Viktor Rakov Explained

Viktor Rakov
Birthname:	Viktor Viktorovich Rakov
Birth Date:	5 February 1962

Viktor Viktorovich Rakov (Russian: Виктор Викторович Раков; born February 5, 1962) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russia (2003).^[1]

Biography

He was born February 5, 1962, in Moscow and after graduating in 1984 from GITIS he became an actor in the Lenkom Theatre.^[2]

His first major role was in To Kill a Dragon as Heinrich, the Burgermeister's son.

He has a son from his first marriage with Olga Ilyukhina and is married to Lyudmila Rakova, with whom he had two children.^[2]

Works

Theatre

• Sage as Glumov
• The Star and Death of Joaquin Muretta as Joaquin Muretta, Lead and customs officer, organ grinder
• Hamlet as Laertes
• Juno and Avos as Fernando Lopez, man of the theater, Burning heretic, Count Rezanov^[3]
• The Royal Game as Thomas Cromwell
• Jester Balakirev as Menshikov
• Va-Bank as Dulchin
• Marriage as Podkolyosin
• Peer Gynt as Davorsky grandfather, King of Trolls
• White lie as Senor Balboa, grandfather (director by Gleb Panfilov)
• Skywalker as Ryabovsky

Selected filmography

• 1988 — To Kill a Dragon as Heinrich, Burgermeister's son
• 1990 — Mother as Pavel Vlasov
• 1990 — Humiliated and Insulted as Alyosha Valkovsky
• 1992 — Gardes-Marines III as Baron von Brockdorf
• 1994 — The Master and Margarita as the Master
• 2000 — as Tsar Nicholas II (voice)
• 2006 — Alive as philosopher
• 2009 — The Admiral as investigator Popov
• 2013 — The Three Musketeers as Mr. Bonacieux
• 2014 — House with Lilies as Miron Polischuk
• 2015 — Catherine the Great as Count Alexei Razumovsky

Prizes and awards

• Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1996) - for achievements in the arts^[4]
• People's Artist of Russia (2003)
• Order of Friendship (2013)^[5]

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Почётное звание присвоено указом президента России № 1379 от 22 ноября 2003 года . 2010-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130508100733/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=020077 . 2013-05-08 . dead .
2. http://gazeta.aif.ru/online/tv/98/tg05_01 Виктор Раков: «Я — муж, отец, сын и брат»
3. http://ria.ru/culture/20141024/1029878536.html Николай Караченцов отметит свой юбилей в родном «Ленкоме»
4. https://archive.today/20120708052123/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=077366 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 2 мая 1996 года № 617 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»
5. http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?3584410 Указ Президента РФ от 2 сентября 2013 года № 696 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»