Actor Kirill Pletnev is one of the most promising artists of Russian television. Basically, he is known for the role of Alexei Bobrikov in the historical television film "Saboteur". What roles did the budding artist play and what are his plans for the future?
early years
Actor Kirill Pletnev was born in 1979 in the city of Kharkov. When the boy was little, his parents moved to St. Petersburg for permanent residence. Papa Cyril was an inventor, but then he went headlong into the business. He divorced his mother when Cyril was only 13 years old. However, the actor himself claims that he does not hold evil at his father, like his brother - Michael.
Since childhood, Cyril showed interest in sports: he was fond of taekwondo, dancing, swimming and even seriously involved in rock climbing. Actually, the actor showed good physical preparation during the filming of the historical action movie "Saboteur".
The school in which the young man studied was with a theatrical bias. Therefore, Cyril abandoned the career of an athlete and decided to become a director. But the guy was not accepted to the directing department and he had to enter the St. Petersburg Theater Academy at the acting department.
Carier start
Kirill Pletnev, whose biography was such that the young man had to choose an acting path, after graduation was accepted into the Moscow Drama Theater, which was then led by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Around the same time, actor Kirill Pletnev tries his hand at cinema. But no one gives him the main roles: for a long time, the young man interrupted episodic appearances in the frame of the films "Deadly Force-5", "Bear Kiss", "Taiga. Survival Course. "
The roles of Kirill Pletnev, played before participating in the film "Saboteur", went unnoticed by the audience and critics. But the actor continues to act. In 2004, he plays a black archaeologist in one of the series of the film "Truckers-2." Then Pletnev gets a larger role in the famous series "Children of the Arbat" - the role of Fedka-co-operator. And, finally, in the same year, the actor successfully passes the casting in the historical action movie "Saboteur".
Kirill Pletnev: films. "Saboteur"
The film "Saboteur" was shot based on the book of A. Azolsky and was a huge success. Vivid characters, famous actors, famously twisted plot, fights and shootings - this film had everything, including patriotic notes in the plot.
In the film, actor Kirill Pletnev played the young man Alexei, who appropriated someone else's name in order to get into the reconnaissance troops, go through the war and reach Berlin. In Berlin, Alexei dreams of getting even with a certain Frau, who gave his father many years ago to SS officers. Because of this, the young man lost his family and wandered around the orphanages throughout his youth.
During the first combat missions, Alexei, who took the name Bobrikov, very close to his teammates - Leonid Filatov and captain Kaltygin. And although each of this trinity is completely different from each other, saboteurs manage to rally and carry out a lot of dangerous orders from the authorities.
Madhouse
Immediately after filming in "Saboteur," Pletnev receives an offer to play a major role in the Ukrainian detective series Madhouse.
Pletnev’s character is Senior Lieutenant
Mikhail Mishin, who is trying to figure out a very complicated story of the murder of a patient in a psychiatric clinic. In this he is helped by Svetlana, who works in the dispensary. Between the main characters a romance is set up that only interferes with the quick disclosure of a mystical and strange crime.
Kirill Pletnev, whose films are often related to military subjects or the work of law enforcement agencies, has put on police or military uniforms so many times during his acting career that he has recently been trying to avoid such roles.
"Under the shower of bullets"
But in the 2000s, the actor did not yet have a rich choice of roles, so he continued to act in military films. And soon he got the main role in the 4-episode action movie Under the Shower of Bullets. For the role of Lieutenant Besfamilny in this picture, Pletnev received the Golden Sword prize.
And again, on the screen, the actor appears as a brave scout, only this time he commands a whole reconnaissance platoon. The character of Pletnev himself has a difficult story: he was a homeless child in the past, he has no family and nothing to lose, so Nameless decides on the most desperate operations, and he always leaves the winner. Therefore, the lieutenant throughout the film is entrusted with the most difficult tasks.
Pletnev’s partners on the set were Jan Tsapnik (The Phantom), Tatyana Arntgolts (The Testament Marriage) and Vadim Andreev (Kadetstvo).
Recent projects of the actor
Recently, the roles of Kirill Pletnev in the cinema are becoming more serious. In 2009, the actor starred in the TV series "Desantura", where he played the main role together with Yegor Beroev ("The Turkish Gambit") and Anna Snatkina ("Saboteur-2").
In the same year, Pletnev appears in the comedy "Love-Carrot-2" with Kristina Orbakaite and Gosha Kutsenko, as well as in "Vacations in High Security" with Sergei Bezrukov.
Then the actor starred in a number of melodramas ("Faith. Hope. Love", "I am looking for you"), and in 2012 he plays a tanker in the military film "August. Eighth ”, dedicated to the events of 2008 in South Ossetia.
Finally, in 2016 the spectacular picture “Viking” with Daniil Kozlovsky in the lead role will be released. Kirill Pletnev will play in the historical film Oleg's retinue.
Kirill Pletnev: personal life
The actor in 2010 married Lydia Milyuzina. Milyuzina is also an actress. The girl can be seen in the films "The Vanished Empire" and "Goryunov". Kirill Pletnev, whose personal life at first was very successful, divorced his lover two years later, despite the fact that the couple has two sons.