Андрей Миронов

Andrei Alexandrovich Mironov (March 7, 1941, Moscow - August 16, 1987, Riga)

Born into the family of famous pop artists Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (Мария Миронова) (1911-1997) and Alexander Semenovich Menaker (Александр Менакер) (1913-1982). The parents decided to record the date of birth of their son on March 8, in honor of Women's Day.
Russian theatre and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974).People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980). Mironov was also a popular singer.
Andrei Mironov is known and loved for his roles in films made by Эльдар Рязанов, Леонид Гайдай, Марк Захаров, and other directors. He had a wide comedic range and played diverse roles (e.g. a Soviet bureaucrat, Figaro, a romantic spy, a member of the Russian intelligentsia, a con man, an American movie pioneer, a tale-teller, etc.).
On one of his tours through Latvia in 1987, he lost consciousness while performing the lead role in "The Marriage of Figaro". He was driven to a hospital where two days later he was pronounced dead on August 16, only nine days after the passing of his close friend and frequent co-star Анатолий Папанов. The cause of his death was excessive internal bleeding due a bursting of a congenital cerebral aneurysm.

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