Actor

(Born 15.05.1984)

Balakshin graduated from B. Shchukin Theater Institute (affiliated with Vakhtangov Theater, Professor V. Ivanov's class) in 2008.  His diploma roles were: Macbeth ("Macbeth" by W. Shakespeare), Astley ("The Gambler" by Fedor Dostoyevsky), Father Iona ("Untilovsk" by L. Leonov), and Operator Grisha ("The White Acacia by I. Dunayevsky, V. Massa and Chervinsky).

He was admitted to the Alexandrinsky Theater in 2008 and presently is engaged in several performances: The Double after F. Dostoyevsky (the role of bureaucrat, Director Valery Fokin);  Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (Member of the Phoebe Choir, Director Theodoros Terzopoulos); The Living Corps by L. Tolstoy (the role of Young Officer, Director Valery Fokin); The Ivans after N. Gogol’s The Story about How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich and other N. Gogol’s writings (Resident of Mirgorod, Director Andrey Moguchy); Vasily  (Ksenia. The History of Love by V. Levanov, Director Valery Fokin, 2009); Soldier (Man Equals Man by Berthold Brecht, Director Yu. Butusov); Little Charley (Flowers for Charley by D. Keyes, Director I. Sakayev); Boris Baokhin (Vampilov. Plays,  Director Oleg Yeremin, 2009). In W. Shakespeare's Hamlet (Director Valery Fokin, 2010) he plays the role of an Actor from the company of traveling actors performing the scene from The Moustrap. In Andrey Moguchy and K. Filippov’s performance “The Fortune” he plays the role of Bobik-the Green Dog of Tiltil and Mitil (Director Andrey Moguchy, 2011).

The actor has also filmed in the cinema.  He played the major role in the film "A Kettle Man" (director A. Sukharev, 2003), Alexander Gorchakov (major role) in the film "18-14" (director Andres Puutsmaa, 2007) and Gott Paul ("Father's Daughters" series, director A. Zhigalkin, 2008).

In the performance “The Taming of the Shrew” by W. Shakespeare (Director Oskaras Korshunovas, 2010), he plays the role of an actor from the Lord’s troupe assuming the role of Biondello, a servant to Lucentio. This is a weird carnival character – either a man, or a cat – reminds of Bulgakov’s Begemot (hippo). He is extremely mischievous, pervasive and evasive, he disappears and reappears without warning and brings his “old news” to the characters.

On the Smaller stage of the theater he played the role of Tsarevich Theseus in J. Cortasar’s performance “The Tsars” (Director E. Safonova, 2010). In the performance “The Fortune” by A. Moguchy and K. Filippov he plays the role of Tiltil and Mitil’s dog Bobik - the Green Dog (Director Andrey Moguchy, 2011). In the new 2011/2012 season he was introduced in the role of the Double  of Mr. Golyadkin to the performance “The Double” (Director V. Fokin) and in the role of Ivan Petrovich Alexandrov to L.Tolstoy’s “The Living Corps” (Director V. Fokin), and also in the role of Tobik to the performance “The Fortune” by A. Moguchy and K. Filippov.