Igor Gordin was born on May 6, 1965, in Leningrad. From the age of fifteen, he attended classes at the Leningrad Youth Creativity Theater at the Zhdanov Palace of Pioneers. Many domestic artists began their career paths from this circle, but after finishing school, Gordin decided not to continue studying the acting craft. One significant circumstance distanced Igor from the stage and cinema for several years. The fact is that his father was an engineer-physicist by education, and the young man believed that a similar profession would provide better employment opportunities. Thus, he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and became a student at the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, majoring in "nuclear physicist."
However, it cannot be said that during his studies at the technical faculty, Igor never doubted the correctness of his choice. At some point, he went to the theater institute and even passed the main audition, but faced the impossibility of further taking exams due to the lack of necessary documents. Being a fourth-year student, he did not want to simply drop out of the university and decided to get his diploma and only then think about a second higher education. Ultimately, albeit at a rather late age (twenty-four years), Gordin entered the Russian University of Theater Arts – GITIS, in the course of Irina Ilyinichna Sudakova. After graduating from GITIS in 1993, the actor joined the creative team of the Youth Theater in Moscow, where he performed many roles on stage.
Igor Gordin began his cinematic career with the role of Oleg in the crime movie by Alexander Proshkin "Trio," which was released in 2002. Soon, the actor was invited to shoot in the multi-part military melodrama by Andrey Eshpai "Children of the Arbat" with Chulpan Khamatova in the main role. It was this work that made Gordin truly famous and in demand as an actor. He began to receive more and more role offers. To date, Igor's filmography includes about three dozen movies. The most notable projects with his participation turned out to be the historical TV series "The Fall of the Empire," the second part of the multi-part military drama "Saboteur: The End of the War," the detective movie by Valery Akhadov "Picturesque Adventure," the TV series "Medicine Against Fear," and others.
In addition to his acting activities, his personal life, namely his marriage to the popular Russian actress Yulia Menshova, periodically becomes a subject of discussion in the chronicle of magazine gossip. Journalists often took interviews with the creative couple, where they touched upon the topic of their separation and reconciliation. The spouses are raising two children and sometimes act in movies together. One example of their joint work is the 2010 TV crime melodrama "The Seventh Victim."
