Occupation Actor, director Children Mikhail Shirvindt Role Actor | Name Alexander Schirvindt Years active 1956–present | |
Full Name Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt Born July 19, 1934 (age 90) ( 1934-07-19 ) Moscow, Russia, USSR Awards People's Artist of Russia
Meritorious Artist of Russia Spouse Natalia Belousova (m. 1957) Parents Raisa Shirvindt, Anatoly Shirvindt Grandchildren Alexandra Schirvindt, Andrei Shirvindt Movies The Irony of Fate, Station for Two, The Irony of Fate 2, Dog in Boots, A Forgotten Tune for the Flute Similar People Mikhail Derzhavin, Mikhail Shirvindt, Andrei Mironov, Eldar Ryazanov, Vera Vasilyeva | ||
Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Ширвиндт, born July 19, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian screen and stage actor, screenwriter, voice actor, People's Artist and Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR. Awarded with Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Order of Friendship of Peoples. Since 2000 he has been a theater director of Moscow Theater of Satire.
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Alexander Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt (1896–1962) and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt (1898–1985) of Moscow Philharmonic Society. In 1956 he graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year Shirvindt made his cinema debut in Ona vas lyubit! (1956). Grandfather, Gustav (Gedaliah) Moiseevich Shirvindt (a graduate of Vilnius 1st Gymnasium in 1881), was a doctor.
Shirvindt appeared in more than 40 films, including Grandads-Robbers (1971), The Irony of Fate (1975), The Twelve Chairs (1976), Three Men in a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog (1979), Station for Two (1982), The Irony of Fate 2 (2007). He voiced Aramis in Dog in Boots film.