Sergey Bezrukov
{{Short description|Russian actor and singer (born 1973)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sergey Bezrukov
| image = File:Sergei Bezrukov 01.jpg
| caption = Bezrukov in 2018
| native_name = Сергей Безруков
| native_name_lang = ru
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1973|10|18}}
| birth_name = Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov
| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
| website = [http://www.sergeybezrukov.ru/ Sergey Bezrukov]
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1994–present
| parents = Vitali Bezrukov (father)
Natalia Bezrukova (mother)
| party = United Russia
| awards = People's Artist of Russia
Meritorious Artist of Russia
State Prize of the Russian Federation
}}
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov ({{langx|ru|link=no|Серге́й Вита́льевич Безру́ков}}; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia,{{Cite web|url=http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/27613|publisher=Kremlin|title=Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 12.06.2008 г. № 955}} the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of Oleg Tabakov).{{cite web|url=http://www.tabakov.ru/actors/bezrukov/|title=Tabakov Studio: Sergey Bezrukov|language=ru|access-date=18 April 2016}} He is a member of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia.
Biography
=Early life and education=
Sergei Bezrukov was born on 18 October 1973 in Moscow. His father was Vitali Bezrukov, an actor and director who worked at the Moscow Satire Theatre. Sergei's mother was Natalia Bezrukova (née Surova), she graduated from the Gorky College of Soviet Trade and worked as a shop manager.{{Cite web|url=http://sergeybezrukov.ru/family/mama/|publisher=Sergei Bezrukov – Official Website|title=Мать}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.kokina.ru/art2003-01.htm|publisher=kokina|title="Сереженька, не вздумай жениться на актрисе"}} Sergei Bezrukov was named in honor of his father's favorite poet, Sergei Yesenin.{{Cite web|url=http://lifeactor.ru/406-sergey-bezrukov.html|title=Сергей Безруков: биография, фильмография, фото, личная жизнь|trans-title=Sergey Bezrukov biography and filmography|publisher=Lifeactor}}
After graduating from secondary school No. 402 in the Perovsk district of Moscow in 1990, he entered the Moscow Art Theater School.{{cite web|url=http://sergeybezrukov.ru/ya/autobiography/|publisher=Sergei Bezrukov – Official Website|title=Автобиография}} In 1994 he graduated from the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School, with the specialization being Actor of Drama Theater and Cinema (Oleg Tabakov's workshop),{{Cite web|url=http://mhatschool.theatre.ru/departments/actor/alumni1990/|publisher=Moscow Art Theater School|title=выпускники. 1990–е}} and was immediately accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Theater Studio under Oleg Tabakov.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tabakov.ru/artists/bezrukov/|publisher=Moscow Theater Studio under Oleg Tabakov|title=Сергей Безруков}}
=Career=
From 1995 until 2000, he worked on the satirical program Puppets which aired on the NTV channel. Puppets were used on the show to represent famous people, mainly politicians. He voiced twelve characters on the show, among them such famous personalities as Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Bezrukov gained more exposure as an actor with the show.{{Cite web|url=https://tvkultura.ru/person/show/person_id/281/|publisher=Russia-K|title=Сергей Безруков}}
In 2002 Bezrukov gained his big break; he got the role of gang leader Sasha Belov in the popular crime TV show Brigada. After the series aired Sergei Bezrukov became a household name in Russia.{{cite web|url=https://www.cosmo.ru/stars/biography/sergey-bezrukov/|publisher=Cosmopolitan|title=Сергей Безруков}} He voiced the title character of Prince Vladimir animated film. He is also known for his theatre role of Chichikov in Dead Souls (which won the Moskovskij Komsomolets' award). In 2006, he portrayed Alexander Pushkin, revered as the Russian language's greatest poet, in Pushkin: The Last Duel.
