Oleksiy Gorbunov

Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov (Ukrainian: Олексій Сергійович Горбунов; born on October 29, 1961) is Ukrainian and a Soviet film, television and stage actor.[1] He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).[2]

Oleksiy Gorbunov
Oleksiy Gorbunov on July 17, 2012, during Odesa International Film Festival
Born (1961-10-29) 29 October 1961
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
OccupationActor, Director
Years active1984–present

Life and career

Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on October 29, 1961, in Kyiv. He spent his childhood in Rusanivka neighbourhood in Kyiv.

In 1978, immediately after graduating from high school he could not go to Kyiv Theatrical Institute because he was not a member of the Komsomol. In the years 1978 and 1979 he worked in the dressing room of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In the theater, thanks to Ada Rogovtseva, he met with her husband, actor and his mentor Konstantin Stepankov.

In 1984 he graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (in Konstantin Stepankov's course). Gorbunov began acting his first film, Unlabeled Cargo on the day he received his diploma.

From 1984 to 1995 he worked for Oleksandr Dovzhenko. In the spring of 1985 to April 20, 1987, he served in the Soviet Army.

In the 1990s Gorbunov worked as a private taxi driver because of the crisis at the Dovzhenko Film Studio. Director Vladimir Popkov helped him get back into cinema by inviting him for the role of Jester Chicot in the movie Countess de Monsoreau.

Gorbunov worked in the Theater Studio of Film Actor, in the private Chamber Theatre M. Nestantiner and Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. He starred in Ukrainian TV series Night Service (1998) and Wonder People (2008).

Gorbunov is a soloist of "Sadness Pilot" and worked as a DJ on the Kyiv radio stations "Continent" and "Nostalgia". He is also an organizer and presenter of two discos in Kyiv: "Dzhankoi" and "Jumanji".

Selected filmography[3]

Television[4]

References
  1. "Алексей Горбунов". Russia-1.
  2. Указ Президент України від 22 січня 2016 року № 18/2016 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня Соборності України» (in Ukrainian)
  3. "Aleksey Gorbunov". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  4. "Aleksey Gorbunov". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
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