The biography of Alexander Mikhailov begins with his birth in October 1944 in the small Transbaikal village of Olovyannoe. His childhood fell on the post-war hungry time. The future artist did not have a father, only his mother raised him - Stepanida Naumovna. She did everything so that her Sasha would grow up to be a good person. She had to undertake the most difficult work: to be a nurse, a laundress, a dishwasher, to carry sleepers and bricks. But it was she who managed to instill in her son a sense of beauty. Stepanida Naumovna, despite her difficult share, loved and often sang folk songs and ditties, while accompanying herself on the balalaika.
From a very early age, Sasha did not just dream about the sea, he raved about them and wanted to connect his life with the Pacific Ocean. After graduating from grade 7, he convinces his mother to move to Vladivostok. His only desire is to enter a sailor. Only by age, he does not go there and enters a locksmith in a vocational school. After graduation, the labor biography of Alexander Mikhailov begins. Initially, he works as an apprentice minder on the Yaroslavl diesel-electric ship, and having become skilled in the profession, he switches to the Kurgan diesel-electric ship. For two years, the future actor plowed the seas of the Pacific Ocean, he even went to Alaska in the Gulf of Bristol. Only mother was against his sea voyages, and at her insistence, Sasha went to work as an electrician at one of the factories. And who knows what would be the biography of Alexander Mikhailov if he didn’t accidentally get to the play “Ivanov”, which was staged by the Student Theater of Miniatures of the Far Eastern University. It was this production that turned his life upside down; he “fell ill” with the theater.
A year later (1965), student Alexander Mikhailov appeared at the acting department of the Institute of Arts (course of Vera Sundukova). The actor, whose biography was subsequently associated only with theater and cinema, received a diploma in 1969 and entered the Gorky Primorsky Drama Theater. His debut was the play Crime and Punishment, where he played Raskolnikov. A year later, Mikhailov transferred to the academic drama theater of the city of Saratov. There, for 10 years, he successfully plays roles from the classical repertoire. This is Konstantin in the play “Children of Vanyushin”, Prince Myshkin in “The Idiot” by Dostoevsky, in the play “Last Summer in Chulimsk” he plays Shamanov. In 1980, the actor moved to Moscow and began working at the Yermolova Theater. But the peak of his theatrical successes fell on the period from 1985 to 2006, when he was already working in the troupe of the Maly Theater.
The biography of Alexander Mikhailov as a film actor begins in 1973 with the film "This is stronger than me." The first notable work was the movie “Coming”, where he played the village driver Fedor. The real role was brought to him by the role of Pavel in the film "Guys," but he received popular love for his roles in the films "The Dormitory Is Given to the Lonely" and "Love and Pigeons." In the 90s, the actor performs in concert programs, he sings romances, Russian folk and Cossack songs. In 2006, Alexander Yakovlevich leaves the staff of the theater, he begins to play in entreprise performances, where his partners are Inna Churikova, Igor Sklyar, Zinaida Sharko and Nina Usatova.
With his first wife, Vera, the actor met while still studying at the institute. They got married in 1968. And a year later they had a son, Konstantin. Today he leads music on radio. In 1991, Mikhailov gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Nastya, currently a student at VGIK. In the early 2000s, he decides to leave his wife. His new wife is Oksana, today she heads the actor’s production center. And in 2002, when he was already 58 years old, another daughter is born - Akilina. Alexander Mikhailov himself, a biography, the children of the actor - all this is somehow connected with creativity, because even the younger Akilina is happy to sing folk songs. And he has nothing to regret: about 60 roles in the theater, in the movie - 70 roles, and we hope that this list is not yet closed.