Oleksiy Serhiyovych Gorbunov (Ukrainian: Олексій Сергійович Горбунов; born on 29 October 1961) is a Ukrainian film, television and stage actor. He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1991) and a People's Artist of Ukraine (2016).
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Life and career
Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on 29 October 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. From the spring of 1985 to 20 April 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
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1984 Vacation of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible as climber
1990 Disintegration as Shurik
1991 Oxygen Starvation as Golikov
1998 Country of the Deaf as supplier
1998 Countess de Monsoreau as Jester Chicot
1999 Kamenskaya as Gall
2003 Lines of Fate as Andrey Shurkov
2005 The State Counsellor as Nikolai Seleznov / Rakhmet
2006 Filipp's Bay as Booth
2006 Dikari as Baron
2007 12 as 9th Juror
2008 Little Moscow as Major KGB
2008 Stilyagi as Labukh
2008 He Who Puts Out the Light as Alexey Sautin
2009 The Inhabited Island as Shurin
2009 L'affaire Farewell as Choukhov
2009 I Am as Romanian, drug dealer
2010 The 5th Execution as General
2010 The Edge as Kolivanov
2010 The House of the Sun as Boris Pavlovich Kapelsky
Television
2018 The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes), season 4 and 5 as Karlov
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