(Born 30.08.1988)

Tikhon Zhiznevsky graduated from the Shchukin Theater Institute in 2009 (Marina Panteleyeva and Valery Fokin’s course).  His diploma roles were:  Don Cesar de Bazan (“Ruy Blaz” by V. Hugo), Major Kovalev (“The Nose” by N. Gogol), and he also performed musical episodes in the performance “Contrasts.”

He was invited to the Alexandrinsky Theater after graduation from the theater institute in 2009.  His first role was one of the Phoebe Chore’s Members in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” performance (Director Theodoros Thersopoulos).  He was also introduced into Valery Fokin’s performances “Ksenia. The History of Love” by V. Levanov (the role of the Blind Man) and “The Double” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (the Bureaucrat). He plays the role of Rosencranz in the new Valery Fokin's performance Hamlet after W.Shakespeare (2010). In Andrey Moguchy and K. Filippov’s performance “The Fortune” he plays the role of Apollonius, an unborn brother of Tiltil and Mitil; he also is engaged in mass scenes (nurses, ambulance doctors, bird-headed servants of the Night) (Director Andrey Moguchy, 2011).

Cinema roles:

1.  Vanya, “Barbarians,” Director V. Shamirov;

2.  Dmitry, “In the Game,” Director P. Sanayev

In 2010, he was introduced to D. Keyes’s “Flowers for Charlie” as Assistant to Doctor Strauss (Director I. Sakayev).

In the performance “The Taming of the Shrew” by W. Shakespeare (Director Oskaras Korshunovas, 2010), he is playing the role of Lucentio, the bridegroom of “Bianca the perfect” – the junior sister of the obstinate Katharine.”