provide the actor with a further presence on the screen. The specifics of the television series genre implies conveyor production with a very tight work schedule. And for any actor involved in this process, there is a danger of losing his creative personality with the endless repetition of standard situations. But Andrei Astrakhantsev in this stream could not bother either himself or the audience. Moreover, he clearly outgrew the profession of a simple performer of what is written in the script. And more and more actively involved in the process of creating the film as a director. And such an opportunity is not provided to everyone who expresses a desire to make films on their own.
Success
The fact that Andrei Astrakhantsev is a very popular actor is evidenced by an impressive list of films with his participation. Only a select few can boast of such a filmography. These are mainly roles in numerous television series, many of which continue from year to year. The most noteworthy in this regard is such a famous work on police everyday life as the famous "Street of Broken Lights". At the same time, the actor manages to get away from platitudes and cliches, making each subsequent role unlike the previous one. It seems that Andrei Astrakhantsev can always find new colors for each image, regardless of how deeply he worked out in the script of the series. And this ability is always highly appreciated by both viewers and colleagues on the set. And there is nothing surprising in the fact that Andrei Astrakhantsev has become one of the most recognizable and popular actors in Russian cinema. There is every reason to believe that his best roles are yet to come.
Director work
Constant participation in the filming of television series led the actor to the idea of trying his hand at the role of director of the creative process. For the first time this opportunity presented itself to him in 2008 during the production of the second season of the series "Foundry". And Andrei Astrakhantsev made his debut as a director quite successfully. In addition to the two seasons of “Foundry,” on his director’s account there are several episodes in “Street of Broken Lights” and in “Traffic cops”. Andrei Astrakhantsev managed to prove his professional viability in this direction in full. In several interviews with the media, the director expressed his intentions to remove full-length tapes for the big screen and even play the main roles in them. But it is not yet possible to talk about a more concrete implementation of these plans, since the director’s desire here is clearly not enough.
Andrey Astrakhantsev: actor's personal life
The audience always shows a keen interest in the relationships that develop between the actors of television series outside the set. This interest is greatly fueled by the so-called yellow press. But only the actors themselves do not always like such attention. In everyday life, Andrei Astrakhantsev is modest and does not approve of extraneous attention to his personal life. Representatives of the yellow press, he ignores. And it remains only to state biographical facts: Andrei Astrakhantsev and Anna Astrakhantseva are husband and wife in the past, and they have two sons. The couple is currently divorced.
And one more thing...
It happens that our hero is called another patronymic. However, this is an unforgivable mistake. Astrakhantsev Andrey Vladimirovich is a completely different person who has nothing to do with the world of cinema.