Kirill Alekseevich Palukhin (Russian: Кирилл Алексеевич Полухин; born 3 May 1969) is a Soviet and Russian film, stage, and television actor.
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Early life
Palukhin was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Palukhin was the only family member who had any relation to the arts: his father was a doctor and his mother was an economist. Polukhin worked in an acting studio owned by Zinovy Korogodsky.
Career
In 1999, he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (course of Andrei Tolubeyev). In the same year, he joined the troupe of Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.
Due to his appearance, Palukhin is mainly cast in antagonist roles.
Personal life
Kirill Palukhin is married to an actress Svetlana Strogova and has a son, Innokenty (born in 1998).
Selected filmography
Secrets of Investigation (2002) as investigator of prosecutor's office
Streets of Broken Lights (2005) as Samsonov
The Fall of the Empire (2005) as soldat
The Priest (2009) as partisan
The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (2010) as Grigory Kotovsky
The Alien Girl (2010) as Kid
Home (2011) as Senior
Alien District (2011) as Igor Svistunov
The Major (2013) as Kolya Burlakov
The Fool (2014) as Matyugin
Leningrad 46 (2014) as Stepan Zavyalov
The Method (2014) as Sedoy, a detective
Battalion (2015) as Zobov
Ivan (2016) as Ivan
Raid (2017) as episode
The Age of Pioneers (2017) as part commander
Gogol. Viy (2018) as Basavryuk
The Factory (2018) as Andreich
Better than Us (2018) as Pavel Varlamov
Dead Lake (2019) as Smertin
The Balkan Line (2019) as Barmin
