Petrov made his debut in 2010 in an episodic role of the television series Voices. In 2012, he played a major role in the series While the fern is blooming.
In the 2015 crime drama serial The Method produced by Alexander Tsekalo's Sreda, Petrov played the supporting role of police officer Zhenya. In the same year, he also acted in the TV series Fartsa, by the same production company, this time in the lead role. The series is about Fartsovka — the illegal acquisition of consumer goods and currency from foreigners during the Soviet Union. He played Andrei Trofimov, an aspiring writer. In 2017, he acted in Sreda's feature film — Gogol. The Beginning. In this horror-fantasy picture, loosely based on Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, he portrayed writer Nikolai Gogol.
He played one of the main roles in the disaster film Attraction (2017) by Fyodor Bondarchuk. According to the plot of the film; over the city, there is an unidentified object, which later, for the safety of citizens, is shot down. Only when it falls to the ground do experts find that this object is of unearthly origin.
In 2018 he acted in a musical romantic drama about figure skating, Ice.
Film news and database website Kinopoisk named Alexander Petrov as the most popular Russian actor of 2017.
He again played the role of Artyom in Invasion, the sequel of Attraction in 2020.
In the 2015 crime drama serial The Method produced by Alexander Tsekalo's Sreda, Petrov played the supporting role of police officer Zhenya. In the same year, he also acted in the TV series Fartsa, by the same production company, this time in the lead role. The series is about Fartsovka — the illegal acquisition of consumer goods and currency from foreigners during the Soviet Union. He played Andrei Trofimov, an aspiring writer. In 2017, he acted in Sreda's feature film — Gogol. The Beginning. In this horror-fantasy picture, loosely based on Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, he portrayed writer Nikolai Gogol.
He played one of the main roles in the disaster film Attraction (2017) by Fyodor Bondarchuk. According to the plot of the film; over the city, there is an unidentified object, which later, for the safety of citizens, is shot down. Only when it falls to the ground do experts find that this object is of unearthly origin.
In 2018 he acted in a musical romantic drama about figure skating, Ice.
Film news and database website Kinopoisk named Alexander Petrov as the most popular Russian actor of 2017.
He again played the role of Artyom in Invasion, the sequel of Attraction in 2020.
