Leonid Yarmolnik
Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.
Biography
Yarmolnik was born on 22 January 1954 in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, where his father, Isaac Yarmolnik, a Soviet Army officer, was stationed. His mother, Faina Ivanovna Yarmolnik, worked as a laboratory assistant in a polyclinic. In 1960, Yarmolnik's family relocated to Lviv. Leonid studied at the local music school and was involved in plays at the Lviv Folk Theater. In 1972, he became a student at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated from the acting class of Yury Katin-Yartsev, a famous Russian actor and acclaimed pedagogue of the Vakhtangov Theater Arts School, in 1976. From 1976 to 1984, he was an actor at the Taganka Theatre. Yarmolnik started his own studio, L-Club, specializing in film distribution, and anchored a TV program with the same name. Until 2012, he was a member of the jury on the popular KVN game show. He was honored with the Russian Federation">Russians">Russian Federation in 2001 for the role of Zhora in The Barracks. From 2 March to 8 June 2014, he was a member of the jury of the music show ‘Toch-v-Toch’.Personal life
Leonid Yarmolnik is married to Oksana Afanasieva and they have one daughter together. Oksana Afanasieva is a former girlfriend of Soviet singer songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky.Yarmolnik is Jewish.
Selected filmography
As an actor
- 1979 — The Very Same Munchhausen as Theophil von Münchhausen
- 1983 — Look for a Woman as policeman Maximan
- 1984 — Copper Angel as Maurice Barro
- 1984 — TASS Is Authorized to Declare... as Grechaev
- 1987 — A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines as one-eyed cowboy Martin
- 1988 — Yolki-palki as Grigory Kaigorodov
- 1989 — Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation as Airliner hijacker
- 1989 — Two Arrows. [Stone Age Detective] as Long-nosed
- 1990 — Passport as Borya's Israeli friend
- 1991 — Odyssey of [Captain Blood (1991 film)|Odyssey of Captain Blood] as Levasseur
- 1995 — Moscow Vacation as Grisha
- 1995 — Heads and Tails as Gosha
- 1998 — Crossroads as Oleg 'Alik' Sevastyanov
- 2004 — My Step Brother Frankenstein as Yulik
- 2005 — The Case of "Dead Souls" as Plyushkin
- 2006 — Moscow Mission as Krot
- 2010 — Love in the Big City 2 as father of Igor
- 2011 — Cars 2 as Miles Axlerod
- 2013 — Hard to Be a God as Don Rumata
- 2016 — as major Gamayun, head of the secret police Department
- 2023 — The [Master and Margarita (2023 film)|The Master and Margarita] as ''Dr. Stravinsky''
As a film producer
- ''Ku! Kin-dza-dza''