Quite a lot has been written about this artist, which is not surprising, because his fate is really extraordinary, and he is a very interesting, peculiar and talented person. His name is Alexander Rapoport.
The difficult fate of the Russian intelligentsia
The fate of many talented people, especially those who lived in the CIS, can be said to be interesting, rich and diverse. Many, for example, were serving sentences due to beliefs or slander. Of course, it would be better to avoid such a variety, but in Russia it happened so that many of the best representatives of the nation were in prison. Alexander Rapoport spent 4 years there.
Decades to the dream
The amazing originality of his fate is not in this. Born on April Fools' Day on April 1, 1947, he did not become a comedian, but became a great actor. From childhood, he was artistic, gifted with excellent musical abilities and voice. Of course, Rapoport raved about the scene. His fate has been interesting since his birth in Bulgaria. Soon he was transported to Leningrad, which he loved and loves unconscious. As long as he remembers himself, he had two loves - the stage and Leningrad.
Alexander Rapoport came to the scene as an already established and successful representative of a completely different specialty. He graduated from the Medical Institute in Perm with a degree in Psychiatry. It was in this industry that he achieved considerable success abroad. But closer to the Millennium, fate gave him a chance to make his dream a reality, and he took advantage of it. In less than 14 years, from 2000 to the present day, he has achieved such popularity in the theater, cinema and on television that not all professionals manage to get in their entire lives.
Versatility of talent
The giftedness of this person is versatile. It is safe to say that if he had not been a sought-after psychiatrist (he practices now), he would have become a top manager of a large corporation. In one interview, Alexander Rapoport talked about how he took a chance and, among the first few representatives of show business and emerging capitalists, began to drive a Mercedes, bought at an unbelievably high price. And, as he himself claims, he reimbursed the cost of the car, bought on credit, "easily and beautifully." He rented it to a movie studio. In general, the best source of information about Alexander Rapoport is his own interviews. He has excellent speech, an interesting manner of speaking. This man is erudite and well-read, like most intelligent boys from theatrical families of that time. Rapoport has a charismatic appearance and professional ability to wield the attention of the interlocutor.
Hereditary determination to change fate
He has a very interesting fate. These are not commonplace phrases. Not many people entered the institute together with their own father and lived in a dormitory with him in the same room.
Alexander Rapoport, as he himself says, has been subjected to prohibitions by his parents and his wife (and he married at the age of 18) of doing what he loves — acting as his whole life.
His father, a drama artist who did not achieve noticeable successes in this field, literally forced his son to go to a medical institute to the department of psychiatry.
The pursuit of professionalism in everything
The integrity of Rapoport's nature, his love for the profession of an artist is evidenced by the fact that he never, even in the most difficult times, when he had to just make money for a piece of bread, did not forget about it. At any opportunity, he took acting lessons. For example,
Mark Rozovsky. And Alexander received a theater education in New York, at the
Lee Strasberg School studio, as significant and popular as our
Shchukin school, having already starred in several films, the first of which was “Medicine for the Dead”, 2000 release. To say that actor Rapoport Alexander burst into the cinema - to say nothing.
After the 28-episode film “My Prechistinka” directed by Tokarev and Gladunko, who received the Grand Prix at the international competition “Together”, the artist became incredibly popular. To star in a year and a half in 23 films and series could only such an extraordinary, memorable, efficient and talented person like Alexander Rapoport. His filmography includes more than a hundred works. All his roles are very good, the actor is remembered, his participation in the film is a kind of guarantee of a high quality picture.
Jack of all trades
In addition to the theatrical stage and cinema, which brought him popularity and relevance, television and radio occupy a large place in Rapoport's life. As the host of several popular programs, such as “Men's Territory”, “School of the Mind”, “I Love, I Can't”, where his talent and 40 years of experience as a psychotherapist are fully involved, he became known as the one who in 15 minutes can completely change the understanding of the interlocutor. It is known that a talented person is talented in everything. Rapoport succeeds. He has beautiful photographs taken by him in different parts of our planet, several discs that are readily sold out. It seems that everything that this person touches carries the stamp of eccentricity.
For example, his emigration - Alexander simply crossed the state border on foot. But this is not due to originality, just the situation was hopeless. The escape from the country was forced because he was facing another arrest. The reason for the first detention was the refusal to diagnose “schizophrenia” to healthy people in order to isolate them from society. Not everyone could act like Alexander Rapoport. The biography of this person can serve as a topic for writing a book, about which the actor himself dreams and himself admits that he will never do this.
"Through hardship to the stars"
After crossing the border, tribulations began in search of work. He traveled to many countries of Europe and in 1990 arrived in America, where he also was in poverty at first, but after listening to a course at the university and confirming his professional conformity, he gradually realized the “American dream”. Held as a psychotherapist, he returned to his youthful dream, and now everything worked out. Rapoport is aristocratic, refined, handsome and talented. He lives simultaneously in two countries - he works in Russia, his home and his beloved family are in the USA. According to him, right now he is happier than ever.