Oleg Nikolaevich Protasov is a Russian actor. On his track record there are 31 cinematographic works, including the series “Zone”, “Cop Wars-8”, and “Pyatnitsky. Chapter Two. " The first movie roles were played by him in 2004. Films with Oleg Protasov belong to the genres of detective, drama, crime. Today he combines the work of an actor and a director, performs songs in the style of chanson. The most successful career period is 2012-2014. According to the zodiac sign Sagittarius. At the time of writing, the actor was 50 years old.
Biography
Oleg Nikolaevich Protasov was born in the village of Pankrushikhe (Altai Territory). Later, his family settled in Novosibirsk, and then moved to Barnaul. After serving military service, the future actor entered the Simferopol Theater School, which he graduated in 1993. In the mid-1990s, he ended up in one of the correctional colonies located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where he remained until 1998, serving a sentence for theft. In the early 2000s he settled in Moscow.
In 2005, Oleg Nikolaevich Protasov presented his solo album to the audience. While working in the cinema project "Zone", where the actor played the role of Major Shkvernik, he advised the creators of the film on the life and customs of prisoners, since he himself was once one of them.
In 2012, actor Oleg Nikolayevich Protasov spoke in an interview about his life and work.
About arrival in Moscow
The future actor arrived in the capital on one of the winter days of 2002, when the temperature dropped to minus twenty-eight degrees, dressed in summer and with 2000 rubles in his pocket. The actor then represented Moscow as the only city in Russia where success can be achieved. At first, Oleg Nikolaevich Protasov spent the night in the subway, and in the afternoon spent time near Taganka, not far from the Vysotsky Museum. A little later, he settled in the basement, where more than a dozen builders settled.
About the first movie job
First, the actor appeared in the program "Show of the Downed Pilot" as a member of the crowd. At this show, I received an invitation to the Caprice Salon project, where he managed to ask a question to the hero of that issue of the program, singer Mikhail Shufutinsky. Then he played one of the roles for the TV show "Big Wash" with Andrei Malakhov.
The first cinematic roles of actor Oleg Protasov, whose biography is considered in this material, were played by him in the series "The Moscow Saga". At first he appeared in him as a thin soldier, and after he gained several tens of kilograms, he performed another character in the same cinematic project of the historical genre. A few years later I received an invitation to play a major role in the film "Zone". According to Oleg, more than a hundred people took part in the casting for this role, the creators of the project for several months could not choose an actor until they decided on it.
Films with Oleg Protasov
In 2006, the actor appeared in the role of Chugur in the film by Pyotr Buslov “Boomer: The Second Film” - a continuation of the film “Boomer”, where the viewer follows the fate of Konstantin Ogorodnikov. The main character of this story, after being released from prison, tries to start life anew, but before that he must fulfill the last will of his dead friend, who asked him to find a girl of seventeen years old named Dasha.
New roles
In 2014, the actor appeared in the role of Pavlinov in the TV series "Cop Wars-8," where the main character, Roman Shilov, despite his transfer to another police department, continues to expose werewolves in uniform with the help of his faithful comrades - Yevgeny Ivanov and Pavel Arnautov.
In the same year appeared in the film "Three Stars" - a drama about the brother and sister of the Belyankins. The main characters, Slava and Marina, as children, treated each other without love, always and everywhere competed, trying to attract the attention of their mother, who raised them alone: her husband had long gone from her to another. When the heroes of this story are over 30, a notification comes about the death of their father. Marina and Slava inherit a small hotel located off the coast of the Black Sea. Soon they will find out that there is a third heir, their brother Max, a boy of 15 years old.
A year earlier, actor Oleg Protasov once again appeared in the film of the criminal genre - the series "Under the Sight". This story draws viewers into the everyday life of one police station at a time when they set up surveillance cameras. The police officers who are here are not enthusiastic about this innovation, because now they will have to talk and behave politely and in no way exert physical pressure on him, which, in their opinion, will only complicate their work.
Finally
Oleg Protasov admits that playing a negative character is much more difficult than playing a positive one, because you need to make the viewer really hate this character. According to him, if people react in this way, it only means that they have done a good job. The actor complains in 2012 that he just played a positive hero, and he wants to portray in the frame a character from a movie about the war, which the audience wants to be like.
Oleg Protasov calls Peter Stein his teacher , thanks to whom he learned acting classes from Vladimir Konkin. The mentor, who died at age 59, always supported the actor, reassured when he had a hard time. Oleg Protasov, summing up his interview, spoke out that acting needs to be constantly improved.