Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov (russian: Михаи́л Оле́гович Ефре́мов; born 10 November 1963) is a Russian film and stage actor,
Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (1995).
Life and career
Mikhail is the son of
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
Oleg Yefremov and
Sovremennik Theatre actor Professor
Alla Pokrovskaya (
Boris Pokrovsky
Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky (Russian: Борис Александрович Покровский; 23 January 19125 June 2009) was a Russian opera director, best known as the stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982.
Early lif ...
's daughter).
He made his stage and screen debut in mid 1970s as schoolboy. In 1982-1984 Yefremov served in
Soviet Army. In 1987 he graduated from the
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was f ...
School.
Yefremov was married four times and he has six children. His first wife was the editor Asya Vorobieva, their son
Nikita is a
Sovremennik Theatre actor. His second wife was the actress
Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya, their son Nikolay is also an actor.
His third wife was actress
Kseniya Kachalina
Kseniya Mikhailovna Kachalina (russian: Ксения Михайловна Качалина, born May 3, 1971) is a Russian actress.
Biography
Kseniya Mikhailovna Kachalina was born May 3, 1971. She studied two years at the acting department at t ...
, they have a son Sergey. His fourth wife is audio engineer Sofiya Kruglikova, they have daughters Vera and Nadezhda, and son Boris.
In 2009-2014, Yefremov presented
Channel One show ''Wait for Me'', dedicated to search of long lost relatives and friends.
In 2010's he collaborated with
Dmitry Bykov on their project "Citizen Poet" (a pun on
Nikolai Nekrasov's poem "Poet and Citizen").
Yefremov read poems, written by Bykov, which are usually satirical comments on the contemporary Russian society, politics and culture. Each poem parodies the style of a famous poet of the past, e.g. Pushkin, Nekrasov, Kipling, among others. It was originally broadcast on
Dozhd
TV Rain ( rus, Дождь, Dozhd, p=ˈdoʂtʲ, a=Ru-дождь (doʂtʲ).ogg; stylized ДОДЬ) is an independent Russian television channel. It was launched in 2010 in Russia, and since 2022 was based in Latvia. It focuses on news, discussion ...
TV channel, but the original project was closed because the poems were too critical towards the Russian government. Currently, the show is hosted in audio format by
Echo of Moscow radio station.
On 8 June 2020, Yefremov was involved in a head-on collision while driving under the influence of alcohol. The driver of the other car died in the hospital. A video of Yefremov speaking to the police in a slurred manner after the accident was widely published. The accident affected Yefremov's health, causing him to suffer an
ischemic stroke during court proceedings. On September 8, 2020, Yefremov was sentenced to 8 years in a medium-security prison, as well as obligated to pay 800,000
rubles (around $10,000) in restitution to the family of the deceased driver. His lawyer, Elman Pashaev, has been banned from practicing law for one year. On appeal, Yefremov's sentence was reduced to 7.5 years.
Prior to the incident, Yefremov was set to star in the Russian detective/fantasy series ''Vampiry Sredney Polosy'' (Вампиры средней полосы, Vampires of Central Russia). Afterwards, the entire series was redone with actor
Yuri Stoyanov and all traces of Yefremov's participation were wiped from the series.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1963 births
Male actors from Moscow
Living people
Soviet male child actors
Russian male child actors
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Russian television presenters
Honored Artists of the Russian Federation
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Recipients of the Nika Award
TV Rain
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male stage actors
Echo of Moscow radio presenters
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
Russian prisoners and detainees
Driving under the influence
People convicted of manslaughter