Aleksandr Ivanovich Tsurkan (born January 2, 1960, Orekhovo-Zuyevo) is a Russian film and stage actor. Alexander Ivanovich Tsurkan was born on January 2, 1960 in city of Orekhovo-Zuevo (in the Moscow Region). The father is a native of the city of Iasi (Romania). Master of Sports Boxing. Mother - teacher of the biochemical faculty of the Orekhovo-Zuyevo Pedagogical Institute. Until 1964, they lived in a barracks - in a house for workers, built by Savva Timofeevich Morozov. He was engaged in sports gymnastics for 10 years. In 1977 he graduated from secondary school No. 4 and entered the Moscow Automobile and Highway Institute at the faculty of “construction and operation of airfields”. In 1982 he graduated from the institute and on his own initiative left for Siberia: He performed roles in the theater: “The Master and Margarita” (Ivan Bezdomny), “The Brothers Karamazov” (Mitya Karamazov), “Marat and the Marquis de Sade” (Jean-Paul Marat), “Vladimir Vysotsky "(poems, vocals)," Sharashka "(Ruska Doronin)," Five Stories by Babel "(Vasily Konkin)," The Fallen and the Living "(the role of poets Kulchytsky and Gudzenko)," Zhivago "(Sysoy)," Teenager "( Vasin, Andreev), "Tartuf" (officer), "Live" (police officer), "Eugene Onegin". In 2001 he received the Grand Prix of the International Theater Festival "Baltic House" for the play "Marat - Marquis de Sade ”(St. Petersburg). He left a group of Taganka Theater in the fall of 2001. He has five children: his daughter Yulia, his sons - Kirill, Ivan, Alexander and Andrey.