Dmitry Persin is a famous domestic theater and film actor. In creative circles, he is well known as a musician, was a laureate of a vocal competition in Warsaw, dedicated to the personality of the famous Russian artist and bard Vladimir Semenovich Vysotsky. In this article we will talk about his biography and work.
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Persin was born in Novosibirsk in 1963. When I was in school, I was fond of various sports: water polo, boxing, mountaineering. In those years, a passion for music appeared. In high school, Dmitry Persin began to compose poems and songs.
When he graduated from high school, he was drafted into the army. He served in Kamchatka in the border troops. Dmitry Persin himself later recalled that in those years he did not think about his acting career at all.
Once the part in which he served, spotted a Korean plane that crossed the airspace of the Soviet Union. It was a loud and scandalous story. As an encouragement, he and his colleagues received a referral to higher education. On the list that he was offered were GITIS and VGIK, but Persin did not even think about what could become an actor.
Education
Returning to civilian life, the hero of our article entered the branch of the Kiev Institute of National Economy in Krivoy Rog. After graduating, he began his career as deputy chief accountant of the carpet factory in Domodedovo.
Creative nature, which manifested itself in school, required self-realization. Soon Dmitry Evgenievich Persin begins to participate in various musical contests of the author’s song. In 1988, he even won the Warsaw festival dedicated to Vysotsky.
Creative career
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Persin finally decides to connect his future destiny with creativity. In 1992, he got a job as a manager in a production center, founded by Igor Matvienko. Parallel to GITIS. Studying at the department of pop directing. The creation of the musical group “Numbers”, which he himself led, dates back to the same period. In 1999, their first album was released. Persin sings in the style of chanson.
In the early 2000s, the hero of our article comes in popularity. In 2004, he became the voice of Chanson Radio, and the next year released his second album in his career. It goes under the name "Where are you." The musical The Comrade Beast is put on his music.
Acting Debut
In the movie, actor Dmitry Persin first appears in 1999. He was invited to play a major role in the Israeli film "The Dots". But due to the military situation, the shooting never began. The only result of this experience was that Dmitry’s data was in the catalogs of Russian acting agencies.
Then he first appeared on the stage. Director Pavel Ursul, having learned that Persina has a cycle of White Guard romances, wants to use one of the songs in her play "Chapaev and Void" based on Pelevin’s novel, which he was just starting to work on. As a result of this collaboration, Persin himself receives an offer to play one of the roles in this production.
The actor played the first role on the big screen in the film "Third of February" directed by Natalia Mitroshina. He played the captain of the NKVD living in a communal picture. It was a picture based on Harms' works. In it, the siloviki flirts with a neighbor, drinks with her husband and feeds her son with sweets. In the morning he goes to work, where in the cells he tortures people.
The film itself was shot in the early 2000s, but it was released only a few years later under the name Fall to Heaven.
Movie roles
In the early years, Dmitry Persin in films got small and episodic roles. He appears in the paintings "Late dinner with ...", "Russian Amazons." He plays in the series "At the corner of the Patriarchs 3", "Stiletto", "The best city of the Earth."
Despite the fact that at forty the directors offered him tiny roles, he was not at all upset. Dmitry himself admitted that he took every opportunity to appear on the screen as a gift, a chance to show his creative nature.
Over time, he gained the experience he lacked. Film sets have become a good professional school for him. Directors appreciated this zeal and diligence.
In 2005, Persin has already received one of the main roles in the film "Man of War". He plays the intelligence chief of one of the partisan detachments in the West of Belarus during the war with the Nazis.
Total played in several dozen films. Among his most notable works, it is worth noting the buyer Pyotr Andreevich in the tragicomic series "Truckers 2", the head of the prison in Pyotr Buslov’s drama "Boomer. Second film", the host of the foundation in Boris Khlebnikov’s melodramatic comedy "Free Swimming", the notary in the series "The Milkmaid from Khatsapetovka ", Klim Svintsov in the comedy of Aleksey Kiryushchenko" The Adventures of a Soldier Ivan Chonkin ", as well as Major Kultigu in the family drama Alexander Laszlo and Cecile Henry" Yarik ", ensign Chechev in the crime serial drama" Healer ".
Last years
Persin passed away completely unexpectedly. He died in 2009 at the age of 46. He did not stop acting in films until the end of his life. In the year of his death, several films appeared on the screens at once, in which he starred. This is "Anna Karenina", "A few ghostly days", "Village romance", "Annushka", "Precinct".
In 2011, the premiere of the military drama Nikita Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun 2". In it, the hero of our article appears in the image of an officer of the People’s Commissariat of State Security of the Soviet Union.
The cause of death of actor Dmitry Persin is a tumor found in the brain. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.