Roman Madianov is a descendant of the Ural Cossacks. However, his parents had quite urban peaceful professions: his father was an editor on television, his mother was a librarian. But the Cossack blood affected their children: the brothers Roman and Vadim were desperate mischievous.
At the age of nine, Roman first got on the set. In a small episode of the film “Translation from English” he played a tomboy. But his second role was already quite serious - the main character in the film George Danelia.
"Totally Lost" Based on Munk Twain's novel about Huckleberry Finn. The boy “fell in the stream”, and every year of his school years was marked by a new film with his participation, and in three films he played the leading roles.
The young actor had to travel a lot around the country, but since the law on universal education applied to everyone, and in any case, the school had to be finished, his documents followed him from Moscow to Yerevan school, then to Tallinn, etc. And before the exams, the boy had to engage in enhanced cramming.
Roman went to GITIS. This was insisted on by his father, who explained that the real acting school can be held in a theater, not a cinematographic university. But cinema and theater, for all their affinity, are competitors and eternal “worst friends.” Perhaps that is why the young man, who already had cinematic experience and was recognizable, was not immediately accepted into GITIS. He only got there on the second try.
Any actor has a blue dream of his cherished role - Shakespeare's Hamlet, or Bulgakov's Voland, Juliet, or Anna Karenina. For Madianov in his student years, such a dream was the role of the brave soldier Schweik. The production was directed by Oleg Lvovich Kudryashov, and the musical became Madianov’s graduation performance.
After graduating from GITIS, he was enrolled in the troupe of the Mayakovsky Theater, where he had already played Ivan Tsarevich with Goncharov. Roman worked in the theater for more than 20 years, starred in films, performing about 70 large and small roles. For Best Supporting Actor, he was awarded “Nika” and “White Elephant” at film festivals. /