One of the most versatile and talented actors of modern cinema was Andrei Krasko (August 10, 1957 - July 4, 2006).
During his bright, but very short life, this talented man managed to conquer a large audience with his talent, and his works will forever remain in the golden fund of Russian cinema.
The beginning of life's journey
Actor Krasko Andrei comes from a creative family. Born in Leningrad. Ivan Krasko, known for the films "The End of the Emperor of the Taiga", "Police Sergeant", "The Prince and the Pauper", is his father, who is a People's Artist of Russia. Mother - Petrova Kira Vasilievna, whose surname Andrei bore in early childhood, worked as a teacher at school. It was with her after the divorce of her parents that Andrei Krasko remained, whose biography is of interest to many fans of the talent of this actor. Mom made every effort to ensure that her son grew up to be a good and right person.
First exposure to the theater stage
Andrey's first acquaintance with the stage was connected with the performance of Ivan Ivanovich's father, to whom a 2-year-old child ran onto the stage during the performance, shouting "Heremy dad!". The hall took this case good-naturedly, reacting with loud applause. To prevent such excesses from happening again, Ivan Krasko decided to involve his son in one of the numbers. This was Andrey Krasko's acting debut on the theater stage.
Life choices: which way to go?
Actor Andrei Krasko, whose filmography is extensive, interesting and diverse, did not immediately decide to follow the acting path. He, like most of his peers, had very different plans for life. The young man saw himself as an astronaut, then he fell in love with the dangerous work of a fireman, then he attracted mining work.
Andrey decided on the acting profession after long hesitation, motivating his choice by the fact that he can play anyone on stage.
Becoming an actor
The first entrance exam to the Leningrad Theater Academy Andrey Krasko, whose filmography was somewhere far ahead, failed, and for the next year he worked at the Komissarzhevskaya Theater as a stage fitter. The next summer turned out to be successful, and the young man, having properly prepared for the entrance exams, became a student at LGITMiKA. At the Academy of Theater Arts, the future artist Andrei Krasko studied at the studio of Dodin Lev Abramovich and Arkady Iosifovich Katsman. He later recalled the latter with particular warmth. Andrey considered him a master of his craft, one of the last people who was engaged exclusively in pedagogy, and gave a good start to the life of a young man.
The actor Andrei Krasko, who received a diploma in 1979, was assigned to the Tomsk Youth Theater, where he worked for several years. In Tomsk, he acquired an amazing, in his own words, professional hardening. Next was the Lenin Komsomol Theater in Leningrad. It was at this time that Andrei Krasko began acting in films. He played small episodic roles in the films "Useless", "Personal Date", "Where did Fomenko disappear?".
The army service in the Northern Polar District of the Arkhangelsk Region did not pass him by, which he combined with performances, concerts and events of a similar nature.
After the army, Andrey Krasko (you can see a photo of an actor of different years in the article) returned to Leningrad, but, rushing around the city, where he was not expected, decided to leave for the province - Dimitrovgrad, in the theater of which there are only two people, in including Andrei Krasko, had a higher education. Here the actor stayed for a while.
Life dictates its own laws
In 1985, Andrei Krasko, whose biography is interesting because of its versatility, was invited to participate in the filming of the disaster film "Breakthrough" by Dmitry Svetozarov. Due to the fact that the director did not want to part with a talented actor, Andrei had to quit the theater. While waiting for approval for the role, Andrey Krasko, whose filmography is familiar to most fans of his talent, went to work as the head of a dance club at an auto-aggregate plant. After filming, he began to rush around the theaters again, but nothing came of it. There came a period when theaters becamethe country does not need. In the film industry, the situation was no better: the shooting is periodic, the roles are episodic.
The middle of the 80s was marked for the young actor by the release of a number of new films with his participation, which, unfortunately, did not reward him with great popularity: Don Cesar de Bazan, Dogs, American, Brother, Schizophrenia. These films did not bring much income, but somehow it was necessary to survive. Therefore, Andrei had to "put on" other life roles. He went to a cooperative, where he sewed jackets and trousers, sold books, was engaged in European-style repairs, private cabs, even worked at the cemetery, mixing mortar and making fences.
"National Security Agent" - fresh start
The films “Operation Happy New Year!” and "Peculiarities of national fishing". Thanks to these roles, Andrey Ivanovich Krasko, whose filmography at this stage determined his future demand as an actor, was more or less noticed and received several new contracts.
The role of Krasnov, specially written for Andrei in the series "National Security Agent", became truly stellar for him and gave rise to a new stage in his career as an actor. Despite the fact that Andrei played Lekha Nikolaev’s assistant, the main character played by Mikhail Porechenkov, this series was a real breakthrough for the actor.