According to the survey of ROMIR Monitoring, in Russia he was called the favorite actor of 2005.{{cite web|url=http://rian.ru/culture/20051226/42709947.html|script-title=ru:Сергей Безруков – самый любимый актёр россиян|publisher=RIA Novosti|date=2 December 2005|language=ru|access-date=18 April 2016}}
In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.{{cite web|title=Деятели культуры России — в поддержку позиции Президента по Украине и Крыму|url=http://mkrf.ru/press-tsentr/novosti/ministerstvo/deyateli-kultury-rossii-v-podderzhku-pozitsii-prezidenta-po-ukraine-i-krymu|publisher=Ministry for Culture of Russian Federation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140311194202/mkrf.ru/press-tsentr/novosti/ministerstvo/deyateli-kultury-rossii-v-podderzhku-pozitsii-prezidenta-po-ukraine-i-krymu|archive-date=11 March 2014}}
File:Sergei Bezrukov (2015-06-05) 06.jpg
In 2020, he advocated the 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia, which, in particular, are defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman. He explained his position by saying, that the terms 'parent 1 and parent 2' shouldn't be allowed to exist in Russia. "I promote love between a man and a woman, and prefer not experiment with gender equality", he also said.{{cite web|url=https://iz.ru/1063950/natalia-vasileva/eto-otvratitelno-mne-47-ia-vse-budu-sasha-belyi|script-title=ru:«Это отвратительно: мне 47, а я все буду Саша Белый»|publisher=Izvestia|date=23 September 2020|language=ru}}
Sanctions
In July 2022 the EU imposed sanctions on Sergey Bezrukov for his active public support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the illegal Russian annexation of Crimea.{{cite web |title=COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/1270 of 21 July 2022 |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32022R1270 |access-date=8 February 2022}}
Personal life
From 2000 to 2015 he was married to actress Irina Bezrukova (to marry Bezrukov she broke up with actor Igor Livanov,{{cite web|url=http://www.km.ru/kino/14CA1F4C32004180A5B4A9C1599373DD|title=Актер Игорь Ливанов пожалел Сергея Безрукова|publisher=KM.RU}} they became officially married when Sergei was acting in the TV series Brigada). In 2015 the couple separated.{{cite web|url=http://ru.hellomagazine.com/zvezdy/novosti-o-zvezdakh/11461-irina-bezrukova-rasskazala-hello-o-poteryakh-i-lyubvi-kotoraya-nikogda-ne-konchaetsya.html|title=Ирина Безрукова рассказала HELLO! о потерях и любви, которая никогда не кончается|date=9 November 2015 |publisher=Hello!}}{{cite web|url=http://www.kp.ru/daily/26432.5/3303950/|title=Ирина Безрукова — о разводе с мужем: Я дала ему возможность жить с чистого листа|date=14 September 2015 |publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda}}
Sergei Bezrukov married director and screenwriter Anna Matison on 11 March 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://7days.ru/news/sergey-bezrukov-zhenilsya.htm|title=Сергей Безруков женился на Анне Матисон|publisher=7days.ru|date=16 March 2016}} On 4 July 2016 they had a daughter, Maria.{{cite web|url=http://izvestia.ru/news/621297|title=У Сергея Безрукова родилась дочь|date=7 July 2016|publisher=Известия|access-date=18 April 2016}}
At the end of 2013, the media, citing Bezrukov's father, reported that Sergei has young children: daughter Alexandra and son Ivan; their mother was identified as a St. Petersburg actress by the name of Kristina Smirnova (born 1983 in Latvia).{{cite web|url=http://www.vmdaily.ru/news/2013/10/16/sergej-bezrukov-stal-ottsom-dvazhdi-218409.html|title=Сергей Безруков стал отцом дважды|publisher=Vechernyaya Moskva|date=16 October 2013|access-date=18 April 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/674518/|title=Актёр Сергей Безруков почти год скрывает двойняшек|publisher=NTV|date=12 October 2013|access-date=18 April 2016}}
Selected filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Film |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1990
| uncredited |
| 1999
| Nikolay Sidikhin | |
| 2003
| Pavel | |
| 2005
| Sasha White | |
| rowspan="3" | 2006
|Nikolai Orlanov | |
| Prince Vladimir
|Prince Vladimir |voice, animated film |
| Pushkin: The Last Duel
| |
| 2007
|Irakliy Izmaylov | |
| 2008
| |
| rowspan="2" | 2009
|Narrator |voice |
| High Security Vacation
|Viktor 'Sumrak' Sumarokov | |
| rowspan="2" | 2011
|Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive |Vladimir Vysotsky / Yura | |
| Yolki 2
|Vladimir Snegiryov | |
| rowspan=2| 2012
|Lieutenant Gorzhevskiy | |
| Moms
|Mikhail |Segment "My beloved" |
| rowspan="2" |2016
|Magra |voice |
| After You're Gone
|Alexey Temnikov | |
| 2020
|Captain Ivan Starchak | |
| rowspan="4" | 2021
| Yura Kovalev | |
| Bender: The Beginning
| rowspan="2" |Ibrahim Bender | |
| Bender: Gold of the Empire
| |
| Saving Pushkin
|Sergey Trofimov | |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
|Grigory Kusikyants | |
| Dads
|Alexander | |
| rowspan="2" |2023
| |
| Air
| Alexey Astafiev | |
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TV |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2000
|Chivalric Romance | | |
| 2002
|Ivan Brilling | |
| 2002
| Sasha White | |
| 2004
| |
| 2005
| |
| 2005
|Yeshua Ha-Nozri | |
| 2011
|Pavel Khromov | |
| 2017
|Vladimir Skalon | |
| 2018 |
| 2023
|Spy |Andrey Rybin | |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.sergeybezrukov.ru/}} {{in lang|ru}}
- {{IMDb name|0080115}}
- {{Instagram|s_bezrukov}}
- [https://twitter.com/s_bezrukov/ Sergey Bezrukov at Twitter]
- [https://www.facebook.com/sergey.bezrukov.real Sergey Bezrukov at Facebook]
- [http://publications-theatre.ru/eng/esenineng.htm Sergey Bezrukov in a role of poet Sergey Yesenin]
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