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Profile of Mikhail Ulyanov
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Mikhail Ulyanov |
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20th November 1927 |
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Bergamak, Omsk, Russia, Soviet Union |
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Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (born in 1925) is a Russian actor who impersonated the official post-WWII Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.
Ulyanov has worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre since 1950 and has directed it since 1987. As regards movies, he was frequently cast in the parts of staunch Communist leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Marshal Zhukov. The Brothers Karamazov, a 1969 film he co-directed, was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also starred in Tema (1979) and Private Life (1982), the films that won top awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, respectively.
More recently, he has been acclaimed for the roles of Julius Ceasar in the screening of Shakespeare's play (1990), Pontius Pilate in the film adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1994), and an avenging veteran marksman in The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999).
External link
- Mikhail Ulyanov at the Vakhtangov Theatre website
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