Alexander Tyutin is a Soviet and Russian actor of theater and cinema, best known for the movies "On the Bridge," "A Second Before..." and the series "Dear Masha Berezina," "Margosha," and others.
Alexander was born into a family of Soviet engineers on November 25, 1962, in Podolsk, near Moscow. In school, Sasha excelled in the exact sciences: mathematics and physics. But he also paid attention to more creative pursuits: Sasha attended music school for piano. He mastered the guitar at home. After graduating, Alexander entered the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Within the university walls, Tyutin made his stage debut—Alexander became an active participant in the student theater, where he developed a serious passion for acting. At 20, Tyutin first appeared in a movie: the student theater troupe was invited to film in the movie "Odnoluby" (1982), where students played extras as young builders.
After graduation, Tyutin was drafted into the army. After serving two years in Georgia, he returned to Moscow and entered the famous Shchukin Theater School in the director's faculty. Simultaneously, from 1987, Alexander performed on the stage of the "Players" theater: initially acting in plays, and later as a director, staging plays himself. At 28, Alexander met his second wife, who came to the theater as a director's assistant—Iryna Kashirskaya. The young couple began living together but formalized their relationship only ten years later. In 1992, 30-year-old Tyutin graduated from the Shchukin School and began actively acting in movies and on television. In 1992, the actor appeared in a leading role—he played Igor in Alexander Khvan's movie "Dyuba-Dyuba," where Oleg Menshikov played the main role. The Soviet drama, telling the story of a VGIK student who decides to save his beloved, imprisoned for drug use, despite having a rare opportunity to fly to America, achieved wide festival success. In particular, the movie received a prestigious nomination for the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival, which undoubtedly became an event for Soviet cinema. Collaboration with director Alexander Khvan continued: the master cast Tyutin in his other feeds "Good Trash, Bad Trash" (1998), "Dying is Easy" (1999). In 2000, Alexander appeared in a comedic feed by Roman Kachanov "DMB," but only in an episodic role as an aviation captain. Early in his career, Tyutin played mostly supporting roles: the chairman of the medical commission in the drama "The Cell" (2001), the embassy secretary in the mini-series "Fatalists" (2001), the villain Kolgan in the famous "Antikiller" (2002), a psychoanalyst in the mini-series "Why Do You Need an Alibi?" (2003), businessman and politician Alexander Kruglov in the series "Dear Masha Berezina" (2004), seasoned Major Anatoly Gerasimov in the movie "Stroybatya" (2010), the father of Gosha—a guy who turned into a girl, in the popular TV series "Margosha" (since 2009).
Alexander Tyutin began receiving leading roles at the age of 45. In 2007, he played the main character—the general producer of one of the country's largest TV channels, Vadim Semenov, who becomes a victim of blackmail for past sins, in the drama "On the Bridge" (2007). In the same year, Tyutin transformed into the wise "angel of good" Archangel Michael in the drama "A Second Before..." (2007). Currently, Alexander Tyutin is actively acting in movies, mainly playing high-ranking military officers, police officers, investigators: a police general in "Hunt on Asphalt," the director of the FSB in "Code of Apocalypse," chief doctor, captain of the medical service in the series "Saboteur. End of the War," prosecutor Pyotr Zinchuk in the movie "Good Guys," division staff chief Kharchevsky in the action-packed feed "Mines in the Fairway," police colonel Georgy Borisovich Kargin in the series "Traffic Cops," and others.