Stefan Valdobrev
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Stefan Valdobrev (born May 20, 1970) is a Bulgarian
singer, composer
, theatre
and cinema
actor
.
. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan
and Todor Kolev
. In 2007 graduated a film directing course at the film academy FAMU
in Prague
.
He has played more than forty characters on stage, starred in eight feature films. He has composed original music for more than sixty-five theatre performances, eight feature and four documentary films. He has also released 9 pop-music albums.
In 1999 he released his debut book of poetry called Catapult. In 2001 his play Eros was published in the compilation book Young Bulgarian Dramaturgy
Stefan Valdobrev has toured as an actor and composer France
, Belgium
, Germany
, Italy
, Israel
, Russia
, Hungary
, United Kingdom
, U.S.
, Switzerland
, Romania
, Austria
and Albania
.
He is married to Iana, who is a lawyer
. They have a daughter Maria.
Bulgarians
The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...
singer, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, theatre
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...
and cinema
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...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Biography
Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara ZagoraStara Zagora
Stara Zagora is the sixth largest city in Bulgaria, and a nationally important economic center. Located in Southern Bulgaria, it is the administrative capital of the homonymous Stara Zagora Province...
. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
The Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts is an institution of higher education based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria...
in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan
Krikor Azaryan
Krikor Stepan Azaryan was a Bulgarian director.A Bulgarian Armenian, Azaryan was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second city. He graduated from what is today the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia in 1966 and was a post-graduate student in Moscow and Saint Petersburg ...
and Todor Kolev
Todor Kolev
Todor Kolev is a leading Bulgarian actor. Born in Shumen, his first major film was Tsar i General in 1966. He has appeared in more than 30 films...
. In 2007 graduated a film directing course at the film academy FAMU
Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU is one of the oldest film schools in Europe. Located in Prague, Czech Republic, FAMU was founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague...
in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
.
He has played more than forty characters on stage, starred in eight feature films. He has composed original music for more than sixty-five theatre performances, eight feature and four documentary films. He has also released 9 pop-music albums.
In 1999 he released his debut book of poetry called Catapult. In 2001 his play Eros was published in the compilation book Young Bulgarian Dramaturgy
Stefan Valdobrev has toured as an actor and composer France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
and Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
.
He is married to Iana, who is a lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
. They have a daughter Maria.
Discography
- 2008 - The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner OSTThe World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the CornerThe World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner is a 2008 Bulgarian drama film, co-produced with Slovenia, Germany and Hungary. Its original Bulgarian title is Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде , literally meaning The World is Big and Salvation Prowls on All Sides.The film is...
- 2006 - Opus Theatrale 2 (internet album)
- 2003 - Opus Theatrale
- 2001 - Propaganda, Chromosomes, Silicon
- 2000 - Dogs' Home OST
- 1998 - ...to
- 1995 - Revolution
- 1995 - A Night at the Theatre
- 1994 - I love you, darling
Filmography
- 2010 - The Glass River, directed by Stanimir Trifonov
- 2008 - The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the CornerThe World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the CornerThe World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner is a 2008 Bulgarian drama film, co-produced with Slovenia, Germany and Hungary. Its original Bulgarian title is Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде , literally meaning The World is Big and Salvation Prowls on All Sides.The film is...
, directed by Stephan Komandarev - 2008 - Escape to Freedom - the Aviator, directed by Carlo Carlei
- 2007 - Trade Routes, directed by Jim Loftus
- 2004 - Burning Out, directed by Stanimir Trifonov
- 2003 - Meeting, directed by Ivan Traykov
- 2002 - Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch, directed by Kostadin Bonev
- 1998 - Bloodsport 4: The Dark KumiteBloodsport 4: The Dark KumiteBloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite is the fourth film in the Bloodsport franchise. It was released direct-to-video in 1999 and stars Daniel Bernhardt as police officer John Keller.-Plot:...
, directed by Elvis Restaino - 1996 - The Mysterious Companion, directed by Pierre Beuchot
Notable theatre appearances
- 2009 - Philip in Pleasantlyscary by Iana Borisova
- 2007 - Dodo in Little Play for a Children Room by Iana Borisova
- 2005 - Ivan Karamazov in The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880...
by Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor DostoevskyFyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.... - 2004 - Clown, Poet, Clerk in Fantasmagorii by Stefan Moskov
- 2002 - Orpheus in EurydiceEurydice (Anouilh play)Eurydice is a play by French writer Jean Anouilh, written in 1941. The story is set in the 1930s, among a troupe of travelling performers. It combines skepticism about romance in general and the intensity of the relationship between Orpheus and Eurydice with an other-worldly mysticism...
by Jean AnouilhJean AnouilhJean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' Classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's... - 2002 - The lover in Finale Grande by Kamen Donev
- 2001 - Draftsman, Servant, Hamlet, Silvio, Megre in Commedia del Servitore by Stefan Moskov
- 1999 - Eugene O'Neal in And Give Us the Shadows by Lars NorénLars NorénLars Norén is a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. He is considered Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright of today.Born in Stockholm, Norén wrote his first play at age 19...
- 1998 - Don Juan in Juan In Love by Alexander Pushkin
- 1997 - Styopa Lihodeev, Rimski, Daniel Harms in The Master and MargaritaThe Master and MargaritaThe Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a...
by Mikhail BulgakovMikhail BulgakovMikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on... - 1996 - Hugh Oatcake in Much Ado About NothingMuch Ado About NothingMuch Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"... - 1995 - Iliyko in Learning to Fly by Yordan RadichkovYordan RadichkovYordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...
- 1993 - Silyan in Black Hole by Goran StefanovskiGoran StefanovskiGoran Stefanovski is a leading Macedonian dramatist and scriptwriter, now based in Canterbury, Kent in the UK...
- 1993 - Feste The Clown in Twelfth Night by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
- 1992 - Willer in The City of Angels by Sam ShepardSam ShepardSam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
- 1991 - Leonce in Leonce and Lena by Georg Buechner
Awards
- 2005 - Ikarus for original music for Figures in Love Flight
- 2004 - Golden rose for best male performance in Burning Out
- 2000 - Golden rose for film debut for the Dogs' Home soundtrack
- 1999 - MM Television Music Award - male performer of the year
- 1998 - MM Television Music Award - best album (...to)
- 1993 - shared A'Askeer for debut performance for Black Hole