Pyotr Fedorov was born on 21 April 1982 in Moscow, into a family of actors. His father,
Pyotr Evgenievich Fedorov (27 October 1959 - 10 March 1999), was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, art critic, television presenter (died of cancer at the age of thirty-nine). Grandfather - Yevgeny Fyodorov (born 3 March 1924 - 30 April 2020), was a Soviet and Russian theatrical actor, "
Honored Artist of the RSFSR", artist of the
Vakhtangov State Academic Theater (1945 to present). Pyotr spent his childhood in the
Altai, Uimon Valley. He was fond of drawing and wanted to become an artist. The eight-grader moved with his family to Moscow. In 1997, after receiving an incomplete secondary education, he entered the Moscow Theater Art Technical School (MTTU), after which he planned to enter the
Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, but after his father's death changed his decision and left the school after the second year of training. In 1999, he entered the acting department of the
Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. In 2003 he graduated from the institute. He played a student Belyaev in the graduation performance "Beautiful People" based on the play of Ivan Turgenev, where actors
Grigory Antipenko and Olga Lomonosova were also engaged. In September 2003, the performance "Beautiful People" won the prize of the newspaper
Moskovskij Komsomolets as the best performance of the season in the nomination "Beginners". After graduating from the Theater Institute, he served at the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theater. His first major role in film was of Lyonka in
101 km (2001), directed by Leonid Maryagin. Pyotr received wide popularity when he played Danila in the popular teen television series
Club (2006), which became the most successful and rated project in the history of the television channel
MTV Russia. After the third season, Pyotr left the project and began preparing for the shooting in the sci-fi film directed by
Fyodor Bondarchuk Dark Planet (2008) based on the novel of the same name by
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. In 2009, Pyotr appeared in one of his most significant projects at that time –
Russia 88, a Russian pseudo-documentary film drama directed by Pavel Bardin about the youth subculture of the
white power skinheads. It premiered
59th Berlin International Film Festival in the "Panorama" section. In 2011 Pyotr acted in the film
The PyraMMMid directed by Eldar Salavatov. The plot is based on the novel of the same name by
Sergei Mavrodi, founder of the
pyramid scheme MMM. Fyodorov played the lead role in the film
Stalingrad made in 2013 by director Fyodor Bondarchuk which broke box-office records for Russian films upon its release. In the successful New Year comedies
Yolki 2 (2011) and
Yolki 3 (2013), Pyotr Fyodorov played Nikolai Kravchuk. He played a supporting role in the 2014 film
Territory by
Aleksandr Melnik, a screen version of the novel of the same name by Oleg Kuvaev, which tells of the discovery of a gold-bearing deposit in the late 1950s of the 20th century. In 2016, he had lead roles in the adventure-drama
The Duelist and the disaster film
The Icebreaker. ==Filmography==