Alexander Petrov

Aleksandr Andreevich Petrov Russian Александр Андреевич Петров born 25 January 1989 PereslavlZalesskiy is a Russian actor known for his roles in T34 2019 Attraction 2017 and Gogol The Beginning 2017 After school he entered the economic department of the University of Pereslavl at the Institute of Program Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences However he soon realized that this was not for him when he began to participate in the student team of the KVN and the performances of the theatre also student Entreprise During the theatrical festival he took part in the master classes of teachers of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts GITIS and made his final choice In 2008 he left the university and went to Moscow From his first attempt he managed to enter the GITIS for the directing department in the workshop of L Kheifets In 20122013 Alexander served in the Moscow Theatre Et Cetera Based on the results of diploma theatricals he received an offer from Aleksandr Kalyagin about enrollment in the troupe of the Moscow theatre Et Cetera He played Graziano in Shylock based on William Shakespeares play The Venetian Merchant directed by Robert Sturua In 2013 he was admitted to the troupe of the Yermolova Theatre under the leadership of Oleg Menshikov In the Yermolova Theatre he played Hamlet in William Shakespeares tragedy directed by Valeriy Sarkisov Petrov made his debut in 2010 in an episodic role of the television series Voices In 2012 he played a major role in the series While the fern is blooming In the 2015 crime drama serial The Method produced by Alexander Tsekalos Sreda Petrov played the supporting role of police officer Zhenya In the same year he also acted in the TV series Fartsa by the same production company this time in the lead role The series is about Fartsovka the illegal acquisition of consumer goods and currency from foreigners during the Soviet Union He played Andrei Trofimov an aspiring writer In 2017 he acted in Sredas feature film Gogol The Beginning In this horrorfantasy picture loosely based on Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka he portrayed writer Nikolai Gogol He played one of the main roles in the disasterfilm Attraction 2017 by Fyodor Bondarchuk According to the plot of the film over the city there is an unidentified object which later for the safety of citizens is shot down Only when it falls to the ground do experts find that this object is of unearthly origin In 2018 he acted in the musical romantic drama about figure skating Ice Film news and database website Kinopoisk named Alexander Petrov as the most popular Russian actor of 2017 He again played the role of Artyom in Invasion the sequel of Attraction in 2020