The fate of popular personalities is of great interest to most ordinary people. Especially when it comes to such a talented and extraordinary actor and just a handsome man like Alexei Zubkov. His path to fame was accompanied by continuous painstaking work. The result was the love of the viewer.
Education of the future actor
Alexey Zubkov was born on March 27, 1975 in Ukraine. Our hero combined classes at school with a music school, where he studied in the pipe class. At the same time, he tried to master the playing of the guitar. After leaving school, Alex entered the Kiev National University of Theater, Cinema and Television named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary (course of V.I. Zimnyaya). In 2001, after graduating from an educational institution, Zubkov got a job in Kiev as an actor at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater .
Theatrical work
In the theater, actor Alexei Zubkov played more than 15 different roles: judges in The Brothers Karamazov, Vivat, Queen! (Dudley). Other works: âSentimental Cruiseâ (Karl), Cypriot in âOthelloâ, âI am the Heirâ (Ludov). The list of roles continues: âTev-Tevelâ (Fedor), âAnthem of Democratic Youthâ (Slavik), âIn the Middle of Paradise on the Maidanâ (fourth unknown), âAesopâ (Agnostos). His works in productions: âOedipus the Kingâ (Priest, Tiresei), âFatherâ (Doctor), âOh, the musketeers, the musketeers ...â (Athos). He also successfully worked on images in productions: Urus-Shaitan (Gulya, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Pitirim, Spanish General), Brave Rooster. The spectator also enjoyed his game in such performances: âThe Wizard Catâ (Albin), âNew Year's Odysseyâ (Santa Claus). But despite the good acting, work in the theater did not bring him due fame.
Actor debut
The filmography of Aleksey Zubkov begins with the Ukrainian-French drama The Friend of the Dead (1997). There he played the cameo role of a tough guy in a burgundy shirt. Apparently, starting in the cinema was not easy, because after the debut of the proposals from the directors for some time there werenât. His next filming took place only five years later.
Films with Alexei Zubkov
After a long break (until 2002), the next work of the actor was the Ukrainian series âCritical Standingâ. At that time, our hero was already 27 years old. One of the main roles went to Zubkov. In the film, the plot unfolds in a hospital where patients become mutants.
After filming the series, two years later, Alexey Zubkov played in the military film Iron Hundred, where the role of the actor was not the main one. This was followed by shooting in other tapes: âBankersâ (director), âCollectionâ (employee of a special department). These films did not bring much popularity to Alexei.
First successful roles
Although the roles of Alexei were small, they became the beginning of a great career. A huge merit in this was directed by Alexei Kozlov, who believed in the actor and approved him for the main role in the 8-episode film âMineâ. After his release, Alexey Zubkov felt the widespread fame and adoration of women on himself (photo on the right).
Enthusiastic reviews, after watching the movie, replete with the entire Internet. In the same year they shot the second part of the series. Zubkov in the film played the role of Tomilin Gena, who returned five years later from a long voyage to a gold mine in the hope that his bride would still be waiting for him. But it turned out that she had already married. Remaining at the mine, he went to work in the police, where various dramatic events began to take place with him.
Realizing that the films with Alexei Zubkov received the desired success, the director Kozlov shot the actor in a new project - "Black Snow". In the series, our hero played a former officer - Sergey Gushchin, who defended the inhabitants of the Siberian village from bandits.
Kozlov did not stop there and took the actor with a small role in the famous series - "Always say" always "-4."
In the films âI am a bodyguard: Killer for the anniversaryâ (agency bodyguard), âGenius of an empty placeâ (investigator - Mitya Khokhlov, looking for a killer), Alexey Zubkov performed strong, reliable and brave men. Thus, he fell in love with half of the women of our country.
The filmography of Alexei Zubkov has more than fifty films. The genres in which he works are diverse. These are action films, and criminal tapes, and melodramas, and adventures, and detective stories. The actor continues to act in films and play in the theater, delighting fans with his work.
