Vladimir Mashkov

{{Infobox person

| name = Vladimir Mashkov

| image = Владимир Машков.jpg

| caption = Mashkov in 2024

| birth_name = Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov

| native_name = {{nobold|Владимир Машков}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1963|11|27}}

| birth_place = Tula, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|theatre director|film director|screenwriter|public figure}}

| awards = {{Plainlist|

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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"]] [[File:Orden of Honour.png|30px|link=

Order of Honour (Russia)]] File:RUS Laureate of the Award of the Ministry of Defense in the Field of Culture and Art Badge ribbon 2015.svg File:Орден Почёта Кузбасса (лента).png File:За особый вклад в развитие Кузбасса 3.png

[[File:Zaslujeniy artist.jpg|30px|link=

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation]]

}}

| yearsactive = 1989–present

| education = Novosibirsk State Theater Institute

}}

Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov ({{langx|ru|Владимир Львович Машков}}; born 27 November 1963) is a Russian actor and theater director of cinema. He is known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines and 2011 film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=434–436}}{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20131127/979571873.html|work=RIA Novosti|title=Биография Владимира Машкова|date=27 November 2013}} Mashkov has also worked as a film director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film Papa.

According to his daughter Maria "Masha" Mashkova, who is close to her mother and who both reside in the United States,{{cite news |url=https://gordonua.com/ukr/publications/mashkova-ja-shchodnja-divujusja-shcho-j-dali-zarobljaju-svojeju-profesijeju-ja-chudovo-rozumiju-shcho-tse-plata-za-mij-vibir-1742067.html |title=Машкова: Я щодня дивуюся, що й далі заробляю своєю професією. Я чудово розумію, що це плата за мій вибір |trans-title=Mashkova: Every day I am surprised that I continue to earn money with my profession. I understand perfectly well that this is the price for my choice |language=uk |work=Gordonua |date=13 May 2025 |access-date=14 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514224748/https://gordonua.com/ukr/publications/mashkova-ja-shchodnja-divujusja-shcho-j-dali-zarobljaju-svojeju-profesijeju-ja-chudovo-rozumiju-shcho-tse-plata-za-mij-vibir-1742067.html |archive-date=14 May 2025}} her father Vladimir Mashkov is a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin and an ardent pro-Russia, pro-Putin, pro-Kremlin propagandist who firmly supports Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War.{{cite news |url=https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/war/nihto-z-mojih-ukrajinskih-druziv-ne-prosiv-shchobi-jih-rjatuvav-putin-donka-propagandista-mashkova-zasudila-napad-rf-na-ukrajinu-1601218.html |title="Ніхто з моїх українських друзів не просив, щоб їх "рятував" Путін". Донька пропагандиста Машкова засудила напад РФ на Україну |trans-title="None of my Ukrainian friends asked to be 'saved' by Putin." The daughter of propagandist Mashkov condemned the Russian attack on Ukraine |language=uk |work=Gordonua |date=22 March 2022 |access-date=14 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514225732/https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/war/nihto-z-mojih-ukrajinskih-druziv-ne-prosiv-shchobi-jih-rjatuvav-putin-donka-propagandista-mashkova-zasudila-napad-rf-na-ukrajinu-1601218.html |archive-date=14 May 2025}}{{cite news |url=https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/worldnews/mashkova-bahato-khto-viriv-shcho-tramp-zamanjuje-putina-v-pastku-ale-je-j-prozajichna-vidpovid-vin-prosto-fan-putina-1742388.html |title=Машкова: Багато хто вірив, що Трамп заманює Путіна в пастку. Але є й прозаїчна відповідь: він просто фан Путіна |trans-title=Mashkova: Many believed that Trump was luring Putin into a trap. But there is also a prosaic answer: he is just a fan of Putin |language=uk |work=Gordonua |date=13 May 2025 |access-date=14 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514224626/https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/worldnews/mashkova-bahato-khto-viriv-shcho-tramp-zamanjuje-putina-v-pastku-ale-je-j-prozajichna-vidpovid-vin-prosto-fan-putina-1742388.html |archive-date=14 May 2025}}{{efn|Vladimir Mashkov was banned from entering Latvia as of 24 March 2022 after he attended a pro-Russia, pro-Putin, pro-Kremlin ralley at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 18 March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine to support the anniversary of Russia's occupation of Crimea.{{cite news |url=https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/war/napevno-na-nogo-vplinula-nevdacha-v-gollivudi-malo-chogo-dosjag-rodnjanskij-vislovivsja-pro-uchast-mashkova-u-propagandistskomu-kontserti-1601051.html |title="Напевно, на нього вплинула невдача в Голлівуді, мало чого досяг". Роднянський висловився про участь Машкова у пропагандистському концерті |trans-title="He must have been influenced by the failure in Hollywood, he didn't achieve much." Rodnyansky spoke about Mashkov's participation in a propaganda concert |language=uk |work=Gordonua |date=21 March 2022 |access-date=14 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514230931/https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/war/napevno-na-nogo-vplinula-nevdacha-v-gollivudi-malo-chogo-dosjag-rodnjanskij-vislovivsja-pro-uchast-mashkova-u-propagandistskomu-kontserti-1601051.html |archive-date=14 May 2025}}{{cite news |url=https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/worldnews/latvija-zaboronila-v-jizd-25-rosijanam-za-pidtrimku-vijni-v-ukrajini-1601545.html |title=Латвія заборонила в'їзд 25 росіянам за підтримку війни в Україні |trans-title=Latvia has banned the entry of 25 Russians for supporting the war in Ukraine |language=uk |work=Gordonua |date=24 March 2022 |access-date=14 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514223440/https://gordonua.com/ukr/news/worldnews/latvija-zaboronila-v-jizd-25-rosijanam-za-pidtrimku-vijni-v-ukrajini-1601545.html |archive-date=14 May 2025}}{{cite news |url=https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-atbalstu-karam-pret-ukrainu-25-krievijas-pilsonus-ieklauj-latvijas-melnaja-saraksta.a449237/ |title=Par atbalstu karam pret Ukrainu 25 Krievijas pilsoņus iekļauj Latvijas «melnajā sarakstā» |trans-title=25 Russian citizens included in Latvia's "blacklist" for supporting war against Ukraine |language=lv |work=LSM (www.lsm.lv) |date=24 March 2022 |access-date=14 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250514223809/https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/par-atbalstu-karam-pret-ukrainu-25-krievijas-pilsonus-ieklauj-latvijas-melnaja-saraksta.a449237/ |archive-date=14 May 2025}}}}

Biography

= Early life and education =

Mashkov was born on 27 November 1963, in Tula, Russia, and raised in Novokuznetsk.{{Cite web|url=http://kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/ros/2776/bio/|title=Владимир Машков|website=Кино-Театр.РУ|access-date=2018-07-30}} His mother, Natalia (1927–1986), was a puppet theatre director, and his father, Lev Mashkov (1925–1987), was an actor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/34/Vladimir-Mashkov.html|title = Vladimir Mashkov Biography (1963-)}}{{Cite news|url=http://allrus.me/russian-actor-vladimir-mashkov/|title=Russian culture|date=2013-09-08|access-date=2018-07-30|language=en-US}}

He made his debut on stage as a child, took part in the productions of a school theater group, performed with his parents in the Novokuznetsk Puppet Theater. In the late 1970s, Mashkov entered the biological faculty of Novosibirsk State University, but studied there for only a year, after which he entered the Novosibirsk Theater School, from which in 1984 he was expelled because of improper behavior.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rusactors.ru/m/mashkov/|title=Машков Владимир - Биография - Актеры советского и российского кино|website=www.rusactors.ru|access-date=2018-07-30}} In 1990, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, studied at the course of Oleg Tabakov.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mxat.ru/authors/directors/mashkov/|title=МХТ им. А. П. Чехова: Владимир Машков|website=www.mxat.ru|access-date=2018-07-30}}

= Career =

In 1989–1990 he was an actor of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov. Since 1990, he joined the troupe of the Oleg Tabakov Theater. He starred in the productions The Sailor's Silence (Abram Schwartz), The Inspector General (The Governor), The Myth of Don Juan (Don Juan), The Mechanical Piano (Platonov), Anecdotes (Ivanovich, Ugarov). Since 1992, Mashkov has also become one of the directors of the Tabakov Theater. He staged performances there of Star Time on Local Time (1992), Passion for Bumbarash (1992) and Death Room (1994). In the Satyricon Theater, he staged the play The Threepenny Opera (1996), in the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov - "No. 13" (2001).

