Maxim Shchyogolev


Maxim Valerievich Shcheogolev is a popular Russian theatre and film actor, best known for roles in criminal and romantic movies and serials like :ru:Карпов |Karpov, :ru:Второе дыхание |The Second Breath, which earned him a Russian Army "Fighters' Brotherhood" Medal, and The Lone Wolf, 2012. In 2011 he received the Golden Rhino Award for the Best male supporting role in the film Marriage at Will.

Biography

Maxim Shchyogolev was born in Voronezh, to Valery Konstantinovich Shchyogolev, a Soviet Army officer, and Irina Alexandrovna, a doctor. He excelled at school and after the graduation joined the Drama faculty of the Voronezh State Academy of Arts. Here, as a first year student, he was noticed by the Moscow Luna Theatre's director Sergey Prokhanov who invited him to join his own troupe and transferred him to his own class in Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. In 2003, after the graduation, Shchyogolev joined the Moscow Art Theatre's Anatoly Vasilyev-led Drama Art studio, to study there under the supervision of the guest directors, Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards.

Career

In 2001-2005 Shchyogolev was cast in several small parts in films. Then came the 150-series long TV criminal drama :ru:Молодые и злые|The Young and the Angry where he starred in the leading part of Demidov. It was followed by the :ru:Второе дыхание |Second Breath, for which he received the Fighters Brotherhood medal. Several more serials, including One Day, Girl Hunters, I Will Come Myself and The Lone Wolf, further cemented his reputation of one of the leading Russian actors of his generation.

Private life

In the early 2000s Maxim Shchyogolev had the relationship with the actress Tatyana Solntseva; in 2002 their son Ilya was born. Then Shchyogolev married the actress Alla Kazakova; they have two daughters, Maria and Ekaterina.

Selected filmography