Aleksandr Zbruev

Aleksandr Zbruyev is a Russian actor who was born in Moscow and trained at the Shchukin Theatre School, where he studied under Vladimir Etush and graduated as an actor in 1961. From 1961 he was a permanent member of the company at the Moscow Lenkom Theatre, taking leading and supporting parts in many productions there. He found wide fame in 1962 with the leading role in Aleksandr Zarkhi's My Younger Brother (1962), an adaptation of Vasiliy Aksyonov's novel Zvyozdny bilet, and became a celebrity across the Soviet Union. After that, he took many starring roles in movies made in the Soviet Union and Russia. In 1989 he was named People's Actor of Russia, and he received numerous awards and decorations for his stage and screen work. He was a leading star of the Lenkom Theatre under its artistic director Mark Zakharov.