Andrey Panin

Andrey Vladimirovich Panin (1962-2013) - Russian theater and film actor, director and Honored Artist of Russia. Laureate of the State Prize of Russia and the Nika Prize.

There are many interesting facts in the biography of Andrei Panin, which we will talk about in this article.

So, before you is a short biography of Panin.

Biography of Andrei Panin

Andrey Panin was born on May 28, 1962 in Novosibirsk. He grew up in a family that has nothing to do with cinema. His father, Vladimir Alekseevich, was a radio physicist, and his mother, Anna Georgievna, worked as a physics teacher. He has a sister, Nina.

Childhood and youth

According to the actor himself, he grew up as a very weak child with a difficult character. In his youth, he was fond of sports, attending boxing and karate. At the same time, he was engaged in folk dances and even performed as part of a team at the capital's VDNKh.

Having received a certificate, Andrei, at the insistence of his parents, became a student of the Kemerovo Food Institute. However, a year later he was expelled from the university "for unworthy behavior." Then, on the advice of a friend, he entered the directing department of the Kemerovo Institute of Culture.

Having become a certified specialist, Panin got a job at the local Minusinsk theater. It is worth noting that even in his student years, he repeatedly played in various performances.

At this time of his biography, Andrei was the head of the "Plasticine" pantomime studio. Experiencing financial difficulties, he periodically traveled to the capital to sell jeans and sneakers, which were then in short supply.

During his trips to Moscow, Panin tried 3 times to enter the Moscow Art Theater School, but each time he was refused due to speech defects and "expressionless appearance." In 1986, he still managed to enter the Studio School from the 4th attempt, where he mastered all the techniques of acting.

After receiving his diploma, Andrei Panin joined the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. Here he was repeatedly trusted to play the main roles in various productions. Later, he was invited to work at the Moscow Art Theater School as an assistant teacher.

Films

Panin first appeared on the big screen in 1992, playing one of the prison guards. The first success came to him 6 years later, after participating in the crime comedy "Mom, Don't Cry".

The next notable work of Andrey was the role of a hard worker and a drunkard in the film "Wedding". After that, they began to increasingly trust him to play key characters. Viewers saw him in such famous films as "Kamenskaya" and "Border. Taiga novel ".

And yet, nationwide fame fell upon the actor after filming the cult TV series "Brigade", which was released in 2002. This project is still considered one of the most successful in the history of Russian cinema.

Then Panin managed to prove himself perfectly in such rating films as "Fight with the shadow", "Hide and seek" and the second part "Mama Do Not Cry". He managed to skillfully portray various hypocrites, simpletons, merry fellows, as well as military personnel and special agents.

Andrey has proven himself in a number of war films, including "Bastards" and "The Last Armored Train". He played the main characters in the melodrama Kiss Not for the Press, Zhurov, Doomed to War, Illusion of Fear, etc.

In 2011, in the biographical film Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”Andrey Panin transformed into Anatoly Nefedov, who was the personal doctor of the legendary bard. Although his role was not so big, the viewer remembered it for a long time.

In 2013 Panin played Dr. Watson in the detective television series "Sherlock Holmes". The last work of the artist was the 8-episode war drama "Major Sokolov's Hetera", in which he again got a key role. An interesting fact is that he died before the end of the filming of this tape. In this regard, his hero had to finish the game understudy.

Over the years of his creative biography, Andrei Panin was able to prove himself as a director. He authored a remake of the 1954 comedy Loyal Friends, entitled Full Ahead.

Then the man presented the tragicomedy "The Grandson of the Cosmonaut". In 2014, Panin was posthumously awarded the prize of the Association of Film and Television Producers in the category “For Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography”.

Personal life

The first wife of Andrey was the economist Tatyana Frantsuzova. In this marriage, the couple had a daughter, Nadezhda. After that, Panin began to look after the actress Natalia Rogozhkina.

The couple lived together for about 7 years, having parted in 2013. In this union, they had two boys - Alexander and Peter. Not everyone knows that Panin was fond of drawing. A couple of years after the death of the artist, his drawings were first made public for the general public.

Death

On the morning of March 7, 2013, the body of Andrei Panin was found in his apartment. Initially, it was assumed that he suffered a head injury after falling to the floor. But experts found that the man died the night before, and that the hematomas and abrasions on the body could not be obtained without an outside person.

After a thorough examination of the body, experts did not rule out that the artist was killed. His face was bruised, and a large bruise covered his right eye.

It is curious that glass microparticles were also found on the corpse, the appearance of which the investigators could not explain. A year later, the investigation was stopped due to "lack of corpus delicti."

However, the relatives of the deceased are still sure that Andrei was killed. Andrey Panin died on March 6, 2013 at the age of 50. The circumstances of his death still cause heated discussions.