Early life and education Sergei Bezrukov was born on 18 October 1973 in Moscow. His father was
Vitali Bezrukov, an actor and director who worked at the
Moscow Satire Theatre. Sergei's mother was Natalia Bezrukova (née Surova), she graduated from the Gorky College of Soviet Trade and worked as a shop manager. Sergei Bezrukov was named in honor of his father's favorite poet,
Sergei Yesenin. After graduating from secondary school No. 402 in the Perovsk district of Moscow in 1990, he entered the
Moscow Art Theatre School. In 1994 he graduated from the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School, with the specialization being Actor of Drama Theater and Cinema (Oleg Tabakov's workshop), and was immediately accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Theater Studio under Oleg Tabakov.
Career From 1995 until 2000, he worked on the satirical program
Puppets which aired on the
NTV channel. Puppets were used on the show to represent famous people, mainly politicians. He voiced twelve characters on the show, among them such famous personalities as
Boris Yeltsin and
Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Bezrukov gained more exposure as an actor with the show. In 2002, Bezrukov gained his big break; he got the role of gang leader Sasha Belov in the popular crime TV show
Brigada. After the series aired Sergei Bezrukov became a household name in Russia. He voiced the title character of the
Prince Vladimir animated film. He is also known for his theatre role of Chichikov in
Dead Souls (which won the
Moskovskij Komsomolets' award). In 2006, he portrayed
Alexander Pushkin, revered as the Russian language's greatest poet, in
Pushkin: The Last Duel. According to the survey of
ROMIR Monitoring, in Russia, he was called the favorite actor of 2005. In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia
Vladimir Putin on
Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. In 2020, he advocated the
2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia, which, in particular, are defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman. He explained his position by saying that the terms 'parent 1 and parent 2' shouldn't be allowed to exist in Russia. "I promote love between a man and a woman, and prefer not experiment with
gender equality", he also said. == Sanctions ==