Yevgeni Lazarev

Yevgeni Lazarev
Born Yevgeni Nikolayevich Lazarev (Евгений Николаевич Лазарев)
(1937-03-31) 31 March 1937[1]
Minsk, BSSR, USSR (now Belarus)[1]
Other names Yevgeny Lazarev, Evgeniy Lazarev, Eugene Lazarev
Occupation Actor, director
Years active 1959

Yevgeni Nikolayevich Lazarev (Belarusian: Яўген Мікалаевіч Лазараў; Russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Ла́зарев; born 31 March 1937), also credited as Eugene Lazarev, is a Russia-born actor. He was born in Minsk.

He graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre school-Studio,[1] and played in the Riga Russian Drama Theatre and Mayakovsky Theatre.[1]

In the 1990s, he left to the US, and appeared Hollywood films such as The Saint, The Sum of All Fears, Lord of War, and Iron Man 2 (as Anton Vanko) and TV series such as The West Wing (Episode: The Lame Duck Congress), Alias, and 24.

He was the professor of the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia. Since 2003, he has been teaching at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting of Los Angeles[2] and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.[3]

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