Acting
Apr 20, 1966
Chelyabinsk, RSFSR, USSR
Andrey Zhigalov
Acting
Biography
Film actor, professional clown, known in the world as a "clown without makeup", songwriter and performer. After graduation, he studied at a vocational school. Having received the specialty of a welder, he worked at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. In 1984-1986 he served in the Soviet Army in the city of Shuya. Demobilized with the rank of senior sergeant. In 1987 he entered the State School of Circus and Variety Art (GUTSEI). Clownery teachers were A. Smykov and B. Breev. In the first year, the duet "Eddie and Jeannie" was formed with Eduard Alekseenko. During his studies, he was invited to play the main role of Kolya in Nikolai Dostal's tragicomedy Cloud Paradise. The picture was noticed by both the audience and film professionals, was successfully shown at a number of film festivals. For the role of Kolya Zhigalov was recognized as the best actor in 1991. After a successful debut, he starred in several more films. For some time he worked together with Eduard Alekseenko in the "Center of Eccentrics" by Alexander Zheromsky. In 1992 he was awarded a gold medal at the prestigious circus festival in Paris - "The Circus of Tomorrow". In 2003, he received the highest circus award - the "Silver Clown" at the Monte Carlo Festival from the hands of Princess Stephanie. In 2005, Zhigalov responded to the proposal of Nikolai Dostal to star in the sequel to the film "Cloud-Paradise" - the film "Kolya - rolling stone." Alla Klyuka, Sergey Batalov, Irina Rozanova, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Lev Borisov, Anna Ovsyannikova also played in it. At the Window to Europe Film Festival (2005), the film was awarded the Golden Boat Special Jury Prize. In 2007, Zhigalov starred in the film “Songs of the Southern Seas” co-produced by Kazakhstan, Germany, Russia and France, staged by director from Kyrgyzstan Marat Sarulu. The film premiered in Russia on April 10, 2008. He continues his clown career and works in the most famous circuses and variety shows, such as the circus Roncalli, Knie, variete Wintergarten and many others.
Feature Films (6)
A group of heroes assembled by the eccentric billionaire goes into closed Perimeter full of abnormal activity which is inexplicable in terms of science. This journey will change all members of the group and reverse their notion of reality.
Forgotten Experiment
After a few years in a big world Kolya is returning to his village and life in the village is going wild.
Kolya - Rolling Stone
In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast.
Cloud Heaven
Svetlana and Nikolay loved each other to the envy of the whole village. The matter went to the wedding - And everything collapsed at one moment due to the usual gossip.
Body
Two young, simple-minded twin sisters sewing-motorists from a vocational school, who after the death of their mother live separately from their alcoholic father, are charmed by a modernist painter who is indulgent to them and even introduces them into the circle of his "chosen ones". Serge uses the sisters as models and introduces them to his photographer friends.
Sisters Liberty
A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.