Sergey Zhigunov

Sergey Victorovich Zhigunov (; born 2 January 1963) is a Soviet and Russian actor and producer. Commander of the Order of Honour and of the Order of Friendship. Honored Artist of Russia (1995). His most famous roles as an actor were in Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin (2001), Queen Margot (1996), Hearts of Three (1992), and Gardemarines ahead! (1988), The Witches Cave (1990). He also started as Maksim Viktoroviс Shatalin (Maxwell Sheffield) in My Fair Nanny (2004-2009), a Russian remake of the American sitcom The Nanny. Early life and education Sergey Zhigunov was born on January 2, 1963, in Rostov-on-Don into an acting family. After the eighth grade of high school, he was expelled from it for bad behavior. He studied in Rostov secondary schools - first at school number 20, then at school number 75, and at the Rimsky-Korsakov music school. He participated in one of the school ensembles, played the guitar and sang. He first entered the Shchukin Higher Theater School in 1980, but was soon expelled for "incompetence", as he began acting in films and almost abandoned his studies. Returning to Rostov-on-Don, he played in the Rostov Theater of the Young Spectator. A year later, in 1982, he recovered at the Shchukin School already on another course (the artistic director of the course - Marianna Rubenovna Ter-Zakharova) and graduated from it in 1986.