Alexander Petrov
Alexander Petrov
Biography
Aleksandr Andreevich Petrov (Russian: Александр Андреевич Петров; born 25 January 1989; Pereslavl-Zalesskiy) is a Russian actor, known for his roles in T-34 (2019), Attraction (2017) and Gogol. The Beginning (2017). After school he entered the economic department of the University of Pereslavl at the Institute of Program Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. However, he soon realized that this was not for him - when he began to participate in the student team of the KVN and the performances of the theatre (also student) "Entreprise". During the theatrical festival, he took part in the master classes of teachers of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts - GITIS and made his final choice. In 2008 he left the university and went to Moscow. From his first attempt he managed to enter the GITIS for the directing department in the workshop of L. Kheifets. In 2012-2013, Alexander served in the Moscow Theatre "Et Cetera". Based on the results of diploma theatricals, he received an offer from Aleksandr Kalyagin about enrollment in the troupe of the Moscow theatre "Et Cetera". He played Graziano in "Shylock" based on William Shakespeare's play "The Venetian Merchant", directed by Robert Sturua. In 2013 he was admitted to the troupe of the Yermolova Theatre, under the leadership of Oleg Menshikov. In the Yermolova Theatre, he played Hamlet in William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed by Valeriy Sarkisov. Petrov made his debut in 2010 in an episodic role of the television series Voices. In 2012, he played a major role in the series While the fern is blooming. In the 2015 crime drama serial The Method produced by Alexander Tsekalo's Sreda, Petrov played the supporting role of police officer Zhenya. In the same year he also acted in the TV series Fartsa, by the same production company, this time in the lead role. The series is about Fartsovka — the illegal acquisition of consumer goods and currency from foreigners during the Soviet Union. He played Andrei Trofimov, an aspiring writer. In 2017, he acted in Sreda's feature film — Gogol. The Beginning. In this horror-fantasy picture, loosely based on Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, he portrayed writer Nikolai Gogol. He played one of the main roles in the disaster-film Attraction (2017) by Fyodor Bondarchuk. According to the plot of the film; over the city there is an unidentified object, which later, for the safety of citizens, is shot down. Only when it falls to the ground do experts find that this object is of unearthly origin. In 2018 he acted in the musical romantic drama about figure skating, Ice. Film news and database website Kinopoisk named Alexander Petrov as the most popular Russian actor of 2017. He again played the role of Artyom in Invasion, the sequel of Attraction in 2020.
Known For
Actor
as Kirill
as Pasha
as Sergey Esenin
as Victor Voronin
as Veselchak U
as Sasha Gorin
as Russian Guest
as Matvey Rysak
as Guest
as Self - Guest
as Seva Gorelov
as Alexander
as Пётр Маслов
as Kostas
as self
as Eduard Streltsov
as Artyom
as Max
as Sasha
as Ilya Goryunov
as Ilya Goryunov
as Andrey
as Piotr
as Self - Guest
as Кирилл
as Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol
as Nikolay Ivushkin
as Grisha Izmaylov
as Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
as Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
as Sasha
as Егор Румянцев
as Барковский
as Chromov in the baby's body (motion capture)
as Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
as Artyom (Tom)
as Матье
as Guest
as Mark
as Grigory Shtuchny in his youth
as Anton
as Grey (voice)
as Alex
as Рома
as Grisha Izmailov
as Mstitel
as Kirill
as Artem
as Pasha in his youth
as Evgeniy Osmyslovskiy
as Андрей Трофимов
as Вадик
as Kryukov, merchant
as Vanya Kotov
as Lecha
as Artyom Isaev Jr.
as Artem Isayev, Jr.
as Славик
as Efreytor
as Denis
as guy in the baseball cap
as Petya Lyutikov
as Maks
as Lyokha
as Ilya
as Denis Volkovsky, 'The Wolf'
as Yashka, tank commander, senior lieutenant
as Igor Spiridonov
as Кирилл
as Lyokha
as Kirill Filatov
Director
Writer
Producer
as Producer
as Producer