Konstantin Raikin - biography

Konstantin Arkadevich Raikin born July 8, 1950 in the family of the famous vaudeville actor Arkady Raikin. In 1971, he graduated from drama school named after BV Shchukin, where his mentor was Yu.Katin-Yartsev. In the same year, Konstantin Raikin was adopted troupe 'Contemporary', on the stage which played ten years. Then, in 1981, he became an actor-based theater of miniatures, which in 1987 was renamed the Moscow theater 'Satyricon'. Great success for the actor turned out to be mono 'Come on, an artist! ", Created in 1983. Among the games played Konstantin Raikin theater roles include Valentine ( "Valentine and Valentine 'Michael Roschina), Solange (' Maids' by Jean Genet), Cyrano ( 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Edmond Rostand), Mack the Knife ( 'Threepenny Opera' by Bertolt Brecht). In 1988 Raikin became artistic director of the theater 'Satyricon'. In the movie Constantine Raikin debuted in a small role in the military picture of 'Commander happy' pike '(1972), and the fame he acquired after the film by Nikita Mikhalkov' Among Strangers, a stranger among her ', which was released on the country's screens in 1974. Big audience success accompanied the actor after the title role in the musical tape director Vladimir Vorobiev 'Truffaldino from Bergamo'. Drama gift Konstantin Raikin and his mastery of disguise clearly manifested in the film 'Shadow, or it may be all right', staged by Mikhail Kozakov on the play by Eugene Schwartz, where the actor played two roles - scientist and his Shadow.