Sergei Valentinovich Kolesnikov (; 4 January 1955 – 29 April 2023) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor, television presenter, and Honored Artist of Russia (1994).

Biography 
Sergei Kolesnikov was born on 4 January 1955, in Moscow in a family of Soviet intellectuals. His mother was Maria Pavlovna Kolesnikova (born 1920) and his father Valentin Kolesnikov (1915–1977). His brothers include Vladimir and Igor Kolesnikov (born 1949).

In 1978 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (with course leaders Sofya Pilyavskaya and Vladimir Bogomolov) and was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. After the division of the theater he worked in the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. In 1990 he moved to the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre, where he worked until October 2011.

From 21 May 2006 to 7 October 2012, he starred in the leading television program Fazenda (Channel One Russia).

Kolesnikov died on 29 April 2023, at age 68.

Selected filmography 
1985: Man with an Accordion as Lopatin 's son
1991: Tsar Ivan the Terrible as Khlopko
1992 / 1997: Trifles of Life as Sergei Kuznetsov
1994: St. Petersburg Secrets as investigator
2004: Daddy as head of the hospital train
2005: The Case of Dead Souls as Derzhimorda
2007 / 2009: Daddy's Daughters as Permyakov
2009: Cold Souls as Dmitry
2011: Chapiteau Show (cameo)
2013: A Good Day to Die Hard as Viktor Chagarin
2013: Secrets of the Institute for Noble Maidens as Prince Aleksey Sergeevich Vyshnevetsky
2014: Black Sea as Levchenko
2018: McMafia as priest
2022: Land of Legends as monk Dionysius

Personal life
 Kolesnikov was married to wife Maria Alexandrovna Kolesnikova, a film, theater, and TV artist. He had two sons, Alexander (born  1981) who graduated from an architectural school, and Ivan (born 1983), an actor. He had two granddaughters, Avdotya (born 2006) and Vera (born 2013), from Ivan.

Awards 
 Honored Artist of Russia (1994)
 Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (1998)

References

External links

 Страница о Колесникове
  Спектакль «Король Лир»

1955 births
2023 deaths
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
Russian male television actors
Male actors from Moscow
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Russian television presenters
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male stage actors
Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
Honored Artists of the Russian Federation
Russian male voice actors
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery