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Daniel Alexandrovich Strakhov (born March 2, 1976, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian film and theater actor, winner of the Russian Government Prize (2010). He is the star of the television series Poor Nastya, Children of the Arbat, Wuthering Gate, Isaev, and the films Peregogon, We Are from the Future, etc.
Born March 2, 1976 in Moscow, in a family that has nothing to do with cinema.
The name was given to his son by his father in honor of Prince Daniil Romanovich Galitsky. His father, Alexander Strakhov, is a Russian poet, philologist, scholar of ethnolinguistics (lives in Boston, USA since 1989); his mother, Elena Solovyova, is a psychotherapist, private practitioner, creator of the Gestalt therapy school, co-founder of the Krindachi School for professional psychotherapists. There is a younger sister, Lisa, who also resides in the United States. There were many priests in his lineage. His grandfather was a senior engineer, but all his life he was fond of painting, his grandmother was an aerogeologist. On the paternal line Daniel Strakhov has ancestors among the Amur Cossacks.
As a child, parents did not exert any pressure on their son, and Daniel was free to choose what he was interested in. He was fond of literature and mathematics. But most of all the young man was attracted to the theater. During his studies at school he was engaged in the theatrical circle. He also studied at the experimental "School of Self-Determination" at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (on the basis of a Moscow school № 734) under the guidance of Alexander Naumovich Tubelsky. And before entering the theatrical institute, his parents hired a tutor for their son - Oleg Vavilov, an actor from the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
In 1993, after graduating from High School № 7344 (58a, Lilac Boulevard, Moscow, 105484), Daniel enrolled in the acting department of the Moscow Art Theatre School. After studying for a year on the course of Avangard Leontiev, he transferred to the Schukino School for the course of Evgeny Rubenovich Simonov.
In 1996, being a student of the Drama Institute, Daniel Strakhov made his debut in a film, having appeared in the episodic role in Boris Blank's film-grotesque "Arturo Ui's Career. A New Version" based on the play by Bertolt Brecht.
In 1997, immediately after graduating from the Higher Theatre School named after Boris Shchukin, the actor was invited to the Moscow Drama Theatre named after Gogol for the lead role of Nikolai Ableukhov in the play "Petersburg" based on the novel of the same name by Russian writer Andrei Beli. Daniil worked at the Gogol Theater until 1999.
From 1999 to 2001, the actor collaborated with the Mossovet Theater and the Moscow Drama Theater under the direction of Armen Jigarkhanyan.
From 2001 to 2003 and from 2009 to 2021, Daniel Strakhov was an actor with the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
