The work of Sergei Gazarov has many facets: an actor, screenwriter, director and producer. The brilliant artist was remembered for his works in the theater, and his filmography includes more than a hundred paintings, which are full of a variety of genres.
Childhood and youth
Gazarov was born in 1958 into an Armenian family. The boy spent the childhood period of his biography in Baku. My mother had an education as an accountant, but she did not work by profession. My father was in charge of the candy factory, and then the Baku winery. Mom put on real shows at home. She sang well and knew acting skills. Perhaps Seryozha inherited his talent, and therefore decided to devote himself to the creative profession. He started to realize his dream at school, when he began to take part in all events and competitions. Teachers predicted a great future for a talented child.
The path to the dream
However, the young man did not succeed in enrolling in a theater university on the first attempt, and failed his essay on the Russian language. He got a job at the DOP and began to prepare for the next test. During this period, Seryozha learned the theater from the inside, watched the accomplished talents.
In the hope of success, the young man went to conquer the capital. He was especially lucky, because the famous Tabakov was recruiting for the GITIS course. The performance of an excerpt from Gogol's story "The Nose" with an unusual accent amused the selection committee very much. But the examiners saw in him a great desire for improvement and potential. Oleg Pavlovich took a talented student under his wing.
On the stage
First, the aspiring actor performed in the performances of Sovremennik, then Tabakov called him to the Snuffbox. Gazarov not only took part in the master's productions, in 1990 their joint directorial premiere of Roof was released. Following this, his independent production of The Inspector General was awarded the prestigious award as the best performance of the year.
The creation of the private film company "Nikita and Peter" was crowned with failure, then Sergei again remembered the theater stage. In 1998, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan invited him to the post of director in his theater.
Movie
In 1980, he received an offer to star in the film "Uninvited Friend". Then came the drama "Winning a Lonely Businessman", where Gazarov played the main character - the Latin American Sanchez. He had many roles in the dashing 90s, although they all turned out to be small or episodic. The main images came with the beginning of the new millennium, he barely managed to combine shooting with work on stage.
At the first stage of his career, the artist starred in detective stories and comedies: Entrance to the Maze (1989), Taxi Blues (1990), KGB Agents Fall in Love Too (1991), Limita (1994). Recently, the actor has acquired a different role, his heroes were oligarchs, governors, historical figures, officials and the military: "Next-2" (2002), "Turkish Gambit" (2005), "Doctor Zhivago" (2005), "Code of the Apocalypse "(2007)," Zhurov "(2009)," Spy "(2012)," August. Eighth "(2012)," Crew "(2016)," Elusive "(2017). In 2010, Gazarov produced the film "Rita" by Oleg Fesenko, and also played one of the roles in the film.
Personal life
For a long time, the artist tied marriage with colleague Irina Metlitskaya. The couple had two sons. When his wife died of leukemia in 1997, the father took on the responsibility of raising the children. Now the elder Nikita is a specialist in finance, the younger Petya is a musician and plays the saxophone.
Sergei worked hard, and when the pain of loss subsided, he met a new love. In 2006, the second wife Elena gave birth to the actor's heir Stepan. For the first time, dad and son Gazarov appeared together on the TV program "Hello, Andrei!" in May 2018.
