Actor Artashonov Biography

Biography Biography "Honored Bandit of Russian Cinema" - so jokingly called actor Igor Artashonov colleagues. He really played many “criminal elements”, although there were also many positive heroes. But it so happened that witty heroes are better remembered. Childhood and youth Igor Gennadievich Artashonov was born in March in Kazakhstan. In Karaganda, his childish and youthful years passed.

The future artist was born and raised in a simple family that is not related to the world of art. It is not known where the simple Karaganda guy got the desire to go on stage, but this desire turned out to be very strong. So much so that after graduating from a comprehensive school, Igor Artashonov went to Moscow and on the first attempt entered the legendary Moscow Art Theater School.

For several years, the future artist enthusiastically mastered the wisdom of acting on the course of Vasily Markov. In the year, Artashonov received a diploma of the theater university, but considered that the acquired knowledge is not enough. Therefore, Igor Gennadievich went to the British-American Academy of Arts, which is located in Oxford. The theater soon, having returned from the UK, Igor Artashonov appeared on the stage of metropolitan theaters.

He was accepted into the troupe of the famous Moscow Medicine Moscow time in many talented and vivid performances, the most vivid of which were “deer and hut”, “cancer corps”, “crying in a handful”, “Henry IV”, “violets of Montmartra” and “Kabala Svyatos”. But a wide audience learned about the existence of a talented actor only after he appeared on TV screens.

But at the same time, he does not throw the theater. The scene remains very important for him. The artist went to this scene for 5 years. Spectators were happy to watch his game in the performances “People and Mouse” and “Line”. And in OM, Artashonov became a member of the troupe of the theater "ET-CEERA", led by Alexander Kalyagin. On this scene, he brilliantly embodied the images of the doctor in the production of “suppress and excite” and the character of Balik in the play “drums in the night”.

Films Kinematographic biography of Igor Artashonov began in OM. This year, the audience saw a bright and memorable artist in the filmed play “Basis of the Holy”. In the same year, he appeared in full -length cinema. It was the drama of Alexander Zeldovich "Sunset". Solomon, the hero of Artashonov, immediately attracted the close attention of the sophisticated viewers of the workshop by the game.

In the cinema for a long time, artashonov plays only second -plan heroes. But his characters, thanks to the skill of the actor, are so voluminous and bright that they immediately crash into memory. Probably, the images of criminals and criminal elements played by Igor Artashonov in his debut films were so impressed by the directors that they for a long time “on the bent” offer the artist of just such characters.

These are the heroes of Artashonov in the militant of the “Finding”, the series “Liquidation”, the melodrama “Banker's girlfriend”, criminal tapes “Boomer-2” and “Teacher in Law”, the drama of “Gangs” and even the musical comedy “National Home”. It seems that “on the other side” of crime Igor Artashonov fell only in OM when he played the investigator Sergei Topilsky in the sensational picture of Vadim Shmelev “S.

In the year, the actor played the famous Soviet military leader Vasily Chuykov in the biographical tape of Alexei Pimanov “Zhukov”. But in the same year, Artashonov again “returned” to the world of crime in the remarkable series “The Life and Adventures of the Mishka of Japanchik” by Sergei Ginzburg. Of the last projects in which this bright and wonderful artist appeared, the series “fighters” and “Youth” were the most rated.

Personal life Igor Artashonov belonged to those artists who earned their authority not to PR, but by painstaking work on the stage and the set. The press never wrote about some scandalous antics of the actor or the violent events of his private life. Igor Artashonov was married to a colleague in the acting workshop Christine Ruban. A significant age difference - Christina was 19 years younger than her husband - did not prevent them from quiet family happiness.

The couple lived very amicably. In this marriage, the daughter of Lada was born. The girl at an early age began to show enormous interest in the profession of parents. Death is a year for the family of Igor Artashonov began tragically. In January, when Kristina’s wife and daughter Lada left her parents in Bryansk, robbers burst into their rented apartment.

The actor was beaten to half to death. He was taken to the hospital in a serious state and immediately introduced into an artificial one. He miraculously survived and began to recover very slowly. Colleagues, as they could, helped the family during this period, because Artashonov needed considerable funds for surgery. But in mid -July, Igor Artashonov’s condition worsened sharply. As the autopsy showed, the cause of death was a broken thrombus.