Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich for the first time truly became known to the Russian public thanks to the popular detective series “Streets of Broken Lights”. How did the career of a talented Petersburg artist begin and in what projects is he involved today?
Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich: family, early years
Alexander was born in 1961 in the Leningrad region. Little is known about his father - he left the family when the boy had not yet gone to school. Lykov’s mother worked all her life at the optical-mechanical plant.
Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich at a young age passed a difficult test: the boy unsuccessfully fell from a swing, and doctors predicted disability for the rest of his life. However, for several years the young man performed strengthening exercises for the back and still managed to get back on his feet. Alexander did not stop there: he continued to play sports intensely and even became the owner of a black karate belt.
Then Lykov went to get an education in a construction school, but constantly felt that he was not doing his job. Alexander was looking for himself for several years, until he got into a theater studio and realized that he had found his calling.
Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich: filmography. The first work in the cinema
The future artist received acting education at LGITMiK. Then Alexander Anatolyevich Lykov, as a decent citizen, served the prescribed term in the Soviet Army, and in 1985 he was accepted into the troupe of the theater named after Lensoviet.
For the first time, Alexander appeared in the cinema in 1981: he was assigned the role of a bully in the short film Mikhail Nikitin's "Other merrymaking and fun." However, after the army, the actor was offered only episodic characters: he starred in the fairy tale “Little Baba Yaga”, the dramas “Cold March” and “One Sunday”.
In 1989, Lykov appeared in the film adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, where Olga Cabo and Grigory Gladiy also starred . And also the actor played a bandit in the comedy of Yuri Mamin's “Whiskers”.
90s movies
Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich has the so-called "negative" charm, so the directors often trust him in the role of "bad guys." So the 90s were marked for the actor by a whole string of thieves and criminal characters: “Under the mask of the Black Cat”, “The circus burned down, and the clowns fled.” Lykov also played a gay patient, a psychiatric hospital - in a word, the artist has something to remember.
It was all the more unexpected to see Lykov as the seasoned mentor Vladimir Kazantsev, whom he appeared in the legendary series Streets of Broken Lights. Alexander had a major role in this project, and he attracted even more attention than his project partners
Alexey Nilov and Sergey Selin.
Lykov in "Streets of Broken Lights" got the role of Casanova, a desperate womanizer and womanizer. This is despite the fact that the actor married only once in his life and still lives with his legal wife. The series about St. Petersburg operatives was incredibly popular, however, Lykov took part only in two seasons of the film.
Recent projects with the participation of the actor
The 2000s were professionally more successful for Lykov. The 21st century began for the actor in episodic roles in the TV series Agent of National Security and Gangster Petersburg. In the first draft, Alexander played a psychopathic killer, and in the second, the cop again.
But already in 2001, the artist was invited to the main role in the comedy series "Medics", where Daniil Belykh also starred . Then the main role goes to Lykov in the series "Merry Company" and "Dancer". He also plays Dean in the television movie "Plot" with Sergei Bezrukov. But the most interesting projects awaited the artist ahead.
In the action-packed military film "Saboteur", Lykov played the role of a Soviet spy nicknamed Cech, whose identity was so classified that no one even knew the real name of this person. In Bondarchuk’s “9th Company”, the actor played an explosive player, and in the “Death of the Empire” Khotinenko - the director.
In 2005, Lykov played the main anti-hero in the spectacular film “The Turkish Gambit”, where, in addition to him, Alexander Baluev, Yegor Beroev and Victor Verzhbitsky also starred . In 2007, the artist again returned to the role of Cech in the continuation of the film "Saboteur".
The main roles went to the actor in the films “Krechinsky Polonaise”, “It's Hard to Be a Macho”, “Version” and “No Third.” In 2016, two films with the participation of Lykov will be released immediately: the criminal film "Cuba" and the melodrama "About Love" by Vladimir Bortko.
Personal life
If you look for a model of devotion and constancy among the actors, then this will be Alexander Lykov. Alexander’s wife is named Alla and has been in this status for over 30 years. The couple raised two children.
The first son of Lykov, Matvey, first tried to distance himself from the acting profession. He graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages at one of St. Petersburg universities, and at the same time worked as a model. Suddenly, all this resulted in a serious career, and the young man became the face of the Gucci brand.
Apparently, there’s no escape from acting fate, because just recently, Lykov Jr. played the main role in Indar Dzhendubaev’s fantasy “He is a Dragon”.