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Alexander Petrov(X)

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Alexander Petrov
Exiled unjustly, convicted without trial, slandered without cause. Man of God depicts the trials and tribulations of Saint Nektarios of Aegina, as he bears the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God.
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Alexander Petrov was born in a small town Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia. During school years he played for the national football team. After leaving school he entered the University of Pereslavl the Faculty of Economics. During his studies he took part in cultural events of the city: KVN (Game show - Club of Funny and Inventive People), Student Council, a theatre studio «Anterpise» under Veronika Ivanenko's direction. At the Theatre Festival in the town Pohvistnevo (Samarskiy region) he met the teachers from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) at workshops.

After the Festival he left the University of Pereslavl and moved to Moscow to become a student of GITIS (Theatre Academy), the class of Leonid Heifetz in 2008. Since the second year he has begun acting in films. His first role was in TV-show «Voices» directed by Nana Jorjadze, an Oscar nominee in 1997. His first leading role that brought him first success was in TV-series Poka tsvetet paporotnik (directed by Evgeniy Bedarev) in 2012. While studying in GITIS he starred in 10 films.

Right after graduating from GITIS he was accepted to the Moscow Theater «Et Cetera» under Alexander Kalyagin's direction. He played Graziano in Shylock («The Merchant of Venice») on the touring stage of Riga Russian Drama Theater. Five months after, he was invited to Ermolova's Moscow Theater run by Oleg Menshikov to rehearse Hamlet directed by Valeriy Sarkisov, premiered in December, 2013. «Hamlet» has been the most sold-out performance in the theater ever since.

In the end of 2014, the head of Moscow Pushkin Theater - Evgeniy Pisarev and director Vladimir Mirzoyev offered him a role of Lopakhin in «Cherry Orchard» by Chekhov.

In 2015 he played the lead in Fartsa TV-series - one of the first Russian TV-series ever streamed on Netflix. Also he played a charming police officer Grisha Izmailov in TV-series Politseyskiy s Rublyovki v Beskudnikovo (2017) (directed by Ilya Kulikov) viewed by millions and got him famous nationally.

In November 2016 he created his first one-man dramatic show TOBEBORNAGAIN that was always a sold out show until its closure.

In 2017 he starred in Prityazhenie by Fedor Bondarchuk which had an outstanding success in Russia (box office - more than 18 million USD). The film was released worldwide. Gogol' (2017), where he also played the lead - russian famous writer Nikolay Gogol, became the first TV-series in the world screened in cinemas. It won an award at the festival of the Indie Gathering International Film Festival and was awarded at the Accolade Global Film Competition in the «Award of Excellence» category.

In 2017 he starred in his first international movie - «Anna» - a film by Luc Besson, released in 2019.

During the next few years he starred in a number of movies that topped the box office in Russia and were released worldwide.

In summer 2020 during the world pandemic he starred in his second international project «Man of god» filmed in Greece.

Prizes and Awards:

  • Event of the Year of The Hollywood Reporter Magazine 2015 - Audience Award for Achievements in Film and Television Industry
  • GQ Magazine Man of the Year Awards 2018 - Actor of the Year
  • Golden Eagle Awards 2019 (winner) - Best TV Actor - Drama Series («Sparta»)
  • Event of the Year of The Hollywood Reporter Magazine - Best Actor («Text»)
  • Golden Eagle Awards 2020 (winner) - Best Actor - Motion Picture («Text»)
BornJanuary 25, 1989
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Alexander Petrov and Sasha Luss in Anna (2019)
Ivan Urgant, Alexander Petrov, and Stasya Miloslavskaya in Streltsov (2020)
Alexander Petrov and Yuliya Khlynina in Ice 2 (2020)
Mariya Aronova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Alexander Petrov, and Vitaliya Kornienko in Ice 2 (2020)
Mariya Aronova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, and Alexander Petrov in Ice 2 (2020)
Mariya Aronova and Alexander Petrov in Ice 2 (2020)
Alexander Petrov and Aglaya Tarasova in Ice 2 (2020)

Known for

Text (2019)
Text
6.6
  • Ilya Goryunov
  • 2019
Aris Servetalis in Man of God (2021)
Man of God
7.0
  • Kostas
  • 2021
Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, Luke Evans, and Sasha Luss in Anna (2019)
Anna
6.6
  • Piotr
  • 2019
December (2023)
December
  • Sergey Yesenin
  • 2023

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  • Neposlushnaya
    • Post-production
  • The Palace
    • Post-production
  • December
    • Post-production
  • Untitled Eduard Oganesyan/Netflix Project
    • Pre-production
  • Aleksey Serebryakov, Kseniya Rappoport, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Danila Kozlovskiy, Viktoriya Isakova, Sergey Burunov, and Alexander Petrov in Proisshestviye v strane Multi-Pulti (2022)
    Proisshestviye v strane Multi-Pulti
  • Nadvoye (2022)
    Nadvoye
  • Predlozhenie
    • (as Aleksandr Petrov)
  • Kak v Venetsii (2021)
    Kak v Venetsii
  • Aris Servetalis in Man of God (2021)
    Man of God
  • The Method (2015)
    The Method
  • Yezdok
  • Angel (2020)
    Angel
  • Streltsov (2020)
    Streltsov
  • Text. Reality (2020)
    Text. Reality
  • Winter (2020)
    Winter
  • Alexander Petrov and Aglaya Tarasova in Ice 2 (2020)
    Ice 2
    • (as Aleksandr Petrov)
  • Invasion (2020)
    Invasion
  • Vladimir Mashkov, Svetlana Khodchenkova, and Alexander Petrov in Hero (2019)
    Hero
  • Text (2019)
    Text

Producer

  • Angel (2020)
    Angel
  • Schastye v konverte (2020)
    Schastye v konverte

Director

  • Angel (2020)
    Angel
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Videos13

Showreel 2022
Demo Reel 9:54
Showreel 2022
Showreel
Demo Reel 5:48
Showreel
Martini. Play With Time
Demo Reel 1:31
Martini. Play With Time
Attraction-trailer
Demo Reel 2:05
Attraction-trailer
Sasha Petrov reading Vladimir Mayakovskiy's Poem
Demo Reel 1:28
Sasha Petrov reading Vladimir Mayakovskiy's Poem
ALEXANDER PETROV. SHOWREEL
Demo Reel 3:36
ALEXANDER PETROV. SHOWREEL
Official Trailer
Trailer 2:05
Official Trailer
Official Trailer
Trailer 1:55
Official Trailer
Trailer [OV]
Trailer 2:08
Trailer [OV]
Trailer [OV]
Trailer 1:32
Trailer [OV]
T-34
Trailer 1:49
T-34
Sheep & Wolves
Trailer 2:17
Sheep & Wolves

Personal details

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    • January 25, 1989
    • Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Yaroslavskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

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    (2015-) Dating Irina Starshenbaum after they met while filming together on Attraction (2017).
  • Quotes
    Western values won't take root here (in Russia) because we have different mentality. Russian women like to be harassed. Many of them love this kind of attentions.

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