Sergei Kolesnikov (actor)

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). 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, 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) ==References==