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{{Infobox person
| name = Aleksandr Tsekalo
| name = Aleksander Tsekalo
| native_name = {{Nobold|Александр Цекало}}
| native_name = {{Nobold|Александр Цекало}}
| native_name_lang = ru
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| birth_name = Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo
| birth_name = Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|3|22|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|3|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kiev]]<!-- Kyiv was known by its Russian variant during the USSR -->, Ukrainian SSR<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance -->, Soviet Union<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]] for further guidance -->
| birth_place = [[Kiev]]<!-- Kyiv was known by its Russian variant during the USSR -->, Ukrainian SSR<!-- DO NOT LINK, see [[MOS:GEOLINK]]
wife DARINA ERVIN
| alma_mater =
| spouse = Viktoria
| yearsactive = 1986–present
| known_for =
| occupation = {{hlist|Television host|comedian|actor|musician|producer}}
| website = {{Official URL}}
}}


'''Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo'''{{Efn|{{lang-ru|link=no|Александр Евгеньевич Цекало}}, {{lang-uk|Олександр Євгенович Цекало|Oleksandr Yevhenovich Tsekalo}}}} (born 22 March 1961) is a Soviet and Russian<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874888/|publisher=[[IMDb]]|title=Aleksandr Tsekalo}}</ref> musician, actor, radio and TV host.<ref name="ria">{{cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20160322/1393988704.html|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|title=Биография Александра Цекало|date=22 March 2016 |trans-title=Biography of Aleksandr Tsekalo}}</ref> Founder of production company [[Sreda (production company)|Sreda]], he has been active in television since 1986. Tsekalo was the host of ''[[Minuta slavy|Minute of Fame]]'' and ''[[Big Difference]]''.
'''Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo'''{{Efn|{{lang-ru|link=no|Александр Евгеньевич Цекало}}, {{lang-uk|Олександр Євгенович Цекало|Oleksandr Yevhenovich Tsekalo}}}} (born 22 March 1961) is a Soviet and Russian<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874888/|publisher=[[IMDb]]|title=Aleksandr Tsekalo}}</ref> musician, actor, radio and TV host.<ref name="ria">{{cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20160322/1393988704.html|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|title=Биография Александра Цекало|date=22 March 2016 |trans-title=Biography of Aleksandr Tsekalo}}</ref> Founder of production company [[Sreda (production company)|Sreda]], he has been active in television since 1986. Tsekalo was the host of ''[[Minuta slavy|Minute of Fame]]'' and ''[[Big Difference]]''.


==Biography==
Aleksandr Tsekalo was born on 22 March 1961 in [[Kiev]]<!-- Kyiv was known by its Russian variant during the USSR -->, in the family of thermal engineers Yevgeny Borisovich Tsekalo (11 March 1931 – May 2007<ref name="km.ru">{{cite web|url=http://www.km.ru/stil/2007/05/31/bogemnaya-zhizn/tragediya-v-seme-aleksandra-tsekalo|title=Трагедия в семье Александра Цекало|publisher=KM.RU – информационный мультипортал|date=31 May 2007}}</ref>), who was Ukrainian, and Elena Leonidovna Volkova (24 March 1933 – 2000), who was Jewish.<ref>[http://www.podrugi.by/star-news-4840.html Александру Цекало – 50 лет! // Podrugi.by]</ref><ref name="km.ru" /><ref name="red">{{cite web|url=https://www.red-red.ru/persons/programs/aleksandr-cekalo|title=Александр Цекало|date=20 February 2017 |publisher=[[Krasny Kvadrat]]}}</ref>


He learned to play the piano and the guitar and already at school tried himself in stage performance activity, creating the band "ONO". He participated in amateur performances and theatrical productions.<ref name="ria" />


After graduating from the Kiev School No. 89 in 1978,<ref name="red" /> Tsekalo entered the correspondence department of the Leningrad Technological Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry; at the same time he worked in Kiev as a fitter and adjuster and also played in amateur theatre.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

In 1979 he created the quartet "Shlyapa". Later, by the invitation of the [[Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts|Kiev Variety and Circus School]], along with other members of the quartet entered the second year. In 1982 he graduated externally from the Leningrad Technological Institute of the Pulp and Paper Industry,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gturp.spb.ru/?page_id=1354|title=Выдающиеся выпускники университета|publisher=Higher School of Technology and Energy}}</ref> worked in the chemical laboratory, as a locksmith, later at the Kiev stage theatre as a stage installer, and as a lighting technician.<ref name="red" />

After graduating from college in 1985, he began working at the [[Odessa Philharmonic Theater]],<ref name="ria" /> then at the Odessa Variety Theater "Sharzh" from Ilya Noyabryov.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.viktor-andrienko.com/work/stage/teatr_sharzh|title=Комик-группа "Шарж"|publisher=Viktor Andrienko}}</ref> In 1985, together with [[Lolita Milyavskaya]], Tsekalo formed the cabaret-duet "Akademiya", and in 1989 they arrived in Moscow. The duo performed on the stage, in clubs and restaurants, and by the mid-1990s, "Akademiya" became one of the most popular actor ensembles.

