Boris Leskin

Born on 5 January 1923, in 1937 his father was arrested and executed. During the World War II 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] Leskin died on 21 February 2020.[6]

• 2006: Pacific Meridian: Best Actor (Everything Is Illuminated)[7][8][9]

• Did We Meet Somewhere Before (1955)
• Unfinished Story (1955)
• Maksim Perepelitsa (1955)
• An Old, Old Tale (1968)
• Property of the Republic (1971)
• Heavenly Swallows (1976)
• Khanuma (1978)
• The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
• The Package (1989)
• Vampire's Kiss (1989)
• A Couch in New York (1996)
• Men in Black (2005)[10]
• Cold Souls (2009)
• World War III (1998)

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• Boris Leskin on KinoPoisk