Jan Tsapnik, whose filmography and life path is interesting to millions of fans, has played in many films and TV shows. This artist has a special gift to make any, even a small role, memorable and vivid. Each of his appearance on the screen attracts the attention of viewers. Actor Jan Tsapnik has his own approach to working on the images of his characters. You will learn more about the secrets of his skill from this article.
Childhood
Jan Tsapnik, whose biography is highlighted in the article, was born in 1968, on August 15, in the city of Irkutsk. His father - Yuri Tsapnik - actor of the Academic Drama Theater. Orlova, people's artist of Russia, mother - Valentina Tsapnik - a professional athlete, was involved in athletics. The childhood of the future actor passed in the city of Chelyabinsk, where the boy’s dad moved with his family in 1970. Like all children of actors, Ian spent a lot of time in the theater where his father played. The boy’s debut on stage took place at the age of seven, he took part in the production of “We Do Not Change Patronymic” in the role of Anosov’s son. Over time, the future actor replayed all the children's roles that were in the repertoire of the theater.
According to the memoirs of Yan Yurievich, in his childhood he had little free time. He attended a music school in the violin class and at the same time went in for sports under the guidance of handball masters. By evening, the boy was very tired. In school, he had to work as a cook. Jan Tsapnik passed practical training in the vegetable, meat and confectionery shops.
Youth
Jan graduated from high school in 1985. He planned to enter one of the theatrical universities in Moscow, but at a handball training session he received a serious injury and sunstroke, missed his graduation evening and all entrance exams due to illness . The guy managed to submit documents only to the Sverdlovsk Theater Institute. After the first year, Jan Tsapnik, whose biography is rich in happy coincidences, went on tour with the local theater as a stage. One of the artists of the troupe became ill, and Yan was invited to replace him in the play. After the unexpected debut of a novice actor, director Mikhail Ershov noticed and offered him a role in the melodrama "Looking for a Friend of Life". Filming took place in Leningrad.
Then Ian was drafted into the army. He served in the airborne troops, in the reconnaissance battalion. The future actor has visited Afghanistan, Germany, Poland. However , the Airborne Forces Day Tsapnik does not celebrate. He believes that he is old for events of this kind.
After demobilization in 1989, Yan Tsapnik went to Leningrad. At the Lenfilm building, he met an old acquaintance who advised him to transfer from Sverdlovsk University to a local theater institute. The future artist liked this idea. Jan received a diploma in higher education in the city on the Neva, after graduating from the Leningrad Academy of Theater, Music and Cinema named after N. Cherkasova.
Theater roles
In 1992, the actor entered the service of the Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G.A. Tovstonogov. Here he was involved in the production of “Family Portrait with Outsiders” in the role of Victor, played the Swiss in the play “Mother Courage”, Kovel in “The Tradesman in the Nobility”, Temur in “Sunny Night”. The actor appeared on the stage in the productions of Macbeth and Costume.
Career in cinema
Ian Tsapnik began to receive regular invitations to shoot in films since 2000. He was made popular by the role in the multi-part crime tape The Brigade, where the actor played businessman Arthur. This role went to Yan Yurievich quite by accident. He caught the eye of the director Alexei Sidorov, who saw in a somewhat plump artist a suitable plot type. The actor invented the image of the victim of the raids, Arthur himself. The result was an ambiguous and very interesting hero, which was remembered by the audience.
Variety of roles
Jan Tsapnik, whose filmography was enriched by notable and vivid works, became a very popular artist. He does not focus on one role. The gift of reincarnation allows a talented actor to reliably portray any hero. Ian played the role of investigator Korotkov Alexei in the serial film “Mongoose”, the journalist Igor Nikiforov in the film “Gangster Petersburg”, the inventor Anatoly Smyslov in the comedy “Weekend Romance”, the rabbi in the film “Out of Nowhere with Love, or Funky Funeral”. The actor portrayed Captain Tikhomirov in the film “Under the shower of bullets”, teacher Boris Izotov in the film “Ochkarik”, playwright Andrei Shvedov in the melodrama “Family Hearth”, businessman Andrei Evgenievich in the film “Honey Love”, writer Vadim in the comedy drama “Errors of Love” and many other characters.
Secrets of Mastery
The actor especially succeeds in images whose life details he invents himself. Tsapnik believes that the task of the artist is to be an active participant in the creative process that is born on the set. Often Jan comes up with a biography of the hero, which remains behind the scenes, but is necessary for the artist in order to feel the character. For example, for the image of Major Wernigor in Vesky Evidence for Murder, Tsapnik came up with a complex, unusual fate, which is not spelled out in the script of the film, but is a motive for the extraordinary acts committed by his hero. The role of the veterinarian Vanechka in the television series "Witching Love" turned out to be inimitable because Ian offered the director several interesting solutions that make this character more reliable. In the comedy film Heartbreakers, Tsapnik played one of the adventurers, Maxim Smirnov. This hero becomes a hostage of circumstances, forced to participate in an enterprise that is unusual for his honest nature. The role of Smirnov was played by Tsapnik on the resistance, since he himself is a fan of various kinds of practical jokes. However, Ian considers this work one of the best in his cinematic career. The actor tries to instill a soul in his characters, to understand the motives of their behavior, and this professional technique leads to brilliant results.
Voice behind the scene
Jan Tsapnik, whose filmography includes more than sixty roles, is actively involved in voicing cartoons. He took part in the work on the animated films Hercules, Finding Nemo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Adventures in the Emerald City. The voice of Jan is spoken by the heroes of some foreign films and television series, such as Die, But Not Now, Real McCoy, Travels to Parallel Worlds.
Personal life
The actor met his future wife at the age of 30 at a symposium of gynecologists. Ian mistook the girl for a Japanese woman, all evening trying to communicate with her in broken English. It was a big surprise for him that the girl not only speaks Russian well, but also has a very rare name for the Japanese - Galina. The chosen one of the actor by nationality was Kalmyk. She was brought up in an intelligent family. Her parents worked as teachers at Kalmyk State University. The artist began to regularly meet with his chosen one and soon married her. Jan Tsapnik, whose family consists of a charming wife and daughter Lisa born in 2001, is very happy in this marriage. He is proud of his wife, who is engaged in oriental studies and recently received the title of Ph.D., loves her daughter, attending one of the most prestigious gymnasiums in the country. Zapnik Yang, whose photo can be found on the pages of various publications, admits that he adores his family. In communication, the actor is a very nice person, completely not obsessed with his popularity.