Aleksandr Bashirov


Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bashirov is a Russian film and theater actor, director and screenwriter. He performed in more than sixty films since 1986.

Biography

Alexander Bashirov was born on 24 September 1955 in the village of Sogom. He was born in a mixed family of ethnic Russian father, Nikolai Zakharovich Kolygin and Siberian Tatar mother, Mariya Katyrovna Bashirova.
In 1972 he arrived in Leningrad, filed papers into the first vocational school and began to acquire the specialty tiler, tilers, then worked at the cement plant in Vyborg. After military service he entered the VGIK, from which he graduated in 1989.
He married a US citizen and in 1990-1991 he studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York, periodically coming to the USSR to participate in the filming. He participated in the Pop Mechanics and theatrical performances of Sergey Kuryokhin.
In 1996 he organized in St. Petersburg studio Deboshirfilm, which is the artistic director and teacher of actor-director's workshop.
He started his film with the working title Donbass knocks at our heart.

Personal life

In 1998 he became one of the founders of the festival of independent cinema Pure Dreams held in St. Petersburg.
He is married to singer Inna Volkova from Kolibri. Daughter - Alexandra Maria, a son from his first marriage - Christopher.

Political views

In 2014, he illegally crossed the border of Ukraine in the area not controlled by the Ukrainian government, to support the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic separatists.

Selected filmography

Films

TV

Awards