Boris Leskin
Boris Leskin | |
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Native name | Борис Вульфович Лёскин |
Born |
Boris Vulfovich Leskin 5 January 1923[1] Chişinău, Bessarabia, Romania[1] |
Other names | Boris Lyoskin |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1953 — present |
Boris Leskin (born January 5, 1923) is a Soviet and American film and theater actor.
Biography
Born on January 5, 1923, in 1937 his father was arrested and executed. During the Great Patriotic War he was employed as a sapper at the front and was wounded. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals.[2][3]
In 1952 he graduated from the Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatre Institute (Leonid Makaryev course). From 1951 to 1980 he worked as an actor in the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.[4] In 1980 he began his career in the United States as a theater actor in New York City. He was included on the nomination committee for Academy Awards.[2] In 2011 director Eduard Staroselsky made a documentary about him: Bob Has Been Removed. Minesweeper Bolshoi Drama (with Sergei Yursky).[5]
Awards
- 2006: Pacific Meridian: Best Actor (Everything Is Illuminated)[6][7][8]
Selected filmography
- Unfinished Story (1955)
- An Old, Old Tale (1968)
- Property of the Republic (1971)
- Heavenly Swallows (1976)
- Khanuma (1978)
- A Couch in New York (1996)
- Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
References
- 1 2 "Boris Leskin - kinoteatr". kinoteatr.ru. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
- 1 2 Выходцы из Молдовы в Голливуде решают, кто из актеров получит «Оскара»!
- ↑ В программе «Сегодня вечером» вспоминают народного артиста РСФСР Андрея Миронова
- ↑ Boris Leskin Illuminated
- ↑ Киноповесть: Борис Лёскин
- ↑ Лауреаты владивостокского международного кинофестиваля (2006)
- ↑ Рената Литвинова вручает приз за лучшую мужскую роль Борису Лескину
- ↑ Boris Leskin. Awards