Biography
Alexander Gudkov is a popular showman whose creative life began with participation in the Fedor Dvinyatin team, which performed in the KVN Major League. Now he is a sought-after artist, author and comedian, without whom not a single show of this genre can do. And if somewhere he is invited as a guest, then in some shows Sasha acts as a presenter, author of ideas and creates scripts.
Childhood and youth
Alexander Vladimirovich Gudkov was born on February 24, 1983, 100 km from the capital - the town of Stupino, which was considered a closed city before the collapse of the USSR. He is Russian by nationality. Zodiac sign: Pisces. In addition to him, an older sister, Natalya, was raised in the family. Sasha’s father passed away early, so my mother raised the children alone.
At a young age, Sasha calmly studied at school, not envisioning a pop future for himself. His relatives did not see this either; according to Alexander, his mother still does not consider her son’s occupation serious and periodically offers to get a job in a “real” profession - at a factory.
The moment that determined a different path for Alexander was the KVN school tournament, where the boy played for the graduating class. His wit and free behavior on stage did not go unnoticed and changed his biography - Gudkov was invited to play in the city team.
Despite this, after graduating from school, Alexander Gudkov, as his family wanted, entered a technological university, choosing the “earthly” education of a materials scientist, and successfully graduated from the university. However, he did not work by profession - the specialty seemed too boring for the future artist.
The beginning of the way
Alexander was born into an ordinary working-class family in the town of Stupino near Moscow on February 24, 1983. The small town is known for its metallurgical plant, which employs a significant part of the population. If it weren’t for Fortune’s smile, Gudkov would probably now continue the family dynasty and go into production.
Strange as it may seem, Sasha got into KVN by accident. As a child, he did not seem to be a gifted creative person. He was distinguished by ordinary boyish interests. He grew up as a stubborn child, always trying to complete assigned tasks and achieve success.
Sasha studied with a production focus - he studied materials science at a technical university. But I didn’t work even a day in my main specialty.
He himself said that he seriously dreamed of studying to become a dentist and even now he enjoys visiting the dentist. As a child, he perceived the dentist as almost a fairy-tale character. However, the artist may simply be playing with such stories for the public, but he grew up as a very serious boy and matured early.
At school, Alexander did not take much part in amateur performances, but when the head teacher suggested forming a team to participate in the city KVN tournament, he decided to try his hand. Witnesses would later say that he looked very professional on stage. The representative of the Stupino team liked the young man and received an invitation to join. Since this all started.
Later, together with his sister, whose name is Natalya, Sasha created the team “Family-2”. The project did not bring great success, but it allowed us to gain experience. In addition, joint creativity brought the brother and sister even closer together, who helped each other out more than once in life. Together they were noted in the team “Natural Disaster”.
KVN
Gudkov liked the club of cheerful and resourceful people. Together with Natalya Gudkova, his older sister, close friend and friend, the guy joined the ranks of KVN, performing in the teams “Natural Disaster” and “Family 2”, and then in the team “Fedor Dvinyatin”, which brought him popularity.
The first appearance of the KVN team “Fedor Dvinyatin” on Channel One caused a sensation. The team differed from everyone else in their unique style. The humor was built on absurdity, wordplay and polished acting skills.
In 2008, in the KVN Major League, the Fedor Dvinyatin team showed an atypical interpretation of a one-song competition. Alexander Gudkov appeared on stage in the guise of Valery Leontyev, he sang “Don’t Forget Me” and left the stage into the hall, where he talked with the jury and decoy spectators. The performance caused delight from the audience and many negative comments from the jury.
Yuliy Gusman expressed doubts that the team has anything to do with KVN. These words caused indignation among the audience, who liked Gudkov’s performance. Gusman was supported by the chairman of the jury, Konstantin Ernst, who doubted the prospects of “Fedor Dvinyatin”. During the award ceremony for the teams, Yuliy Gusman gestured to the team, twirled his finger at his temple and put his hands to his ears.
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Alexander Gudkov and his sister Natalya Gudkova
Later, Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov joined the criticism for the first time in many years. He called the number a parody that did not deserve such a reaction from the audience. But his words were no longer included in the television version of the game. At the festival in Jurmala, “Fedor Dvinyatin” responded to criticism by singing a song about Gusman, and the jury member himself smiled after this number.
