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Yevgeni

Mironov

29 November 1966

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one of the most popular actor in Russia, first noticed by the public for the role in the

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Yevgeny is the brightest star of the Russian cinema. Yevgeny Mironov was born November 29, 1966 in Saratov to Vitaly and Tamara Mironov. The family lived in a small military town then called Tatischevo-5. Yevgeny’s father was a professional chauffeur, his mother changed jobs – from saleswoman to a Christmas-tree ornaments manufacturer. The Mironovs, avid amateur performers, were artistic and creative people in their everyday life. Yevgeny always dreamed of becoming an actor: as a child, he took acting classes, joined an amateur dance group and graduated from music school as an accordion player. He and his younger sister Oksana put on puppet shows for which they made their own puppets, wrote scripts and then performed in front of relatives. In school, Yevgeny put on and acted in plays and musicals, often of his own creation. Oksana Mironova, now a ballet dancer, studied at the Saratov School of Choreography and later at the St. Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy. After graduating, she was invited to join the State Academic Theater of Classical Ballet, where she danced for 10 years. At present, she is teaching in her own ballet studio associated with the Russian State Social University. In 1982, Yevgeny left his school in Tatischevo-5 to enter the Saratov Slonov Theater School, one of the few such establishments that accepted 14-year-olds, which he graduated in 1986. Offered a job with the Saratov Children’s Theater, he chose instead to continue to study acting at the prestigious Moscow Art Theater School-Studio under his famous Saratov compatriot, actor and director Oleg Tabakov. In Moscow Yevgeny succeeded in getting an interview with Tabakov, but the acting class was already in its second year. Tabakov gave Yevgeny a probation period, after the successful completion of which he was accepted to the School-Studio as a sophomore. After graduating in 1990, he became, and remains, a resident actor at the Oleg Tabakov Theater. In that capacity he has played a variety of notable parts, including the title role in the hit "The Passions of Bumbarash" (directed by Vladimir Mashkov), which opened in 1993 and is still playing to full houses. Yevgeny’s film career began in 1988 with the Aleksandr Kaidanovsky film "The Kerosene Salesman’s Wife". After appearing in a few low-budget films, Yevgeny gained national recognition and critical acclaim for his lead performance in Valery Todorovsky’s beloved coming-of-age drama, "Love" (1991), for which he received several national and international film awards and was voted Best Actor of 1992 by Russian film critics. His next success was in Pyotr Todorovsky’s comedy-drama "Encore Again!", which solidified Yevgeny’s popularity. He went on to play leads in Denis Yevstigneyev’s acclaimed "Limita" and "Mama", and to receive a Best Supporting Actor award at the 1995 Sozvezdie International Film Festival for a special appearance in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Oscar-winning "Burnt by the Sun". In 1994 Yevgeny delivered a sterling performance in Vladimir Khotinenko’s controversial drama "The Moslem", then considered his best work to date. Also notable among his early film efforts is the character of Khlestakov in Sergei Gazarov’s screen adaptation of Gogol’s "The Inspector General" (The Inspector General). Today Yevgeny Mironov is a superstar of the Russian cinema. Among his memorable creations are such varied characters as a sinister mama’s boy in Nikolai Lebedev’s "Snake Spring", a lovelorn sponger in "His Wife`s Diary" and a naive Soviet cook in "Dreaming of Space" (both directed by Alexei Uchitel), the deceptively simple intelligence officer in Mikhail Ptashuk’s "August of 44", the man-turned-bug in Valery Fokin’s adaptation of Kafka’s "The Metamorphosis", a war-deranged soldier in Andrei Konchalovsky’s "House of Fools", an arrogant surgeon in Yegor Konchalovsky’s "Escape", a talented loser in Konstantin Khudyakov’s "On Upper Maslovka", and a millionaire psycho killer in Andrei Kavun’s "The Hunt for Piranha". 2003 saw Yevgeny’s astonishing portrayal of Prince Myshkin in Vladimir Bortko’s historymaking TV adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s "The Idiot" (The Idiot (TV series)), followed by leads in two other acclaimed TV productions – as the young Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in an adaptation of his autobiographical "The First Circle" by Gleb Panfilov (2006), and as twin brothers in Yuri Moroz’s action-adventure miniseries "The Apostle". By the mid-1990’s, Yevgeny was also shining on the Russian stage. He starred in such legendary international projects as German director Peter Stein’s "The Oresteia" and "Hamlet", Declan Donnellan’s "Boris Godun

MKHAT (Moscow Art Theatre) School, 1990

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