Andrei Mironov (actor)
Andrei Alexandrovich Mironov (Russian: Андрей Алексадрович Миронов, scientific transliteration: Andrei Alexandrovich Mironov; born March 8, 1941 in Moscow, † August 16, 1987 in Riga) was a Russian film actor, starring role was played in many of the most popular Soviet films, including The Diamantenarm, caution car thief! or The Amazing Adventures of Italians in Russia. Mironov was also a famous singer.
Mironov's parents were nationally known as a comedy duo. His Jewish father was Alexander Menaker. His mother was Maria Mironova, which was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
Life
Mironov visited the Theatre School of Vakhtangov Theatre in the early 1950s. Between 1958 and 1962 he studied acting at the Moscow Shchukin School. From 1962 he was a permanent member of the troupe of the Moscow Theater of Satire. In 1962, he starred in his first film, And if that love is. On December 18, 1980 awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR was awarded.
Mironov was known and respected for his roles in films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Gaidai, Mark Zakharov and other film directors. He had a great talent for playing comical people and had a wide range of roles (eg, a Soviet bureaucrats, Figaro, romantic spy, member of the Russian intelligentsia, a scam, a film pioneer, a story teller, etc.)
On one of his tours of Latvia in 1987, he lost consciousness during a performance in The Marriage of Figaro. He was taken to hospital, where he died on August 16, two days later. This happened just two weeks after his close friend and frequent co-star Anatoli Papanow died. The cause of death of Mironov was an intense internal bleeding due to a congenital brain aneurysm. Mironov was buried in Moscow on Wagankowoer cemetery.
Private
Mironov was married twice. His first wife was Ekaterina Gradowa, with whom he had a daughter, Maria Mironova, who also is an actress today, among other things, she starred in the films Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006). Mironov's second wife was Larissa Golubkina, a singer who is known for her role as clad hussars girl in the film Hussar ballad. The non- biological daughter from his second marriage, Mary Golubkina today, is also a successful actress.
Others
According to Andrei Mironov of the minor planet 3264 Mironov is named by the Soviet astronomers Lyudmila Karatschkina and Lyudmila Schurawljowa discovered in 1982.