Biography

Maksim Averin is a Russian theater and film actor, director, TV presenter. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

Averin was born in Moscow. His parents worked at the Mosfilm film studio: father, Viktor Nikolaevich, was a decorator, and mother, Galina Viktorovna, was a dressmaker and costume designer. At the age of nine, Maksim began to study at the theater studio at the Cinema House.

In 1997 he graduated with honors from the acting department of the Higher Theater School named after Boris Shchukin at the State Academic Theater named after Yevgeni Vakhtangov in Moscow (artistic director of the course - Marina Panteleeva) with a degree in Drama Theater and Cinema Actor.

From 1997 to 2015, for eighteen years Averin worked in the troupe of the Russian State Theater "Satyricon" named after Arkady Raykin in Moscow under the direction of Konstantin Raykin. Since 2018 - actor of the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire.

Plays in enterprises, acts in films and on television. The actor gained wide popularity in 2008 thanks to the main role of Sergey Glukharyov in the television series Glukhar (2008).

- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa