Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov is a Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 screen

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 and stage

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 actor, People's Artist

People's Artist

People's Artist is a honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, in some other Eastern bloc states , as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modeled after the title of the People's Artist of the USSR....

 of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation

State Prize of the Russian Federation

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. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of Oleg Tabakov

Oleg Tabakov

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.-Theatre career:...

).

Sergey Bezrukov is the son of Vitali Bezrukov

Vitali Bezrukov

Vitali Sergeyevich Bezrukov , is a Russian actor and theatre director.He has made appearances with his son, Sergei Bezrukov, in two TV miniseries, Brigada and Yesenin , as well as in the 2002 production of the play Aleksandr Pushkin, which Vitali directed, at the Yermolova Theatre.-External links:...

, who is also an actor. He graduated from Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow Art Theatre

The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...

 and made his cinema debut in Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle. Since 1994 he has played a wide range of characters, such as Ivan Brilling in Azazel

Azazel (film)

Azazel is a Russian made for TV adaptation of Boris Akunin's introductory 'Erast Fandorin' novel The Winter Queen.-Plot summary:This historical detective story features a young police inspector, Erast Fandorin...

, Irakliy in The Irony of Fate 2

The Irony of Fate 2

The Irony of Fate 2 or The Irony of Fate: Continuation is a 2007 Russian romantic comedy film directed by Timur Bekmambetov based on a screenplay by Alexey Slapovskiy produced by Channel One and released by Mosfilm...

, Kappel in Admiral

Admiral (film)

Admiral is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War...

, and most recently Sumarokov in Kanikuly strogogo rezhima. His notable roles in Russian miniseries include starring as Sasha Belov in Brigada

Brigada

Brigada , also known as Law of the Lawless, is a Russian 15-episode crime miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular, but received mixed reviews due to accusations in aestheticization of violence. The miniseries follows the story of four best friends from 1989 to 2000, mainly...

, Yeshua Ha-Nozri

Jesus

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 in The Master and Margarita and Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet. He was one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century but committed suicide at the age of 30...

 in Yesenin. He voiced the title character of Prince Vladimir

Prince Vladimir (film)

Prince Vladimir is a 2006 Russian traditionally-animated feature film loosely based on the story of Prince Vladimir, a historically important figure who converted Kievan Rus' to Christianity a thousand years ago...

 animated film and several characters in the Kukly

Kukly

Kukly was a weekly Russian TV show of political satire, produced by Vasily Grigoryev and shown on Saturdays on the TV channel NTV. It used puppets to represent celebrities, mainly the major politicians....

 series. He is also known for his theatre role of Chichikov in Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol...

 (which won the Moskovskij Komsomolets award). In 2006, he portrayed Alexander Pushkin, revered as the Russian language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

's greatest poet, in Pushkin: The Last Duel. According to the survey of ROMIR Monitoring, in Russia he was called the favourite actor of 2005.

He is married to a fellow actor Irina Bezrukova (née

NEE

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 Livanova).

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