A native of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) currently has many theater projects and more than a hundred film works. The diverse characters of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Andrei Epifanovich Ilyin created for him the steady glory of a talented lyceum who is ready to transform into goodies, mossy repeat offenders, and even high society nobles.
The popular theater and film actor Andrei Ilyin is currently at the peak of his career. A native of a simple provincial family, with his remarkable talent and determination, was able to independently break his way into the heights of the cultural glory of our Fatherland.
Biography and filmography of Andrei Ilyin
July 18, 1960 in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) the future gentleman of the Order of Friendship and a member of the Union of Filmmakers of the Russian Federation was born. Despite the fact that Andrei's parents had nothing to do with the world of art and culture (father is a driver, and mother is a supply manager at a vocational school), a boy from a young age had a special interest in literature and acting, which was expressed in his active participation in school life drama circle.
From the school bench at the age of fifteen, Ilyin moved to the Gorky Theater School, which he successfully graduated in 1979. Distributing into the Riga Russian Drama Theater under the direction of Arkady Katz, he plays the roles of children's characters in his debut performances. The first serious theatrical work of Andrei was the role of Khlestakov in The Examiner. And then, important scenic images poured from the cornucopia: Treplev in The Seagull, Alexei Ivanovich in The Player, and even Hamlet himself, who at all times was considered the standard of stage skill.
Andrei Ilyin worked in this theater for ten years, changing it in 1989 to the stage of the Mossovet Theater, where he was a member of the acting troupe until 2000. It was during the dashing "nineties" - a period of creative oblivion - that he combined the scene with the cab in order to simply survive. During this period, theater-goers could see Ilyin in the performances: "My poor Marat", "Dear friend", "How important it is to be serious" and others.
After the end of the "troubled" time, the creative talent of Andrei Epifanovich was already noted in numerous theater projects on the stages of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and the theater of Sergei Bezruky, in the projects of the theater agencies "Art Partner XXI" and LA THEATER.
The debut in the cinema with Andrei Ilyin took place in 1980 with the short film "Three lemons for anyone." And then until the very end of the “eighties” his filmography was replenished only with episodic roles. But from the moment of participation in the film project "Constellation Kozlotur", where he got the first serious film work, Ilyin has already truly become a sought-after movie actor. Currently, the number of roles played by him on the set exceeds one hundred. Among the most successful film works, the following should be highlighted: "Anchor, another anchor!" (1992), Split (1993), Kamenskaya (1999-2011), Moscow Saga (2004), Adjutants of Love (2005), Pushkin. The Last Duel (2006), Vorotily (2008), The Brothers Karamazov (2009), Wolf Messing: Seen Through Time (2009), Lecturer (2011), Without Witnesses (2012), Vasilisa (2014), Serebryany Bor (2017), "Native People" (2018).
