Alexey Gorbunov

Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov ( uk, Олексій Сергійович Горбунов; born on 29 October 1961) is a Ukrainian film, television and stage actor. He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).Указ Президент України від 22 січня 2016 року № 18/2016 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Соборності України»

Life and career

Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on 29 October 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 20 April 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

* 1984 ''Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible'' as climber
* 1990 '' Disintegration'' as Shurik
* 1991 ''Oxygen Starvation'' as Golikov
* 1998 '' Country of the Deaf'' as supplier
* 1998 ''Countess de Monsoreau'' as Jester Chicot
* 1999 ''Kamenskaya'' as Gall
* 2003 ''Lines of Fate'' as Andrey Shurkov
* 2005 '' The State Counsellor'' as Nikolai Seleznov / Rakhmet
* 2006 ''Filipp's Bay'' as Booth
* 2006 ''Dikari'' as Baron
* 2007 '' 12'' as 9th Juror
* 2008 ''Little Moscow'' as Major KGB
* 2008 ''Stilyagi'' as Labukh
* 2009 '' The Inhabited Island'' as Shurin
* 2009 ''L'affaire Farewell'' as Choukhov
* 2010 ''The 5th Execution'' as General
* 2010 '' The Edge'' as Kolivanov
* 2010 '' The House of the Sun'' as Boris Pavlovich Kapelsky
* 2011 ''The PyraMMMid'' as Colonel
* 2012 ''Moms'' as telephone cheater
* 2012 ''Atomic Ivan'' as Ivan's father
* 2012 ''Spy'' as Selentsov
* 2012 ''Eastalgia'' as Zhora
* 2013 '' Möbius'' as Korzhov
* 2013 ''Khaytarma'' as Krotov
* 2013 ''Shuler'' as Leonid Balaban
* 2013 '' Sherlok Kholms'' as Professor Moriarty / The Cabman
* 2014 ''Trubach'' as Vasily Petrovich, artistic director of the orchestra
* 2014 ''Son as Father'' as Georgiy Teodorady, The Arbitrator of the organised crime
* 2014 ''Leningrad 46'' as The Musician
* 2015 ''National Guard'' as Oleksiy
* 2015 '' Locust'' as Kavtorang
* 2018 '' The Wild Fields'' as Pastor
* 2021 ''The Last Mercenary''

Television

* 2018 The Bureau (''Le Bureau des Légendes''), season 4 and 5 as Karlov

References

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1961 births
Living people
Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine
Ukrainian male film actors
Ukrainian male stage actors
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male stage actors