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Sergei Kolesnikov (actor)

Sergei Kolesnikov (actor)

Russian actor (1955–2023)


Sergei Valentinovich Kolesnikov (Russian: Серге́й Валенти́нович Коле́сников; 4 January 1955 – 29 April 2023) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor, television presenter, and Honored Artist of Russia (1994).[1]

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Biography

Sergei Kolesnikov was born on 4 January 1955, in Moscow in a family of Soviet intellectuals.[2] His mother was Maria Pavlovna Kolesnikova (born 1920) and his father Valentin Kolesnikov (1915–1977). His brothers include Vladimir and Igor Kolesnikov (born 1949).[2]

In 1978 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (with course leaders Sofya Pilyavskaya and Vladimir Bogomolov)[3] and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. After the division of the theater he worked in the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. In 1990 he moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre,[2] where he worked until October 2011.

From 21 May 2006 to 7 October 2012, he starred in the leading television program Fazenda (Channel One Russia).[4]

Kolesnikov died on 29 April 2023, at age 68.[5]

Selected filmography

Personal life

  • Kolesnikov was married to wife Maria Alexandrovna Kolesnikova (Velikanova), a film, theater, and TV artist. He had two sons, Alexander (born 1981) who graduated from an architectural school, and Ivan (born 1983), an actor.[6] He had two granddaughters, Avdotya (born 2006) and Vera (born 2013), from Ivan.

Awards


References

  1. "Сергей Колесников". talanty.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  2. "Сергей Колесников". www.talanty.com. Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2023.

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