Occupation Actor Role Actor Name Konstantin Khabensky | Awards Years active 1994–present Siblings Natalya Khabenskaya | |
Spouse Olga Litvinova (m. 2013), Anastasiya Khabenskaya (m. 2000–2008) Children Ivan Konstantinovich Khabensky Parents Yuri Aronovich Khabenskiy, Tatiana Gennadievna Khabenskaya Movies The Geographer Drank His, The Admiral, Night Watch, Day Watch, Lucky Trouble Similar People Olga Litvinova, Anastasiya Khabenskaya, Timur Bekmambetov, Paulina Andreeva, Mikhail Porechenkov | ||
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Konstantin Yuryevich Khabensky (Russian: Константин Юрьевич Хабенский; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor best known in the West for starring in the films Night Watch and Day Watch as the protagonist, Anton Gorodetsky. He was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia. (2012)
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- Levan korinteli archil gelovani artem tkachenko konstantin khabensky
- Life and career
- Personal life
- Philanthropy
- Awards
- Russian Dubbing
- Filmography
- References
Life and career
Khabensky was born and educated in St Petersburg. His father was an engineer and mother a mathematics teacher. After school, Konstantin entered the Technical College of Aviation Instrument Engineering and Automation, but after studying there for three years he realized that this profession was not for him. He tried many jobs including as a janitor, cleaner, street musician, and then was hired as a lighting technician at the theatre studio "Subbota" where he later performed for the first time. In 1990 Khabensky entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (course of Veniamin Filshtinsky), where his classmates were Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrei Zibrov and Mikhail Trukhin. He graduated in 1995.
His screen debut was in 1994, in the comedy film To whom will God send where he appeared in a minor role of a pedestrian.
In 1998, he acted in three pictures at once: in the Russian-Hungarian criminal fantasy melodrama of Tomas Toth Natasha, the social drama of Aleksei German, Khrustalyov, My Car! and in the melodrama of Dmitry Meskhiev Women's Property. Soon Konstantin played a small role in the thriller of Nikolai Lebedev's "The Admirer" (1999). The next notable work in the cinema was the main role in the drama of Vladimir Fokin's House for the Rich (2000).
The series Lethal Force brought Khabensky popularity (2000-2005); TV viewers identified him as Igor Plakhov.
Another notable work of Khabensky in cinema was the role of Sasha Guriev in the film directed by Filipp Yankovsky "In Motion" (2002). Cooperation with Filipp Yankovsky continued in the film The State Counsellor (2005), where the actor starred in the role of Green (Grigory Grinberg).
After starring in the blockbuster fantasy films Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2005) directed by Timur Bekmambetov, Khabensky became famous worldwide. The character of the film Anton Gorodetsky became one of the most well-known roles of Konstantin and the success of these films in Russia and abroad has made Khabensky one of the best-known Russian actors in the West. In 2006, the actor starred in the film The Rush Hour based on the novel by Jerzy Stawiński.
In recent years Khabensky stars in many films: he played Kostya Lukashin in The Irony of Fate 2 (2007) and Alexander Kolchak in the movie The Admiral (2008), in 2010 – he played Vyacheslav Kolotilov in the comedy Lucky Trouble which co-starred Milla Jovovich and was directed by Levan Gabriadze.
He portrayed geography teacher Victor Sluzhkin in the 2013 film The Geographer Drank His Globe Away based on the eponymous novel by Alexei Ivanov. His acting received considerable praise and he won the Best Actor prize at Kinotavr, Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards, Nika Awards and the Golden Eagle Awards. In 2016 he acted in Collector directed by Alexey Krasovsky where he was the only actor on screen, for the film he received the Best Actor award at Kinotavr and at the Prague Independent Film Festival.
He played the role of fighter pilot Pavel Belyayev in The Age of Pioneers, made in 2017, directed by Dmitriy Kiselev and produced by Timur Bekmambetov.
He was chosen as Actor of the Year by the GQ magazine in the years 2003 and 2016.
Khabensky has been a stage actor in Satyricon Theatre and Lensovet Theatre in Saint Petersburg. In 1995–1996, he worked as presenter of regional TV in the department of music and information programs. Since 2003, Khabensky has been a member of Moscow Art Theatre stage cast, and a lead actor in Duck Hunt (Zilov), Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard (Alexey Turbin) and Hamlet.
He took part in several American movies such Wanted, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and World War Z and Black Sea. In World War Z Konstantin's role as Russian soldier was cut due to re-shooting of the 30 Minutes of the ending, which was shown only in Unrated Edition of the movie.
Konstantin Khabensky's directorial debut Sobibor is scheduled to be released in 2018.
Personal life
Konstantin Khabensky was married to radio-journalist Anastasiya Khabenskaya from 12 January 2000, until her death at age 35 from a brain tumor on 3 December 2008. He has one son by her, Ivan, who was born in Moscow on 25 September 2007. In Russia he lives in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In 2013 Khabensky married actress Olga Litvinova and on the 3rd of June, 2016, she gave birth to their daughter.
Philanthropy
In 2008 he established the Konstantin Khabensky Charitable Foundation (Russian: Благотворительный Фонд Константина Хабенского, translit. Blagotvoritelny Fond Konstantina Khabenskogo) which provides assistance to children with oncological and other serious brain afflictions.