Leonid Yarmolnik
- Actor
- film producer
- presenter
- radio broadcasting
- humorist
- politician
Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik (Russian: Леони́д Исаа́кович Ярмо́льник; born 22 January 1954) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.[1]
Biography
Was born on 22 January 1954 in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, where his father, a Soviet Army officer, was stationed. In 1960, Yarmolnik's family relocated to Lviv. Leonid studied at the local music school and was involved in plays at the Lviv Folk Theater. In 1972, he became a student at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated from the acting class of Yury Katin-Yartsev, a famous Russian actor and acclaimed pedagogue of the Vakhtangov Theater Arts School, in 1976. From 1976-1984, he was an actor at the Taganka Theatre. Yarmolnik started his own studio, L-Club, specializing in film distribution, and anchored a TV program with the same name. He was a member of the jury on the popular KVN game show. He was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 for the role of Zhora in The Barracks.
Personal life
Leonid Yarmolnik is married to Oksana Afanasieva and they have one daughter together. Oksana Afanasieva is a former girlfriend of Soviet singer songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky.[2]
Yarmolnik is Jewish.
Selected filmography
As an actor
- 1979 — The Very Same Munchhausen (Тот самый Мюнхгаузен) as Theophil von Münchhausen
- 1983 — Look for a Woman (Ищите женщину) as policeman Maximan
- 1984 — Copper Angel (Медный ангел) as Maurice Barro
- 1984 — TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...) as Grechaev
- 1987 — A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов) as one-eyed cowboy Martin
- 1988 — Yolki-palki (Ёлки-палки!) as Grigory Kaigorodov
- 1989 — Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (Частный детектив, или Операция «Кооперация») as Airliner hijacker
- 1989 — Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective (Две стрелы. Детектив каменного века) as Long-nosed
- 1990 — Passport (Паспорт) as Borya's Israeli friend
- 1991 — Odyssey of Captain Blood (Одиссея капитана Блада) as Levasseur
- 1995 — Heads and Tails as Gosha
- 1998 — Crossroads as Oleg 'Alik' Sevastyanov
- 2004 — My Step Brother Frankenstein as Yulik
- 2005 — The Case of "Dead Souls" as Plyushkin (TV)
- 2006 — Moscow Mission (Обратный отсчёт) as Krot
- 2010 — Love in the Big City 2 (Любовь в большом городе 2) as father of Igor
- 2011 — Cars 2 as Miles Axlerod (Russian version)
- 2013 — Hard to Be a God (Трудно быть богом) as Don Rumata
- 2016 — Guardians of the Night [ru] (Ночные стражи) as major Gamayun, head of the secret police Department
- 2023 — The Master and Margarita as Dr. Stravinsky
As a film producer
- Ku! Kin-dza-dza (2013)
References
External links
- Leonid Yarmolnik at IMDb
- Leonid Yarmolnik. Peoples (in Russian)
- Леонид Ярмольник on X
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- 1988: Avtandil Makharadze
- 1989: Rolan Bykov
- 1990: Oleg Borisov
- 1991: Innokenty Smoktunovsky
- 1992: Oleg Yankovsky
- 1993: Elguja Burduli
- 1994: Sergei Makovetsky
- 1995: Yevgeny Mironov
- 1996: Aleksey Buldakov
- 1997: Sergei Bodrov Jr. / Oleg Menshikov
- 1998: Vladimir Mashkov
- 1999: Vladimir Ilyin
- 2000: Mikhail Ulyanov
- 2001: Andrei Smirnov
- 2002: Leonid Mozgovoy
- 2003: Oleg Yankovsky
- 2004: Viktor Sukhorukov
- 2005: Bohdan Stupka
- 2006: Yevgeny Mironov
- 2007: Pyotr Mamonov
- 2008: Sergei Garmash
- 2009: Oleg Dolin
- 2010: Vladimir Ilyin / Oleg Yankovsky
- 2011: Vladimir Mashkov
- 2012: Sergei Garmash
- 2013: Anton Adasinsky / Maksim Sukhanov
- 2014: Konstantin Khabensky
- 2015: Leonid Yarmolnik
- 2016: Danila Kozlovsky / Aleksandr Yatsenko
- 2017: Timofey Tribuntsev
- 2018: Aleksandr Yatsenko
- 2019: Aleksei Serebryakov / Yevgeny Tsyganov
- 2020: Leonid Yarmolnik
- 2021: Aleksandr Pal
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