This spectacular man is familiar to many Russian viewers from the TV series "Ranetki" (2008-2010), "Web" (2007), "The second uprising of Spartacus" (2012- …) and many others. Vitaly Abdulov is called a supporting actor, because there is not a single leading role in his portfolio yet. However, he believes that everything is ahead.
In his filmography there are many interesting films and TV series, and the best of them are the picture "The Bourne Supremacy" (2004) and the TV series "Heavy Sand" (2008), "Twins" (2004), "Travelers" (2007).
Biography
The future actor was born in 1970 in the City of Glazov, which is located in Udmurtia. However, Vitaly considers Irkutsk to be his homeland, because he was very young, he was transported to this city, and his childhood passed there.
A strong boy went in for sports from an early age. She became tall early, and by older classes she grew up to 192 centimeters. Therefore, it is not surprising that he started playing basketball. He was a capable athlete and very soon he was already a member of the Irkutsk national team. However, a little later he realized that this was not what he would like to do, and left the team.
After leaving school, Vitaly was educated at the Irkutsk Power Engineering College and became a construction technician. Then he served in the army for two years, after which he returned home.
From that time on, his searches began: he did not want to work in his specialty, and at the same time he did not know what he wanted to do. He went through a lot of classes, starting with a construction worker, he was even an orderly and a bodyguard. This gave him a huge life experience and knowledge of people, which is so important for the acting profession.
Although at that time he did not even think about it and did not suspect that in a few years he would submit documents to the theater school. However, already in adulthood, when he was twenty-five years old, Abdulov began to study to be an actor in Irkutsk. It was then that he realized that this is what he wants to do.
He worked with pleasure, with drive, as if trying to catch up with lost time. At one of the educational performances, a director from Moscow saw him and advised him to go to study in the capital. Without hesitation, Vitaly packed his things and a few days later was already at the selection committee of GITIS. However, here luck did not smile at him, and for a moment it seemed that he had come in vain - he wasted time and nerves. Then the momentary weakness passed, and he directed his gaze towards the Moscow Art Theater School. Here he was accepted, and he studied with great pleasure from the capital's masters. In 2004, the young actor left the walls of the university.
Actor's career
Abdulov began acting in serials when he was still a student at the Moscow Art Theater. The young man was invited to episodic roles in the TV series "I am a doll" (2001), "Soldiers" (2004), "Citizen Chief" (2001) and others. An interesting episode was when he was invited to play the role of a lumberjack in the film adaptation of Shukshin's Tales.
Here he was on the same set with such celebrities as Lyudmila Gurchenko, Ada Rogovtseva, Marat Basharov, Andrey Panin, Viktor Sukhorukov, Gennady Nazarov and others.
Then a whole streak of roles began in his career, when his tall stature and serious appearance played a cruel joke on him: he was constantly invited to the roles of guards or military, and in contrast to this, there were the roles of law enforcement officers or bandits. He also played bodyguards, remembering his early years. And he even played a taxi driver in the German-American film The Bourne Supremacy. Here he worked on the same site with actors Matt Damon (the main role), Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Joan Allen and others.
However, these were all so insignificant episodes that there was no question of any fame of the actor. And in 2004 the series "Soldiers" was released, which immediately became popular. Abdulov played the role of Evseev here and coped with it remarkably. After this series, he began to receive invitations to more significant roles: the diesel operator in the action-packed film "The First After God" (2005), Boa in the TV series "Ticket to the Harem" (2006) Zagibailova in the film "Hot November" (2006).
Literally a couple of years later, having played a few more episodic roles, Abdulov got into the Ranetki project (2008-2010) - here he played the role of a physical education teacher. This gave him a lot of points in the acting rating. And the TV series "Kadestvo" (2006-2007) showed that Vitaly knows how to play not only bandits and security guards: he appeared in the form of the deputy mayor of the city.
As for the crime series, Abdulov was lucky to participate in the projects "Kamenskaya-4" (2005) and "Heavy Sand" (2008).
One of the popular projects, where the actor was filmed, was the series "The Second Uprising of Spartacus" (2012- …) about the years of the Great Patriotic War. The main character, whose name is Spartacus, is unjustly convicted and wants to restore his rights. A military pilot is organizing a real uprising in the Gulag against the order in the camp. Abdulov played in the series the serviceman Vasilyev.
From the last works of the actor, one can name roles in the TV series "The Other Side of Love" (2017), "Deadly Training" (2018) and "Moscow Does Not Exist" (2019).
Personal life
In his student years, Vitaly married his countrywoman from Irkutsk, and they had a daughter, Alisa. After Abdulov moved to Moscow, the couple divorced, the child remained with his mother. Alice maintains a relationship with her father: they meet when he manages to fly to Irkutsk for a short time.
In Moscow, the actor had connections with women, but everything ended in parting. But Vitaly does not lose hope that he will have a loved one and his own friendly family.
In his free time, he is engaged in vocals - this is his hobby.