For two years the team proved to themselves and the jury that this format of the game has the right to life. Despite numerous criticism from the judges, including Yuli Gusman, in 2009 Alexander Gudkov, as part of FD, received a hard-fought “bronze” in the final of the KVN Major League. Guzman praised the team and the performance of Gudkov, whom he called “exhausted, tired, either a boy or a girl,” after which he presented Alexander with a bag of sausage, oranges, sprats and other food.
Indeed, Gudkov’s nervous and mannered acting, his tall height (186 cm) and thin physique often create a painful and strange impression, but this is only part of the artist’s image. Despite the jury's concerns, the successful comedian's health is not in danger.
Wife: Alexandra Gagarinskaya
Photos on Instagram reveal a completely different story with a happy ending. Last summer, footage was shot showing Gudkov in a suit and Alexandra Gagarinskaya in a white dress with friends.
Based on them, it can be assumed that this was a closed celebration of the actor’s . In later photographs, Alexander Gudkov and his wife are already captured with rings, so that all doubts about their relationship are swept aside.
With Alexandra
So, Alexandra Gagarinskaya, a professional photographer from Riga, became the chosen one and legal wife of the actor. By the way, it was in Latvia that the wedding photos were taken. The girl is 33 years old and has known Alexander for a long time.
She, like him, was passionate about KVN, and probably in those years they met. The celebration itself took place on July 13, 2019 and was called by Gudkov’s friends “The Day of Love, Friends and Harmfulness.”
Today the happy couple is posting photos of themselves together, and Gudkov is pleased with the presence of a ring on his ring finger.
So now you can forget about the bachelor comedian and wait for new stories from his already married life. We hope that very soon not only Alexander Gudkov’s wife, but also his children, photos of family holidays and vacations will appear on Instagram.
Humor and creativity
Over time, Gudkov began to take steps from team play to individual projects. His first attempt was writing scripts for the humorous show Comedy Woman, where his colleague from “Fedor Dvinyatin” Natalya Medvedeva played. Creating light, casually humorous stories for the program allowed him to open up and create without regard to strict boundaries.
Later, when they appeared on the stage of a women's comedy show, the Gudkov-Medvedev tandem became one of the brightest. Alexander also performed outside the tandem; the audience especially remembered his miniatures with Maria Kravchenko, Natalya Yeprikyan, Marina Fedunkiv and Ekaterina Skulkina.
In 2010, Alexander appeared in the entertainment program Yesterday Live (“Estudey Life”) in the “Fashion Section.” Gudkov also began working in “Evening Urgant” as a co-host and voice-over artist. The showman led the columns “Ladies’ Club”, “High Waist Club”, “Music Studio of Alexander Gudkov”, “Self-Defense Lessons from Boris the Tiger”.
Participation in “Evening Urgant,” according to him, was a little more difficult - the world of humor remained the best niche for Alexander’s talent. In addition to the programs mentioned, the showman participated in the “Laughter in the City” project and the original humor show “Nezlobin and Gudkov.”
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Alexander Gudkov in "Comedy Woman"
Alexander Gudkov loves to do voice acting - play with his voice, make people laugh, or, as he puts it, “play the fool.” Thus, as a “voice” he got into the popular cartoon “Wreck-It Ralph,” voicing Master Felix Jr., as well as the main character in the film “Angela’s School Chronicles.”
The actor starred in Sergei Lazarev's music video for the song Lucky Stranger. In the humorous video, he appeared in three images at once - an usher, a policeman and a car service owner. Among the videos in which Gudkov appeared were parodies of hits by Rihanna, Madonna, Decl, Mikhail Shufutinsky and others. And in 2021, he played in an advertisement for Bio Balance, where he turned into a fitness trainer.
Gudkov is also no stranger to business: in 2013, together with partners Andrei Shubin and Nazim Zeynalov, he opened a men's hairdressing salon, Boy Cut. In fact, the hairdresser is more of a friendly club for men - a place where you can get a haircut, buy clothes, men's cosmetics, accessories and, of course, have a quiet conversation. By the way, the hairdressers at Boy Cut are also exclusively men and at the same time high-class professionals.
In December 2021, Alexander, together with Natalya Andreevna, took part in the TV show “Where is the logic?” The program turned out to be unusual not only because it was dedicated to the New Year, but also because the presenter Azamat Musagaliev and his wife Victoria became opponents of the humorous couple. Instead of Azamat, the New Year's episode was hosted by Ruslan Bely.
