Alexander Yatsenko is a famous domestic theater and film actor. Recently, he often plays in popular films and series. In 2016, he became the owner of the prestigious Russian film award Nika.
Actor Biography
Alexander Yatsenko was born in Volgograd in 1977, on May 22. He graduated from high school there. He began to receive higher education at a state institute in Volgograd, at the faculty of radiophysics. But he quickly realized that the exact sciences were not his specialization.
Therefore, he dropped out of school and moved to Tambov. In Tambov State University named after Derzhavin he entered the director's and theater department. He took an active part in student productions.
Since 2000, he studied at GITIS, in the creative workshop of the People's Artist of the USSR Mark Zakharov.
Movie debut
For the first time on the screen, Alexander Yatsenko appeared while still a student. In 2003, he played in the comedy drama of Bakhtiyor Khudoynazarov "Chic". This film was a free retelling of Ray Bradbury's classic short story, “A Wonderful Cream Ice Cream Costume.”
The main characters are three friends from a small seaside town. One of them is nicknamed the Pin and is played by Alexander Yatsenko. Once they see a chic branded suit in the window of an expensive store. For them, it becomes the meaning of life and obsession. It seems to them that if they get it, their life will radically change, and all dreams will come true.
The first cinematic experience was considered successful, but the hero of our article failed to finish GITIS. A few months before the final exams, he was expelled for a fight.
But I did not have to grieve for a long time. In 2005, his work in the comedy drama by Andrei Proshkin was awarded an award for Best Actor at the prestigious Moscow Premiere Festival.
And in 2006, already at Kinotavr, Yatsenko, along with Rinata Litvinova, received awards for the best acting in Alexei Balabanov’s melodrama “It Doesn’t Hurt”. This is a story about three friends who have everything for a successful life - talent, energy, skill. Not only money. They are in an expensive house to offer their design services to the mistress Natelle, whom life has already bored, despite her youth. Misha, the character of Yatsenko, helps her again to feel a taste for life. But the future is not as cloudless as it seems at first.
Actor of the year
In 2012, Alexander Yatsenko was at the peak of fame. The actor of the year he was named the authoritative magazine GQ.
At that time, he was remembered by the audience in the drama of Nikolai Khomerika “The Boomerang Hearts”, the historical drama by Andrei Proshkin “The Horde”, the comedy of Boris Khlebnikov “Until Night Separates”, and the mystical detective series by Alexander Kott “The Other Side of the Moon”.
In 2016, the actor was awarded the prize for Best Actor for his work in Alexander Kott's drama Insight. He played a young man named Pavel Zuev, who suddenly lost his sight. He will learn to live in this world from scratch. In this he is helped by a married nurse Nadezhda, played by Agrippina Steklova.
One of his last roles is work in Boris Khlebnikov's drama "Arrhythmia". For her, he received a prize for best actor at the Kinotavr-2, as well as at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. This is a story about a talented doctor who is undergoing a personality crisis. He hurries from one patient to another, trying to save everyone. And at this time his family and career fade into the background. His wife files for a divorce, a new head doctor comes to the hospital with methods and requirements incomprehensible to the protagonist. At Kinotavr, this picture also received an audience sympathy prize.
Personal life
Little is known about the family status of Alexander Yatsenko. The personal life of the actor is developing successfully. He is married. Her husband’s name is Maria, she works as a make-up artist. In May 2015, their first-born son was born.