Andrei Boltnev

Biography

Andrei Boltnev was born January 5, 1946 in Ufa.

Andrei Boltnev's grandfather, Konstantin Dobzhinsky was People's Artist of Georgia, and his grandmother, Nina Irtenev - Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In his birth certificate, the future actor was recorded as Andrei V. Tusov. But his father, Vyacheslav Tusov died in 1951, when Andrei was 5 years old, and stepfather Andrei Nikolay Boltnev, a sea captain, appeared in his life.

Boltnev studied in the Yaroslavl Theatre School from 1970 to 1972. After graduation he worked in theaters Ussuriysk, Maikop and Novosibirsk. In 1985 he graduated from the Tashkent Ostrovsky Theatre and Art Institute.

Boltnev first appeared on the silver screen in 1983 when he played the role of the vibrant Captain Gavrilov in the film by Semyon Aranovich Torpedo Bombers.

The actor became widely known after the screening of the film My Friend Ivan Lapshin directed in 1984 by Aleksei German, in which Boltnev starred.

The real popularity was brought to Boltnev by the television series Confrontation (1985) based on the novel by Julian Semyonov, where Andrei Boltnev played a major role - the traitor Krotov.

In 1985, the actor received an invitation to the Novosibirsk metropolitan Mayakovsky Theatre.

Boltnev died in his sleep of a stroke in Moscow on May 12, 1995. He was buried in Moscow, Vostryakovsky Cemetery.

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