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Sergey Zhigunov - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born January 2, 1963, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Region, RSFSR, USSR - Soviet and Russian actor, producer, director and screenwriter.
After the eighth grade of high school, he was expelled from school for bad behavior. He studied at Rostov secondary schools - first at school number 20, then at school number 75, and at the Rimsky-Korsakov music school. He participated in one of the school ensembles, played the guitar and sang. I read a lot. The first book that interested him was The History of Ancient Greece. Then came the works of Fenimore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, and in high school he was read by O. Henry, Remarque and Hemingway.
First entered the Shchukin Higher Theater School in 1980, but was soon expelled for "incompetence", as he began acting in films and almost abandoned his studies. Returning to Rostov-on-Don, he played in the Rostov Theater of the Young Spectator. A year later, in 1982, he recovered at the Shchukin School already on another course (the artistic director of the course is Marianna Rubenovna Ter-Zakharova) and graduated from it in 1986.
During auditions for the film "Midshipmen, Go!" (1987) was drafted into military service in the ranks of the Soviet army, and in order to stay on the set, he was enlisted and served in the 11th separate cavalry regiment, in Alabino, Moscow region.
Since 1990 - General Director of TO Chance of the Mosfilm Film Concern. At present, he is the General Director of Prime-Time LLC, Sergey Zhigunov's Producer Center LLC, Studio 7 LLC.
Was invited to the KVN jury.
Established the Sozvezdie Charitable Foundation for the Social Rehabilitation of Russian Cinema Actors. In January 2014, the fund was excluded from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities due to the termination of its activities.
As a child, Sergei Zhigunov dreamed of becoming a musketeer, and the embodiment of this dream was the work on the TV serial Three Musketeers (2013), which became his directorial debut. The film is a new adaptation of the novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas, which premiered in Russia on January 3, 2014 on Channel One.