By his own admission, in parallel with the variety career in the 1990s he was engaged in [[Campaign manager|political campaign managing]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itogi.ru/arts-tv/2012/47/184409.html|title=Есть ли жизнь в телевизоре|date=19 November 2012|publisher=Itogi|author=Andrei Vandenko|accessdate=8 February 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120091303/http://www.itogi.ru/arts-tv/2012/47/184409.html|archivedate=20 November 2012}}</ref> in particular, in 1991 he was engaged in the elections of the mayor of the French city, as a result of which the candidate whom Tsekalo supported won.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fakty.ua/150867-aaleksandr-cekalo-sdelat-parodiyu-na-vanyu-urganta-koe-komu-udaetsya-a-vot-na-menya---nikak-ne-poluchaetsya|title=Александр Цекало: "Сделать пародию на Ваню Урганта кое-кому удается, а вот на меня – никак не получается"|publisher=[[Fakty i Kommentarii]]}}</ref>

In 1996, together with Lolita Milyavskaya, he began to present the program "Good morning, country!". After the collapse of the cabaret duet "Akademiya" in 2000, Tsekalo participated in a number of television projects, including the popular series of musical films "Old Songs on the Main" (played in the third and fourth parts, and also directed and scripted a live version of the television project),<ref name="multiple">{{cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/archive/1726423/|title=Александр Цекало: "Трачу деньги на еду и телефон"|publisher=[[Argumenty i Fakty]]|date=11 June 2002}}</ref> voiced the film "Private Chronicles. Monologue".

In 2000, Tsekalo played the main role in [[Tigran Keosayan|Tigran Keosayan's]] film "Silver Lily of the Valley", for which he wrote and performed the song "Istoriya". In 2007, this song was performed by [[Filipp Kirkorov]] and was included in his album ''[[For You (Philipp Kirkorov album)|For You]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://utro.ru/articles/2007/11/07/692803.shtml|work=Utro.ru|title= Филипп Киркоров: "Пугачёва остаётся моей музой"|date=7 November 2007}}</ref>


Until February 2003 he was the executive producer of the musical ''[[Nord-Ost]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/15783/|work=[[Echo of Moscow]]|title=Предстоящая премьера мюзикла "Норд-Ост"|date=4 October 2001}}</ref> and then became the general producer of the company "Russian Musical", the director of the musical "12 chairs".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/400473|work=[[Kommersant]]|title="12 стульев" расставили в Нью-Васюках|date=31 July 2003}}</ref>
Until February 2003 he was the executive producer of the musical ''[[Nord-Ost]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/15783/|work=[[Echo of Moscow]]|title=Предстоящая премьера мюзикла "Норд-Ост"|date=4 October 2001}}</ref> and then became the general producer of the company "Russian Musical", the director of the musical "12 chairs".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/400473|work=[[Kommersant]]|title="12 стульев" расставили в Нью-Васюках|date=31 July 2003}}</ref>
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In 2008 he founded [[Sreda (production company)|Sreda]], which has become one of the most significant television production companies in Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rusproducers.com/page/21042|work=Association of Film and Television Producers|title=О компании "Среда"}}</ref>
In 2008 he founded [[Sreda (production company)|Sreda]], which has become one of the most significant television production companies in Russia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rusproducers.com/page/21042|work=Association of Film and Television Producers|title=О компании "Среда"}}</ref>


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Tsekalo appeared as the director of creative evenings of [[Igor Krutoy]] (also a screenwriter and presenter), the [[Kinotavr]] festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=4329/|title=Незаконченный роман Игоря Крутого|publisher=[[Novy Vzglyad]]|date=10 April 1997}}</ref> (также являлся сценаристом и ведущим<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=36800|title="Академики" расскажут о сотворении мира песен Игоря Крутого|publisher=[[Novy Vzglyad]]|date=18 September 1998}}</ref> (also the host),<ref name="kinotavr">{{cite web|url=https://newizv.ru/news/culture/06-06-2005/25645-novyj-kinotavr/|title=Новый "Кинотавр"|publisher=[[Novye Izvestia]]|date=6 June 2005}}</ref> the Silver Galosh prize<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intermedia.ru/news/139935/|title=Александр Цекало станет режиссёром "Серебряной калоши"|publisher=InterMedia|date=9 June 2002}}</ref> (also a host),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/23925/69294/|title="Серебру" вручили две "Серебряных калоши"|publisher=[[Комсомольская правда]]|date=28 June 2007}}</ref> solo concerts by Angelica Varum<ref name="multiple" /> (also made a video for the song "Whistle Man")<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avarum.com/index.php?page=174|title= 1992 – "Человек-свисток"|publisher=[[Anzhelika Varum]]}}</ref> and [[Alsou]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1k.com.ua/481/details/10/1/|title=В начале века, или Алсу по-севастопольски|publisher=Первая Крымская информационно-аналитическая газета|date=11 July 2013|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811185138/http://1k.com.ua/481/details/10/1/|archive-date=11 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> (also took part in preparing Alsou for the Eurovision Song Contest,<ref name="trud">{{cite web|url=http://www.trud.ru/article/29-07-2017/1352785_aleksandr_tsekalo_telekanaly_menjajutsja_v_luchshuju_storonu_eto_neizbezhno.html|work=[[Trud (Russian newspaper)|Trud]]|title= Александр Цекало: Телеканалы меняются в лучшую сторону, это неизбежно|date=29 July 2017}}</ref> where the singer took the second place),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/file/rossiyskie_uchastniki_evrovideniya_za_vsyu_istoriyu_konkursa_dose|work=[[Argumenty i Fakty]]|title= Российские участники "Евровидения" за всю историю конкурса. Досье|date=14 May 2013}}</ref> in addition, he was the artistic director of the award ceremony of the [[TEFI|TEFI 2006]] award,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lenizdat.ru/articles/1045409/|publisher=Lenizdat.ru|title= "ТЭФИ" в стиле Цекало|date=28 November 2006}}</ref> as a model and participated in the avant-garde exhibition of artists Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva "Orgy of Humanism",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2288838|work=[[Коммерсантъ]]|title= Цекало не тонет|date=27 May 2001}}</ref> in addition, he was the host of the concert version of the CTC "Leningrad Stand-Up Club",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.5-tv.ru/news/95520|work=[[Petersburg – Channel 5]]]|title= В Петербурге прошел концерт "Ленинградского Stand-Up Клуба"|date=5 April 2015}}</ref> the award of the magazine "Sobaka.ru"
In 2014, he made his debut as a journalist, interviewing the director of the directorate of the cinema channel "Channel One" Sergei Titinkov and the general producer of [[TNT (Russian TV channel)|TNT]] Alexander Dulerain for the magazine [[GQ]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcasting.ru/newstext.php?news_id=101672|work=Broadcasting|title= Александр Цекало расспросил телевизионных начальников ТНТ и Первого канала о сериалах|date=1 September 2014}}</ref> and with his sister-in-law [[Vera Brezhneva]] for the magazine [[Interview (magazine)|Interview]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interviewrussia.ru/life/vera-brezhneva-na-muzykalnom-rynke-ne-hvatalo-menya|work=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]|title=Вера Брежнева: "На музыкальном рынке не хватало меня"|date=23 October 2014|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-date=9 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509054947/http://www.interviewrussia.ru/life/vera-brezhneva-na-muzykalnom-rynke-ne-hvatalo-menya|url-status=dead}}</ref>


