Igor Jewgenjewitsch Liwanow

Igor Yevgenyevich Livanov (Russian: И́горь Евге́ньевич Лива́нов ; born November 15, 1953, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. Meritorious Artist of the Russian Federation (2004). Younger brother of actor Aristarkh Livanov.

Igor was born on November 15, 1953, in Kiev.

Mother Nina Timofeevna Livanova, father Yevgeny Aristarkhovich Livanov. Parents were heads of theatrical puppet club in the House of Pioneers of the October District in Kiev. Older brother Aristarkh (born March 17, 1947). Since fifth grade, Igor has been boxing.

After leaving school I went to Leningrad. Entered LGITMiK on course of Igor Gorbachyov, who graduated in 1975. Since 1976 he was in active military service in the Soviet Army.

From 1986 to 1988 he led the actors workshop at the Rostov College of Arts. He worked in the Moscow Experimental Theater at the invitation of his namesake, artistic director of the theater Vasily Livanov. Now in the troupe of the Moscow Moon Theatre of Sergei Prokhanov.

In cinema Livanov made his debut in 1979 as Nikolai Torsuev in the Soviet lyrical drama Unrequited Love directed by Andrei Malyukov. His partners in this film were famous Soviet actors Leonid Markov and Inna Makarova.

In 2003, he participated in the reality show Last Hero 3.

The first wife Tatyana Piskunova and daughter Olga died tragically in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster.

The second wife Irina is a former student Igor from Volgodonsk. They had a son, Andrei (1989 — 2015). In 2000, the marriage broke up, Irina went to the actor Sergey Bezrukov.

Currently Igor's wife is Olga (born in 1978). The couple have two children.