The biography of Alexandra Zakharova begins with her birth in June 1962. It happened in Moscow in the family of actress Nina Lapshina and director Mark Zakharov. Sasha’s childhood was like other acting children. Parents worked a lot and the girl either took with them to the theater, or left at home under someone else's supervision. Little Sasha always tried to be useful. During theatrical premieres, she took flowers from the stage, and if the janitor looked after her, she helped her with pleasure. Without a doubt, the atmosphere of creativity surrounding Sasha had an impact: she should have not just a biography of Alexandra Zakharova, but only as an actress.
This dream filled the girl. She spent all her free time behind the scenes in the theater, and on summer holidays, without hesitation, went on tour with her parents. Even then, Sasha was confident in her talent. It is clear that having received a certificate of secondary education, she does not see anything else for herself. Sasha enters the famous "pike" in the workshop of Katina-Yartseva. In 1983, she graduated from a theater school, and the biography of Alexandra Zakharova approaches her cherished goal - she becomes an actress in the theater of the Lenin Komsomol.
It should be noted that Sasha was then invited immediately to 5 theaters, but she chose Lenkom, as she always considered her father to be the most brilliant director. Of course, now many say that she got the leading role only thanks to Mark Anatolyevich. But for 10 long years he let her out on stage only in extras. She had to prove that the outstanding talent and actress Alexandra Zakharova are one. Her biography, perhaps, would also be slightly different, if then she would have been given more opportunities. But Sasha felt herself needed and happy, even when she wore stools in the dark.
But the cinematic biography of Alexandra Zakharova was developing more successfully. In the first film, she starred immediately after graduation. This was the role of Esther in the film “The House That Swift Built”. And immediately another work: Fimka in the "Formula of Love." Both heroines the audience liked and remembered, but there was no real recognition.
Sasha considers her second birthday to be the day when they began to recognize her on the streets. And this happened after the film "Criminal Talent" (1988), where her partner was the famous actor Alexei Zharkov. In the same year she appeared another notable work in the cinema. She played Elsa in her father’s parable “Kill the Dragon”. Both roles showed that Alexandra has a talent for both comedic and dramatic actresses.
From that moment, her theatrical career also changed. Gleb Panfilov put Hamlet in the Lenkom and the role of Ophelia was given to Zakharova. So gradually she began to advance to the leading theater actresses. In the play “Memorial Prayer,” she played Hava. Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Catherine I in the play The Jester Balakirev, and so on. Now, her very demanding father began to recognize her right to starring roles.
Her work in the theater and cinema always stood in the first place, her free time is also theater and cinema. This is the whole of Alexander Zakharov. The biography, the personal life of the actress - everything is connected with the theater. She first saw her future husband, Vladimir Steklov, at school, but she married her at the age of 30. Unfortunately, after 9 years, the marriage broke up, and their children never appeared. Since then, Alexandra has given herself all to her beloved work and to her pet - an Airedale terrier named Lusha.