Boris Leskin (5 January 1923 – 21 February 2020) was a Soviet and American film and theater actor.
Biography
Leskin was born on 5 January 1923. In 1937 his father was arrested and executed. During
World War II
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Leskin was employed as a sapper at the front and was wounded. He was awarded the
Order of the Red Star and medals.
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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
Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (russian: Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова; literally ''Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater''), formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater (russian: ...
.
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
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. In 2011 director Eduard Staroselsky made a documentary about him: ''Bob Has Been Removed. Minesweeper Bolshoi Drama'' (with Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yurievich Yursky (russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in '' ...
). Leskin died on 21 February 2020.
Awards
* 2006: Pacific Meridian
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: Best Actor (''Everything Is Illuminated
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The book's writing and structure recei ...
'')Boris Leskin. Awards
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Filmography
References
External links
*
Boris Leskin
on KinoPoisk
Kinopoisk (russian: Кинопоиск, a portmanteau of "cinema" and "search") is a Russian online database of information related to films, TV shows including cast, production team, biographies, plot summaries, ratings, and reviews. Since 2018 ...
1923 births
2020 deaths
Actors from Chișinău
Soviet male actors
Russian male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Jewish American male actors
Male actors from New York City
Male actors from Saint Petersburg
Jewish Russian actors
Soviet military personnel of World War II
21st-century American Jews
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