Oleksiy Gorbunov
Oleksiy Gorbunov | |
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Alexei Gorbunov on July 17, 2012 during Odessa International Film Festival | |
Born |
Kyiv, Soviet Union | 29 October 1961
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1984–present |
Oleksiy Serhiyovych Gorbunov (Ukrainian: Олексiй Сергійович Горбунов; Born on October 29, 1961 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is Ukrainian and a Soviet film, television and stage actor.[1]
Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991). People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).[2]
Life and career
Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on October 29, 1961 in Kyiv. He spent his childhood in Rusanivka neighbourhood in Kyiv.
In 1978, immediately after graduating from high school he could not go to Kyiv Theatrical Institute because he was not a member of the Komsomol. In the years 1978 and 1979 he worked in the dressing room of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In the theater, thanks to Ada Rogovtseva, he met with her husband, actor and his mentor Konstantin Stepankov.
In 1984 he graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (in Konstantin Stepankov's course). Gorbunov began acting his first film, Unlabeled Cargo on the day he received his diploma.
From 1984 to 1995 he worked for Oleksandr Dovzhenko. In the spring of 1985 to April 20, 1987 he served in the Soviet Army.
In the 1990s Gorbunov worked as a private taxi driver because of the crisis at the Dovzhenko Film Studio. Director Vladimir Popkov helped him get back into cinema by inviting him for the role of Jester Chicot in the movie Countess de Monsoreau.
Gorbunov worked in the Theater Studio of Film Actor, in the private Chamber Theatre M. Nestantiner and Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. He starred in Ukrainian TV series Night Service (1998) and Wonder People (2008).
Gorbunov is a soloist of "Sadness Pilot" and worked as a DJ on the Kyiv radio stations "Continent" and "Nostalgia". He is also an organizer and presenter of two discos in Kyiv: "Dzhankoi" and "Jumanji".
Selected filmography
- 2018 The Wild Fields
- 2015 Locust
- 2015 National guard (Ukrainian: Гвардія as Oleksiy
- 2014 Leningrad 46 (TV series) as The Musician
- 2014 Son as Father as Georgiy Teodorady, The Arbitrator of the organised crime
- 2014 Trubach
- 2013 Sherlok Kholms as Professor Moriarty / The Cabman
- 2013 Shuler
- 2013 Khaytarma
- 2013 Möbius as Korzhov
- 2012 Eastalgia as Zhora
- 2012 Spy as Selentsov
- 2012 Atomic Ivan
- 2012 Mothers
- 2011 The PyraMMMid
- 2010 The Edge as Kolivanov
- 2010 The 5th Execution as General
- 2009 L'affaire Farewell as Choukhov
- 2009 The Inhabited Island as Shurin
- 2008 Stilyagi as Labukh
- 2008 Little Moscow as Major KGB
- 2007 12 as 9th Juror
- 2006 Dikari as Baron
- 2006 Filipp's Bay as Booth
- 2005 The State Counsellor as Nikolai Seleznov / Rakhmet
- 2003 Lines of Fate as Andrey Shurkov
- 1999 Kamenskaya as Gall
- 1998 Countess de Monsoreau as Jester Chicot
- 1998 Country of the Deaf as supplier
- 1984 Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible as climber