Sergei Valentinovich Kolesnikov (; 4 January 1955 – 29 April 2023) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor, television presenter, and Honored Artist of Russia (1994).Награждён указом Президента России № 1784 от 29.08.1994
Biography Sergei Kolesnikov was born on 4 January 1955, in Moscow in a family of Soviet intellectuals. His mother was Maria Pavlovna Kolesnikova (born 1920) and his father Valentin Kolesnikov (1915–1977). His brothers include Vladimir and Igor Kolesnikov (born 1949).
In 1978 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (with course leaders Sofya Pilyavskaya and Vladimir Bogomolov)Школа-студия МХАТ: 1970—1979 and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. After the division of the theater he worked in the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. In 1990 he moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, where he worked until October 2011.
From 21 May 2006 to 7 October 2012, he starred in the leading television program Fazenda (Channel One Russia).
Kolesnikov died on 29 April 2023, at age 68.
Selected filmography 1985: Man with an Accordion as Lopatin 's son 1991: Tsar Ivan the Terrible as Khlopko 1992 / 1997: Trifles of Life as Sergei Kuznetsov 1994: St. Petersburg Secrets as investigator 2004: Daddy as head of the hospital train 2005: The Case of Dead Souls as Derzhimorda 2007 / 2009: Daddy's Daughters as Permyakov 2009: Cold Souls as Dmitry 2011: Chapiteau Show (cameo) 2013: A Good Day to Die Hard as Viktor Chagarin 2013: Secrets of the Institute for Noble Maidens as Prince Aleksey Sergeevich Vyshnevetsky 2014: Black Sea as Levchenko 2018: McMafia as priest 2022: Land of Legends as monk Dionysius
Personal life Kolesnikov was married to wife Maria Alexandrovna Kolesnikova (Velikanova), a film, theater, and TV artist. He had two sons, Alexander (born 1981) who graduated from an architectural school, and Ivan (born 1983), an actor. He had two granddaughters, Avdotya (born 2006) and Vera (born 2013), from Ivan.
Awards Honored Artist of Russia (1994) Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (1998)Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 23 октября 1998 года № 1300
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Страница о Колесникове Спектакль «Король Лир»