Aleksei Serebryakov

Aleksei Valeryevich Serebryakov, PAR, HOR (; born 3 July 1964) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He started acting at 15, and now he is one of the most popular and highly paid Russian actors. He has appeared in Leviathan and McMafia. Biography Early life and career beginnings Born July 3, 1964 in Moscow. His father was an aircraft engineer and his mother worked as a doctor at Gorky Film Studio. As a child, he attended music school (accordion class); at the age of 13 he made his debut as an actor when his music teacher published his photo in the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva. Serebryakov came to the attention of directors Valery Uskov and Vladimir Krasnopolsky, who were responsible for casting the Soviet television series Eternal Call. In 1986, he graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts, where he went to the acting school of Oleg Tabakov, after which he played for several years at the Moscow Theatre-Studio "Tabakerka" directed by Oleg Tabakov. In 1991, he left the theater.