Alexander Gudkov and the KVN team “Fedor Dvinyatin” / Shot from KVN
Alexander Gudkov appeared as a guest in the entertaining scandalous show “Money or Shame.” When asked by TV presenter Uncle Vitya about a joke addressed to Ivan Urgant, the artist answered negatively. The man noted with humor that he cannot joke about a person on whom his salary directly depends.
In 2021, the Comedy Woman show announced a change in lineup. Alexander Gudkov continued to perform as part of a humorous program. The press connected these events in the life of the TV show with the upcoming film of the club residents, in which Alexander also starred.
Gudkov had a hand in two sensational videos - for the hit of Dima Bilan and Polina “Drunken Love” and for the new hit of Philip Kirkorov “The Color of the Mood is Blue”. In all the videos, Alexander appeared in character roles, and participated as a screenwriter and producer.
2018 brought a significant award to Alexander Gudkov’s collection of awards. Together with Ivan Urgant, the showman received the prize in the “Producer of the Year” category at the “GQ Man of the Year” awards ceremony. The union of two comedians literally blew up the Internet with clips for Philip Kirkorov’s hits “The Color of Mood is Blue” and “Ibiza.”
And then Gudkov appeared in Yuri Dud’s program on YouTube in an episode dedicated to “new Russian humor.”
In May 2021, Alexander, together with Olga Buzova, became a guest of the Studio Soyuz program. The participants “measured” their musicality and plunged into the world of Russian pop music, and also tried to complete all the tasks with the help of humor and self-irony. And at the end of the episode, the singer and comedian performed Buzova’s hit “Not enough halves.”
Personal life
Gudkov’s stage image, which the press described as an “effeminate macho,” more than once raised the question of Gudkov’s real orientation to fans. The version of the artist’s “unconventionality” was fueled by the fact that he realistically portrayed a gay man in humorous numbers, as well as his bachelor status. The press did not publish confirmed information about his girlfriend for a long time.
However, such a life could also be connected with Alexander’s constant employment. He participates in several television projects and develops his own business; with such a schedule, he has little time for his personal life. According to friends, despite the prevailing image, Alexander is an ordinary man who respects family values and laments that they are not given attention on television.
Questions about Alexander’s preferences, his chosen one and life plans are of keen interest to the public, and Gudkov once lifted the veil of secrecy in an interview. The showman has a girlfriend with whom the artist has been for many years. The young people at one time only maintained friendly relations, and later realized that they could not live without each other. Perhaps the chosen one will become Alexander’s wife in the near future.
Alexander Gudkov and his beloved Alexandra Gagarinskaya (from Riga)
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Alexander Gudkov and Alexandra Gagarinskaya
Reporters and curious Internet users are conducting their own investigations to declassify the identity of the showman’s chosen one. Some call Maria Chekalina Gudkov’s girl, who realizes herself as a beauty stylist in a fashionable glossy magazine. And others connect Alexander’s personal life with Alexandra Gagarinskaya. Some publications even write that they have already had a wedding, noticing identical wedding rings on their ring fingers in one of the photos. However, this information has not been confirmed.
The showman calls his sister a close friend, and, according to Alexander, he borrowed his sense of humor from his mother. If everything works out, Gudkov is making plans to create a family show about animals.
The artist considers his own performances on stage only a hobby, and calls writing scripts his profession, but even here he does not treat himself as a professional, introducing himself as a “creative scribbler.”
Alexander runs a personal Instagram, where he posts photos not as often as fans would like, but he accompanies them with funny captions. Most often, the shots are associated with the work of a comedian, meetings with friends or going to social events. According to the comedian, watching his page on social networks every night has a calming effect on him, after which Sasha easily falls asleep.
Alexander Gudkov's wife - facts from his personal life
Does Alexander Gudkov have a wife? Gudkov hides his relationships and does not even post photographs of his beloved women on his pages on social networks. His biography, which concerns matters of the heart, does not reach his fans. On stage he is quite modest and definitely expresses his reserve. The man takes his work seriously, but participation in the Comedy Woman project forces him to answer questions regarding orientation in interviews.
