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Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko (Russian: Александр Георгиевич Филиппенко; born September 2, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian actor.[1]People's Artist of Russia (2000).[2]
Biography
He was born in
Moscow. His parents moved to
Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstan where he graduated from high school. Later on he entered
MIPT where he took active part in MFTI
KVN team. The first time he appeared on stage at the
MSUVariety Studio Our Home in a stage adaptation of Kersanov's 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 Brest-Litovsk (Брестский Мир),[3]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 "Mono-Duet-Trio".[4] Since 1995 Filippenko is a freelance actor, working in various theatres: in Satirikon theatre playing Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet,[5] in Et Cetera theatre playing Antonio in The Merchant of Venice,[6] in Tabakerka theatre playing Satin in The Lower Depths,[7] in Mossoveta theatre playing Serebryakov in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Batenin/Akimov in Anteroom (Предбанник)[8] by
Sergei Yursky. He directs and plays various mono-plays (one man shows) such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Product in Praktika theatre,[9] "Enthusiast's demarche" in Polytheatre[10] and many others based on Russian classical literature.
In February 2023 Filippenko's daughter Alexandra told
TV Rain that her father had left Russia and was living in
Vilnius,
Lithuania because of "his position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."[11]