Oleg Tabakov

Oleg Tabakov
Born Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov
(1935-08-17) 17 August 1935
Saratov, USSR
Occupation Actor
Years active 1956–present
Spouse(s) Lyudmila Krylova (1960–1994)
Marina Zudina (1994–present)
Website http://www.tabakov.ru/

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков) (born 17 August 1935) is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Theatre career

Tabakov studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Upon graduating from the school, he became one of the founding fathers of the Sovremennik Theatre. He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years. In 1986, Tabakov persuaded his students to form the Tabakov Studio attached to the Moscow Art Theatre. Several notable Russian actors, including Yevgeny Mironov, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrey Smolyakov and Alexandre Marine, studied at the studio. Tabakov also worked in numerous foreign countries, spreading his theatre's ideals abroad.

Film career

Tabakov's movie career paralleled the theatrical. He was featured in Grigori Chukhrai's Clear Skies (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1966–67), TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring (1973) and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), the Academy Award-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980), Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov (1981) and Dark Eyes (1986), and the mock ostern A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (1987), among others.

Voice-over work

Tabakov has lend his distinctive, purr-like voice to a number of animated characters, including the talking cat Matroskin in Three from Prostokvashino and its sequels. After the Matroskin role he dubbed the character of Garfield into Russian in the feature film Garfield.

Political activism

During the 2012 Russian presidential election Oleg Tabakov was registered as a "Trusted Representative" (Доверенное Лицо) of Vladimir Putin[1]

In March 2014, he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.[2] In September 2014, Tabakov claimed that Crimea has no relation to Ukraine and upbraided Ukrainians for discussing it: "But all happened fairly. If our Ukrainian brothers were smarter, they would not discuss that topic. They had to say: "Forgive us for God's sake! We had encroached the gravy train." Because Crimea has no relation to dependent, nor independent Ukraine."[3] Crimea is since March 2014 under dispute by Russia and Ukraine.[4] In July 2015, he described Ukrainians as inferior to Russians.[5] For this he was banned from entering Ukraine.[6]

Honours and awards

Theatr of Oleg Tabakov in Malaya Sukharevskaya Square in Moscow.

Selected filmography

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References

  1. ↑ "Олег Табаков – о Путине, который вне конкуренции". Radio Liberty. 6 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "Деятели культуры России — в поддержку позиции Президента по Украине и Крыму". Ministry for Culture of Russian Federation.
  3. ↑ Табаков ждет от «украинцев-халявщиков» извинений за Крым (Russian). DePo. 09.09.2014
  4. ↑ Gutterman, Steve. "Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions". Reuters. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  5. ↑ Олег Табаков обозвал украинцев "убогими и второсортными" [Oleg Tabakov's views on Ukrainians]. obozrevatel.com (in Russian). 11 July 2015.
  6. ↑ SBU issues entry ban against 140 Russian artists, UNIAN (5 November 2016)
    Ukraine’s State Security Service bans 140 Russian cultural figures from entering country, TASS news agency (5 November 2016)
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