Alexander Bashirov is a sought-after actor and an extraordinary person. His roles are remembered, shocking antics, often standing not on the verge of what is permitted, or beyond it are discussed. Who is he in ordinary life, the one who was able to make the cult of the secondary Bulgakov hero - the cat Hippo?
In the creative life of Alexander Nikolayevich Bashirov there were also works with cult directors, and scandals that threatened the destruction of a career. The biography of the actor is complicated, his life has repeatedly tested his strength. Critics, admirers and ill-wishers, of whom there are many, consider it the hardships of life as a provocateur of his strange actions and sometimes inappropriate behavior.
Biography of actor Alexander Bashirov
The future actor Alexander Bashirov was born in September 1955 in the small taiga village of Sogom, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The family, or rather the mother of the boy who raised him alone, was far from creativity. A male example for a boy was a disabled grandfather who hated power and did not want to perceive his grandson's passion for drawing as a profession.
Sasha grew up hooligan, started smoking early. At the family council, it was decided to send him after school to Leningrad, where he could, according to his grandfather, get a good working profession. As a result, Alexander graduated from a vocational school and received a diploma of a tiler-tiling.
Career path of Alexander Nikolaevich Bashirov
Two years after the end of the army service, Alexander applied for admission to the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, the faculty of directing, and was accepted. After the second year of his studies, he submitted to the jury his first directorial work - a scene with the release of the naked Satan, he had to transfer to another course. It was a fateful step - Alexander Bashirov fell into the group of Anatoly Vasiliev, who helped him to fully reveal his talent as a lyceum.
The first role of the actor was episodic, but the film with his participation became the winner of the Venice Festival. The real "shot" was his work in the legendary film "Assa". To date, Alexander Nikolaevich Bashirov’s “piggy bank” has more than 100 acting, 8 directing and even dubbing experiences - in the films “Brother”, the animated film “Squirrel and Strelka” and in the song album of Kinchev Konstantin.