Further in the cinematic career of Andrei Krasko was the role of Ilyich in the military drama of Alexander Rogozhkin "Checkpoint". After that, the film "Boldino Autumn" was released, in which Andrei starred with IvanKrasko - his father.
Krasko on the theater stage
In the late 90s, Andrey Krasko (a photo of the period of an already established actor, who was remembered by the viewer just like that, can be seen below) came to the St. Dog W altz the role of filer Alexandrov.
In 2001, he created the beloved image of Venichka in the play "Moscow-Petushki" - a poem by V. Erofeev, transferred to the theater stage by G. Vasiliev. The last works in the theatrical field were the productions of Tarelkin's Death and At the Bottom. Phenomenally charming, the actor did not go on stage - he seemed to materialize on it at the right moment; never fussed, never rushed, captivating the audience with his game: organic, elusive, mysterious.
Krasko Andrei Ivanovich: filmography
From 1999 to 2003, such films as "Deadly Force 3", "Sisters", "Oligarch", "Gangster Petersburg" and "National Security Agent" (2, 3, 4). It was crime thrillers that became the most familiar genre for Andrey, who sometimes began to think that this was the ceiling, and career growth had already come to its logical conclusion.
Roles in further films were worthy of Andrei Krasko. Fima in "Liquidation", "Saboteur", "One Love in a Million", "9th Company", "72 Meters", "Doctor Zhivago", "Turkish Gambit", "Death of an Empire", "Love-Carrot". For Andrei Krasko, this was a period of demand,long-awaited and necessary.
At the peak of popularity
The roles of Andrey Krasko, due to his acting talent, were interesting and diverse. This is Alexander Vetrov - a journalist in the film "Kingdom of the Curves", in the series "Brezhnev" - a hairdresser, in the film "On a White Boat" - the owner of the boarding house San Sanych, in "Hunting for Manchurian Deer" - Skorosko - the chief engineer of the plant. In the military drama "Bastards", the image of Uncle Pasha, who was played by Andrei Krasko, touches the soul. The filmography of this talented actor is filled with film works of a different nature: military films, comedies, dramas, serials. And in each role Andrey was interesting, understandable and close to the viewer.
Almost prophetic role
Bright, almost prophetic role, Andrey Krasko, whose filmography is rich, bright, diverse, played in Karen Oganesyan's debut film "I'm staying." Doctor Tyrsa is a man who is wary of everything transcendent and mystical, stuck between life and death. Through the fault of a careless throw with a bowling ball, he ended up in the middle of a deserted plain with people like himself and no longer belonging to this world, who have not yet been accepted by the other world. Unlike his on-screen hero, the actor could not stay among the living.
Andrey died on July 4, 2006 during the filming of the series "Liquidation" in Odessa. In the role of Fima - a voluntary assistant to the criminal investigation department - in post-war Odessa, he caught bandits, walked with young ladies arm in arm through the city, exhausted from the heat, and fell in love. The episode in which Fima is killed and he falls into Andrei Mashkov's arms was filmedbefore Andrew's death. According to Vladimir Mashkov, the process was difficult, it didn’t go well, everything turned out somehow sadly believable. Another mystical incident connected with Andrei's death came to mind later. Before leaving for shooting in Odessa, 7-year-old son Kirill said: “Dad will not come back to us.”
On that day on the set, Andrei was very ill due to the difficult adaptation to stuffiness and heat, and they decided to shoot the episode in the evening, when the temperature dropped a little. However, the actor did not get better, and his wife Elena took him out of town to breathe clean air, and there she called an ambulance. The actor died on the same day. Before his 49th birthday, Andrei, who dreamed of reaching at least "fifty dollars", did not live only one month.
Andrey was buried in St. Petersburg in Komarovo.
Andrey Krasko: personal life
Throughout his life Andrey fell in love repeatedly. The first time he married his classmate Natalya Akimova while still a student. Family life was fleeting, the marriage broke up. The second wife of Krasko was Miriam Aleksandrovich, a Polish actress who studied in Russia. She gave birth in 1980 to a son, Ivan, named after his grandfather, but better known as Jan Andrzej. The son followed in the footsteps of his father, played an episodic role in "National Security Agent" and one of the main roles in the Polish youth series. He maintained contact with his father, although he rarely saw his relatives. Regarding marriage: the spouses lived in two different states, which determined the existence of legal relations in a more formal aspect.
Further, the actor did not formalize relations with anyone, but this did not prevent him from having three more common-law wives in different years. The first of them, Marina Zvonareva, gave birth to a common son, Cyril, in 1998. Tarasova Elena and Svetlana Kuznetsova - the two subsequent common-law spouses - did not have children from Andrey.
In 2003 Andrey had a daughter, Alice; the girl's mother is Karolina Popova, with whom they had a romantic relationship.
