In 1978, in Moscow, a boy was born in the family of an architect and engineer. He was given the name Maxim. No one in the family could have imagined that by the age of forty Maxim would star in more than fifty films. Maxim Radugin became a popular Russian theater and film actor.
Actor Biography
Grandfather-prosecutor, grandmother-surgeon, mother-architect and father-engineer - all assumed that the boy would follow in the footsteps of one of the family members. And at first it seemed that this would happen. At school, Max suffered from his own shyness. Sometimes, in order not to go to the board, the child lied that he had not learned a lesson. And he got deuces. Maxim graduated from high school and went to study at the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation. Two years passed before the guy realized that he did not want to do figures and wiring diagrams all his life. After graduating from the institute, Maxim decided to follow in the footsteps of his grandmother and applied to the Medical Academy. Love for children told him that he could become a wonderful pediatrician. Photos of Maxim Radugin in his youth can be seen in this article.
The decision to become an actor and other hobbies
At the Medical Academy, Maxim was enrolled in the second year, but he decided to choose his own path and passed the entrance exams at the Schukin Theater Institute. The skill of the actor Maxim Radugin taught Yevgeny Knyazev. While still a student, the young man took part in the filming of three projects, the most successful of which was the film “Break Point” by the Polish director Marek Novitsky. Maxim was approved for the role of Dushen, a tennis player from Croatia. For the best entry into the role, a talented artist began to play tennis. Subsequently, it even became his hobby. Max is also fond of free diving and is proud of his own breath holding record - an actor can stay under water for as long as five minutes. Maxim says that his father accustomed him to swimming - a former marine and a wonderful swimmer. Other hobbies of the actor are parachuting and motorbikes.
Scene
In 2004, Maxim Radugin graduated from the Theater Institute and began working at the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. As part of the troupe, Maxim tried various roles. The lyrical appearance allowed the young actor to brilliantly cope with the roles of the princes in the fairy tales “Cinderella” and “Flint”. In the same theater, Maxim appeared on the stage in the productions of “The Cavalier of Roses”, “Adriana Lecouvrer” and “Cyanide of Potassium ... with or without milk?” As a guest actor, Radugin took part in the production of Vladimir Ivanov's Imperial Hunt at the Vakhtangov Theater. Here he was given the role of Deribas.
Career in cinema
At the same time, Radugin begins to act in episodic roles in the series “Ruble Live”, “Adjutants of Love”, “From Flame and Light”. Gradually, the talent of the young actor is noticed and instructed to play more and more significant characters. The role of Ivan Ryabinin brought the actor the long-awaited popularity. As Maxim himself admits, he had to prepare a lot to participate in this film. For example, he even trained to juggle. The actor mastered this skill in a circus school in just three days.
Before filming in the film, Maxim Radugin had to rehearse a lot in the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard and learn an immense amount of text. Rehearsals lasted two months, and on the very first day of shooting Maxim had to demonstrate the art of juggling, as an understudy was not provided. The painting “Princess of the Circus” was warmly received by the audience. Maxim Radugin noticed and fell in love. Bright blue eyes, long curls and high growth did not leave anyone indifferent. The film "Princess of the Circus" was released in 2008.
Movie roles
Interesting for the actor was the project “God's Gift”. There were no difficult tricks as an auto mechanic, but there was a striptease. Frank dance to modest by nature Max was performed by professional choreographers in a real strip club. Many doubted that the actor would cope with the role, believing that Maxim’s romantic appearance could not belong to such an unpleasant person as auto mechanic Stas Neverov. But Radugin took this as a challenge and proved to everyone that he was ready to play any characters.
Over the next few years, Maxim Radugin was offered very different roles, and he pleased his fans with the professional performance of each of them. Chemistry teacher in the series "Ranetki", the image of a ballet dancer in the project "Doctor Tyrsa", work in the serial film "Closed School" as Cyril - all these roles show the versatility of the stage giftedness of Radugin. In historical paintings, Maxim is no less convincing - he appeared in the project of Vladimir Bortko “Peter the Great. Testament ”in the role of the favorite of Empress Catherine, Willim Mons. In subsequent years, the actor plays central characters in several successful projects and his career, like fame, goes up.
Actor's family
Maxim’s personal life also develops successfully. Arriving at a disco at the Lenin Pedagogical Institute in search of a lover, Maxim met the beautiful Nelly. The girl danced amazingly and looked charming. Maxim fell in love with lightning speed, and young people began to meet. It turned out that Maxim and Nelly have a lot in common. For example, both love to read, and their favorite writer is Mikhail Bulgakov. Romantic meetings lasted almost six years and ended in a wedding in 2005. Maxim recalls how, as a student, he spent the last money from a scholarship to cafes and restaurants, but the lovers were in no hurry to marry, reasoning that it was first necessary to graduate. After the wedding, the newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Paris, and two years later the wife of Maxim Radugin gave him two charming children - the twins Anya and Sasha. It is interesting that a year earlier Maxim played the father of twins in the project “God's Gift”.
Radugin became a wonderful father, he didn’t have a soul in kids, bathed and fed them, while continuing to work in cinema. Anya and Alexander took over his hobby from tennis from his father and successfully deal with it. Maxim also carries children to swimming classes.
Children of Maxim Radugin
Five years after the birth of the twins, Maxim became a father again - a daughter with a fabulous name Amelia appeared in the family. The happy father certainly wanted to attend the birth to support his wife. The actor spends a lot of time with his children, engaged in their development and just getting a lot of joy from communicating with them. Relations between spouses remain strong and quivering.
Actor now
Radugin eschews publicity and does not publicize the details of his private life. Today, Maxim Radugin plays mainly the main roles in large projects. He is sure that the secret of his acting success is that he complements the character of each character with his own personality traits. Thus, it seems to be akin to the performed role.