Aleksandr Filippenko

Aleksander Georgievich Filippenko PAR is a famous Soviet and Russian actor. Filippenko was honored with Peoples Artist of Russia in 2000.

Aleksander Filippenko was born in Moscow his parents moved to AlmaAta, Kazakhstan where he graduated from high school. Later on he entered MFTI where he took active part in MFTI KVN team. The first time he appeared on stage at the MGU Variety Studio Our Home in a stage adaptation of Kersanovs Story of Tsar Emelian. Since 1969 Filippenko was a key member of Taganka Theater. In 1970 he entered Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated with honors. In 1975 he started working at Vakhtangov Theater where he took part in famous plays Treaty of BrestLitovsk Richard III and many others. There he met, worked with and became good friends with director Robert Sturua. Filippenko left Vakhtangov Theater in 1994 and started his own theatrical project MonoDuetTrio. Since 1995 Filippenko is a freelance actor, working in various theatres in Satirikon theatre playing Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet, in Et Cetera theatre playing Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, in Tabakerka theatre playing Satin

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