Alexey Kolgan is an actor who often remains behind the scenes, acting only as the voice of the character. Nevertheless, the viewer knows and loves him, it is difficult to get tickets for performances in the theater with his participation. We love his characters, recognize his voice, and what do we know about him as a person, about his career path and personal life?
Talented and charismatic, with a special, subtle sense of humor and an amazing voice, the audience's favorite, who voiced the most popular cartoon characters - all this is about him, about the actor Alexei Kolgan. It was thanks to him that Shrek spoke in Russian, his sparkling talent became a real decoration of the satirical project "Put out the light!" Filmography and theatrical piggy bank of Alexei are full of significant and vivid roles.
Biography of the actor Alexei Kolgan
Alexey was born in Lvov, in 1971, and soon moved with his family to Leningrad. The boy's parents had nothing to do with art, but Alyosha's great-grandfather was a circus artist, leading the troupe of Durov himself.
The childhood of the future actor cannot be called happy and cloudless. At the age of 12, after his father left the family, his mother took the boy to Makhachkala. Alexey could not find a common language with his classmates, he was overweight and somewhat awkward, often ill, did not like to take part in hooligan antics and yard games.
Alexey won the respect of both peers and classmates, once he appeared on the stage of a school theater with a parody number. We can safely say that it was then that his acting career started - he had the first viewers, and then fans, he became the most sought-after member of the drama troupe, performed at all events, first within an educational institution, and then at the city level.
Actor Alexei Kolgan's career
The time of student life in Alexei's life fell on a difficult time of perestroika. Despite the constant lack of money and the need to earn money in parallel with his studies, he managed to graduate with honors from the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts in 1994. The teachers drew attention to the unique voice data of a talented student and recommended him to develop this direction as well. As a result, along with an actor's diploma, Kolgan received a diploma of completion of the classical vocal courses at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory.
The best theatrical role of Alexei Kolgan is considered by both spectators and critics to be the image of a princess in Imre Kalman's musical "Princess of the Circus". But he did not come to a better role right away. At that time, there were already in his theatrical piggy bank
- Mitrofanushka from Nedoroslya,
- Fabian from Twelfth Night
- Wolf from the play "Andryusha".
Then television came into his creative life. In the early 2000s, Kolgan began work on the Turn Out the Light! together with the team of the NTV channel. The humorous program was immediately noted by the TEFI jury, was awarded as the best in its segment, and two years later Alexey received the same award as the best presenter.
Filmography of the actor Alexei Kolgan
The path to the cinema "arena" for Alexei began with the proposal of the American company Dream Works to voice Shrek in the Russian version of the cartoon. After a successful debut in the voice acting, he began to receive offers from other foreign companies, the heroes of the cartoons "Flushed Away", "Despicable Me", "Monsters on Vacation", "Family of Monsters" and others spoke in his voice in his voice.
At the same time, her acting career in cinema began to actively develop. In the period from 2002 to the present day, Alexey Kolgan managed to appear in more than 70 full-length films and TV series. Viewers will remember him for his roles in projects.
- "Code of honor",
- "Moscow. Central District ",
- “Lola and the Marquis. Virtuosos of easy money ",
- "Goddess of Prime Time"
- "Cannon",
- "Gloss",
- "Urgent room",
- "Kitchen" and other films.
The charismatic actor became a partner in the film frame of such beauties as Yulia Snigir, Ksenia Rappoport, but rumors about his novels "on the side" never appeared in the press.
Personal life of the actor Alexei Kolgan
According to the actor himself, in his youth he had no time to think about romantic relationships with young ladies - he was fascinated first by his studies, then by the formation of a career. The first and only novel for him was a relationship with actress Nina Dvorzhetskaya.
The young people became friends at the moment when a tragedy happened in Nina's life - her husband, the famous actor Yevgeny Dvorzhetsky, died. For three long years, Alexei was her friend, support and support in everything. And only after so much time, the woman realized what meant much more to him, noticed the courtship of a shy candidate for husbands.
Alexei had to convince for a long time that he had serious intentions towards Nina, the age difference (his wife is 11 years older than Kolgan) does not matter that he is ready to accept both her and her two children - Mikhail and Anna.
The perseverance of the young man was rewarded - in 2003, Alexey and Nina formalized their marriage, he became the official father to her children. Since then, the couple has lived quietly, without scandals, in their country house, and is not going to give journalists the joy of discussing their relationship or their novels "on the side".
The couple have no common children, but Nina's daughter from her first marriage, Anna, has already fried their granddaughter, Sophia. Alexey is happy to play the role of a young grandfather, with undisguised pleasure he talks about the successes of his favorite Sophia.
The actor is also successful in the profession - he acts in films and TV series, at the moment he is working on two films with his participation, continues to voice the heroes of foreign films and cartoons, actively plays on the stage of the Moscow Musical Theater and the Satire Theater.
