Andrey Golikov, Honored Actor of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater. Biography

Honored Actor of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater Andrei Golikov died on March 16, 2026. He was 80 years old. During his life, he performed roles in many theater productions, including "So we will win!", "Kremlin Chimes", "Three Fat Men", "Gentlemen Golovlev" and others. Details about the actor's career in theater and cinema can be found in the Izvestia article.

Education and the beginning of a career path

Andrey Golikov was born on December 21, 1945. In 1969, he graduated from the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater Studio School. From 1969 to 1971, Golikov worked at the Central Children's Theater.

In 1976, he received a diploma from the directing faculty of the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, having completed the course of actor Oleg Yefremov.

Work at the Moscow Art Theater named after M. Gorky

In 1976, Golikov was accepted into the troupe of the Gorky Moscow Art Theater. He performed his first role there as a student in the play "Weekdays and Holidays" based on the play by Alexander Galich and Irina Grekova while still studying. Later, in 1977, Golikov officially joined the troupe under the leadership of People's Artist of the USSR Tatiana Doronina.

The actor played in many significant productions for the theater. He played the roles of a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b) in the play "So we will win!", a court attendant in "Tartuffe", a laughing guardsman in "Three Fat Men", a speculator in "Kremlin Chimes", Pavel Golovlev in "Gentlemen Golovlev", a retired major in "Ghosts among Us", Stepan Kharchevnikov in "The Last Term" and Alexandrov in "The Living Corpse". In addition, Golikov also played the role of Markoshka in the production of The Commission and Kuzavkov in The Duck Hunt.

Directing activities

Golikov was not only an actor, but also an outstanding director. In 1975, before working at the Moscow Art Theater. He directed the play "Natasha" at the Grozny Lermontov Russian Drama Theater. In 1978, already on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater, the premiere of another play called "Live and Remember" took place.

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In 2011-2017, the artist played on the stage of the Moscow theater Et Cetera. In addition, Golikov combined the work of an actor, director and teacher at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, the Institute of Contemporary Art and VGIK.

Filming a movie

In addition to working in the theater, Golikov also starred in films. He has more than ten paintings to his credit, including "The Return of Budulai" in 1985, "Nuremberg" and "The Righteous" in 2023 and "The Nuremberg Story" in 2025. The actor also starred in the TV series "Turkish March" in 2002, "Ambulance" in 2005 and others.

Death

Golikov died on March 16, 2026. The cause of death was a skull hematoma sustained after a fall in the theater. According to the actor's wife Marina Pavlyuk, the incident occurred on March 13, when Golikov fell and hit his head hard on the granite floor during an attack of vascular dystonia.

Three days later, on March 16, the actor underwent emergency surgery, the operation lasted four hours, and doctors diagnosed a severe hematoma of the frontotemporal part of the brain.

Despite all the efforts of the doctors, Golikov never came out of his coma. Pavlyuk noted that she understood in advance that it was impossible to save him.

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