Ivan Krasko
2015
Born	Ivan Ivanovich Bakhvalov (1930-09-23) 23 September 1930 (age 94) Vartemyagi, Finnish National Rayon [ru; fi], Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, writer
Years active	1961–2020
Spouses	Yekaterina Ivanova ​ ​ (m. 1951⁠–⁠1955)​ Kira Petrova ​ (m. 1956⁠–⁠1997)​ Natalia Vyal ​ (m. 2001⁠–⁠2011)​ Natalia Shevel ​ (m. 2015⁠–⁠2020)​
Children	5, including Andrey Krasko

Ivan Ivanovich Krasko (Russian: Иван Иванович Краско; born September 23, 1930) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and writer. He was named a People's Artist of Russia (1992).^[1]

He studied acting at Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, graduating in 1961.

From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the troupe at Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. From 1965 to the present he has been a member of the troupe at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre under the leadership of a notable director Ruben Agamirzyan. There his stage partners were such actors as Galina Korotkevich, Georgi Korolchuk, Stanislav Landgraf, Mikhail Khrabrov, Yelena Safonova, and Petr Shelokhonov.^[2][3]

His son, Andrey Krasko was also a notable Russian actor.

In 2009, Ivan Krasko co-authored a book of memoirs titled "My Вest Friend Petr Shelokhonov", where he wrote about his best friend Petr Shelokhonov and their partnership on stage, in films, and in life.^[2][3]

• In S. City (1966) – writer
• The Prince and the Pauper (1972) – Miles Hendon
• Squadron of Flying Hussars (1980) – colonel Ustimovich
• True of Lieutenant Klimov (1981) – staff officer
• Semyon Dezhnev (1983) – merchant Guselnikov
• The Hobbit (1985) – Gandalf
• The Last Road (1986) – captain Rakeyev
• Mister Designer (1988) – servant
• Afghan Breakdown (1991) – colonel Viktor Nikolayevich
• A Beautiful Stranger (1992) – Grigori Rasputin
• The White Horse (1993) – American
• You Exist... (1993) – traditional healer
• Marigolds in Flower (1998) – bum
• Streets of Broken Lights 2 (1999) – Pavel Levitin "Contrabass"
• Empire Under Attack (2000) – elder Kondraty
• Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season (2000) – Vladimir Lenin the rescuer
• Little Longnose (2003) – the King (voice)
• Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey (2004) – Svyatogor (voice)
• Streets of Broken Lights 6 (2004) – Ivan Ivanovich
• Brezhnev (2005) – collective farm chairman
• Female Novel (2005) – Vladislav Petrovich
• The Master and Margarita (2005) – taxi driver
• Taras Bulba (2009) – Kasyan Bovdyug
• Fortress of War (2010) – narrator
• Peter the Great: The Testament (2011) – old man
• The Admirer (2012) – Leo Tolstoy
• The White Guard (2012) – Maksim

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (December 20, 1976)
• People's Artist of Russia (February 21, 1992; first artist to receive that title)
• Order of Honour (2010)
• Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Golden Mask (2018)

• First wife (1951–1955) — Yekaterina Ivanova. One daughter Galina
• Second wife (1956–1997) — Kira Petrova. Two children: son — actor Andrey Krasko, daughter Julia Svekrovskaya-Krasko (born 1966)
• Third wife (2001–2011) — Natalia Vyal. Two sons: Ivan and Fyodor
• Fourth wife (2015–2018) — Natalia Shevel (born 1990)^[4][5]

• Ivan Krasko at IMDb
• Ivan Krasko on KinoPoisk