Boris Leskin

Boris Leskin
Native name Борис Вульфович Лёскин
Born Boris Vulfovich Leskin
(1923-01-05) 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

Selected filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Boris Leskin - kinoteatr". kinoteatr.ru. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
  2. 1 2 Выходцы из Молдовы в Голливуде решают, кто из актеров получит «Оскара»!
  3. ↑ В программе «Сегодня вечером» вспоминают народного артиста РСФСР Андрея Миронова
  4. ↑ Boris Leskin Illuminated
  5. ↑ Киноповесть: Борис Лёскин
  6. ↑ Лауреаты владивостокского международного кинофестиваля (2006)
  7. ↑ Рената Литвинова вручает приз за лучшую мужскую роль Борису Лескину
  8. ↑ Boris Leskin. Awards
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