- Andrei Mironov
Andrei Alexandrovich Mironov ("Андрей Александрович Миронов";
March 8 1941 –August 16 1987 ) was a much loved and respectedRussia n film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as "The Diamond Arm ", "Watch Out for the Car" and "Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia". Mironov was also a popular singer.Andrei Mironov's parents were known nationwide as a comedic duo. His Jewish father was
Alexander Semenovich Menaker , and his mother,Maria Mironova , rose to becomePeople's Artist of the USSR in 1990.Career
Mironov studied in the
Vakhtangov Theatre School during the early 1950s. From 1958-1962 he studied acting at the Moscow Shchukin School. From18 June 1962 -1987 Mironov was a permanent member of the trope at theMoscow Theatre of Satire. In 1962, he acted in his first film, "What If This Is Love?" On18 December ,1980 he was awarded the title ofPeople's Artist of the RSFSR .Andrei Mironov is known and loved for his roles in films made by
Eldar Ryazanov ,Leonid Gaidai ,Mark Zakharov , and other directors. He had a wide comedic range and played diverse roles (e.g. aSoviet bureaucrat , Figaro, a romantic spy, a member of theRussian intelligent sia, acon man , an American movie pioneer, a tale-teller, etc.).On one of his tours through
Latvia in 1987, he lost consciousness while performing the lead role inThe Marriage of Figaro . He was driven to a hospital where two days later he was pronounced dead on August 16th, only nine days after the passing of his close friend and frequent co-starAnatoli Papanov . The cause of his death was excessive internal bleeding due a bursting of a congenital cerebral aneurism.Personal
Andrei Mironov was married twice. First to
Yekaterina Gradova (Ekaterina Gradova ), with whom he had one daughter,Maria Mironova , and second toLarisa Golubkina , a singer and actress best known for her role of the hussar maiden in "Hussar Ballad ". His daughter, Maria Mironova from his first marriage and his adopted daughterMaria Golubkina (from his marriage with Larisa) had successful careers in Russian cinema. M. Mironova's recent roles include the wife of the chief protagonist in the blockbuster "Night Watch" (2004) and "Day Watch " (2006).Legacy
A
minor planet 3624 Mironov , discovered by Soviet astronomersLyudmila Georgievna Karachkina andLyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1982 is named after him. [cite book | last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. | coauthors = | title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | pages = p. 305 | edition = 5th | year = 2003 | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | url = http://books.google.com/books?q=3624+Mironov+1982+TH2 | id = ISBN 3540002383]Filmography
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Three Plus Two (1962)
*Beware of the Car (1966)
*The Diamond Arm (1968)
*Stariki-razboyniki (1971)
*The Straw Hat (1974)
*Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
*Blue Puppy (1976)
*The Twelve Chairs (1976)
* An Ordinary Miracle (1978)
*A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (1987)References
External links
* [http://actors.khv.ru/m/mironov.htm Andrei Mironov]
* [http://www.andrey-mironov.ru/ Official site of Andrei Mironov]
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