Background
Mikhail Zhigalov was born in Kuibyshev (now Samara) May 2, 1942, which was evacuated mother of Mikhail during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, his father Michael was sent to work in Czechoslovakia.
Mikhail Zhigalov was born in Kuibyshev (now Samara) May 2, 1942, which was evacuated mother of Mikhail during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, his father Michael was sent to work in Czechoslovakia.
Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering.
Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1991). Father Mikhail Vasilyevich in 1938, he worked in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) (the Young Communist League was called on set). From evacuation Zhigalova family returned to Moscow.
Three years later Zhigalova returned to Moscow, where Mikhail tried to go to college.
The following year he was able to enter the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering. While studying at the institute married.
In 1965 he graduated from the Institute Zhigalov, the distribution was in Socially Responsible Investment, the laboratory filtration theory. Career began to emerge successfully, but when the opportunity came in the 10 months to go to England, to return from there to the final thesis, Mikhail refused the opportunities and resigned.
His career has attracted the actor, and soon the young couple divorced.
In 1970 he graduated from Zhigalov drama studio at the Central Children"s Theatre, where the actor worked until 1978, then went to the Sovremennik Theatre, where he created his major theatrical role. In the film removed in 1972. He worked for more than a hundred movies.
The first attempt did not turn success and he worked for a year at the plant, was secretary of the Communist Youth League organization of workshops.