Russian
film and stage actor, Daniil Aleksandrovich Strakhov was born on March
2, 1976 in Moscow, Russia. Daniil’s father is a philologist and his
mother is a psychotherapist. Strakhov’s parents divorced when he was
very young and he spent most of his childhood living with his
grandparents. As a boy, Daniil became interested in acting and took part
in productions of his school theater.
In 1997
Strakhov graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. During the
same year, while a student, Daniil made his film debut in The
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. New Version (Kar'era Arturo Ui. Novaja
versija), directed by Boris Blank. Strakhov’s first major theatrical
performance after graduating from the Institute was in Andrei Bely’s
Petersburg (Peterburg) staged at Gogol Theater in Moscow. The role
of Nikolaj Ableukhov, a young man caught up in revolutionary politics of
1905 Russia and ordered to assassinate his own father - a government
official, earned Daniil the Moscow Debuts Festival’s Best Actor in a
Leading Role award in 1998. His other theatrical performances
include Sebastian in The Twelfth Night, Chikatilo in Chikatilo
on Death Row (Vyshka Chikatilo), Dorian Gray in The Picture of
Dorian Gray, Caligula in Caligula, Paris in Romeo and
Juliet, Mikhail Platonov in Orphanhood (Bezotsovschina), and others.
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