Igor Jijikine

The cinematic biography of Igor Zhizhikin is paradoxical: the Russian actor first achieved success in Hollywood, and then at home. He reached impressive heights in his career, pushing off from the very bottom. Zhizhikin, finding himself in Los Angeles - in the immediate vicinity of the "dream factory", worked as a janitor and slept on a park bench. But then stars such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Clint Eastwood and a dozen more, whose names require no introduction, shone in his life.

Igor Vitalievich Zhizhikin is a native Muscovite. He was born on October 8, 1965 into a family that had nothing to do with any kind of art. Like his peers, the guy was fond of sports, loved to relax with friends and listen to rock. Zhizhikin had no dreams of acting in films and appearing "on television" either in childhood or in his youth. Cinematography at that time seemed to Igor a sphere in which the inhabitants of heaven fell. The guy did not see himself among such lucky ones.

Having received a certificate of maturity, Igor Zhizhikin set himself a “mundane” goal. He became a student at the Moscow communications college, planning to enter the communications institute after graduation. But instead of a university, Zhizhikin ended up in the army. In 1982, Igor was called up for military service, which became the first link in the chain of events that brought the young man to the cinema.

Igor Zhizhikin, the foreman of a sports company, got acquainted with circus performers. Co-workers previously worked in the Moscow circus, and once they got into military service, they continued to entertain the army audience with performances at festive concerts. At first Igor helped his friends, but soon the circus art drew him in so much that Zhizhikin went on stage with the circus performers.

After demobilization, Igor Zhizhikin abandoned his previous plans, and instead of the Institute of Communications he entered the Academy of Physical Culture. The novice artist did not want to "kill time" at the hospital. Having transferred to the correspondence department, he got a job at the Moscow State Circus. Here Igor Zhizhikin trained animals, juggled with clubs and participated in power rides. But he chose aerial acrobatics and soon gained prestige among his colleagues.

The second half of the 1980s for Igor Zhizhikin is on tour. In the "depressed" capital, the audience is not up to circus performances, so the artists turn their eyes to the West. In 1989, the circus performers went on a tour of American cities. Realizing that they will survive at home and gray everyday life, half of the troupe remained in the United States. Among the rest is Igor Zhizhikin, who chose Las Vegas to live. The first year was difficult for the actor: he spent the night on a park bench, moonlighted as a janitor, lawnmower, and bouncer. Ate at cheap eateries.

The bright and textured actor (Zhizhikin's height is 1.91 meters and weighs 95 kilograms) fate smiled a year later: in 1990 he was invited to the musical "Turn on the night", where he was entrusted to silently walk around the stage. But the next year Igor Zhizhikin played the key character - Samson - in the musical "Jubilee". In this capacity, the actor entered the stage for 5 years. In 1995, when Jubilee was removed from the repertoire, the artist got a job at the famous Cirque du Soleil, with whose troupe he performed for 3 years.

To improve his professional level, Zhizhikin entered a theater school in Nevada, where he studied for two years. Since 2000, the Muscovite began a breakthrough in his creative career. In Los Angeles, Igor Zhizhikin gives master classes in stage plastic and acting. The artist met a reputable agent in Los Angeles, a native of Russia, Viktor Kruglov. With the help of an agent, the Muscovite got into projects with Hollywood stars Steven Seagal, Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Angelina Jolie.

From 2000 to 2007, Igor Zhizhikin appeared on the screen in six American projects. He starred in the TV series "Spy" directed by J. J. Abrams, on the set of which he met Jennifer Garner, Bradley Cooper and Quentin Tarantino. In Clint Eastwood's thriller "Bloody Job" he played the Russian Mikhail Bolotov. Supporting roles went to Zhizhikin in the drama "Kleptomania" and the action movie "Target".

But a starring role in the Hollywood project came to Igor Zhizhikin in 2008: the Muscovite appeared in the fourth film of Steven Spielberg's super popular cycle about the archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, where he played Russian Colonel Anton Dovchenko. And again a stellar company, where each name is a Hollywood legend: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf. The 124-minute tape grossed $ 786 million with a budget of 185.

