Oleksiy Gorbunov

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Serhiyovych and the family name is Gorbunov.
Oleksiy Gorbunov
Gorbunov in 2012
Born (1961-10-29) 29 October 1961 (age 63)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Occupation(s)Actor, director
Years active1984–present

Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov (Ukrainian: Олексій Сергійович Горбунов; born on 29 October 1961) is a Ukrainian film, television and stage actor.[1] He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).[2]

Life and career

Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on 29 October 1961 in Kyiv. He spent his childhood in Rusanivka neighbourhood in Kyiv.

In 1978, immediately after graduating from high school he could not go to Kyiv Theatrical Institute because he was not a member of the Komsomol. In the years 1978 and 1979 he worked in the dressing room of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In the theater, thanks to Ada Rogovtseva, he met with her husband, actor and his mentor Konstantin Stepankov.

In 1984 he graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (in Konstantin Stepankov's course). Gorbunov began acting his first film, Unlabeled Cargo on the day he received his diploma.

From 1984 to 1995, he worked for Oleksandr Dovzhenko. From the spring of 1985 to 20 April 1987, he served in the Soviet Army.

In the 1990s Gorbunov worked as a private taxi driver because of the crisis at the Dovzhenko Film Studio. Director Vladimir Popkov helped him get back into cinema by inviting him for the role of Jester Chicot in the movie Countess de Monsoreau.

Gorbunov worked in the Theater Studio of Film Actor, in the private Chamber Theatre M. Nestantiner and Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. He starred in Ukrainian TV series Night Service (1998) and Wonder People (2008).

Gorbunov is a soloist of "Sadness Pilot" and worked as a DJ on the Kyiv radio stations "Continent" and "Nostalgia". He is also an organizer and presenter of two discos in Kyiv: "Dzhankoi" and "Jumanji".

Selected filmography

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Television

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References

  1. ^ "Алексей Горбунов". Russia-1.
  2. ^ Указ Президент України від 22 січня 2016 року № 18/2016 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Соборності України» (in Ukrainian)
  3. ^ a b "Aleksey Gorbunov". IMDb. Retrieved 27 December 2018.