In cinema, Mashkov made his debut in 1989 in the movie Green Goat Fire. After that came roles in the movies Do It – One! (1990), Ha-bi-Assi (1990), Casus improvisus (1991), Love on the Isle of Death (1991), Alaska, Sir! (1992) and Me Ivan, You Abraham (1993). However, in 1994, he was best known for his starring roles in Denis Yevstigneev's Limit and Valery Todorovsky's Moscow Nights films. In 1995, Mashkov also played the main role in Karen Shakhnazarov's melodrama American Daughter. One of the most notable works of this period was the role of Tolyan in the picture The Thief (1997), subsequently nominated for an Oscar. In 2000, he played the role of Emelian Pugachev in the historical film of Alexander Proshkin Russian rebellion.

In the early 2000s, Vladimir Mashkov starred in several Hollywood films: Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000), 15 Minutes (2001), An American Rhapsody (2001) and Behind Enemy Lines (2001). Mashkov played the Russian millionaire Platon Makovsky, whose prototype was Boris Berezovsky, in Pavel Lungin's 2002 drama Tycoon. The next year, he appeared on television as merchant Rogozhin in the adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot, directed by Vladimir Bortko.

In 1997, Vladimir Mashkov made his debut as a filmmaker with the New Year's romantic comedy The Orphan of Kazan. In 2004, he appeared in the role of director, screenwriter and producer of the film Daddy based on Alexander Galich's play The Sailor's Silence, in which he also starred Abram Schwartz.

File:Vladimir Mashkov - Odessa International Film Festival - 17 July 2010 (cropped).jpg in 2010]] He starred in the 2005 adaptation of Boris Akunin's novel The State Counselor, next year he played in the action movie Piranha and the US television series Alias. In 2007, Vladimir Mashkov played detective David Gozman in the historical crime series Liquidation He portrayed the character of a hired killer in the 2008 film The Ghost. His next films were the role of the second pilot Seryoga in the action film based on real events Kandagar (2009) and the image of the machinist Ignat in Alexei Uchitel's drama The Edge (2010). In 2011, Vladimir Mashkov appeared in the American blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, where he played Russian agent Sidorov.

In 2015, the thriller TV series Rodina aired on television, directed by Pavel Lungin. Mashkov played officer Alexei Bragin, released from a long imprisonment, who appears to have defected. The disaster film Flight Crew by Nikolai Lebedev premiered in 2016, where Mashkov played experienced pilot Zinchenko. In 2017, the sports drama Going Vertical was released. In this film, Vladimir Mashkov starred in the role of coach of the Soviet basketball team, which at the 1972 Munich Olympics beat the seemingly invincible US team.

He was appointed as artistic director of the Oleg Tabakov Theatre in 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kp.ru/online/news/3075204/|work=Komsomolskaya Pravda|title=Владимир Машков стал художественным руководителем Московского театра Табакова|author=Aleksei Karelin|date=6 April 2018}}

= Other activities =

In 2011, at a festival of children's amateur doll theaters, named "Doll in Children's Hands" in Novokuznetsk, Siberia, Mashkov announced the establishment of the "Golden Lion" prize, named after Natalya Nikiforova (his mother). Prizes are given to those nominated Best Actor and Best Actress. The first award went to theater actress Galina Romanova, named an Honored Artist of Russia.{{fact|date=March 2022}}

=Politics=

He is a member of the party United Russia, and was a delegate at the XXII Congress of the Party.{{Cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/united_russia_congress_vladimir_mashkov_fyodor_bondarchyuk/24344230.html|title=An Actor, A Director, A Party Congress, and YouTube|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=29 September 2011 }} He was a co-chairman of Putin's election headquarters during the 2024 presidential election. https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-court-sentences-russian-actor-vladimir-mashkov-to-10-years-of-prison-and-confiscation-of-apartment-in-absentia/

