Actor Yuri Tarasov: biography, filmography and personal life

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Yuri Tarasov is a film and theater actor with more than 50 film roles in his arsenal. The audience learned about him from the series "Gold of Troy", "Opera. Chronicles of the homicide department”, “Cop in law”, “His Majesty's Secret Service”, “Brothers”, “One love of my soul”, “Gangster Petersburg” and many others. He voiced animated films "Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber" (of the courtier) and "Dobrynya Nikitich and Gorynych the Serpent" (messenger Elisha).

Biography and theatrical work

Yuri Germanovich Tarasov was born in Leningrad on June 16, 1977.

In 1993, as a teenager, he made his film debut. He played a student of a business lyceum, a boy speaker in the comedy film "Window to Paris".

Graduated in 2000 from the Academy of Theater Arts in St. Petersburg (course of L. Stukalov and V. Petrov). In the same year, under the leadership of L. Stukalov, Yuri and his fellow students founded Our Theater. opened itthe play "Liperiada", in which the actor played Lieutenant Borg.

Also in this theater, Yuri Tarasov was involved in performances:

• "Pannochka" (Spirid);
• Too Be Doo (Michael Banks);
• "Cornet O-va's Case" (Alexander Orlov).

But most of all the actor was attracted to cinema.

Filmography of Yuri Tarasov

The actor's film career began in 2000 with small roles in the series "Empire Under Attack" (Mortimer) and "Streets of Broken Lights" (singer in a bar).

In 2001-2002, he starred in the third part of "Gangster Petersburg", in the crime comedy "Bad Habit", in the series "My Border", in the action adventure "Russian Special Forces", in the series "Deadly Force-4" and "Secrets of investigation-2".

In 2003, there were small roles in the drama series "Lines of Fate" and "Three Colors of Love", in the series "Special Forces-2" and "Good luck to you, detective."

Yuri Tarasov played his first major role in the detective series Opera. Chronicles of the homicide department in 2004. His character in the film is Ivan Soratnik, an employee of the St. Petersburg police department. The actor played him for three seasons of the series.

In 2005, Yuri played a major role in the crime comedy series The Bratva. His hero, Denis Rybakov, finds a way out of any situation, for which his “brothers” appreciate him.

In 2006, another notable work of the actor in the TV series "His Majesty's Secret Service". The protagonist of the film, Sergei Viktorovich Izvekov, played by Yuri, was a student of Zhukovsky and a futureaviator. After an encounter with terrorists, he becomes a detective and decides to fight a terrorist movement that is emerging in Russia.

In 2007, Yuri Tarasov played the young Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in the series "One Love of My Soul" by Natalia Bondarchuk.

In 2008, he played a major role in the adventure drama "Gold of Troy", small roles in the TV series "COPs", in the films "Redhead" and "Alexander. Battle of the Neva”.

In 2009-2010, there were roles in the series "The Rule of the Maze", "Flying Squad", "Landing is landing", "Investigator", "Ligovka", "Escape from Prison" and the main role in the TV series "Ment v zakon-3”, where he played Major Platon Shvedov for all the following seasons.

The roles of the actor in the TV series Mosgaz (2012), The Executioner (2014), Spider (2015) and Jackal (2016) also became noticeable, where he played police major Nikita Pozhidayev. Also starred in all seasons of "Kitchen" (the role of Sergei Vladimirovich).

Today, Yuri is filming the action movie "The Plant" and the movie "Fitness Queen", which will be released soon.

Private life

Yuri Tarasov keeps the details of his personal life a secret. It is known that he lives in Moscow. He loves sports: rollerblading, doing karate. In the past, he did acrobatics.

The actor admits that he likes to play strong and powerful personalities in movies. He likes the military theme.