The list of Russian actors in Hollywood is growing every year. A growing number of domestic artists are reaching a level that is beginning to seriously interest directors and producers working for the largest film companies in the world. Who has already managed to make a career in Hollywood, and who is still at the beginning of the journey, we will tell in this article.
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Kolokolnikov, perhaps now the most recognizable Russian actor in Hollywood. After all, he starred in the popular series "Game of Thrones", which has been collecting all the main awards for serial films for many years.
In the already iconic picture, Kolokolnikov appears in the image of the magnar of Tenn Stear, the leader of one of the Wild Tribe. Those close to him call him one of the First People, and his subjects regard him as God.
Russian Kolokolnikov, who plays this role, was born in Moscow in 1980. Now he has dual citizenship - Russian-Canadian. At the age of 15, he entered the Shchukin school. He played in the drama of Pyotr Todorovsky's “Retro Threesome”, the melodrama of Vladimir Menshov “Envy of the Gods”, the detective drama by Mikhail Ptashuk “In August of the 44th”.
Filming in Hollywood
Immediately after graduation, he leaves for Hollywood. During the year, he moonlights as a loader and a waiter, participates in film screenings, but never gets the role. Returning to Russia, he immediately got a job in the series of Killer Diary of Kirill Serebrennikov , plays on the stage of Sovremennik, and the television movie Children of the Arbat brings him popularity.
In Hollywood, Kolokolnikov still starred. In 2017, he got the role of a character named Ivan in the comedy action movie Patrick Hughes “The Bodyguard of a Killer,” having worked on the same set with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson.
Danila Kozlovsky
Danila Kozlovsky can also be attributed to the Russian actors who starred in Hollywood. He was born in Moscow in 1985. He began acting in films in 2008, and became famous for his role in a bully in the cult comedy "Simple Truths."
Received acting education at the Academy of Theater Arts in St. Petersburg. Having become popular in Russia, especially after the image of Bormann in the dramatic action movie Andrei Malyukov “We are from the Future”, I decided to try my hand in America.
The Russian actor in Hollywood managed to prove himself. In the fantasy melodrama of Mark Waters "Vampire Academy", he got the role of Dmitry Belikov. He plays a dampire, that is, a child born of a vampire and an ordinary person. Kozlovsky’s character teaches at a school where two runaways from the Monster Academy enter.
The film failed at the box office. With a budget of $ 30 million, he managed to raise half as much. Kozlovsky then switched to domestic cinema, although he entered his name among the Russian actors in Hollywood. A list, photos of the most famous of them you will find in this article.
Anton Yelchin
Anton Yelchin was born in Leningrad in 1989. The decisive role in his fate was played by the move of parents from the USSR to the USA during perestroika. Today, he can be called with full confidence the Russian actor who conquered Hollywood.
He began his career with the television series Practice, Ambulance, Dr. Hoffe, and New York Police. Basically, he got the roles of Russian boys, and for his eyes he was often called a cheap copy of Elijah Wood, since he had a pretty appearance and curly hair.
He became famous in America after playing in the crime drama Nick Cassavetes "Alpha Dog" in 2006, having received one of the main roles. After this success, he began to be invited to the most ambitious projects. This is the most successful Russian actor playing in Hollywood.
Career and tragedy of Yelchin
In 2009, he played in McGee's science fiction action movie "Terminator: May the Savior Come" and the J.J. Abrams adventure film Star Trek. Appears in Jim Jarmusch’s fantasy drama “Only Lovers Will Survive”, Michael Almereyd’s drama Zymbelin, and in Craig Gillespie’s horror comedy “Night of Fear”, he does get the main role - high school student Charlie, whose friend constantly talks about the impending invasion.
Yelchin’s career ended abruptly and suddenly. In June 2016, he was found dead near his own home in Los Angeles. As the investigators found out, the actor was pressed by the car, which he forgot to put on the hand brake, to the fence. Yelchin was 27 years old.
Grigory Dobrygin
Another Russian actor in Hollywood is Grigory Dobrygin. He is 32 years old, originally from Kamchatka. He studied at the Moscow Art Theater School.
Often, his career was accompanied by scandals. In 2007, he broke up with Russian actress Elizabeth Boyarska due to filming in the national gay magazine Kvir. Dobrygin himself claimed that he agreed to a photo shoot because of money, and he himself was straight.
Fame came to him after the main role in the dramatic thriller Alexei Popogrebsky "How I spent this summer." For this work, the actor received a statuette of the Berlin Film Festival in the nomination "Best Actor" along with his partner Sergei Puskepalis.
Thus began his international career. In Hollywood, a Russian actor, whose photo is in this article, played in Anton Korbeyn's spy drama "The Most Dangerous Man." In this tape, he plays the Russian-Chechen emigrant Isu Karpov.
