Yuri "Yura" Alexandrovich Borisov (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов, also '' tr.'' Yuriy Aleksandrovich Borisov; born December 8, 1992) is a Russian actor. Winner of the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. '' GQ'' Russia chose him as Actor of the Year in 2020.

Early life

Borisov was born in

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near

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. In 2013 he graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School (course of Vladimir Mikhailovich Beilis and Vitaly Nikolayevich Ivanov), and won the Golden Leaf award in the Best Actor category for the role of Alexander Tarasovich Ametistov in the play Zoykina's Apartment

Acting career

Yura started working as a film actor in 2010, and played main roles in various television series. In 2013–14 he worked at the Moscow theater "

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". In 2019, he starred in the film '' The Bull'', for which he was nominated for the 18th Golden Eagle Awards 2020 in the category Best Leading Actor, and also received an award "Event of the Year" from the magazine "Kinoreporter" in the category "Discovery of the Year". He also played minor roles in the films ''T-34'' (2019 film), ''Union of Salvation'' (2019 film), and ''Invasion'' (2020 film). In February 2020, the film ''

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'' was released, in which Yura Borisov played the main role – Mikhail Kalashnikov, and received positive reviews from film critics. For this role he was awarded the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. 2021 was a very busy year for Yura Borisov – he played in 8 feature films released in 2021. In 2021 Yura played the lead role in Finnish-Russian film ''

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'' directed by

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, which won the Grand-Prix at the 2021

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Selected filmography

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Yuri Borisov
on kino-teatr.ru * 1992 births Living people People from Reutov Male actors from Moscow Russian male film actors Russian male television actors Russian male stage actors 21st-century Russian male actors {{Russia-actor-stub