Bohdan Beniuk ( uk, Богдан Михайлович Бенюк; born 26 May 1957) is a Ukrainian actor of theater and cinema, politician,

People's Artist of Ukraine People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Establ ...

(1996). Along with Anatoliy Khostikoiev, he is a creator of the Theatrical company Beniuk and Khostikoiev.

Biography

Beniuk was born on May 26, 1957, in town of

Bytkiv Bytkiv (; ) is an urban-type settlement in Nadvirna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Pasichna rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population was Location Bytkiv is located 12 kilometers west of Nadvirna bet ...

Nadvirna Raion Nadvirna Raion ( uk, Надвірня́нський райо́н, translit=Nadvirnianśkyj rajon) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region). The town of Nadvirna is the administrative center of the raion. Population: . On 18 July ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. He has two brothers:

Petro Beniuk and Vasyl Beniuk. Bohdan Beniuk graduated the National University of Theatre, Film and TV in Kyiv in 1978. In 1978-80 he worked in the Kyiv theater of young viewer. After that, Beniuk was an actor of the Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv. Since February 2018, Professor Bohdan Beniuk has been the head of the Department of Acting and Drama Directing at the Karpenko-Kary National University of Kyiv. On November 8, 2022, he was temporarily appointed artistic director of the Kyiv Academic Drama Theater in Podil for the period of martial law.

Selected filmography

* '' The Lady with the parrot'' (Дама с попугаем, 1988) as ''Director of the pioneer camp''

Politics

During the Ukrainian parliamentary elections Beniuk was on the 2nd place on the election list of Svoboda. March 18, 2014, Benyuk, along with his teammates on the "Svoboda" party, including the deputy of the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

Ihor Miroshnychenko Ihor Mykhailovych Miroshnychenko ( uk, Ігор Михайлович Мірошниченко) is a Ukrainian sports journalist and far-right politician. Merited Journalist of Ukraine (2006). He was Member of 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (Ukraini ...

, by the use of physical force pushed the head of the National Television Company of Ukraine Oleksander Panteleimon to resign. Benyuk outrage was triggered by demonstration on TV news the celebration in Russia over the return of the Crimea. Actions of members of the party "Svoboda" were condemned by both the public in Ukraine, and by the Prime Minister of Ukraine

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk ( uk, Арсеній Петрович Яценюк ; born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine twice – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and fr ...

. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

Benyuk is placed sixth on the joined list of Svoboda with

National Corps The National Corps ( uk, Національний корпус, Natsionalnyi korpus), also known as the National Corps Party, and previously called the Patriots of Ukraine, is a far-right political party in Ukraine founded in 2016 and then led by A ...

, the

Governmental Initiative of Yarosh Dmytro Anatoliyovych Yarosh ( uk, Дмитро Анатолійович Я́рош; born 30 September 1971) is a Ukrainian activist, politician, nationalist and military commander who is the main commander of the Right Sector's Ukrainian Vol ...

and

Right Sector Right Sector ( uk, Пра́вий се́ктор, ''Pravyi sektor'') is a right-wing to far-right, Ukrainian nationalist organization. It originated in November 2013 as a right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several radical nationalist orga ...

Recognition

* Merited Artist of Ukrainian SSR (1988) * People's Artist of Ukraine (1996) * Laureate of the Dovzhenko State Prize (1998) * Laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (2008) * Knight of the Order "For Merit": ** "For Merit, 1st Class" (2017) ** "For Merit, 2nd Class" (2010) ** "For Merit, 3rd Class" (2007)

External links

Profile
at the Franko National Academic Drama Theater
Unofficial website

Official website

Beniuk and Khostikoiev

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beniuk, Bohdan 1957 births Living people People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University alumni Ukrainian male stage actors Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Svoboda (political party) politicians Ukrainian male film actors 20th-century Ukrainian male actors 21st-century Ukrainian male actors Laureates of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize