Daniil Strakhov is rather atypical actor for his generation. He tends to thoroughly search inside of every hero he plays. He is engaged in soul and character analysis, looking for drivers behind one’s deeds and, once having found, arranging them in a logical system. Daniil’s heroes are mostly vulnerable, unbalanced, sometimes neurasthenic, men. They often seem inconsistent; however, their sporadic behavior has little to do with the lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the world. Rather, such inconsistency is the result of serious attempts to explore the world they live in and get to its most sacred meaning.

Childhood:

Daniil Strakhov was born on March 2, 1976, in Moscow, Russia. Surprisingly enough, Daniil has been the only actor among the Strakhovs. Daniil’s granddad was an amateur artist, making paintings not for living, but for the sake of art-loving. His grandma used to lead one of Russia’s largest aerology institutes. His mother is a psychotherapist, running a private school in geshtalttherapy. A few priests were seen among her ancestors. Daniil fathers’ ancestors were the Amur Cossacks. The rumors had it Daniil has got his name not because of its originality or beauty but because of his father’s passion for the history. In 1976, the year Daniil was born, Alexandr Strakhov 
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