Semyon Strugachyov
Semyon Mikhailovich Strugachyov is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia.
Biography
Semyon Strugachyov was born on December 10, 1957, in the village of Smidovich, Smidovichsky District, Jewish Autonomous Region. Father Misha Strugashvili is half Georgian, half Mountain Jew.In 1979, he graduated from the acting department of the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of Arts in Vladivostok. He also worked in the Primorsky Regional Drama Theater, Gorky Academic Theater, Kuibyshev Drama Theater. In 1988 he started acting at the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre.
He made his debut in cinema in 1991. All-Russian fame to Strugachyov was brought by Aleksandr Rogozhkin’s comedy Peculiarities of the National Hunt. Subsequently, starred in all sequels of this film.
Selected filmography
- as blind painter
- Peculiarities of the National Hunt as Lev Soloveichik
- Operation Happy New Year as Lev Soloveichik
- Peculiarities of the National Fishing as Lev Soloveichik
- Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season as Lev Soloveichik
- Peculiarities of National Politics as Lev Soloveichik
- Deadly Force as Semyon Chernyga, forensic expert
- The Fall of the Empire as Fleishman
- The Master and Margarita as Matthew the Apostle
- Cinderella as Mikhail Levitsky
- Sherlock Holmes as Charles Gauthier, Ambassador of France
- Kidnapping, Caucasian Style! as the Coward
- Catherine the Great as Lestocq