Biography

Nikolay Zasukhin is Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).

He served in the Red Army since 1940 for six years. Then in 1947-1948 he studied at the studio at the Kuybyshev Gorkiy Theater, became an actor of this theater and served on this stage until 1972. Since 1972 - at the Moscow Art Theater named after Maksim Gorkiy.

The manner of Nikolay Zasukhin was inherent in temperament, soft humor, the desire for internal reincarnation, plasticity and a sharp drawing of the role. In the numerous troupe of the Moscow Art Theater, the actor worked less than in Kuybyshev and after the split of the theater went to the theater of T. Doronina.

Zasukhin starred in films infrequently, playing mainly officials and party workers: Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Tvoy sovremennik (1968)), Vladimir Lenin (Poyezd v zavtrashniy den (1970)), Smolentsev (Komitet 19-ti (1972)), Vladimir Sharapov (Gonki po vertikali (1982)), Semyon Nikodimov (Le nôtre parmi les autres (1974)), Aleksey Zheleznenkiy (Razvlechenie dlya starichkov (1977)), Fyodor Kovalev (Legko byt dobrym (1976)). In a number of films he played Vyacheslav Molotov, thanks to outward resemblance.

- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa