Actor Andrey Da! Brief Biography

Andrey Da! actor and casting director, was born February 14, on Valentine’s Day in Soviet Union. He is Aquarius according to the zodiac sign. And as is inherent to most Aquariuses, Andrey is always surrounded by a light aura of mystery and breathes of an elusive charm. To perform under the pseudonym, actor was inspired by two factors: one was the character of Richard Kelly’s fantastic comedy ‘Southland Tales’ with ‘The Rock’ Dwayne Johnson and other factor was much more trivial – most people can’t pronounce his surname correctly and he decided 'to make it easier for people to work' and left only the first two letters, cutting all the excess with an exclamation mark underlining the positive message of his personal brand name. (In Russian ‘Da!’ means ‘Yes!’). But according to the actor, 'that didn't save the day and everyone is still asking again several times at each casting'.

Andrey’s aunt was working at the 'Russian Academic Youth Theatre' (RAMT). One оf his great uncles sang in the church choir. Another was a musician, composer and curator of the unique musical instrument ANS at the Glinka National Museum of Music. Actors’ third great uncle was working in philharmonic, and taught him juggling in deep childhood. He started to teach young Andrey card tricks, but unfortunately he died before. Andrey Da!'s grandmother was a choreographer at the 'Tiflis Imperial Theater' (now Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre). By advice of his beloved grandmother, young actor together with his sibling sister, attended the ballroom dance school of the famous ballet-master of those days Georgiy Sanadze, from a deep childhood. His sister to this day dances at the Sydney Dance School of the famous movie director Baz Luhrmann, best known for such films as ‘Romeo + Juliet’ with Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘Australia’ with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, ‘The Great Gatsby’ with DiCaprio  and Tobey Maguire and of caurse, Oscar-nominated film ‘Moulin Rouge!’ with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.

Actor Andrey Da! has long resided abroad and is proficient in four languages: English, Hebrew, Russian and Georgian. He left the country shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the ‘dashing nineties’ out of harm's way as possible. There Andrey Da! studied at the School of Theatre ‘Mesikha’ under the guidance of Moshe Cohen. And in order to pay for his studies and ‘not to starve to death in foreign fields’ (although according to unofficial data nobody migrated abroad in nineties has died of hunger yet), he worked as a jeweler at a small factory producing gold jewelry near the diamond exchange. Being in Mediterranean, actor and his sister were performing for the local KVN team (KVN is Soviet all-union Stand up Show ‘Club of the Funny and Inventive People’). And then, after returning to the post-Soviet Russia, performed in KVN 'Moscow and Suburbs League' (LaMPa) for ‘Children of the Streets’ team and was awarded the personal jury prize.

Sometime after arriving in Moscow, Andrey begins to work as casting director on the project ‘The investigation was conducted... with Leonid Kanevsky’ (aka Sledstvie Veli...) [has 7.6 stars IMDb rating] on NTV channel. At the same time, he opened his own talent agency, collaborating with various casting directors and helping to cast professional actors, day-performers, featured role actors, extras, promoters, animators, walk-ons and consultants for various feature films, TV series, commercials, music videos, documentary reenactments, various forums, promotional and corporate events. Including very popular in those years ‘Six Frames’ (Shest Kadrov) local sitcom and famous TV series ’Petrovich’, ‘Katya’s Love’ (Katina Lyubov), ‘The Bodyguard’ (Telokhranitel), ‘Argentina’, ‘Gals’ (Deffchonki), ‘The Traffic Light’ (Svetofor), lottery ‘Bigaboom’, feature film ‘Eight First Dates’ (8 Pervykh Svidaniy) featuring featuring president of Ukraine – Vladimir Zelenskiy, MTS Russian cellular network operator TV commercial with Nikolai Valuyev (Russian politician and professional boxer), ‘ESSA’ Beer commercial, late shows ‘Evening Quarter’ (Vecherniy Kvartal), ‘Good evening with Maxim Galkin’ (Dobriy Vecher s Maksimom Galkinym), ‘Comedy Battle’, ‘The Pinochet Family’ (Cheta Pinochetov) situation comedy and many others.

At the same time, he works in main Russian television studio Ostankino at the ‘Shopping Live’ TV channel Hosting Live as Key Expert Jeweler of the 'Diamantaire' Brand. And thanks to his charm and subtle sense of humor, he also hosts dating parties at the restaurant ‘Wheel of Time’ in Orlikov lane and ‘Bon Chance’ on Clean Ponds. Soon after the closure of all casinos in Moscow, he started conducting new-fashioned real-life adventure quests on Arbat street ‘EXIT Casino’ as croupier Billy.

In the same years actor Andrey Da! himself frequently and fruitfully starred in movies, serials, commercials and music videos. He has played dozens of bit parts, supporting roles and leads in different languages in local soap operas, documentary reenactments, TV commercials, music videos of popular performers and feature films of famous directors. Actor Andrey Da! has more than hundred IMDb credits.

The Actor appeared in such famous motion pictures as: ‘Sunstroke’. (Solnechnyy Udar) by Nikita Mikhalkov, ‘SubWave’ (Metro) by Anton Megerdichev, Legend No. 17 (Legenda 17) [IMDb 7.5] by Nikolay Lebedev, That's Carloson! (Tot Eshchyo Karloson!) by Sarik Andreasyan, Eight First Dates (8 Pervykh Svidaniy) by Marius Balčiūnas-Weisberg & David Dodson starring Ukraines sixth President Vladimir Zelenskiy and many other feature films.

Actor Andrey Da! starred for such famous Russian movie directors and producers as Timur Bekmambetov and Andrey’s fellow countryman (Levan) Leo Gabriadze, best known for the film of Leos dad (Revaz) Rezo Gabriadze and Georgy Danelia – ‘Kin Dza Dza!’ in which Levan played the role of the 'Fiddler' Gedevan Alexandrovich Alexidze. It's paradoxical but with Gabriadze Jr., Andrey Da! met already in Moscow at the Bazelevs studio, where at that time they were finishing filming ‘Lucky Trouble’ with Milla Jovovich [IMDb Top 500], in which Andrey Da! played his, probably the shortest, but according to him, most unforgettable role of the right hand double. Fyodor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Dyachenko, Zhora Kryzhovnikov (who also, like Andrey Da! was born on February 14th on St. Valentine's Day), Dmitry Kiselev, Alexey Sidorov, Kirill Kuzin and many other famous movie directors also filmed Andrey Da! in their motion pictures.

In the same period of time Andrey Da! takes part in works of famous foreign filmmakers, videographers and movie makers. Among them, the well-known for the film ‘Wake of Death’ with Jean-Claude Van Damme – Philippe Martinez  with film ‘Victor’ starring Gérard Depardieu [IMDb Top 5000] and Elizabeth Hurley [IMDb Top5000], Sheldon Lettich – film ‘Black Rose’ with Kristanna Loken [IMDb Top5000], Chris Gorak – film ‘The Darkest hour’, Johnny O'Reilly – film ‘Moscow never sleeps’, Frank Borin – ‘Tele2’ local cellular provider commercial, Eric Coignoux – Renault commercial, Paul Vos – ‘Rosneft’ commercial, Simon Ladefoget – ‘Fruitonanny’ baby food commercial, Jonas Arnby – ‘Coca Cola’ TV Commercial, Keith English – Sberbank’ (one of the largest banks in the world in terms of assets) commercial, Andy Lambert – MTS one of the major mobile operators TV commercial and dozens more.

Director, producer and founder of Adore Creative Content Agency Rupert Wainwright, best known for Pepsi Commercial with MC Hammer’s music video ‘U Can’t Touch This’, filmed Actor Andrey Da! in Global Mind Adventure Expo 2020bidding campaign, taking a gold award at the 4th Cannes Festival in 2013 for the best corporate video.

Andrey Da!’s filmography is saturated also by a number of the most popular serials which are gladly watch both in the country and abroad: ‘The Kitchen’ (Kukhnya) [IMDb 8.5], ‘Interns’ (Interny) [IMDb 7.1], ‘Trace’ (Sled), ‘Londongrad’, ‘Short Course of a Happy Life’ (Kratkiy Kurs Schastlivoy Zhizni), ‘Russian Affairs’ (Soderzhanki), ‘Kamenskaya’, ‘The University’ (Univer), ‘Locusts’ (Sarancha), ‘The Papa’s Daughters’ (Papiny Dochki) and this is not a complete list of the blockbusters in which the Actor Andrey Da! has ‘lit up’.

Besides that, Andrey Da! has a wealth of multifaceted experience working with Hollywood stars, directors, producers, musicians and other celebrities. Actor Andrey Da! was seen in public with such internationally renowned superstars as Tim Burton [IMDb 82], J.J. Abrams [IMDb Top 5000], Andy García [IMDb Top 5000], Helen Mirren [IMDb Top500], Chris Pine [IMDb Top500], Zachary Quinto  [IMDb Top 5000], Alice Eve [IMDb Top500], Jay Kay (Jamiroquai), Toni Braxton, Seal, Damon Albarn (Blur Frontman, Gorillas Songwriter), Nick Rhodes  (Duran Duran), Joey Tempest and John Norum (of Europe Band), Wes Borland and John Otto of Limp Bizkit, John Galliano, Eros Ramazzotti, Elon Musk's fiancee Claire Boucher better known as Grimes, South Korean Grammy award-winner soprano Sumi Jo, Poets of the Fall, Jesse Rutherford of Neighborhood, Ninja and Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord, played leads in movie ‘Chappie’, Frank Iero, Mushrohead, boxer Roy Jones Jr., played captain Ballard in The Matrix Reloaded, fashion designer John Galliano worked for Dior and many others.

Actor Andrey Da! is not married, has no children yet, so he considers that the most exciting thing in life is to play in a good movies of famous directors. He loves his work very much, gives it a lot of energy and time. Andrey believes that there are no ‘small’ roles. And just as the picture on the computer screen is composed of many colorful pixels, all the roles become a beautiful painting in the actor’s filmography and shooting in the projects of famous directors sooner or later brings the long-awaited fruits.

To the question 'How did you manage to combine work in the Security Service of the Royal Bank of Scotland and filming in such a huge number of projects, and did one interfere with the other?' Andrey replied: – You answered your own question, I will only add that the 40th US President Ronald Reagan was an actor (by the way, also Aquarius); Arnold Schwarzenegger [IMDb top 500] was 38th Governor of California, Volodymyr Zelensky (I played in films with his participation a couple of times) – became the president of Ukraine, boxer Vitali Klitschko became Mayor of Kiev and Brian May – guitarist of the Queen rock band is a professor of astrophysics. So, many manage to combine the profession of an actor with anything, well, within reasonable limits, of course.

Many people ask Andrey Da! 'Don’t you think actors take pictures too often and look at them too much'. He responded with the words of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [IMDb top 500]. When journalists asked him a similarly tricky question, hinting at a tendency to narcissism, about whether bodybuilders look in the mirror too often – he did not deny the obvious, but said "... yes, of course we do look in mirror all the time, but we are just looking for flaws!"

Despite his many years of experience, Andrey Da! still continues to develop, constantly perfecting his acting skills. He attends various master classes, trainings, and courses of popular theatre coaches. Continuing to strengthen his acting 'muscles' daily. In 2009 he attended Andrey Bragin’s course ‘Commercial Model. The Quick Start’. In 2010 actor studied at the animator’s courses of Olga Semaforova ‘Rainbow Event Management’. In 2014 took part in the training ‘Acting by Lee Strasberg's System’ with acting coach Victoria Scherban. In 2015 Andrey was at the intensive course ‘Actor 2.0’ by Saeed Dashuk-Nygmatulin. In 2016 Actor Andrey Da! mastered acting at Sergei Bazarov School with Andrey Rysyev and Serghey Lavrentyev. In 2022, he studied as a TV and radio presenter at the school of radio and television "On Shabolovka" with Semyon Chaika and Maxim Lisovsky.

We asked Andrey Da! why does he attend acting classes almost every year? – 'It's like going to the gym. You go ther not because you don’t know how to do squats, push-ups or lift the bar, but primarily to keep yourself in shape. And in general, it is impossible to know everything – sometimes you can meet interesting people and even remember something that you missed over the years'.

And finally, we asked: What is your biggest disappointment in life? Andrey, with his usual share of sarcasm, noticed – I have two of them! The first is that I bought only 100 bitcoins back in 2009 when it was less than one dollar per bitcoin. – That’s sad, what could be worse? – Can't remember cold wallet password...

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