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Together with [[Ivan Urgant]], Tsekalo owns the restaurant "The Sad" in Moscow on the Yakimanskaya Embankment,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tatler.ru/vash_vihod/17598_van_urgant_i_aleksandr_tsekalo_otkrili_restoran.php#p=17602;|title=Иван Ургант и Александр Цекало открыли ресторан|publisher=[[Tatler]]|date=11 February 2011|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-date=26 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426135449/http://www.tatler.ru/vash_vihod/17598_van_urgant_i_aleksandr_tsekalo_otkrili_restoran.php#p=17602;|url-status=dead}}</ref> and also in late 2010, together with Alexei Bokov and Alexander Orlov, opened the restaurant "Chichibio".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bokovfactory.ru/chichibio/|work=Production agency «BokovFactory»|title= Открытие ресторана "Chichibio"}}</ref>
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Tsekalo appeared as the director of creative evenings of [[Igor Krutoy]] (also a screenwriter and presenter), the [[Kinotavr]] festival<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=4329/|title=Незаконченный роман Игоря Крутого|publisher=[[Novy Vzglyad]]|date=10 April 1997}}</ref> (также являлся сценаристом и ведущим<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newlookmedia.ru/?p=36800|title="Академики" расскажут о сотворении мира песен Игоря Крутого|publisher=[[Novy Vzglyad]]|date=18 September 1998}}</ref> (also the host),<ref name="kinotavr">{{cite web|url=https://newizv.ru/news/culture/06-06-2005/25645-novyj-kinotavr/|title=Новый "Кинотавр"|publisher=[[Novye Izvestia]]|date=6 June 2005}}</ref> the Silver Galosh prize<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intermedia.ru/news/139935/|title=Александр Цекало станет режиссёром "Серебряной калоши"|publisher=InterMedia|date=9 June 2002}}</ref> (also a host),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/23925/69294/|title="Серебру" вручили две "Серебряных калоши"|publisher=[[Комсомольская правда]]|date=28 June 2007}}</ref> solo concerts by Angelica Varum<ref name="multiple" /> (also made a video for the song "Whistle Man")<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avarum.com/index.php?page=174|title= 1992 – "Человек-свисток"|publisher=[[Anzhelika Varum]]}}</ref> and [[Alsou]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1k.com.ua/481/details/10/1/|title=В начале века, или Алсу по-севастопольски|publisher=Первая Крымская информационно-аналитическая газета|date=11 July 2013|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811185138/http://1k.com.ua/481/details/10/1/|archive-date=11 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> (also took part in preparing Alsou for the Eurovision Song Contest,<ref name="trud">{{cite web|url=http://www.trud.ru/article/29-07-2017/1352785_aleksandr_tsekalo_telekanaly_menjajutsja_v_luchshuju_storonu_eto_neizbezhno.html|work=[[Trud (Russian newspaper)|Trud]]|title= Александр Цекало: Телеканалы меняются в лучшую сторону, это неизбежно|date=29 July 2017}}</ref> where the singer took the second place),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/dontknows/file/rossiyskie_uchastniki_evrovideniya_za_vsyu_istoriyu_konkursa_dose|work=[[Argumenty i Fakty]]|title= Российские участники "Евровидения" за всю историю конкурса. Досье|date=14 May 2013}}</ref> in addition, he was the artistic director of the award ceremony of the [[TEFI|TEFI 2006]] award,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lenizdat.ru/articles/1045409/|publisher=Lenizdat.ru|title= "ТЭФИ" в стиле Цекало|date=28 November 2006}}</ref> as a model and participated in the avant-garde exhibition of artists Dmitry Vrubel and Victoria Timofeeva "Orgy of Humanism",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2288838|work=[[Коммерсантъ]]|title= Цекало не тонет|date=27 May 2001}}</ref> in addition, he was the host of the concert version of the CTC "Leningrad Stand-Up Club",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.5-tv.ru/news/95520|work=[[Petersburg – Channel 5]]]|title= В Петербурге прошел концерт "Ленинградского Stand-Up Клуба"|date=5 April 2015}}</ref> the award of the magazine "Sobaka.ru" "TOP 50. The most famous people of Petersburg"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sobaka.ru/city/city/23746|publisher=sobaka.ru|title= Состоялась церемония вручения премии "ТОП 50"|date=30 May 2014}}</ref> and the weddings of ballerina [[Anastasia Volochkova]] and businessman Igor Vdovin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spb.aif.ru/society/people/zvezda_epatazha_kak_balerina_volochkova_prevratilas_v_svetskuyu_lvicu|work=[[Argumenty i Fakty]]|title= Звезда эпатажа. Как балерина Волочкова превратилась в светскую львицу|date=20 January 2017}}</ref>


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Together with [[Ivan Urgant]], Tsekalo owns the restaurant "The Sad" in Moscow on the Yakimanskaya Embankment,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tatler.ru/vash_vihod/17598_van_urgant_i_aleksandr_tsekalo_otkrili_restoran.php#p=17602;|title=Иван Ургант и Александр Цекало открыли ресторан|publisher=[[Tatler]]|date=11 February 2011|access-date=2 February 2018|archive-date=26 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426135449/http://www.tatler.ru/vash_vihod/17598_van_urgant_i_aleksandr_tsekalo_otkrili_restoran.php#p=17602;|url-status=dead}}</ref> and also in late 2010, together with Alexei Bokov and Alexander Orlov, opened the restaurant "Chichibio".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bokovfactory.ru/chichibio/|work=Production agency «BokovFactory»|title= Открытие ресторана "Chichibio"}}</ref>


==Selected filmography==


===Host===
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{{Infobox person | name = Aleksander Tsekalo | native_name = Александр Цекало | native_name_lang = ru | image = Александр Цекалo (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Tsekalo | birth_date = (1961-03-22) 22 March 1961 (age 63) | birth_place = Kiev, Ukrainian SSR

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