Years active 1957—present Children Darya Yurskaya | Name Sergei Yursky Awards | |
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Full Name Sergei Yurievich Yursky Occupation actor, film director, screenwriter Parents Yuri Sergeyevich Yursky, Evgeniya Mikhailovna Yurskaya-Romanova Grandchildren Alisher Kostoyev, Georgy Lebedev Movies Love and Pigeons, The Golden Calf, Room and a Half, Time - Forward!, Take Aim Similar People Mikhail Schweitzer, Nina Doroshina, Zinaida Sharko, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Mikhailov, Vladimir Menshov | ||
SERGEI YURSKY TRIBUTE
Sergei Yurievich Yursky (Russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, born 16 March 1935, Leningrad, USSR) is a Soviet/Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His most notable role in the cinema is Ostap Bender in The Little Golden Calf.
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Biography
Yursky Sergey was born in Leningrad 16 March 1935 in the family of Yuri Sergeyevich Yursky. He studied at the Faculty of Law of A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University.
In 1959 he graduated from A. N. Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatrical Institute, L. F. Makarev's course.
From 1957 till 1979 he was one of the leading actors of Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. The leading part in Wit Works Woe (1962) by Alexander Griboedov made him one of the most significant actors of his generation. His director's debut "Moliere" by Michail Bulgakov in 1977 was highly acclaimed, but was not accepted by Georgy Tovstonogov, and led to Yursky's departure from the theatre
Since 1979 - an actor and director of Mossovet Theater in Moscow. Also worked as an actor and director in Moscow Art Theatre, as well as in Belgium, France and Japan.
Yursky performs one-man recitals of poetry and prose, touring widely with them in USSR, then Russia and since the 1990s many countries with Russian-speaking population.