Aleksandr Filippenko


Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko is a Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia.
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Biography

He was born in Moscow. His parents moved to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan where he graduated from high school. Later on he entered MIPT where he took active part in MFTI KVN team. The first time he appeared on stage at the MSU Variety Studio Our Home in a stage adaptation of Kersanov's Story of Tsar Emelian. Since 1969 Filippenko was a key member of Taganka Theater. In 1970 he entered Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated with honors. In 1975 he started working at Vakhtangov Theater where he took part in famous plays Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Richard III and many others. There he met, worked with and became good friends with director Robert Sturua. Filippenko left Vakhtangov Theater in 1994 and started his own theatrical project "Mono-Duet-Trio". Since 1995 Filippenko is a freelance actor, working in various theatres: in Satirikon theatre playing Claudius and the Ghost in Hamlet, in Et Cetera theatre playing Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, in Tabakerka theatre playing Satin in The Lower Depths, in Mossoveta theatre playing Serebryakov in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Batenin/Akimov in Anteroom by Sergei Yursky. He directs and plays various mono-plays such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Product in Praktika theatre, "Enthusiast's demarche" in Polytheatre and many others based on Russian classical literature.
In May 2022 Filippenko posted a photo of himself on Facebook wearing a vyshyvanka in protest against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Following this Russian theatres started to refuse appearances by Filippenko.
In February 2023 Filippenko's daughter Alexandra told TV Rain that her father had left Russia and was living in Vilnius, Lithuania because of "his position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."

Family

His daughter, Alexandra Filippenko, is a Candidate of Sciences, an expert on U.S. domestic politics, and a theatrical producer. She has worked as a research fellow at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is the author of a book on U.S. immigration policy. Filippenko is also active as a political commentator and theatre producer, participating in numerous cultural and civic projects.

Filmography