Konstantin Khabensky
Among the Russian actors in Hollywood, the list of which is in this article, it is necessary to recall one of the most famous domestic film artists of our time - Konstantin Khabensky.
Khabensky hails from Leningrad, he is 46 years old. According to surveys, he is the most popular actor of the 21st century over the past 15 years. His popularity came to him after the role of Igor Plakhov in the criminal series "Deadly Force", in which he starred from 2000 to 2005. Then came more serious and complex projects.
In 2004 and 2005, Khabensky played Anton Gorodetsky in the film adaptation of Sergei Lukyanenko ’s novels “Night Watch” and “Day Watch”.
In Hollywood, he made his debut in 2008 in Timur Bekmambetov’s fantastic thriller “Especially Dangerous”. Khabensky played an expert on explosives, nicknamed Exterminator. Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman also starred in this picture.
In 2011, the actor plays in Thomas Alfredson's detective thriller "Spy, Get Out!". Then he appears in the role of the Soviet attache Alexei Alexandrovich Polyakov. In 2014, in the adventure thriller Kevin MacDonald's "Black Sea" Khabensky appears in the image of Blackie.
Svetlana Hodchenkova
Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova is from Moscow, she is 35 years old. At the age of 16, she began her career in a modeling agency, in 2005 she graduated from the Shchukin Theater Institute.
In Russian cinema, she immediately debuted in the title role with Stanislav Govorukhin in the 2003 melodrama Bless the Woman. Khodchenkova went to Hollywood in 2011, playing with Khabensky in the film "Spy, Get Out!". The character of Khodchenkova in this picture is called Irina.
Another successful actress role in Hollywood is James Mangold’s superhero action movie Wolverine: Immortal. This is the sixth film from the movie series about people X, in which Khodchenkova played Dr. Victoria Green, nicknamed the Viper. Her character is a mutant that can poison people with poison.
Julia Snigir
Russian actress Yulia Snigir was born in the small town of Donskoy in the Tula region in 1983. After graduating from a pedagogical institute in Moscow, she worked as a teacher of English, somehow found herself at a casting in a modeling agency, which was attended by an assistant to the actors of the famous domestic director Valery Todorovsky.
He offered to try Julia to star in the film "Hipsters." True, she was not among the actors of the film, but it changed her whole life - Snigir decided to go to study at a theater university. She graduated from the Shchukin Theater School, the first popularity came to her after the release of the video of the band "Animals" "See you soon".
She made her debut on the big screen in 2006 in Sergey Bobrov’s drama “The Last Slaughter” about the heavy share of miners. In 2008, Julia became a famous Russian actress after filming in Sergei Bondarchuk's fantastic dystopia “Inhabited Island”, she got one of the main roles of Rada Gaal.
In 2013, the actress was invited to shoot in Hollywood. She played Irina Komarova in John Moore's action movie Die Hard: A Good Day to Die. On the same set with her were Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney.
Vladimir Mashkov
People’s Artist of Russia Vladimir Mashkov was born in Tula, now he is 54 years old. He made his film debut in 1989 in the little-known film "Crespo".
Popularity came to him in 1994, when he starred in the drama Denis Evstigneev "Limit". In 1997, the drama of Pavel Chukhrai "The Thief", in which Mashkov also played the main role, was nominated for an Oscar. Then, probably, Hollywood producers and directors first drew attention to him.
In a notable project in the West, he appeared already in the TV series "Spy", which was released from 2001 to 2006. This is a serial film in which the cult’s cult is the central theme of the series. Mashkov gets the role of a character named Milo Kradic.
For the Hollywood actor with Russian citizenship Mashkov, the most successful foreign film was shooting in the adventure action movie of Brad Byrd "Mission Impossible: Phantom Protocol." This is the fourth part of the movie saga.
Mashkov plays Anatoly Sidorov. The action movie is developing in Russia, the main character, played by Tom Cruise, escapes from a Russian prison, and in Moscow receives a new task - to stop Professor Kurt Hendrix, nicknamed Cobalt, who believes that a world war will only benefit the whole world. Hundreds of people die after the explosion of the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. He needs to stop the nuclear catastrophe, but it’s not so simple, the Russian special agent Sidorov pursues him, complicating an already difficult task.
Ksenia Rappoport
Among the actors in Russia in Hollywood, who were able to succeed, and Ksenia Rappoport. She is 44 years old, she was born in Leningrad. The movie was first played in 1991 in the comedy drama by Dmitry Astrakhan "Come Out!".
Rappoport became truly famous only after she played abroad. In 2006, she starred in the thriller Giuseppe Tornatore "The Stranger", in which she played an immigrant from Ukraine Irina Yaroshenko, who is enslaved to a cruel pimp in Italy.
Now the actress is actively working in Russia and Italy, but in Hollywood she played at the very beginning of her career - in 1997, in the drama of Bernard Rosa, "Anna Karenina". In the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, Ksenia received the role of Mary.