Ilya Kovrizhnykh is an actor with Russian citizenship. A native of Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). He played in 20 films of the detective, dramatic and melodramatic genres. Among his works are the roles in the series: “Fine Battles”, “Second”, “Black Wolves”, “Split”, “Kotovsky”. The first movie job happened in 2004. According to the zodiac sign Capricorn. The growth of the actor is 185 cm.
Biography of Ilya Kovrizhnyh
Was born on January 15, 1981 in the city of Alma-Ata. According to the actor, as a child, he, like many of his peers, wanted to become an astronaut or driver, showed interest in oceanography, and went to swimming classes. According to him, then it seemed to him that the most interesting thing in the life of the planet is that which is in the sky or under water. The fact that he chose his path in acting is to blame for the Kazakhstani Benefis Theater, in which his mother worked. Within the theater, the future actor, being next to his mother, spent all his free time, and his first role happened there: in the play “Duck Hunt” he portrayed a boy with a wreath. After the theater was closed, Ilya Kovrizhnykh decided to go to Moscow for admission to the theater institute. He claims that, despite the fact that his mother worked as a theater expert, she in no way encouraged Ilya to become an actor, however, there were no objections from her.
Student
In 1998, he became a student of the Higher Theater School named after Shchukin. Ilya Kovrizhnykh, talking about those years, says that he was just lucky then. In the first year there was a question about his expulsion from this university, but the "played foreign study" prevented this. According to the actor, he considers himself a fatalist and believes that everything in the world is predetermined.
Theater work
Ilya Kovrizhnykh, whose filmography is replenished to this day, first showed himself as a theater actor. In 2002, he graduated from theater training and soon began to work in the Theater House "Old Arbat", playing a role in the musical "Rag Doll". In 2002, he joined the troupe of the Volkov Russian Drama Theater (Yaroslavl), in which he worked for nine years and played in twenty performances: “Memorial Prayer”, “Cylinder”, “Do not part with your loved ones”, “Seagull”, “Three Sisters” , “Solo for hours with a fight” and others. The actor notes that in this theater he had many wonderful roles, which he “could never have played anywhere else.”
In 2008, thanks to his remarkably played role as Motel in the production of “The Memorial Prayer,” he became a diploma student at the international Volkov Theater Festival. In 2011, Ilya Kovrizhnykh began to serve at the N. Gogol Moscow Drama Theater (now the Gogol Center), which he calls the "theater of his life."
Movie work
Talking about his arrival in the cinema, the actor notes that for several years he unsuccessfully “pushed around the thresholds at Mosfilm”, but in 2004 they called him with a proposal to take the role of Zuckerman in the project “Shtrafbat”, after Maxim Galkin refused it. Ilya accepted the offer, although at that time he was busy in the theatrical production of "Chioggian skirmishes."
The actor in one of his interviews, describing the beginning of his cinematic career, said that:
- I saw that the director Dostal was eyeing him, which is distinguished by the fact that it "praises the actors so that they feel more confident."
- For the sake of his role, he quickly learned “cinematic features”: not to move and not to blink.
War movies
In 2004, Ilya Kovrizhnykh noted in a conversation with a journalist that he did not serve in the army, he always had a negative attitude to military affairs, and he never perceived positively the military organization system based on the submission method, although he often had to play the military, because his uniform to the face. " To the question about what helped him in his work on the role in “Shtrafbat” “to catch the atmosphere of war”, he noted that a person who “went through this meat grinder” worked as a consultant in the project.
In 2009, Ilya Kovrizhnykh, whose photo is also on this page, played in the television series “Second” military drama along with Alexei Vorobyov, Vladimir Steklov and Anatoly Pashinin. Events unfold in August 1941, when the fascist army was moving at an accelerated pace to the capital of the USSR. During this difficult time for the country, the NKVD officers prevented the attack of German saboteurs on the motorcade of the first persons of the Soviet state on one of its routes.
New roles and plans
In 2016, the actor told in his video about his creative plans for the near future, saying that:
- Starred in the first full-length film "The Turkish Saddle".
- Busy in the detective series Escape Into Yourself. The actor liked the fact that he was entrusted with the role of “a cross-cutting character who in the investigation process appears in all the small stories of a big story.”
- Will play in the play "Ordinary Miracle", in which he was offered the role of a bear.
- At the moment, he considers himself a free artist.
Filmography of Ilya Kovrizhnyh:
- The Shtrafbat.
- "Fights: Scout's Happiness."
- “The cranes will shout.”
- "Black wolfs".
- "Pointing."
- The Dark Kingdom.
- "Fifth guard".
- "Nika".
- "The Third Life of Daria Kirillovna."
- The second.
- Kotovsky.
- "Split".
- "Zemsky doctor."
- "The power of the heart."
- "The price of life".
- The Miracle Worker.
- "Companions."
- "Birth certificate".