Maxim Kostromykin – photo, biography, personal life, news, actor 2021

Biography

Maxim Kostromykin is a Russian theater and film actor. His popularity was brought to him by films directed by Valeria Gai Germanika, Alexander Kott, Leonid Gorovets, and Dmitry Grachev. He still remains a sought-after artist, whose filmography is increasing every year, replenished with top-rated films.

Interests and hobbies

Recently, the actor has been a frequent guest at one of the Moscow fitness clubs, where he works hard with a personal trainer.

It is clear that Maxim decided to transform himself, but for what purpose is not yet known.

Perhaps the one for whom Kostromykin is pushing iron has appeared on the horizon, or perhaps the actor is simply preparing for a new role.

Despite the fact that the young actor is quite a versatile personality, he still has no time for rest, much less for hobbies.

Childhood and youth

Actor Maxim Kostromykin was born in January 1980 in the city of Kaliningrad, where he spent his childhood and teenage years. He grew up in an ordinary family, his parents did not have creative professions: his mother was a safety engineer in a motorcade, his father was a truck driver. As a child, he had everything that millions of children have. True, from an early age Maxim was interested in literature and theater - an unusual hobby for a boy, but it was this that predetermined his fate.

The drama club and participation in amateur productions gave him pleasure. Maxim studied well at school, and in his senior year he was preparing to enter VGIK. Having received the certificate, the young man went to Moscow. Perseverance and determination helped him pass the entrance exam to VGIK for Igor Yasulovich’s course.

In 2006, Maxim graduated from university and got a job in the theater that same year. Didn't serve in the army.

Youth years

It took Maxim four long years to apply to a theater university. Until now, the actor has not admitted what he did after graduating from school.

Most likely, the talented young man was saving for further education, because as we found out, Kostromykin was accepted on a paid basis, and his parents at that time had a very difficult financial situation.

In 2001, Maxim joined the ranks of VGIK students ; perseverance helped the guy enroll in I. Yasulovich’s course, where the young man began to learn all the intricacies of acting.

In 2003, the future actor was invited to the filming of his first series “My Relatives”, where Maxim got a small cameo role. The successful debut was followed by several more offers, including the popular series “Balzac’s Age, or All Men Are Theirs...”, “School No. 1”, “Four Taxi Drivers and a Dog” and “Kings of the Game”, but not one of the roles became for Kostromykin significant.

In 2006, the aspiring actor graduated from VGIK and was immediately accepted into the K. S. Stanislavsky Theater, where he was involved in only two minor performances. Fortunately, in 2007, luck smiled on the young and promising guy; Maxim was accepted into the Moscow Youth Theater, where he began to develop as an actor.

Personal life

The actor does not like to talk about his personal life, but some information about him is still known. Previously, the Artist was married to Alexandra Nesterova, she has nothing to do with the world of cinema, the woman worked in a travel agency. The couple has children together; after the divorce, Maxim’s daughter remained with his ex-wife. The artist will not mind if the girl follows in his footsteps and connects her life with acting.

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Maxim Kostromykin and Anastasia Krasikova
Now Maxim has another girlfriend - student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering Anastasia Krasikova, she is half the age of his chosen one. For now they live in the capital in a rented apartment, but the actor is already thinking about buying his own property. Once in an interview, Maxim said that working as an actor does not bring a stable income, and therefore one cannot count on expensive housing.

Maxim Kostromykin maintains an account on Instagram. There, the artist publishes stills from films, and also shares with subscribers personal photos from sports, recreation and hanging out with friends.

Interesting Facts

After leaving the Stanislavsky Theater, Maxim continued to appear there occasionally, but as a guest actor.
Kostromykin lives in Moscow. In interviews he often says that due to filming in films and TV series, he does not have time to have affairs with girls.
He prefers to act in TV series rather than feature films. This is probably due to the lack of much free time.
So far he has no significant awards in cinema. However, critics highly appreciate the artist's roles.

Theater

The first year after graduating from VGIK, Kostromykin worked at the theater. K. S. Stanislavsky. During the year he played 2 roles - a boy in the production of “Cuba, My Love” and Ivanushka in “The Frog Princess”.

In 2007, the actor moved to the Moscow Youth Theater, on the stage of which his talent strengthened and developed. He was involved in many performances: “Alinur”, “The Green Bird”, “The Thunderstorm”, “Two Maples”, “Peter Pan”, “The Happy Prince” and others.

