Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky is a Russian movie and stage actor. He has received the People's Artist of Russia title in 1995. Kostolevsky is best known for starring in the films Teheran 43 and The Captivating Star of Happiness.
Biography
Early life and career
Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky was born September 10, 1948 in Moscow. After graduation he worked as a tester at the Research Institute of Quartz Industry for two years. In 1967-1968 he studied at the Moscow Construction Institute. In 1973 he graduated from GITIS, the course of Andrei Goncharov. In the same year he entered the troupe of the Mayakovsky Theatre. Igor Kostolevsky played more than 50 roles in the theater, including Misha Rumyantsev, Metchik, Treplev, Golubkov, Barber King, Valery, Pigusov, Vasily Leonidovich, Torvald Helmer and others. Since the 1990s, he has also played on the stages of other theaters, took part in the performance of the international troupe Oresteia Aeschylus, staged in Bergen, Norway, by the director Roche. In 1994, Kostolevsky played Apollo in "Oresteia" staged by Peter Stein at the Russian Army Theatre.
Film career
In his student years, Igor Kostolevsky began to act in films. He made his debut in Boris Nirenburg's drama The Family as a Family, where the main roles were performed by the then popular actors of the Vakhtangov Theatre Lyudmila Tselikovskaya and Alexander Grave. In 1975, Vladimir Motyl's film The Captivating Star of Happiness was released where Kostolevsky starred as Ivan Annenkov. The picture was a great success with the audience. The critics rated the actor highly in the films Spring Appeal directed by Pavel Lyubimov and Asya by Joseph Kheifits. Then followed the work in the multi-part film And It's All About Him... based on the novel by Vilya Lipatov, for the main role in which the actor received the Lenin Komsomol Prize. Among other significant works Kostolevsky in the cinema in the 1970s was the role of the teacher of astronomy Marina Mioryu in the melodrama of Mikhail Kozakov's Nameless Star and one of the shareholders of the cooperative in the comedy Eldar Ryazanov The Garage. The actor received popularity for the role of Soviet scout Andrei Borodin in the film. Igor Kostolevsky played more than 60 roles in the cinema. He starred in the films The Dawns Here Are Quiet, A Man Changes Skin, Leave at Your Own Cost, The Tony Wendis Error, CompanionsBefore Parting, Night Whispers, Through Main Street with an Orchestra, Gobsek, Entrance to the Labyrinth, Lust for Passion, The Ladder of Light, Tango on Palace Square, Nimbus, Square, Another Woman, Another Man, Spy Games, War and Peace, The Time of Happiness, The Blue as the Sea of Eyes, The Tower, and others.
Personal life
Igor Kostolevsky's first wife was actress Elena Romanova. Their son Alexey was born in 1983. The second wife of Igor Kostolevsky is the French actress Consuelo de Aviland.
