Marat Basharov


Marat Alimzhanovich Basharov is a Soviet and Russian film actor and a TV host, of Volga Tatar origin. Honored Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
He has appeared in 30 films since 1994. He starred in the film The Wedding, which was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. He appeared in the ninth season of ice show contest Ice Age.

Biography

Marat Basharov was born in Moscow to a working class Volga Tatar family. His ancestors come from Mishar villages in Krasnooktyabrsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. After high school, Basharov was enrolled in Moscow State University, Faculty of Law. However, pursuing an acting career, he soon dropped out and went to the M.S. Schepkin Higher Theatre School instead.
Marat has a daughter, named Ameli. In October 2014, Basharov beat his second wife, Katherine Arkharova, and kicked her out of the apartment. Arkharova spent some time in a coma. Doctors diagnosed her with nose fracture, traumatic brain injury and bruising. Later, the actress was discharged from the hospital and moved out. The couple divorced in 2015.
In 2017, the actor married his fan, Elizaveta Shevyrkova. Their son was born in 2016. On 27 December 2018, Shevyrkova was hospitalized with a nose injury that, as she reported, resulted from family abuse. The woman spoke about repeated battery by her husband and filed for divorce.

Sanctions

In February 2023 Canada sanctioned Marat Basharov for being involved in Russian propaganda and spreading misinformation relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Selected filmography

Burnt by the Sun, as the tank crewmanThe Barber of Siberia, as Cadet PolievskyyVoroshilov Sharpshooter, as Igor ZvoryginThe Wedding, as Misha KrapivinStill Waters, as the traffic copTycoon, as Koshkin72 Meters, as Captain-Lieutenant Pyotr OrlovThe Fall of the Empire, as lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich StolzThe Turkish Gambit, as warrant officer Dmitry GridnevPlaying the Victim, as Karas'Tins, as Igor Davydov1612, as Ivan Nikitich, the voivode of NavolokElection Day, cameoTerra Nova, as TolyaAttack on Leningrad, as Yura KraskoIn the Style of Jazz, as the actorOffice Romance. Our Time, as Yuri SamokhvalovRzhevsky versus Napoleon, as Pyotr BagrationBattalion, as Alexander KerenskyThe Heritage of Love, as Baron Ivan Karlovich von LivenGoing Vertical, as Gennadii TereshenkoThe Master and Margarita, as Stepan Likhodeyev