Leonid Yarmolnik
Леонид Ярмольник
Leonid Yarmolnik in 2014
Born	Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik (1954-01-22) 22 January 1954 (age 70) Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, RSFSR, USSR
Citizenship	Soviet Union Russia
Occupations	Actor film producer presenter radio broadcasting humorist politician
Years active	1974–present

Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik (Russian: Леони́д Исаа́кович Ярмо́льник; born January 22, 1954) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.^[1]

Biography

Was born on January 22, 1954, in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, where his father, a Soviet Army officer, was stationed. In 1960, Yarmolnik's family relocated to Lviv. Leonid studied at the local music school and was involved in plays at the Lviv Folk Theater. In 1972, he became a student at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated from the acting class of Yury Katin-Yartsev, a famous Russian actor and acclaimed pedagogue of the Vakhtangov Theater Arts School, in 1976. From 1976-1984, he was an actor at the Taganka Theatre. Yarmolnik started his own studio, L-Club, specializing in film distribution, and anchored a TV program with the same name. He was a member of the jury on the popular KVN game show. He was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 for the role of Zhora in The Barracks.

Personal life

Leonid Yarmolnik is married to Oksana Afanasieva and they have one daughter together. Oksana Afanasieva is a former girlfriend of Soviet singer songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky.^[2]

Yarmolnik is Jewish.

Selected filmography

As an actor

• 1979 — The Very Same Munchhausen (Тот самый Мюнхгаузен) as Theophil von Münchhausen
• 1983 — Look for a Woman (Ищите женщину) as policeman Maximan
• 1984 — Copper Angel (Медный ангел) as Maurice Barro
• 1984 — TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...) as Grechaev
• 1987 — A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов) as one-eyed cowboy Martin
• 1988 — Yolki-palki (Ёлки-палки!) as Grigory Kaigorodov
• 1989 — Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (Частный детектив, или Операция «Кооперация») as Airliner hijacker
• 1989 — Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective (Две стрелы. Детектив каменного века) as Long-nosed
• 1990 — Passport (Паспорт) as Borya's Israeli friend
• 1991 — Odyssey of Captain Blood (Одиссея капитана Блада) as Levasseur
• 1995 — Heads and Tails as Gosha
• 1998 — Crossroads as Oleg 'Alik' Sevastyanov
• 2004 — My Step Brother Frankenstein as Yulik
• 2005 — The Case of "Dead Souls" as Plyushkin (TV)
• 2006 — Moscow Mission (Обратный отсчёт) as Krot
• 2010 — Love in the Big City 2 (Любовь в большом городе 2) as father of Igor
• 2011 — Cars 2 as Miles Axlerod (Russian version)
• 2013 — Hard to Be a God (Трудно быть богом) as Don Rumata
• 2016 — Guardians of the Night [ru] (Ночные стражи) as major Gamayun, head of the secret police Department
• 2023 — The Master and Margarita as Dr. Stravinsky

As a film producer

• Ku! Kin-dza-dza (2013)