Roman Khan is one of the few actors who works around the clock, literally goes ahead in achieving his professional goals, plays any role with complete dedication.
His idols and professional guides are Garik Martirosyan and Jackie Chan. The springboard for his career was the popular KVN game. And this is all about him, about the Russian Korean, no matter how absurd it may sound, about Roman Khan. His whole life is a contrast and the search for a new path. Who is he and where from? How did you get into the world of Russian show business and cinema?
Biography
The novel was born in Khabarovsk, in mid-April 1983. Very little is known about his family, only that his mother was Russian and his father a Korean. In addition to Roman, they also had a girl.
The boy in childhood was chubby, but unusually mobile. He enjoyed playing sports - swimming and martial arts. Despite the impressive weight, Roman easily sat on the twine, showed excellent results in taekwondo.
Classmates called Khan Jackie Chan because of his appearance. As a result, the boy became interested in those with whom his peers associate, became interested in films with Jackie Chan, even read his autobiographical book and was literally struck by the author’s philosophy and his outlook on life.
The next important stage in his life was the psychological training of Pavel Romashin, which the guy attended with his mother and sister. After the first lesson, Roman decided to radically change his life, quit smoking, in three months he lost more than 20 kg.
But the young man did not think about acting at all. He was fascinated by sports and everything connected with the computer. In accordance with his hobbies, he also chose a profession - after school he left for Moscow, where he entered RosNOU (Russian New University), to the faculty of computer technology.
The path to creativity
Despite the fact that Roman did not consider acting as a profession, this direction of art was present in his life from high school. From grade 7 he was a member of the KVN school team. After entering the university, he became part of the university team, with which he played even in the Higher League. And Khan was not only an ordinary "player" in KVN, but also a scriptwriter, director of numbers. In his rare interviews, he often says that it was this game that helped him develop his acting talent, “stock up” with such skills as improvisation, quick reaction to jokes of opponents or partners in the scene, wit in general.
After graduation, Khan realized that he would not work by profession. A dull office day is not for him, he needs movement, development, spectators, a stage and a movie set. Then Roman decided to try his hand at the comedy stage. The guy went to one of the Russian TV channels, where "comedians" were young comedians.
Roman Khan's debut on TV took place as a member of the Comedy Club project, but very soon he became the author of numbers for his leading artists, one of the directors of a unique and successful stand-up project.
And at this stage of his life, career, Roman helped develop the idol of his childhood and youth. The sketch “Boxing Duel”, which Khan created together with Alexander Revva, is very popular. In the issue, the Russian Korean plays the role of Jackie Chan's understudy.
Filmography
For popularity in the comedy stage was followed by offers to act in films. Roman Khan's debut as a film actor took place in the film directed by Olga Perunovskaya "Students" in 2005. There he played a cameo role, but both the audience and critics liked and remembered it. The first work was followed by new ones, and now in Roman's filmography there are already more than 20 works in films and series. The brightest of them;
- the slow-witted Chinese from the Interns,
- pickpocket from Cherkizon. Disposable people,
- Taxi Van
- Master Lee from Classmates,
- Hun from the second part of the picture "Island",
- Lee Chang from The Crew,
- Yakut from the "Polar" and others.
In 2008, Roman Khan made an attempt to get a specialized acting education, entered the appropriate school, but studied there for only a year. He was forced to drop out of school due to serious workload on the set of cinema.
In addition to cinema, he took part in the creation of such television projects as The Bulldog Show, Comedy Club, Galygin.ru and others. But he did not leave his dreams of becoming a certified actor. In parallel with his work on television and in cinema, he attended various acting classes. A huge impression on him was made by American Ivana Chubbuck's master classes. It was after her courses that Roman decided to try himself in a new direction - to become a director of feature films and TV shows. When asked about when his first film will be released, he replies that for this he still needs to “mature”, but the process has already been launched.
