Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov (Russian: Леонид
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Филатов, IPA: [lÊ²ÉªÉ Ëˆnʲit
əlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ fʲɪˈlatəf] (listen); 24 December 1946
â€" 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet,
pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of the troupe of the
Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness
that haunted him in the 1990s, he received many awards, including the
Russian Federation State Prize and People's Artist of Russia in
1996.Filatov was born on 24 December 1946, in Kazan. His father was
Aleksey Yeremeyevich Filatov (1910 - 1980s), his mother - Klavdia
Nikolaevna Filatova (b. 1924). The family frequently moved around,
because his father was a radio operator and spent much time in field
expeditions. When Leonid was seven years old his parents divorced, and
Leonid moved along with his mother to Ashkhabad to join his mother's
relatives. While a schoolboy, he had his first publications in the
Ashkhabad press.After finishing school he arrived in Moscow in 1965,
and tried to become a film director, but failed the entrance exam at
the State Institute of Cinematography - VGIK . However, Filatov was
persistent, and on the advice of a classmate he took the entrance
exams to the actor's department of the Shchukin Theatrical School. In
1965 he was admitted to the course of B.K. Lvova and L.N. Shikhmatov,
and graduated from Shchukin Theatrical School as an actor in 1969.In
1969 Filatov became an actor with the troupe of the Moscow Taganka
Theatre. His first main role was the lead in the stage version of What
Is to Be Done? His career developed with roles in The Master and
Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The House on the Embankment, Fasten
Your Seatbelts, Pugachev, Antiworlds, Comrade, Believe, the role of
Horatio in Hamlet, Kul'chitskiy in The Fallen and Living, Federzoni in
Life of Galileo, and Players-21 (a work with (Sergey Yursky’s
creative association of artists).
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Филатов, IPA: [lÊ²ÉªÉ Ëˆnʲit
əlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ fʲɪˈlatəf] (listen); 24 December 1946
â€" 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet,
pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of the troupe of the
Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe illness
that haunted him in the 1990s, he received many awards, including the
Russian Federation State Prize and People's Artist of Russia in
1996.Filatov was born on 24 December 1946, in Kazan. His father was
Aleksey Yeremeyevich Filatov (1910 - 1980s), his mother - Klavdia
Nikolaevna Filatova (b. 1924). The family frequently moved around,
because his father was a radio operator and spent much time in field
expeditions. When Leonid was seven years old his parents divorced, and
Leonid moved along with his mother to Ashkhabad to join his mother's
relatives. While a schoolboy, he had his first publications in the
Ashkhabad press.After finishing school he arrived in Moscow in 1965,
and tried to become a film director, but failed the entrance exam at
the State Institute of Cinematography - VGIK . However, Filatov was
persistent, and on the advice of a classmate he took the entrance
exams to the actor's department of the Shchukin Theatrical School. In
1965 he was admitted to the course of B.K. Lvova and L.N. Shikhmatov,
and graduated from Shchukin Theatrical School as an actor in 1969.In
1969 Filatov became an actor with the troupe of the Moscow Taganka
Theatre. His first main role was the lead in the stage version of What
Is to Be Done? His career developed with roles in The Master and
Margarita, The Cherry Orchard, The House on the Embankment, Fasten
Your Seatbelts, Pugachev, Antiworlds, Comrade, Believe, the role of
Horatio in Hamlet, Kul'chitskiy in The Fallen and Living, Federzoni in
Life of Galileo, and Players-21 (a work with (Sergey Yursky’s
creative association of artists).
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