Alexander Garrievich became a true legend on Russian television. According to viewer polls, he is ranked among the most popular presenters. In addition, Alexander Gordon, whose biography is quite interesting, is known both as a teacher and as the author of several successful films.
Childhood
On February 20th, 1964, a boy, Sasha, was born in the Kaluga Region. His father, a Odessa-born Harry Gordon, divorced his mother when his son was still very young. A poet and writer, a little and an artist, he was able to transfer his talents to Alexander only with the help of genes. He met his son when he was nineteen years old. After the divorce, mom took Sasha and moved to her grandmother. Antonina Striga was a medical professional.
Alexander Gordon, whose biography began without male attention, was brought up by mother and grandmother. When he was four years old, Antonina Dmitrievna met a man who became her husband, and Sasha was not only a stepfather, but also a second father. According to Gordon himself, Nikolai Chinin has always been associated with him with the image of a real Russian hero. Due to the employment of parents, the upbringing of the boy was mainly carried out by the grandmother Marina Mikhailovna Vorobyova. As a result of the fire, which happened long before the appearance of her beloved grandson, Marina Mikhailovna suffered a partial paralysis, however, despite this, she had an iron willpower.
It was the grandmother who insisted that the boy should be written by the name of his own father. Arina Rodionovna - that is how grandmother called Alexander Gordon.
The boy’s biography has changed a lot since then. This happened when his family moved to Moscow. The first hobby of Sasha was the puppet theater: he even showed performances for which he gathered his entire yard. He even thought about becoming a director and at one time attended a theater studio in which GITIS students worked with children.
Youth
Alexander Gordon, whose biography could well have turned out differently, because at one time he dreamed of going to investigators, he played good hockey. Moreover, the love of art was stronger, therefore, after graduating from school, he became a student at the Moscow Institute of Culture. But it was not a good choice. Alexander failed to get carried away with his studies, and the institute was too far from the place where he lived with his family. He had no friends, classmates, no girlfriend. In the summer, a school friend advised Sasha to enter the theater school of Yaroslavl, where in that year there was a shortage of boys. Thus, he also solved the problem with the army. Alexander, taking advantage of the advice, acted with ease, but did not study long: after the first semester, he was expelled from school for systematic absenteeism.
Sasha himself wanted to write a statement of expulsion: he was not interested, since he already knew everything that was taught in the first year from the theater studio. However, it was the Yaroslavl school that helped Gordon finally decide on the profession and connect life with the stage. Returning to the capital, he got a job as a fitter in the
Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. At that time, he was led by
Anatoly Efros. Sasha sat at rehearsals of the troupe a whole year after work, and that same summer, an eighteen-year-old boy entered the Shchukin school.
Far countries
In 1987, Alexander Gordon, whose personal life had not yet been arranged, received a diploma and began working at the Ruben Simonov Studio Theater . In addition to his main work, he took up teaching acting to children in a theater group. By that time, Sasha managed to get married. A graduate of the Literary Institute Maria Berdnikova became his wife. Soon the couple had a daughter, and a year later, Alexander and his family emigrated to the United States. There were several reasons for this cardinal decision, but perhaps the very first and main one was disappointment in my work. Acting path did not please Alexander, and to this was added a thirst for change and a difficult financial situation. Moreover, Gordon has long been called to America by the cousins ​​living there.
Career in the USA
At first, life abroad was very difficult. Gordon had to change several professions, he even installed air conditioners and delivered pizza. However, in 1990, he managed to get a job as an announcer in the television company RTN. This is the first Russian television in America to be located in the basement of one of New York's mansions. Installation work was done here, as well as voice acting, and the finished recordings were sent to Manhattan, from where they went on the air. For Gordon, this period became a school for a new profession, since it was necessary not only to shoot and conduct programs, but also to create scripts, as well as correct texts, while fulfilling the duties of a director. Gordon himself says that it was on RTN that he received his primary education as a television personality. Already in 1990, he worked simultaneously on several television channels. On RTN, he was a director of programs and was also a senior correspondent on WMNB. And in 1993, Alexander Gordon organized his own company under the name "Wostok Entertainment".
Career in Russia
In 1994, his collaboration with the TV-6 channel began. Very soon, Alexander Gordon’s “New York, New York” program began to go on the air, telling about life in the USA. At that time, he actually lived between the two countries, and in 1997 decided to finally return to Russia. Subsequently, as an author and presenter, Alexander took part in the creation of a number of programs, which, however, did not become popular. The first and most significant project that Gordon conducted on Russian television was a documentary program entitled “A Collection of Misconceptions”, which received rather high ratings and attracted the attention of many thousands of viewers.
Party affiliation
After some time, in parallel with him, Alexander began to participate in the political talk show “Process”. It was at that time very organically intertwined with the party views of Gordon, who back in 1998 declared his desire to run for president of Russia. To this end, he created the "Party of Public Cynicism." In just a few months, about three thousand people entered it. However, some time later, the leader sold his party for a very symbolic price, taking three dollars for it.
Alexander Gordon today
As a TV presenter, he went on air in a huge variety of different projects. The most famous among them were the programs "Gordon" and "Stress" on NTV, "Gordon Quixote", "Science of the Soul", as well as "Citizen Gordon" and "Closed Screening", which appeared on Channel One Russia. The last one was the most successful. It was this program, telling about the author's Russian cinema, that brought him three TEFIs at once. In addition, the program "Gordon Quixote" was awarded an award from the Academy of Russian Television.
Films of Alexander Gordon
It would be unfair not to note his great successes in the field of cinema. Over his life, Alexander Gordon, whose photo can often be seen on the covers of glossy magazines, has shot four films. The most famous were the "Lights of the brothel" and "The Shepherd of his cows." In addition, the presenter as an artist and voiceover worked on the creation of several art and animated films. His voice can be heard in cartoons like Cucaracha 3D and Crazy Help. “Fate to choose”, “Generation P” - Alexander Gordon acted as an actor in them. 2013 was marked for him by work on a film called The Cuckoo.
Wives and children
Alexander Gordon, whose personal life knows many bright novels, was officially married twice. His two wives - Maria Berdnikova and Katya Gordon, like him, work on television. After the second divorce, Gordon spent seven years in a civil marriage with Nana Kiknadze - a Georgian actress and model. At the end of 2011, he struck everyone by telling about his new marriage with eighteen-year-old Nina Tigorina. And in May 2012, new news came: Alexander Gordon has another daughter, Alexander. The girl was born after a short relationship with the journalist Elena Pashkova.