In February 2022, he expressed support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in an Instagram post on his official page. On 18 March 2022, Mashkov spoke at Vladimir Putin's Moscow rally commemorating the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and supporting the Russian invasion.{{cite news |title=По приколу пошли, не всерьез |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/03/19/po-prikolu-poshli-ne-vseriez |work=Meduza |date=18 March 2022 |language=ru}}

In July 2022, the European Union imposed sanctions on Vladimir Mashkov in relation to the invasion.{{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}} In 2024, a Ukrainian court sentenced Mashkov in absentia to ten years in prison for war propaganda and for encouraging the violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Authorities also confiscated his apartment in Odesa.https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-court-sentences-russian-actor-vladimir-mashkov-to-10-years-of-prison-and-confiscation-of-apartment-in-absentia/

= ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' =

Mashkov claims he was in discussions with Rockstar Games to voice the character of Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV and that the character's appearance is based on him, specifically from his role of the Tracker in the 2001 movie Behind Enemy Lines, but he ultimately turned down the offer.{{Cite episode |title=Vladimir Mashkov's interview |url=https://www.1tv.ru/shows/pozner/vypuski/gost-vladimir-mashkov-pozner-vypusk-ot-27-09-2010 |access-date=30 July 2018 |series={{Interlanguage link|Posner (TV show)|ru|Познер (телепередача)|WD=}} |last=Posner |first=Vladimir |author-link=Vladimir Pozner Jr. |network=Channel One Russia |date=27 September 2010 |number=61 |time=32:30 |quote=Нет, таких слов в моём лексиконе, „не мой уровень“, не было никогда в жизни. Мне, прям, сейчас аж стыдно. Дело в том, что это была странная такая, полуаферистическая вещь. Я очень рад, что эта игра собрала за месяц полмиллиарда долларов — это идёт разговор о GTA IV. То есть это самая продаваемая игра в мире. И они использовали мой образ из картины Джона Мура под названием „В тылу врага“. Вот, им понравилось такое. Я очень старался, собирал по кусочкам этот бомжеватый вид. И мне не сказали тогда, что это такое. Может быть, я озвучил бы. Не знаю. Ну, это интересно, часть профессии, но не особенно меня это увлекает. <…> Я даже не знал, что это, я не принял это всерьёз. |language=ru}} Rockstar Games have not commented on Mashkov's claims.

Personal life

Mashkov has been married four times{{cite web | url=https://www.vokrug.tv/article/show/16993553561/ | title=Ксения Утехина прокомментировала слухи о романе с Владимиром Машковым }} and has one daughter, Maria, from his previous marriage to Yelena Shevchenko.{{cite web | url=https://www.rbc.ru/politics/22/03/2022/6239f4769a7947efd517e089 | title=Дочь Машкова рассказала о просьбе отца вернуться в Россию и извиниться | date=22 March 2022 }} In 2022, his daughter disowned him due to his support for the invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite web |last=Times |first=The Moscow |date=2022-03-22 |title=Russian Actress Criticizes Famous Father's Support of Ukraine War |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/22/russian-actress-criticizes-famous-fathers-support-of-ukraine-war-a77037 |access-date=2022-03-23 |website=The Moscow Times |language=en}}{{cite news |title=По приколу пошли, не всерьез |url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/03/19/po-prikolu-poshli-ne-vseriez |work=Meduza |date=18 March 2022 |language=ru}}{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/03/22/russian-actress-masha-mashkova-father-putin-rally-bts-ebof-vpx.cnn|title='Breaks my heart': Actress reacts to famous dad's remarks at pro-war rally|date=22 March 2022 |publisher=CNN}} Mashkov in turn called his daughter a traitor. https://www.unilad.com/news/russian-actor-turns-on-his-own-daughter-after-she-criticises-putin-20220322

