Yura Taras Biography

Yuri Tarasov is a Russian theater and cinema actor. Childhood Yuri Tarasov came to this world on June 16 in the city of Leningrad, in the family of a submariner. Yuri spent most of his childhood in movements. The first seven years of his life took place in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-the location of the atomic submarines of the Pacific Fleet. It was there that his brother Alexander was born in the Tarasov family.

The future years of childhood, Yuri spent in Krasnoye Selo and Odessa, after which the family returned to his native Leningrad. Yura showed excellent abilities in football, became the captain of his team and dreamed of a career as a football player or a military man, inheriting the profession of his father. In addition to sports, Tarasov actively participated in the school KVN, where he noticeably showed his acting talents.

His talent was noticed by the head of the studio of the Porte Plastic Theater during one of the school performances and offered to join the theater group, which became a key turn in the life of a young artist. Yuri Tarasov, in his youth, soon, a year later, the entire dance ensemble of the studio, who performed at numerous city events and even at the opening of the Kinotavr festival, received an invitation to participate in the filming of the comedy Mamin's “Window to Paris” the film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival and successfully went at the box office in France.

In those years, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was going through difficult times, and the film industry was not a priority. Participation in the film did not make Yuri famous even among his peers - in those days, working in the cinema compared with the ballet and was not considered a reason for pride. Nevertheless, at the age of thirteen, Yura visited Moscow and Paris and even earned a fee, while his father could not find a job, and the architect was forced to work as a controller at the weaving factory to provide a family.

At the end of the school, Yuri entered the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Alexander Herzen, but the path of the teacher of the Russian language and literature was not his calling. In the year, Tarasov became a student at the Academy of Theater Arts. A career at the theater and cinema during his studies at the university, Yuri Tarasov found his mentors represented by the directors of Vladimir Petrov and Lev Stukalov.

In a creative alliance with Lev Stukalov and a group of like-minded people, “Our Theater” was created. Since the year, starting from the premiere of the play "Lipriada", where Yuri played the role of Lieutenant Borga, his theater career began to gain momentum. Then bright roles followed, including the protagonist Alexander in the play “The Coron of Orlov”, for which the artist was nominated for the Golden Sofit theater award, Spirida in the production of Pannochka and Michael Banks in the musical “Tu-Bi-do!

Despite his status of the leading artist in his own cultural center, after eight years Tarasov left the theater to completely devote himself to cinema, since it became impossible to combine work in the theater and on the set. Yuri Tarasov in the series “Slaughter Power” with the beginning of the 10ths, Yuri Tarasov actively acted in television series. In his filmography, such popular projects appeared as “Streets of Broken Lights” and “Letter Power”.

In one of the interviews, the actor admitted that at the beginning of his television career, the income was minimal - young actors received symbolic fees, and the shooting took place in the usual St. Petersburg police department, which was provided by Andrei Kivinov’s connections. Yuri performed one of the most memorable roles in the series "Mosgaz", where Major Nikita Priyaev, a charismatic antihero, became his character.

Thanks to his charm and exceptional humor, the Tarasov character turned from a secondary into one of the main characters of the series. Yuri Tarasov in the series “Mosgaz” recalling the work on the Mosgaz project, Yuri Tarasov said that to create an atmosphere of old Moscow, the film crew had to go to Yaroslavl. Among other significant works in cinema, it is worth noting the participation of Yuri in the historical fantasy series "Golden Horde", where he worked with such actors as Alexander Ustyugov, Julia Peresild and Vasily Bochkarev.

The project, inspired by the success of the Game of Thrones and the Great Century, included more than 2 thousand historical costumes. Career Yuri Tarasova complemented the role in the Treasury Through, shot in cooperation with Andrei Smolyakov. The film, despite the successful passing at international festivals and receiving awards, could not achieve the expected success at the box office, for which the director Yuri Bykov publicly apologized.

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