The popular comedian, parody master and favorite of the public Maxim Galkin comes from a kind of military high-ranking officials and scientists. Grandfather, Grigory Pragin, led the tank brigade, a war hero. Father, Alexander Galkin, is Colonel General. Mom is a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. The older brother was also a military man, but changed his occupation and became a successful businessman. It was in such a serious family that Galkin was born and raised. When communicating, it immediately becomes clear that Maxim is an educated and intelligent person.
Maxim Galkin, biography, personal life, children
Born in the Moscow Region on 06/18/1976. Soon the family moved to Germany, where the Galkins lived for several years, after which they moved to Odessa, where Maxim studied at elementary school.
Military families are doomed to permanent relocation, so they moved from Odessa to Buryatia, the city of Ulan-Ude, located about 100 km from Lake Baikal, where Maxim often visited. From Ulan-Ude, the Galkins again returned to Moscow.
From an early age, Maxim noticed the ability to brilliantly imitate the school principal, teachers and classmates. The parodist himself says that he inherited this talent from his maternal grandmother, who parodyed her neighbors very accurately and ridiculously.
The artist’s first successful performance was at school, when he was in the sixth grade, then Maxim arranged a puppet show in which he voiced the characters in different voices.
Galkin's early hobbies
In childhood, the future showman had a lot of hobbies. At first he wanted to become a zoologist, he studied the characteristics of various animals, their habitats, but after seeing a pigeon in a biology lesson in the context, he suddenly changed his mind about zoology. Then Maxim began to try himself in literary art, which determined his future admission to the linguistic faculty of Moscow State University.
Galkin's first serious performance in the genre of parody took place in his student years on the stage of the theater of Moscow State University.
The beginning of the creative path
The professional work of Maxim Galkin began with a performance in the Debuts program, where the young parodist brilliantly imitated the voices of famous politicians: Vladimir Putin, V. Zhirinovsky and Boris Yeltsin.
After another successful performance, Galkin's career growth rapidly went up, he was offered an acting position in the Variety Theater. And in the year 99, his first year and a half joint tour began with Mikhail Zadornov, who called Maxim his successor.
Maxim Galkin: height and weight
The growth of the popular Russian showman is 178 cm, weight - 75 kg.
The actor's athletic physique, height and weight of Maxim Galkin are harmoniously combined.
Maxim is a good family man who has been married for quite some time.
Personal life
In 2001, Maxim first invited Alla to a dance, this happened at the birthday of their mutual friend in the Metropol. They met shortly before, at the Slavic Bazaar, where they were introduced to each other by Philip Kirkorov, who at that time was still officially married to Pugacheva. Since 2005, Galkin and the famous singer began to live in a civil marriage, and 10 years after meeting they legalized their relationship and got married.
In 2013, the couple had twins - Lisa and Harry, parents had to resort to surrogate motherhood.
Maxim claims that he is very happy in marriage with Pugacheva, says that she is his real “second half”, although much older. According to Galkin, the singer is very young both at heart and physically, she feels and behaves much younger than her "passport" age. The couple practically does not have quarrels, they understand and complement each other perfectly, and they don’t care about what people say.
Maxim’s career on television
Galkin’s career on television began with the work of the host of the popular program “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” (previously "Oh, lucky"), where Maxim took the place of Dmitry Dibrov. In July of the same year, at the festival "Slavic Bazaar", the first "solo album" of the artist took place. From this moment, an active concert activity of the showman begins.
Galkin has one significant difference from other artists - he never used the services of producers.
Galkin’s creative growth was very rapid, and shortly after the start of his career, he was already at one “height” with such eminent artists as Yu. Galtsev, V. Vinokur and others.
The first experience of Galkin in the role of a singer was a duet performance with A. Pugacheva of the song "Whether or not to be."
Also, the parodist took part in the programs "Christmas Meetings", "New Year's Eve". He was the host of the programs "Dancing with the Stars", "Dandy Shows", "Voice", where he professionally performed opera aria, etc.
From early childhood, Maxim showed great potential for creativity. The inclinations of his acting skills were also visible. The parodist himself says that he is very grateful to his parents, especially his father, who, despite his position, did not interfere with his son in doing what he loved. As a result, Maxim Galkin became one of the most popular artists in Russia, a master of parody and an excellent actor!