Background
Igor Chernevich was born in a small Belarusian town of Orsha. Like many boys, he played football, went hiking and fishing, read books about travel. He recalls: "... [I] wanted to do something unusual..."
Igor Chernevich was born in a small Belarusian town of Orsha. Like many boys, he played football, went hiking and fishing, read books about travel. He recalls: "... [I] wanted to do something unusual..."
He studied at the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport.
In 1989 he graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Institute (L. Dodin course) and was accepted into the troupe of the Maly Drama Theatre.
After graduation, Igor Chernevich went to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport and studied there for one year. He studied well but as he was not involved in any initiative, the more unexpected was a turn in his life ...
Before finalizing the year, Igor Chernevich went home to Belarus. He recalls: "For some reason I wanted to dance, and I went to the Palace of Culture. On the way, I met a woman, kind of crazy one. I could not understand what she wanted from me... It turned out that this energetic woman was the head of the national theater, where I was occupied for six months..."
Igor decided to go on this path further. At first he was going to go to Moscow Shchukin School, but suddenly found himself a student of the St. Petersburg Institute of Theatre. It happened this way: "My friends and I decided to take a ride on a small river motorship. The queue was long. And I remembered that somewhere nearby there was a theater school. Why not to go?"
At the Theater Institute he studied under the supervision of the famous Lev Dodin. At the end of 1989 Igor Chernevich became an actor of the St. Petersburg Maly Drama Theatre, directed by Dodin. His first work at the Maly Theater was roles in «Gaudeamus» (Bogdanov and Karamychev) and "Claustrophobia" (Musician and Soloviev).
After working for some time at the Maly Theatre, Igor Chernevich decided to leave it in the mid-90's. He recalls: "I divorced my first wife, and somehow my life has changed dramatically. I was close to thirty years old - I thought that maybe I did not know what to do." Igor tried his hand at business, he started selling products from his home town of Orsha. However, the scope was not for him.
Thanks to his friend Igor Chernevich worked in France for six months. He played the role of Woland in the play "Morphine" (by Mikhail Bulgakov) in the theater "Spool".
In a year after leaving the theater Igor Chernevich decided to return. "I returned because it was really bad. Because I understood that I needed these people - the company, " says Igor. "I realized that I stuck to this theatre, I respect Leo Abramovich as a teacher and director, and I find it hard to work with someone else."
For many years he participated in productions of "The Possessed" (Erkel), "The Cherry Orchard" (Yasha), "Play Without a Title" (OSIP), "Brothers and Sisters" (Ignat Baev), "Miss Julie" (Jean ), "The Long Christmas Dinner" (Charles), "Running wanderers" (Dmitri), "restaurant, restaurant" (Nick), "Duck Hunt" (Zilov) in the Maly Theatre.
In 1991 Igor Chernevich debuted in a movie - he played a major role in the children's director Valery Martynov Ribbon "Ring." After the release of this film the actor drew the attention of the director Yevgeny Ivanov and invited him to play a major role in his film "Nicotine" (1993, a remake of Jean-Luc Godard's genious film "In the last breath"). The film was
hardly noticed by the audience, though highly appreciated by professionals, having received several prestigious awards.
Five years later, Ivanov again entrusted the lead role in his film to Igor Chernevich. In the extremely topical film "The Spirit", he played a former paratrooper sergeant who was imprisoned for premeditated murder. He was the hero of "light tower", and, taking advantage of this, he attempted to recruit a contract killer. Igor Chernevich created the image of a romantic rebel, a lone man, challenging the world around him, a kind of "Russian Rambo", a man bruised by the war.
At the beginning of his career Igor Chernevich played mostly brutal characters, "cool" guys, over the time the range of his characters has changed. In the series "The Agency" Golden Bullet "(2002) directed by Yevgeny Ivanov he went to a comedy character - deputy director of an agency Alex L. Viola, who was eager to fight and had to solve a lot of problems and conflicts with colleagues.
Igor Chernevich also aplayed an interesting role in Boris Khlebnikov's drama "Koktebel" (2003) - a son of a hero, who along with his father embarks on a long journey from Moscow to Koktebel. For father the Journey is a chance to regain self-confidence, friendship and trust of his son ...
The actor also participated in the following series:
"Men Do not Cry" (investigator Sergei Ivanov)
"Gentlemen of the Jury" (notary Burdykin)
"Brezhnev" (Andrei Alexandrov-Agents)
"Pen and Sword" (Douglas)
a historical detective story "1814 "(the investigator Borzyuk)
action-movie" We're from the Future" (Zhorin)