Alexander Gudkov will be with his wife only when he can devote a lot of time and attention to her and the children; development and career growth come first. He is not one of those artists who constantly have affairs on the side, but this does not mean that he cannot meet women. A sense of humor helps a man to have many female friends, as well as those who are not averse to paying attention to him.
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Alexander Gudkov now
Now the showman continues to collaborate with colleagues on the projects “Evening Urgant” and “Comedy Woman”, and also appears in video clips of Russian show business stars. And Gudkov’s creative work did not stop during the self-isolation, which was announced at the end of March 2021 in Russia.
The showman, inspired by the stars' videos on Instagram, decided to show viewers that staying at home is not bad at all, and involved numerous stars in impromptu filming. The video “Self-isolation” was created by the Alexander Gudkov Music Studio. Using his own example and the example of Ivan Urgant, Dmitry Monatik, Philip Kirkorov, Olga Buzova, Nastya Ivleeva and others, he showed what useful (and not so useful) things you can do at home.
Gudkov did not stop there and almost immediately, together with the group Cream Soda, created his own version of the video for the track “Crying on Techno” by the group “Khleb” in 2021. The composition is dedicated to all the canceled parties, so the filming participants organize solo raves on the balconies of their apartments. In addition to him, participants of the show “Dancing on TNT”, Dmitry Krasilov from the Little Big “Uno” video clip and Dmitry Bonchinche, founder of House of Bonchinche, appeared in the video.
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Alexander Gudkov and Maria Chekalina
Also in the spring, the TV presenter joined forces with Ekaterina Varnava and launched his own show “Fight with Girls”. There, in a humorous manner, invited artists, singers, presenters, bloggers and actors find out which of them is cooler by completing funny tasks from the project organizers. The program is broadcast on the Friday TV channel.
2020 did not leave Gudkov without work in cinema. At first he was doing voice acting for the cartoon “I Have Already Seen It.” And then he appeared in the film “Marathon of Desires,” which became the first directorial work for Daria Charusha, the first role of Maria Minogarova and the first script for Alexander Gudkov, who also got the role of a swindler. And then he voiced the character again, this time in the animated series “Cats and Dogs.”
And in the fall, it became known about a new project of the TNT channel “You_Top Model”, the host of which was Anastasia Reshetova, the former lover of rapper Timati. And her co-hosts are Alexander Gudkov and Gosha Kartsev. The winner of the competition will receive 3 million rubles, the title “Top Model of TNT” and will receive a lucrative contract.
Television career
On television, Gudkov began by creating scripts for the project with Natalya Medvedeva Made in Woman, known today as Comedy Woman. Here he began acting as an actor, delighting viewers with his vivid images.
All these years (2010-2013), Gudkov’s work was not limited to participation in one project. Along the way, he was the host of the entertainment shows “Yesterday Live”, “Laughter in the City”, “MTV Russia”, and a resident of the Comedy Club.
In 2013, Alexander Gudkov began working together with Ivan Urgant, where he worked as a co-host in the program of the same name for some time. He still collaborates with this project today, continuing to write scripts for it and remaining its voiceover.
During one of the performances
By the way, his voice is quite popular - the characters of many popular films and cartoons speak with it: “Prostokvashino”, “Wreck-It Ralph”, “The Snow Queen-2”, “Four in a Cube”, etc.
He also has acting experience in his life - he starred in the comedy “Pokhabovsk. The Other Side of Siberia", the historical film "Demon of the Revolution", the melodrama "Marathon of Desires".
Alexander never ceases to amaze with his restless imagination and ability to work. Now he is actively conquering YouTube, delighting the audience with his participation in the projects “Comment Out”, “League of Bad Jokes”, as well as creating advertising and entertainment content. The most famous videos of Alexander Gudkov: “Crying on Techno”, “Clocks”, “Tektonik”, etc.
During the quarantine period, he came up with a new project, “Self-Isolation,” which tells about the lives of stars through their Instagram stories.
Also this spring, the provocative show “Fight with Girls” was launched, in which Ekaterina Varnava became Gudkov’s co-host.
At the same time, if you can hear about the comedian’s career and successes from his lips, from friends in the media and online publications, then information about Alexander Gudkov’s wife, personal life, and photos of his new family can only be found on his personal Instagram page.
The artist’s life is filled with interesting work, he never ceases to be popular, which fully explains the keen interest in his person.
