Aleksei Veselkin
Aleksei Alekseyevich Veselkin was a Russian actor and television game show presenter and Honoured Artist of Russia. He was a visible personality on television and in society magazines during the 1980s and 1990s, making a popular comeback in 2006 as the host of Sdelka?, the Russian version of the American gameshow Deal or No Deal. During 2012, he was also a radio host on Radio Mayak show of Sergei Stillavin, but he and co-presenter Victoria Kolosova were dismissed after government watchdog Roskomnadzor upheld complaints against a controversial article by the presenters on cystic fibrosis. Veselkin returned to his previous position as a staff actor at the.
His son Aleksei Veselkin Jr is a well-known teen actor: Veselkin Sr and Jr dubbed the voices of David Beckham and his son for the Russian version of Coca-Cola advertisements.
Veselkin died on 26 March 2025, at the age of 63.
Filmography
- 1976 – Field Move
- 1983 – Romeo and Juliet
- 1984 – '
- 1984 – It All Begins With Love
- 1984 –
- 1984 – Egorka
- 1985 – Road to the Sea
- 1986 – '
- 1987 – Riders
- 1988 – '
- 1988 – Diskzhokey
- 1988 – The Black Corridor
- 1991 – Armavir
- 1991 – '
- 1999 – '
- 2001 – Doctors
- 2002 – The Joys and Sorrows of Little Lord Fauntleroy
- 2002 – Looking Down
- 2003 – Poor Nastya
- 2005 – Not Born Beautiful
- 2005 – '
- 2007 – A Suitcase with a Bright Future
- 2010 – All for the Best
- 2012 – All the Afflicted
- 2014 – ''April Fools' Day''