Since the release of the picture on the big screens, the name of Igor Zhizhikin has become known, and his financial situation is enviable: according to some reports, the artist received a millionth fee for his work in an adventure project. A doll of Colonel Dovchenko appeared on sale - an external copy of Zhizhikin. In 2009, a Russian actor with a striking character was invited to the action movie Ruslan, where he starred with Steven Seagal. In the same 2009, the actor got a role in the drama series "Black Mark".

2010 was no less eventful: the Muscovite starred in the melodrama Tourist, where the main characters were played by Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Zhizhikin got a bright hero with the name Virginsky. Igor Zhizhikin admitted in an interview that after working at Tourist he believed in the materialization of desires. After all, before filming the film, I watched the film by Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck "The Lives of Others" and thought that acting with such a director was incredible happiness. Donnersmark soon invited the Russian to join his new project.

Later, Igor Zhizhikin appeared in the comedy television series Chuck and the crime thriller The Defender, where Jason Statham played the main role. The textured Russian is being filmed in commercials. The brightest ones belong to the companies Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, LEVI'S. And the Dunhill tobacco brand made Igor Zhizhikin the official face of the product.

Since 2001, the actor has been offered work by Russian directors. He played roles in the TV series "Deadly Force", "Special Forces in Russian" and the 2nd film "Love in the City". In the last project, Zhizhikin got a dumb character with the speaking name Oleg Truba. The artist says that director Marius Weisberg convinced him to play a funny role.

Then there were the Russian tapes "8 First Dates", "Viy", "Men's Season: Velvet Revolution" and "Brigade. Heir". But the most striking roles went to Igor Zhizhikin in the projects "Sherlock Holmes", "Priest-San: Confessions of a Samurai", "The Island" and "Major". In the winter of 2016, the second season of the rating Major was released on Channel One, where the actor again appeared with Pavel Priluchny, Denis Shvedov and Nikita Panfilov.

In the same year, in April, the premiere of the comedy melodrama "Fix Everything", where viewers saw Zhizhikin in the role of Sidorov's security guard, looking after the millionaire's daughter. In the last 15 years, Igor Zhizhikin has been alternating between filming in Hollywood and Russia. At home, he made his debut as a TV presenter: in 2012, Channel One aired the program “In the black-black room ...”, which was hosted by the artist.

There were three marriages in the artist's life. The first time Igor Zhizhikin got married for the sake of obtaining American citizenship. The second wife was also an American, but the marriage was short-lived - too different mentality soon turned the couple into strangers. There were no children in the family.

The third wife of Igor Zhizhikin is Russian. The actor lived with a woman named Natalia for 8 years, but this union also burst. The Russian-Hollywood artist maintains friendly relations with his ex-wife and is glad that Natalya found happiness after breaking up with him. The ex-wife lives in America.

In 2016, Igor Zhizhikin had a new lover - the ex-wife of Bari Alibasov Jr., Oles Romashkina. The actor publishes photos together with Olesya on Instagram. In an interview with Russian publications, Zhizhikin called Romashkina his muse and confessed to serious - "aggressive" - ​​intentions. 51-year-old Igor Zhizhikin expects that in his fourth marriage he will finally have "charming heirs."

In 2017, Channel One hosted the premiere of the dramatic serial project Murka, where the artist got the role of Taras Korshun. The series starred the stars of Russian cinema Mikhail Porechenkov, Sergey Garmash, Janik Fayziev. The project was filmed in Moscow, Sevastopol and Evpatoria.

The films Night Shift, Secret City-3, Territory, Eagle or Tails, which will be released in 2017 and 2018, are in production.

2002 - "The Spy" 2008 - "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" 2009 - "Ruslan" 2010 - "Tourist" 2011 - "Chuck" 2010 - "Love in the City 2" 2012 - "8 First Dates" 2012 - "The Brigade : Heir "2012 -" Sherlock Holmes "2012 -" Nightingale the Robber "2014 -" Viy "2014 -" Priest-San "2014 -" Major "2016 -" Island "2016 -" Major-2 "2017 -" Murka "

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