DICHENKO Alexander Biography

Alexander Stanislavovich Dyachenko is one of the main “macho” of domestic cinema, musician and producer. Unlike many Soviet movie stars, he was able to make a career in Hollywood, starred in Ukraine, Belarus, Sweden, Finland, India. In total, he was busy in more than fifty films, in most cases playing central roles. The actor with magnificent external data and smart eyes penetrating into the soul, in addition to the main activity, devotes a lot of time to musical creativity, in particular, the project of the Antig.

According to the “Russian Banderas”, as it is often called in the media, his heart is divided in two - one half belongs to acting, the other to music. Childhood and youth were born Alexander on June 12 in the ordinary Leningrad family, who lived on Bestuzhevskaya Street. From early childhood, he was a major boy - at seven he looked nine. Moreover, his mother is small, only centimeters, he went in high growth of his father, a Ukrainian by nationality, originally from under Poltava.

The hometown of Alexander Dyachenko - Leningrad, like many peers, he was fond of skating, heavy athletics, martial arts, presented serious hopes in hockey, and spent summer in pioneering camps. But he somehow did not work out with his sports career. In addition, he was engaged in music - he sang his own works under the guitar. After graduation, he followed in the footsteps of his father, who had a technical education, and entered the Electrotechnical Institute.

The choice of the university was also affected by the fact that his friends were going there. As the artist later noted, sometimes it is not so important for him where to go, but it is important - with whom, what people will be near. His Alma Mater, whose abbreviation-Leti-was jokingly deciphered as the “Leningrad pop-dance institution”, was famous not only for a high level of education, but also by creative traditions, and even the fact that it was supposedly in its walls that KVN was born.

Frequent guests in the educational institution were students of the theater institute. Alexander participated in jointly conducted cabbages, disco and later noted that, apparently, it was then that the “acting bacillus” infected him. Having received a diploma of an engineer, for some time he worked in a number of foreign firms. And in the year there was a random meeting, which turned out to be fateful for Alexander.

He met the director Vladimir Popov, who was looking for the applicant for the main role in his film “Defender” and, seeing Dyachenko’s textured appearance, invited him to tests. According to the plot of the tape, shot at Belarusfilm in the year, his character returned home from Afghanistan, and everything changed around, turned into a desert that did not remind of his homeland.

Alexander Dyachenko in his youth and now working on the role, Alexander clearly realized that cinema is exactly what he liked and should be done. However, at this moment a difficult period came in the country; The films practically stopped shooting, and he, like many, had to plunge into trade instead of creativity. Entrepreneurial experience turned out to be successful, money appeared in the bins, but the situation of common devastation and lawlessness, when the drives were dotted with bullet holes, strained.

There, the summer Alexander felt, unlike St. Petersburg, surprisingly comfortable and calm, and decided to cross the ocean to permanent residence. So he ended up in Chicago, where, in search of possible means of existence and search for the path to an acting dream, he began to act in advertising and tiny episodic roles, and was trained at the Act One of Chicago Acting School.

In the year, he met with the leadership of the city basketball team of Bulls and baseball players from White Socks, who invited him to engage in sports management. He with pleasure became an agent of Russian hockey players playing in the NHL clubs, as he loved this game since childhood, helped them in resolving various problematic issues. A large interview with Alexander Dyachenko began to invite him to cooperate other companies investing in players, but in the year he left the sports sector - the desire to engage in acting ultimately won.

He served in the Chicago Theater, went through post-training in Los Angeles, starred in Hollywood mainly in the role of Russian bad guys, Croats and Macedonians, became a member of the Sag Actors Union. The first big work of the artist in the cinema was the role of the twin brothers-the NHL hockey player and the guard in the bank-in the tape of the famous Russian director Alexei Balabanov “Brat-2” with Sergey Pepodrov.

When organizing the filming of a hockey match in the United States, the creators of the paintings helped the actor's acquaintance among the American HC. Esaul Vatnin in this television project was called his role as one of the few works that he is really proud of. In the year, Dyachenko was busy at once in three films - “white gold”, “barbarian” and “stylet”, playing leading roles in them.In m, fans could see their beloved artist in four projects, including “Women's Intuition”, where he first embodied a romantic hero on the screen, and “icon hunters”, where he starred with Dmitry Dyuzhev, Andrei Smolyakov and Svetlana Khodchenkova.

