Alexander Lazarev (actor)

Alexander Sergeyevich Lazarev was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, the Peoples Artist of Russia and the USSR State Prize laureate . A Moscow Mayakovsky Theater veteran Lazarev appeared in more than 100 films, including One More Thing About Love which made him famous.

Alexander Lazarev was born in Leningrad, to the artist and designer Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev and Olympiada Kuzminichna Lazareva . The family survived the first month of the Siege, then managed to get out of the city and make it to Orenburg. In 1944 they returned home and the next year Alexander went to school. By the time of graduation hes made a decision to become an actor, citing later Robert Taylors performance in Waterloo Bridge as the major influence. In 1955 Lazarev joined the Young actors studio at the Moscow Art Theater. After a short stint at the Nikolay Akimovled Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre, he moved to Mayakovsky Theater, led at the time by Nikolay Okhlopkov where the part of Boytsov the electrician in Aleksei Arbuzovs The Irkutsk Story was his first success.

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