In 2016, Forbes ranked him as one of the wealthiest Russian celebrities.{{cite web | url=https://www.forbes.ru/rating-photogallery/324705-samye-obespechennye-aktery-reitinga-rossiiskikh-znamenitostei-forbes?image=180949 | title=Самые обеспеченные актеры рейтинга российских знаменитостей Forbes | date=22 July 2016 }}

Awards

1994 San Raphael Russian Cinema Festival: Blue Sail Award for Limita (1994)
1994 Sochi Open Russian Film Festival: Best Actor Award for Limita (1994)
1995 Geneva Film Festival: International Jury Prize for Limita (1994)
1995 Geneva Film Festival: Youth Jury Award for Limita (1994)
1997 Open CIS and Baltic Film Festival: Best Actor Award for The Thief (1997)
1997 Sozvezdie: Best Actor Award for The Thief (1997)
1998 Nika Awards: Best Actor Award for The Thief (1997)
2001 23rd Moscow International Film Festival: Silver St. George Best Actor Award for The Quickie (2001){{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2001 |title=23rd Moscow International Film Festival (2001) |access-date=2013-03-30 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328141339/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2001 |archive-date=2013-03-28 }}
2004 26th Moscow International Film Festival: Audience Award for Papa (2004) (shared with Ilya Rubinstein){{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2004 |title=26th Moscow International Film Festival (2004) |access-date=2013-04-07 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403123603/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2004 |archive-date=2013-04-03 }}
2025 47th Moscow International Film Festival: Stanislavsky Award{{cite web |author=Maria Baranovskaya and Anastasia Kirsanova|url=https://tass.ru/kultura/23714571|title=Владимир Машков получил спецприз ММКФ за верность традициям Станиславского|trans-title=Vladimir Mashkov received a special prize at the Moscow International Film Festival for his loyalty to the traditions of Stanislavsky|language=ru|date=April 18, 2025|access-date=April 22, 2025|website=TASS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250422093205/https://tass.ru/kultura/23714571|archive-date=April 22, 2025|url-status=live}}

Credits

=Film=

Zelyonyy ogon' kozy (The Goat's Green Fire) (1989)
Ha-bi-assy (1990)
Do It – One! (1990)
Lyubov na ostrove smerti (Love at the Death Island) (1991)
Alyaska, ser! (Alaska, Sir!) (1992)
Me Ivan, You Abraham (1993) .... Aaron
Limita (1994) .... Ivan
Katya Ismailova (1994) .... Sergey
Amerikanskaya doch (American Daughter) (1995) .... Alexei
Koroli i kapusta (Cabbages and Kings) (1996) (voice)
Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1997) (voice) .... Devil
The Thief (1997) ... Tolyan
{{lang|ru|Sirota kazanskaya}} (Sympathy Seeker) (1997) .... Stall holder
{{lang|ru|Sochineniye ko dnyu pobedy}} (Composition for Victory Day) (1998)
{{lang|ru|Dve luny, tri solntsa}} (Two Moons, Three Suns) (1998) .... Alexei
Mama (Mommy) (1999) .... Nikolai Yuryev
Russkiy bunt (The Captain's Daughter) (2000) .... Yemelyan Pugachyov
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) .... Sacha
15 Minutes (2001) .... Milos Karlova
An American Rhapsody (2001) .... Frank
The Quickie (2001) .... Oleg
Behind Enemy Lines (2001) .... Sasha
Tycoon (2002) .... Platon
Daddy (2004) .... Abraham Schwartz
The State Counsellor (2005) .... Kozyr
Piranha (2006) .... Mazur
Piter FM (2006)
«The Ghost» (2008) ... The Ghost (Domovoy)
Kandahar (2010) ... Sergei
The Edge (2010) ... Ignat
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) ... Anatoly Sidorov
Raspoutine (2011) .... Nicholas II
Pepel (Ashes) (2013) .... Igor Anatolievich Pietrov, former captain of the Red Army
The Duelist (2016) .... Graf Beklemishev
Flight Crew (2016)
Going Vertical (2017)
Hero (2019) .... Oleg Rodin
Who's There? (2022) .... Pavel
The Challenge (2023) .... Constructor Konstantin Volin