The frame from the series “Two Sisters” was in demand an actor in subsequent years. The Ukrainian melodrama “Two sides of one Anna”, the Belarusian drama “Rhymes with love”, the Indian detective “Seven forgiven murders”, domestic works “Marriage by Testament”, “Goblin”, “Two Sisters” brought him wide fame. The frame from the Gostrovka series should also mention the filming of the actor in one of the leading roles in the Belarusian military-psychological drama “Hunting for the Gauleiter”, which was released in the year, participation in the star acting Vladimir Mashkov, Evgeny Mironov, Peter Mamonov and the Chulpan Khamatov Telefilm “Pepel”.

In the year, Alexander was busy in the sensational series “Major” with Pavel Priluchny, in M ​​he played the head of the family in the mini-series “Family of Maniac Belyaev”. Alexander Dyachenko in the film "Pepel" Musical creativity, despite the great employment and successes in the cinema, the actor continues to make music. His musical career began earlier than cinematic.

Having settled in Chicago, where a creative atmosphere reigned and continues to reign, large festivals of jazz, blues, hip-hop, a musician, brought up on the traditions of the St. Petersburg school of rock, was inspired into it. The group of Alexander Dyachenko is called Antigo, he recorded several compositions along with famous performers from professional groups.

In particular, he collaborated with the drummer Mat Walker, who spoke for more than two years as part of the Smashing Pumpkins group recognized in the world of alternative rock music of those years, with the keyboardist Jim Dinya, with the guitarist of the tallarid cattle. The actor was written music for the short film of Masha Ozernko “There was nothing”, where he played the main role.

He created joint compositions with a rock band from his native St. Petersburg "Spleen", with the Nike Borzov team, with the Novosibirsk group "Lakmus". Antigo-Give Me Tomorrow in the year his enthusiasm for music and friendship with Boris Lifshitz, drummer of the Rock-College "Bi-2", led to the creation of the Antigo project. The debut composition of the group was called the "matte world." In the year, they presented the English-speaking single “Give Me Tomorrow” and the clip for it, shot in Kyiv, as well as the song “Forest” included in the Bi-2 album “The odd warrior 3”.

In the year of Antig, they pleased their fans with the new work of Live Life and a clip shot in Tallinn. He will not be able to leave anyone indifferent the composition of the group of the year - “Young”, “Angels”, as well as “Mom”, where the last thoughts of the soldier’s battered bullet were voiced. The personal life of Alexander Dyachenko, the star of the painting “Brother-2” carefully protects his private life from representatives of the mass media.

Once he said in an interview that he was married in the United States, but soon divorced. In the year, in the program “The Fate of Man” with Boris Korchevnikov, the actor said that his chosen one was a Greek, who moved to the States, they met through common friends, got closer, got married. But immediately after the wedding, the girl changed dramatically, as if receiving what she wanted, she lost interest in Alexander.

The marriage lasted 9 years and was terminated in the year, but in fact the relationship was interrupted much earlier. The romance attributed to him with Margarita Drobyazko, his partner on the show "Ice Age" was not confirmed. However, her mother Elena, who agreed to undergo a test detector in the NTV program “We speak and show”, was not sure of his paternity. In the network, information about the wife of Dyachenko is often found, but at the moment the artist is not married.

However, he has a loved one, and long ago, but the actor does not advertise the name of the chosen one. He does not like his birthday since the pioneering childhood, when he was formally congratulated on this date on solemn rulers in pioneering camps. He considers him a rather sad event. His ideal of a woman is Romy Schneider, who shocked his game in the film "Old Rive." A personal interview with Alexander Dyachenko, the main goal in his life, called the desire to take place in creativity.

He dreams that his films and music not only bring joy in the process of working on them, but also pride in what has been done. In the evening, he loves to swim, take a walk, sometimes smoke hookah, drink a glass of wine. Alexander Dyachenko could now be seen in the first two seasons of the television series "Major" as an oligarch, the father of the protagonist Igor. In November, the project, which received the epithet “phenomenal” among critics, was officially extended for the third season.

In the series “Major”, Alexander Dyachenko played the father of the protagonist that the actor will appear in the Russian fragments-“fragments” series, as well as in the Hollywood militant “The Hunter-killer” with Gerard Batler and Gary Oldman, whose premiere is scheduled for the summer of the year. He played there no less than the Russian president. Alexander Dyachenko: The latest news and articles.