Alexander Gordon: biography, personal life, photo

Alexander Garryevich became a true legend on Russian television. According to polls of TV viewers, he is ranked among the most popular leaders. In addition, Alexander Gordon, whose biography is interesting enough, is known both as a teacher and as the author of several successful films.

Childhood

On February 20, 1964, the boy Sasha appeared in the Kaluga region. His father, a native of Odessa, Harry Gordon, divorced his mother when his son was still very small. Poet and writer, a little artist, he was able to convey his talents to Alexander only with the help of genes. With his son he met when he was nineteen years old. After the divorce, my mother took Sasha and moved to her grandmother. Antonina Striga was a medical worker.

Alexander Gordon, whose biography began without male attention, was brought up by his mother and grandmother. When he was four years old, Antonina Dmitrievna met a man who became her husband, and Sasha is not only a stepfather, but also a second father. As Gordon himself says, Nikolai Chinin was always associated with the image of a real Russian hero. Due to the employment of parents, the upbringing of the boy was mainly handled by the grandmother Marina Mikhailovna Vorobyova. As a result of the fire that happened long before the appearance of her beloved grandson, Marina Mikhailovna suffered a partial paralysis, however, despite this, she had the iron willpower.

It was the grandmother who insisted that the boy write on the surname of his own father. Arina Rodionovna - the so-called grandmother Alexander Gordon.

The biography of the boy has changed a lot since then. It happened when his family moved to Moscow. The very first hobby of Sasha was a puppet theater: he even showed performances on which he collected his entire yard. He even thought of becoming a director and visited the theater studio one time, in which GITIS students worked with the children.

Youth

Alexander Gordon, whose biography may well have been different, because he once dreamed of going to investigators, played well in hockey. At the same time, love for art was stronger, therefore, after graduating from high school, he became a student of the Moscow Institute of Culture. But it was not a very good choice. Alexander was not interested in studying, and the institute was too far from the place where he lived with his family. He had no friends, classmates, no girls. In the summer the school friend advised Sasha to enter the Yaroslavl Theater School, where in that year there was a shortage of boys. Thus, he solved the problem with the army. Alexander, taking advantage of the advice, easily acted, but did not study for long: after the first semester, he was expelled from the school for systematic absenteeism. Sasha himself wanted to write a statement about the expulsion: he was not interested, because everything that was taught in the first year, he already knew from the theater studio. However, it was the Yaroslavl school that helped Gordon finally decide on his profession and relate life to the stage. Returning to the capital, he got a job as a mower in the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. At that time, he was led by Anatoly Efros. Sasha spent a year after work rehearsing the troupe, and that same summer, the eighteen-year-old boy entered the Shchukin school.

Far countries

In 1987, Alexander Gordon, whose personal life had not yet been arranged, received a diploma and began to work in the Theater-studio Ruben Simonov. In addition to his main work, he began teaching acting skills to children in the theatrical circle. By that time, Sasha had managed to get married. His wife was a graduate of the Literary Institute Maria Berdnikova. Soon the couple had a daughter, and a year later Alexander and his family emigrated to the United States. There were several reasons for such a cardinal decision, but, perhaps, the very first and the main was the disappointment in their work. Actor's path was not liked by Alexander, and to this added thirst for change and a difficult financial situation. Especially since Gordon has long been called to America by cousins living there.

Career in the USA

At first, life abroad was very difficult. Gordon had to change several professions, he even installed air conditioners and carried pizza. However, in 1990 he managed to get the place of the announcer in the RTN television company. This is the first Russian television in America was located in the basement of one of the mansions of New York. Here, and performed installation work, and did voice acting, and the finished recordings were sent to Manhattan, from where they were aired. For Gordon, this period became a school for a new profession, as it was necessary not only to shoot and conduct programs, but also to create scripts, and also to correct the texts, while at the same time performing the duties of the director. Gordon himself says that it was on RTN that he received his primary education as a TV-man. Already in 1990, he worked simultaneously on several TV channels. On RTN, he was the director of programs and in parallel was the senior correspondent on the WMNB channel. And in 1993 Alexander Gordon organized his own company called "Wostok Entertainment".

Careers in Russia

In 1994, his collaboration with the TV-6 channel began. Very soon the program of Alexander Gordon "New York, New York", which tells about life in the USA, began to broadcast. At that time, he actually lived between the two countries, and in 1997 decided to finally return to Russia. Subsequently, both the author and host Alexander participated in the creation of a number of programs, which, however, did not become popular. The first and most significant project, which Gordon was conducting on Russian television, was a documentary broadcast called "Meeting of Misconceptions," which received high ratings and attracted the attention of many thousands of viewers.

Party

After some time in parallel with him, Alexander began to participate in the political talk show "Process". At that time it was very organically intertwined with the party views of Gordon, who in 1998 declared his desire to run for the presidency of Russia. To this end, he created the "Party of Public Cynicism". In just a few months it was joined by about three thousand people. However, some time later, the presenter sold his party for a very symbolic price, taking three dollars for it.

Alexander Gordon today

As a TV presenter, he went on air in a huge variety of different projects. The most famous among them were the Gordon and Stress programs on NTV, Gordon Quichot, The Soul Science, as well as Citizen Gordon and The Closed Show, which appeared on the First Channel Russia. The last one was the most successful. It is this transfer, which tells about the author's Russian cinema, brought him just three TEFI. In addition, the "Gordon Quixote" program received an award from the Academy of Russian Television.

Alexandra Gordon's films

It would be unfair not to note his great success in the field of cinema. During his life, Alexander Gordon, whose photo can often be seen on the covers of glossy magazines, made four films. The most famous were "Fires of the brothel" and "Shepherd of their cows". In addition, the presenter as an artist and voice-over worked on the creation of several art and animation tapes. His voice can be heard in such cartoons as "Cucaracha 3D" and "Crazy help." "Fate to choose", "Generation P" - as an actor in them made Alexander Gordon. The 2013-th year for him was marked by the work on a film called "Kukushechka."

Wives and children

Alexander Gordon, whose personal life knows many bright novels, was officially married twice. Two of his wives - Maria Berdnikova and Katya Gordon, like him, work on television. After the second divorce, Gordon spent seven years in a civil marriage with Nana Kiknadze, a Georgian actress and model. At the end of 2011, he struck everyone by telling about his new marriage with eighteen-year-old Nina Tigorina. And in May 2012 came a new news: Alexander Gordon has another daughter of Alexander. The girl was born after a short relationship with journalist Elena Pashkova.