Melodrama with Zubkov
Melodramas with Alexei Zubkov are calculated in the amount of more than ten works. The type of actor is universal. He can be an exemplary family man, and a successful businessman, and a village worker. Most of his roles are shooting in melodramas. One of his last works are films: âOnce upon a time there was Loveâ, âLuckyâ, âPoor relativesâ and others.
The main roles of the actor
One of the last films starring Aleksey Zubkov is The Fourth Passenger: the film tells about the difficult fate of a school teacher, Ulyana, who goes to solve her sonâs problems in Moscow. On the way, she meets Vladimir (Alexey Zubkov). Introducing himself as a builder, he ties up a romantic relationship with Ulyana, hiding from her that he is a wealthy businessman.
In the film "Middle gender, singular" Zubkov again plays the role of a business person. According to the script, the actor goes into binge due to the betrayal of his wife and finds himself a young beautiful woman. As a result, he abandons her, falling in love with a modest teacher Alexandra.
In the movie "Lucky" our hero plays the role of a surgeon - Dmitry, who met on vacation with Irina. They begin an affair, after which the couple parted without explanation. As a result, Irina is pregnant and goes to Dmitry to tell the good news.
The film "Dreaming is not harmful" - Zubkov acts as the poor guy Andrei, who wants to marry the daughter of a wealthy father, who is against their wedding. Andrey leaves to work abroad, after which he returns.
In the film "Caviar Baron" Alexei plays the role of a rich man - Kirill Zbruev.
âA Sofa for One Manâ shows us Zubkov as a tired and exhausted man who meets a married lady, Marina, in a furniture store.
In the film "I Love You Only" Zubkov plays the role of a village peasant Stepan with a difficult life, sentenced to three years for a crime that he did not commit. During the time spent in prison, Stepan's wife gives birth to another man. He forgives her for this and, leaving the prison, raises his wifeâs daughter. He becomes the chairman of the collective farm, where he is undergoing numerous reforms, but in the nineties it begins to crumble.
The film âWhen We Were Happyâ demonstrates the successful life of businessman Gleb (played by Zubkov). But his partner substitutes. Gleb loses everything. The family is left without means of subsistence, which is why problems arose, and Gleb begins to drink. The wife takes all the burdens of difficulties upon herself and seeks work. Quarrels between spouses began to arise even on trifles, understanding was gone. Having learned about the problems in the family, the chief of his wife Gleb offers her his help. The hero, learning about this, thinks that his wife cheated on him.
âCall my doorâ shows the role of a good businessman - Pavel (playing Zubkov), who helps his neighbor in solving her problems, which is actively prevented by Elena, who is in love with a businessman.
âGrandmother on Demolitionâ is a comedy telling about the adult son (played by Zubkov) of Kira, whom she married safely and bought a young vacation ticket. Lovers could not go, and so that the ticket does not disappear, Kira goes instead of the newlyweds.
The series "Poor Relatives" talks about the post-war period in the USSR.
The action movie âCollectionâ demonstrates the difficult work of an employee of the special department, Andrei (played by Zubkov), who organizes surveillance of one businessman to get a collection of expensive paintings from him. A business man is killed, values ââdisappear, and then fall into the hands of the police. One of the law enforcement officers, risking his own life, decides to take the canvases to Rome.
Actor's family
Zubkov does not advertise his personal life and does not give interviews, so little is known about his family. The wife of Alexei Zubkov in 2006 gave birth to a daughter. Judging by the fact that our hero takes care of the family, protecting it from annoying journalists, we can conclude that the actor values ââthe calmness of his daughter and wife.
Other work of the actor
In addition to filming a movie and working in the theater, actor Alexei Zubkov starred in the video âFor the Fogâ by Marina Khlebnikova. The plot unfolds in the sea, where the singer is floating on a ship, and Alex - on a boat. At some point, they meet and part.
Zubkov also starred in a commercial - Lipton. Taste of London. In it, he plays a gourmet, a connoisseur of real tea, who wants to at least somehow come closer to the English lifestyle, which he did.