Igor Volkov is an actor in Soviet and Russian cinema and theater. The audience is known for the role of the young Mikhail Lomonosov in the picture of the same name. In total, the actor has more than 40 film roles. The heroes embodied by him on the screen are courageous, courageous, charismatic personalities. That is why the artist loves the artist.
Biography
Volkov Igor Yuryevich was born in the city of Velikiye Luki, Pskov Region, on July 5, 1959. In the family of the artist there were no people of creative professions. His mother worked as a salesman in a store, and dad worked as an ordinary driver. Only Igor’s grandmother, Irina Egorovna, had little relation to creativity - she knew and loved Russian poetry and managed to instill this love in her grandson.
Since childhood, Igor himself did not dream about the stage and filming in the cinema. He really liked the story. The young man read out historical novels and monographs, dreamed of becoming a student in the history department of Leningrad University. Pushkin.
But fate decreed otherwise. Not having a clear plan where he will go, Igor came to Moscow. I went to the theater school. Shchepkina, read poetry and made a strong impression on the selection committee. He was accepted to the course of V. Monakhov, which he successfully graduated in 1981.
From 1982 to 1983, Igor Volkov was an actor in the Central Theater of the Soviet Army, from 1987 to 1992 - Chekhov Moscow Art Theater.
Film career
The debut in the cinema for Igor Volkov (photo above) was the role of the young Mikhailo Lomonosov in the television series of the same name, which was released in 1986. The first success came to the artist, many fans appeared.
Then there was the main role in the series “Defeat” (1987), in which the actor played the young physicist Sergei Krylov. In 1988, the actor immediately had two main roles: in the military-historical drama “We Stay Faithful”, in which he played in a duet with Elena Yakovleva, and in the multi-part melodrama “Earthly Joys”, he played Mark Lemekhov in it. In 1989, he starred in the film “Love with Privileges”, playing the role of Boris.
Igor Volkov actively starred in the 90s. All his characters were noble and courageous. Among his roles:
- Vova Bogomolov in The Hunt for the Pimp (1990);
- Nikolai in the movie "Dina" (1991);
- ranger of the Sturgeons in "Predators" (1991);
- priest in the movie "Yatrinsky Witch" (1991);
- Frank in Alaska Kid (1993);
- Basov in the film "Russian Singer" (1993);
- Andrey in the film "I myself" (1993);
- Arkady in The Silent Witness (1994);
- banker Sudakov in Ricochet (1997);
- Alexey Varlamov in the Botanical Garden (1997);
- Sergey in Tango over the Precipice (1997);
- Yeremey in The Siberian Savior (1998).
Despite a five-year break in his career, the actor appeared on the screens in the 2000s. Then Igor Volkov began to play not only positive, but also negative characters. Among his works:
- Lieutenant Colonel Fokin in Operational Alias (2003);
- Humus in The Temptation of the Titanic (2004);
- Semyon Bent in “Sarmat” (2004);
- General Chizh in the film "Anna" (2005);
- Stepan Soldatov in the film "The Last Battle of Major Pugachev" (2005);
- Dima’s father Michael in the film “I Will Not Return” (2005);
- lieutenant colonel in the film Victory Day (2006);
- Mikhalych in Armed Resistance (2008);
- Elanchuk in “The New Life of Detective Gurov” (2008);
- Captain Nemov in “The Heart of Captain Nemov” (2009);
- businessman Sapun in "Provocateur" (2011);
- Mezentsev in the "Gold Reserve" (2012);
- psychotherapist Romanov in “Turns of Fate” (2013);
- Major Ostrovsky in the action movie Save or Destroy (2013);
- Anatoly Zatevakhin in The Executioner (2014) and others.
One of the last works in the cinema for Igor Volkov was the role of Gogol in the biographical drama Dovlatov, released in 2018. The actor does not serve in the theater.
Personal life
Igor Volkov does not extend about his family. He is known to be married. The wife's name is Natalya. The actor does not like parties. He prefers going to the movies and theater to them. It is rarely seen on television.
For Igor Volkov, what is more important is what is inside the person. After all, the destroyed from the outside, the external, can be restored, but the internal world can be very difficult to restore.