Lykov Alexander: early years, biography and filmography of the famous St. Petersburg actor

Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich for the first time truly became known to the Russian public due to the popular detective series "Streets of Broken Lights". How did the career of the talented Petersburg artist begin and in what projects is he busy today?

Lykov Alexander: family, early years

Alexander was born in 1961 in the Leningrad region. About his father little is known - he left the family when the boy had not yet gone to school. Lykov's mother worked all her life at the optico-mechanical plant.

Lykov Alexander Anatolyevich at a young age was not an easy test: the boy failed unsuccessfully from the swing, and the doctors predicted disability for the rest of his life. However, for several years the boy performed strengthening exercises for the back and still managed to get back on his feet. On this Alexander did not stop: he intensively continued to play sports and even became the owner of a black belt in karate.

Then Lykov went to receive an education in a construction college, but he constantly felt that he was not engaged in his own business. Alexander for several years was looking for himself, until he got into the theater studio and did not understand that he had found his calling.

Lykov Alexander: filmography. The first works in the cinema

Acting education future artist received in LGITMiKe. Then Lykov Alexander Anatolievich, as a respectable citizen, served his term in the Soviet Army, and in 1985 he was accepted into the troupe of the Theater. The Leningrad City Council.

In the cinema, Alexander first appeared in 1981: he was assigned the role of a hooligan in the short film by Mikhail Nikitin "The Friends of Fun and Fun". However, after the army, the actor was offered only episodic characters: he starred in the fairy tale "Little Baba Yaga", dramas "Cold March" and "One Sunday".

In 1989, Lykov appeared in the film "Cyrano de Bergerac", where also starred Olga Kabo and Grigory Gladiy. And also the actor played a bandit in Yuri Mamin's comedy "Sideburns".

Movies of the 90s

Lykov Alexander A. has a so-called "negative" charm, so directors often trust him the role of "bad guys." So the nineties were marked for the actor by a whole string of thieves and criminals: "Under the mask of the Black Cat", "The Circus was burnt and the clowns fled." Also Lykov played gay, a psychiatric patient - in a word, the artist has something to remember.

The more unexpected was to see Lykov as the mother of Vladimir Kazantsev, whom he appeared in the legendary series "The Streets of Broken Lights". In this project, Alexander had a major role, and he attracted even more attention than his partners in the project, Aleksey Nilov and Sergei Selin.

Lykov in the "Streets of Broken Lights" got the role of Casanova, a desperate womanizer and ladies' man. This despite the fact that the actor married only once in his life and lives with his lawful wife until now. The series about St. Petersburg operatives enjoyed incredible popularity, however Lykov took part only in two seasons of the film.

The latest projects with the participation of the actor

2000's professionally proved to be more successful for Lykov. The XXI century began for the actor with episodic roles in the series "National Security Agent" and "Bandit Petersburg". In the first project, Alexander played a psychopathic killer, and in the second - again a cop.

But already in 2001, the artist was invited to the main role in the comedy series "Medics", which also starred Daniel Belykh. Then the main role goes to Lykov in the TV series "Merry Company" and "Dancer". He also plays Dean in the TV movie "Plot" with Sergei Bezrukov. But the most interesting projects were waiting for the artist ahead.

In the highly effective military film "Saboteur" Lykov played the role of a Soviet spy nicknamed Cech, whose identity was so secret that no one even knew the real name of this man. In the "9th company" Bondarchuk actor played an explosive, and in the "death of the empire" Khotinenko - the director.

In 2005, Lykov played the main anti-hero in the spectacular "Turkish Gambit", where, in addition, Alexander Baluyev, Yegor Beroyev and Viktor Verzhbitsky were also shot . In 2007, the artist again returned to the role of Cech in the continuation of the film "Saboteur".

The main roles went to the actor in the tapes "Polonaise Krechinsky", "It's hard to be macho", "Version" and "The third is not given." In 2016, two screens with Lykov's participation will appear on the screens: the criminal film "Cuba" and the melodrama "About Love" by Vladimir Bortko.

Personal life

If you seek an example of loyalty and constancy among the actors, it will be Lykov Alexander. Alexander's wife is named after Alla and has been in this status for more than 30 years. The couple raised two children.

Younger son Lykov Matvey first tried to move away from the acting profession. He graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages in one of St. Petersburg's universities, and worked as a model in parallel. Suddenly, all this resulted in a serious career, and the young man became the face of the Gucci brand.

From acting fate, apparently, can not escape, because more recently, Lykov Jr. played the lead role in fantasy Indar Dzhendubayev "He is a dragon."