In parallel with his work at the Youth Theater, Maxim Aleksandrovich actively acted in films and continued to collaborate with the Stanislavsky Theater, but as a guest actor.

Career

After studying, Maxim did not immediately begin acting in films and TV series. At first he worked at the Stanislavsky Theater. His roles in the productions “Cold Autumn” and “Cuba – My Love” were especially memorable. After moving to the Youth Theater in Moscow, there were many more performances, and the talented artist was noticed by famous film figures.

Start of a career in cinema

In 2003, Kostromykin received a small role in the film “My Relatives”. Then the directors actively invited the actor to star in famous TV series, but the matter was limited to playing inconspicuous characters. Experience accumulated, and the purposeful Maxim knew that he would soon receive a star role.

Success

Having played in more than ten film projects, Kostromykin never became known to the general public. But the full-length film “Brest Fortress” changed everything, where he played the role of the boy Nikolai. The film received rave reviews from film critics and viewers. She grossed about nine million dollars.

After the success of the war film, roles poured in as if from a cornucopia. True, the actor did not get the main characters. Although the projects were significant. It is enough to mention the series “Policeman from Rublyovka”, “Trace” and “The Far Side of the Moon”. In the serial film “Olga” he was offered to play Vitalik, the lover of the main character. After the release of the film project, many television viewers fell in love with the artist.

Movies

Maxim Kostromykin's film debut took place in 2003. He played a cameo role as a dealer in the TV series “My Relatives.” Over the next couple of years, directors offered the actor cameos and minor roles. He played the computer scientist Anton in the serial film “Balzac's age, or All men are svo...”, a party boy in the film “Kings of the Game”, Zheka in “School No. 1”.

In 2009, the premiere of the Russian comedy “The Bride at Any Cost” took place, where, along with Pavel Volya, Olga Shelest and Lyubov Tolkalina, Maxim played the main role. The plot centers on a successful businessman and heartthrob who has studied female psychology well. To get a promotion, he meets with a dangerous businessman, well known in criminal circles. But, unable to control his temper, he begins to seduce his girlfriend right during negotiations. Leaving her in the morning, the guy catches the eye of the new boss’s driver. From this moment on, he begins to face serious danger, and in order to get out of this situation, the ladies' man needs to provide himself with a 100% alibi in the form of a bride.

In total, Maxim Kostromykin’s creative biography includes more than a dozen roles, but viewers remembered him from the drama “Brest Fortress”, in which he played the role of Mikhail, as well as from the role of Leshka Khomutov in the project “You Was Loved...”. Another brilliant work of the actor is the film “Everyone Dies, But I’ll Stay.”

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Daughter of Maxim Kostromykin
In 2014, the artist played the role of Vaska in the mystical thriller “Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone". The main characters of the thriller are five young people who are chasing a thief. The criminal behaves strangely - he does not hide, but, on the contrary, records a video message in which he reveals his own plans: to go to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the city of Pripyat.

In 2015, the actor joined the cast of the detective series “Method” starring Konstantin Khabensky and Paulina Andreeva. “Method” won the love of viewers in Russia and other countries and became the first Russian series to top the American and British serial charts. Maxim Kostromykin played the role of Zhorik Andreevich there in his youth.

2016 brought the actor a number of roles in popular projects. Maxim played Lekha in the comedy series “You All Infuriate Me” about the bitchy journalist Sonya, who becomes the sweetest, friendly person and the life of the party as soon as she drinks a little alcohol. Having returned to normal, the heroine deals with horror with unnecessary relationships and accidentally struck up friendships with people unpleasant to Sonya.

Maxim Kostromykin in the series "Capercaillie"

Kostromykin also played the episodic role of Kostya in the episode “The Seventh of September” in the crime-comedy series “Policeman from Rublyovka.” In addition, the actor appeared on television as an investigator in the festival film about the deficiency of parental love, “The Talion Principle.”

In the fall of 2021, the actor played the main male role in the comedy series “Olga.” The hero of Maxim Kostromykin is the driver of the gazelle “Ritual” Grigory Yusupov, who is in love with his single mother Olga (Yana Troyanova). The character of Maxim had to be realistic and fairly average, so the actor was helped to get the role by the fact that Kostromykin does not have outstanding appearance (height 165 cm, weight 70 kg).

