Andrei Panin
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Andrei Vladimirovich Panin is an Nika Award
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-nominated Russia
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n actor
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 appearing in film and television, and a director
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.

Early life

Panin was born on May 28 1962 in Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
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, Soviet Union
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; the son of Agnessa (née
Married and maiden names
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 Berezovsky), and Dimitri Alexandrei Panin. Two years later the family moved to Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk
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. Then, when Andrew was six years old - in Kemerovo
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, where he lived for 16 years.

Acting career

Panin was rocketed to fame by the hit television detective show Kamenskaya. In 2000, he had lead roles in both Valery Akhadov's Don't Offend the Women and Pavel Lungin
Pavel Lungin
Pavel Semyonovich Lungin is a Russian film director. He is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine .Born July 12, 1949 in Moscow, Lungin is the son of a scriptwriter and philologist. He later attended Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1971...

's The Wedding
The Wedding (2000 film)
The Wedding is a 2000 French-Russian comedy film directed by Pavel Lungin. It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marat Basharov - Mishka* Mariya Mironova - Tanya* Andrey Panin - Garkusha...

, as well as Alexander Atanesyan's action thriller 24 Hours
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. He won the best actor prize at the Golden Ram film festival for his part in The Wedding. Panin made his first screen appearance in the movie Straightway, but it was his performances in Maxim Pezhemsky's Mama, Don't Cry and Denis Yevstigneev's Mama that brought the actor renown.

Before becoming a screen regular, he was a stage actor at the Minusinsky theater, where he worked after graduating from the Culture Institute in Kemerovo
Kemerovo
Kemerovo is an industrial city in Russia, situated on the Tom River, east-northeast of Novosibirsk. It is the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, located in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin...

. Although he had initially planned to attend the Culinary Institute, Panin went on to further his education as an actor, graduating from Moscow
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's legendary MKhAT in 1991 and taking up residence at the MKhAT Chekhov theater with his wife, Natalya Rogozhina. His stage work includes Three Sisters
Three Sisters (play)
Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...

(Soleny), The Miserly Knight
The Miserly Knight
The Miserly Knight, also The Covetous Knight, is a Russian opera in one act with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the libretto based on the drama of Alexander Pushkin. The composer decided essentially to set the Pushkin text as written, and had Feodor Chaliapin in mind for the role of the Baron...

, Marriage, Deadly Number, and a private production of Winter. Panin often acts in Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Tabakov
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's productions.

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