A native of Vitebsk, who has become one of the most popular Belarusian actors of our time, today he is the only one in the republic who was nominated for the prestigious Oscar. Igor Alekseevich Sigov currently has a very impressive filmography behind him and regularly goes to performances at the Republican Theater of Belarusian Drama.
Igor Alekseevich Sigov is one of the few modern actors who performs all complex stunts on the set independently - without the involvement of stuntmen. Currently, the theater and film actor earned the greatest audience sympathy in the role of the hero of military dramas, serial detectives and melodramatic mini-series.
Brief biography and career of Igor Alekseevich Sigov
The future popular artist was born on December 30, 1968 in an ordinary working-class family in Polotsk (Republic of Belarus). The good health and inquisitive mind of the child and subsequently the young men pushed Igor to the sports path during his high school studies. He even became the champion of the city in the track and field athletics discipline - running the 800 meters. However, after accidentally getting to a rehearsal of the children's theater studio, Sigov instantly fell in love with the theater.
It should be noted that the path to the stage was thorny, because the young man after school fails in exams at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute and the local Institute of Culture, and then was drafted into military service in the railway troops in Mongolia. This was followed by admission to the Belarusian Academy of Arts impromptu, when the admissions committee was simply fascinated by the unprepared Igor Sigov who passed the doors of the auditorium where the exams were passed.
After graduation, our hero is assigned to the Republican Theater of Belarusian Drama. Here he is realized not only as an actor, but also as a director of all theatrical stunts. In 2007, for achievements in the field of theatrical art, Sigov was awarded the Francysk Skaryna Medal, and five years later he became the director of this theater, which became his second home.
From 2014 to the present day, Igor Alekseevich is the leading actor of the most prestigious theater in the republic - the Yanka Kupala National Academic Theater.
Sigov made his film debut in the late nineties, as is usually the case, with cameo roles. The first significant role came to him in 2001 from the filming of the film "Sketch on the Monitor", where he participated in the acting together with Vladislav Galkin and Daria Mikhailova. And then his filmography began to be steadily replenished with war dramas, detective stories and melodramas: "At Nameless Height" (2004), "The Last Battle of Major Pugachev" (2005), "The Door" (2008), "Lord Officers: Save the Emperor" (2008), "Dnieper frontier" (2009), "The illusion of hunting" (2010), "Everything we need …" (2011), "Navigator" (2011), "I do not regret, I do not call, I do not cry" (2011), “Because I love” (2013), “Death to spies. Fox hole "(2013)," Strike of the zodiac "(2015)," I want to be happy "(2017)," Fire, water and rusty pipes "(2017).
Separately, I would like to highlight from this series the psychological short film "The Door", which was awarded an Oscar nomination.
Personal life of the actor
Two marriages and two children - this is the natural result of the family life of a popular actor. Igor's first marital union was not long-term and became the reason for the birth of a son. Sigov does not like to remember this period at all.
The second marriage became happy. His daughter Anastasia was born in it. And the wife became the stylist Diana, who works on local television. It was this family hearth that became a spiritual outlet for the popular actor, and he considers it as strong and unshakable as his creative career.