Olga, around whose life the plot of the series is built, is “a simple Russian woman,” as Yana Troyanova once called the heroine. She is trying to raise two children from different fathers and take care of her father, who suffers from alcoholism. Olga is unable to live for herself. The woman either helps her eldest daughter (Ksenia Surkova), who studies at a vocational school and considers herself more adequate and smarter than those around her, and therefore gets into trouble. Or she helps out her youngest son, who is going through adolescence, as well as her sister (Alina Alekseeva), who is always trying to live on the support of another married man. And only the appearance of the lover Grisha, who does not require constant control and care, begins to change the heroine’s life for the better.

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Maxim Kostromykin and Yana Troyanova in the series “Olga”

The television series “Olga” won the love of viewers and in 2021 became the most popular project of the TNT channel. On average, it was watched by twice as many viewers as any other program on the channel. In the rating of the film encyclopedia site "Cinema Theater" it was awarded 1st place.

“Olga” also received two awards from the Association of Film and Television Producers in the categories “Best Comedy Series” and “Best Screenplay.”

Due to its obvious success, the series was renewed for a second season. The premiere took place on September 4, 2021. In parallel, on September 16, filming of the third season began. Work on it will end on December 29, viewers saw the new episodes on November 6, 2021.

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Maxim Kostromykin and Pavel Priluchny
In the same year, the actor returned to the role of ambulance paramedic Vasily in the second season of the series “Practice”.

In addition, Maxim Kostromykin starred in the crime series “The Yellow Eye of the Tiger” with Pavel Priluchny in the title role. The action begins in 1988, when the main characters, still at school graduation, dream of connecting their own lives with the amber business. Over time, their work hardens them, turning them into businessmen, as well as cold-blooded thieves and murderers. 15 years after a fateful school decision, one of the heroes is forced to fight the “amber lawlessness” and a criminal network of former friends and classmates.

Also in 2021, he played one of the roles in the television social comedy drama by Alexei Nuzhny “Tolya the Robot” and in the detective series “The Shadow Behind the Back.”

Maxim Kostromykin now

2020 also did not leave the actor without work. Kostromykin was invited to star in the 8-episode film “Dyatlov Pass”, where he got one of the main roles. Maxim played a 4th year student at the Faculty of Engineering and Economics of UPI, Yuri Efimovich Yudin, who, together with other participants, set off to conquer the Ural Mountains.

The story is based on real events that happened to a group of students in 1959, when they, led by Igor Dyatlov, the leader of the hike and at the same time a 5th year student at the Faculty of Radio Engineering, went to Mount Kholatchakhl in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. It was planned that in 2–3 weeks they would conquer two peaks of the Northern Urals, covering a distance of 300 km on skis. But on the night of February 1–2, all members of the group died under mysterious circumstances.

Then many versions of what happened were put forward, including mystical ones. In order to reliably recreate the story, the screenwriter of the project, Ilya Kulikov, had to study the materials of the criminal case of those years and the additional investigations carried out already in the 2000s, access to which was previously closed.

Sergey Epishev in the film "Trigger"

The film reveals the official conclusions reached by the investigation, and also tells the viewer what exactly forced a group of students to urgently leave the tent city, leave their warm clothes, and run in the dark towards death.

The role of Igor Dyatlov went to Ivan Mulin, KGB Major Oleg Kostin was played by Pyotr Fedorov, and a member of his investigative team, Katya, was played by Maria Lugovaya. Also, the main characters were played by Andrei Dobrovolsky, Alexander Metelkin, Irina Lukina, Egor Beroev and others.

But this is not the only premiere of 2021 with the participation of Kostromykin. In the summer, the comedy-adventure television series “Let’s Go” was released on the STS channel, which became the last in the filmography of Decl, who played a cameo. Maxim got a minor character - Gosha, a subordinate of Fyodor Mikhailovich (Vladimir Zaitsev). Another of his subordinates was played by Sergei Epishev, and the main characters went to Mikhail Trukhin, Olga Medynich, Artem Fadeev, Alexander Bulatov.

Real success

In September 2021, the comedy series “Olga” premiered on the TNT channel. Maxim Kostromykin got one of the main roles.

His character is a modest and handsome 26-year-old guy Gregory. He rides a black gazelle, Ritual. Because of his field of activity, the young man received the nickname “Grisha the Coffin Carrier.” His heart was won by an adult woman, a mother of two children. We are talking about the main character – Olga. At first, she did not take the young guy’s advances seriously. But Grisha turned out to be a persistent gentleman.

The series “Olga” showed quite high ratings, overtaking “Fizruk” in popularity. In a few months, its continuation (the second season) will be presented to the audience.