Igor Jijikine, Russian-American actor
Igor Jijikine is a Russian and American actor and producer. He is best known for the role of Colonel Dovchenko in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The boy was born on October 8, 1965 in Moscow. He served in the Soviet Special Forces from 1982 to 1984. In the army he made friends with the guys who were circus performers and decided to enter the Moscow Regional Institute of Physical Education. After graduation Igor became a performer at the Moscow Circus. In 1989 as a member of the trope he went to the USA and stayed there. The young man settled in Las Vegas. The first year there was very hard for him. He spent nights on a bench in the park, moonlighting as a janitor, a lawn mower, a bouncer.
In 1990, he was invited to the musical Turn On The Night, where the boy silently walk on the stage. But the next year Igor played a key character – Samson – in the musical Jubilee. In 1995, when the Jubilee was removed from the repertoire, the artist joined the famous Circus du Soleil.
To improve his professional skills, the actor entered the theater school in Nevada, where he studied for two years.
Early in his career Igor often starred for free in the films by young directors – the students of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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