Nikolai Yeremenko Sr. | |
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| Born | Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko June 16, 1926 |
| Died | June 30, 2000 (aged 74) |
| Occupation(s) | Stage and film actor |
| Years active | 1948-2000 |
| Spouse | Galina Orlova (born 1928) |
Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko Sr. (Belarusian: Мікалай Мікалаевіч Яроменка (старэйшы); (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ерёменко-ста́рший) was a Belarusian Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1989).
Member of the Great Patriotic War. He managed to survive in a Nazi concentration camp.[1][2]
After graduating in 1948, the studio theater of the Yakub Kolas Belarusian Drama Theater in Vitebsk, he became a theater actor (1948-1959). Since 1959 - an actor of Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre.
He began acting in films in 1960.
His son was also an actor, Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. (1949-2001).
