No special sociological surveys and studies to understand the obvious thing - for most people, the actors are the favorites of fortune, whose whole life, figuratively speaking, in chocolate. It seems like the work they do not dust, stand in front of the camera, hamming so bear memorized text, and the money they have much more than sales managers and plumbers, and factors known to be present on television and in the pages of the print media, is also available. And often we do not think that actors are people like us, who are subject to the same misfortunes and the harsh life's challenges. So, which is currently undergoing a young and supplying high hopes actor Igor Shmakov.

Igor Shmakov: a good start

Igor I. Shmakov was born in Lipetsk September 9, 1985. It so happened that nature gave him not only good-looking and taller than average, but still acting skills. With all the love and respect for their native city, Igor had no desire to try his hand at acting profession in Lipetsk - just for the reason that every self-respecting and aktёrstvo person should do this either in St. Petersburg or Moscow. There are, of course, exceptions, when people are not in varivshiesya theatrical pedagogical juice of one of the two capitals, later reached professional heights and succeed. But these exceptions only prove the rule. And Igor Shmakov decided to follow this rule: after graduation went to Moscow to enroll in the college theater. And did - the Higher Shchukin Drama School, which later, in 2007, he graduated as a student of the course Paul Lyubimtseva.

As it happens in most cases, the new generation of Russian actors with a real film industry and the production of serials Igor met, in the strict sense is not yet complete as an actor, as a student .  His debut was a bit part in the melodrama "In the Upper Scissors" (2004), in which the main roles performed by Alisa Freundlich and Yevgeny Mironov .  After that Shmakov became not that active, but consistently act in different serials projects ranging from "Kulagin and Partners" to "Law & Order" .  Attractive young man noticed the talented producers of the series "I'm flying" with the CTC channel, released in 2008 .  Igor went to perhaps the most interesting from an acting point of view, the role of Gleb Lobau, a medical student, in love with the main character .  Character Shmakov is not unhappy in love, hopelessly sighing at the corners of unrequited feeling tearful and writing poetry .  This kind young man who knows what he wants out of life and ready to achieve this at almost any cost .  The image turned controversial, causing emotions ranging from admiration to hatred, but bright .

The series "I'm flying" not only provided a more or less Igor wide range of fans, he contributed to the development of his career. By the time he was already one of the most promising young actors of the Theatre of Satire, playing in such productions as "The Cabal of Hypocrites," "The Libertine," "The Taming of the Shrew" and others. And thanks to the appearance on television now he were more likely to be invited in the major film projects he was involved in the creation of such major films as "Admiral", "Burnt by the Sun-2", he starred in the title role in "The Fog".

Disease

The phrase "he is now on the rise," which is often used in relation to the young artists who have already confirmed the presence of talent and professional qualities sufficient to gain wide popularity, in late 2009, fully applies just to Igor Shmakov .  Therefore, a real shock for all fans of his work (which was not so little) was terrible news that became public in February 2010 .  In mid-January, during the medical examination, doctors diagnosed the 24-year-old actor leukemia, a malignant disease of the hematopoietic system .  Fans Igor immediately began raising funds for his treatment at a cancer clinic in Moscow .  The fact that effective treatment requires a long, about a year of chemotherapy, which can not afford any Shmakov parents nor his wife with a young son, no close friends .  The money already collected indifferent spectators of television, film and theater works of Igor, was enough for the first four months of treatment, but the need for funds still remains .  It should be noted that Igor and his family did not arrange a public fund-raising campaign with the broad involvement of the media - all, by and large, limited to a few calls of his friends on the Internet .  We can only hope that this will be sufficient to help this talented actor and a good person, which kindly speak all they had to communicate with him .

Alexander Babitsky

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