Kirill Alekseevich Polukhin (russian: Кирилл Алексеевич Полухин; born 3 May 1969) is a
Soviet
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and Russian film, stage, and television actor.
Early life
Polukhin was born in
Leningrad
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Russian SFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
,
Soviet Union
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(now
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
, Russia).
Polukhin was the only family member who had any relation to the arts: his father was a doctor and his mother was an economist.
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/ref> Polukhin worked in an acting studio owned by Zinovy Korogodsky
Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (russian: Зиновий Яковлевич Корогодский; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR – May 22, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian theater director, Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, winner ...
.[Kirill Polukhin](_blank)
on Russia 1
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Career
In 1999, he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts
The Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (russian: Российский государственный институт сценических искусств), formerly known as St Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, formerly Leningrad State ...
(course of Andrei Tolubeyev
Andrei Yurevich Tolubeyev (russian: Андрей Юрьевич Толубеев) (March 30, 1945 – April 7, 2008) was a Soviet and Russian theatrical and cinema actor. People’s Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). Chai ...
). In the same year, he joined the troupe of 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: ...
.
Personal life
Kirill Polukhin is married to an actress Svetlana Strogova and has a son, Innokenty (born in 1998).
Selected filmography
* Secrets of Investigation (2002) as investigator of prosecutor's office
* Streets of Broken Lights
''Streets of Broken Lights'' (russian: Улицы разбитых фонарей, Ulitsy razbitykh fonarey) is a Russian criminal drama-detective TV series anthology about police work in Saint-Petersburg. The pilot episode, known as ''Menty'' ( ...
(2005) as Samsonov
* The Fall of the Empire
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It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence ...
(2005) as soldat
* The Priest (2009) as partisan
* The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik
''The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik'' (russian: Жизнь и приключения Мишки Япончика, Zhizn i priklyucheniya Mishki Yaponchika ) is a crime television series, based on real events. Directed by Sergey Ginzburg.
...
(2010) as Grigory Kotovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кото́вский, ro, Grigore Kotovski; – August 6, 1925) was a Soviet military and political activist, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career ...
* Home
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(2011) as Senior
* Alien District (2011) as Igor Svistunov
* The Major
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(2013) as Kolya Burlakov
* The Fool (2014) as Matyugin
* Leningrad 46
''Leningrad 46'' (2014) (russian: Ленинград 46, stylized as ЛЕНИНГРАД ★ 46) is a highly popular Russian television series which revolves around the story of courage, the drama of human destiny, for the first time opening up man ...
(2014) as Stepan Zavyalov
* The Method (2014) as Sedoy, a detective
* Battalion
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(2015) as Zobov
* Ivan
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(2016) as Ivan
* Raid
Raid, RAID or Raids may refer to:
Attack
* Raid (military), a sudden attack behind the enemy's lines without the intention of holding ground
* Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business
* Panty raid, a prankish raid by male college ...
(2017) as episode
* The Age of Pioneers
''The Age of Pioneers'' (russian: Время первых, Vremya Pervykh, lit. "Time of the first ones"), also known as ''Spacewalk'' or ''The Spacewalker'', is a Russian historical drama film about cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to per ...
(2017) as part commander
* Gogol. Viy
''Gogol. Viy'' (russian: Гоголь. Вий) is a 2018 fantasy-horror film directed by Egor Baranov, sequel to the 2017 film ''Gogol. The Beginning''.
Plot
After the events of the first film, Nikolai Gogol finds a case: among the things of Ya ...
(2018) as Basavryuk
* The Factory
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(2018) as Andreich
* Better than Us
''Better Than Us'' (russian: Лучше, чем люди, Luchshe, chem lyudi, literally ''Better than People'') is a 2018 Russian science fiction television series created by Andrey Junkovsky, about an advanced empathic android named Arisa. I ...
(2018) as Pavel Varlamov
* Dead Lake (2019) as Smertin
* The Balkan Line
''The Balkan Line'' (russian: Балканский рубеж, Balkanskiy rubezh; sr, / ) is a 2019 Russian–Serbian action film directed by Andrey Volgin, depicting the Russian military's secret operation to capture Slatina Airport in Kosovo ...
(2019) as BarminСамые ожидаемые фильмы 2019 года
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* The Method (2020) as detective
* Streltsov (2020) as an officer in prison
* A Fairy Tale for the Old (2022) as shooter
References
External links
*
Kirill Polukhin
on KinoPoisk
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1969 births
Living people
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
Russian male television actors
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Male actors from Saint Petersburg
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