Oleg Shtefanko

Oleg Shtefanko is a Russian actor with American citizenship and Ukrainian roots. Oleg Shtefanko is familiar to American viewers for his roles in the films False Temptation, Nothing Personal, Russians in the City of Angels, As Jim Said, and the drama series The Americans. Also Oleg Shtefanko is an actor of the Theater of New York City and a member of two American acting guilds at once: SAG - the guild of film actors and AFTRA - the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

In Russia, Oleg Shtefanko is familiar to viewers for fifty main roles: in the films "Lord Officers", "Scarecrow", "Battle for Moscow", "In Search of Captain Grant", "Death Cove", in the crime series "Forester", "Pseudonym" Albanian ”,“ Group “Zeta” and in other films.

Oleg Shtefanko was born on September 7, 1959 in the mining town of Torez, Donetsk region. The actor's father worked at the mine all his life, in 2003 he was gone.

Oleg's childhood was the same as that of all Soviet children: lessons, games in the yard, visiting hobby groups, and in the summer - rest in a pioneer camp. During these years he was also fond of swimming and kickboxing. Stefanko graduated from school in 1976 and went to Moscow to enter the theater institute.

On the first try, he entered the Shchukin School, and in his second year he already played in performances at the Maly Theater. By the end of the theater school, Oleg Shtefanko was an actor with experience and immediately got a job in the troupe of the Maly Theater. There he worked for 12 years until he immigrated to America in 1992.

When Oleg was 26 years old, he was drafted into the army. Oleg Shtefanko served in the engineering troops, part of which was based in the Moscow region. The actor says that the service did not give him anything good. By the time he was called up, he already had his own apartment in the capital, and the artist already knew how to hem collars. Stefanko says that he saw the machine gun only at the exercises, and the early rise, "hazing" aroused anger and vindictiveness.

After the service, he returned to work, and when the Soviet Union collapsed, Oleg left for the United States. Stefanko arrived in New York without money, not knowing the language, and practically said goodbye to his acting biography. The actor had to work hard. Oleg Shtefanko earned his living as a security guard, a waiter, taxed, sold insurance policies, collected furniture. The actor even had to perform in the ring until Oleg Shtefanko decided to return to the cinema.

Oleg started acting in films early, while still in school. By the age of 26, he starred in 12 films, among them - "Scarecrow", "Children of Captain Grant", "Death Cove" and others.

Having immigrated to the United States, the actor did not think about filming for the first two years. His fate was changed by a meeting with Savely Kramarov in one of the restaurants in New York. Oleg Shtefanko served the table when Kramarov advised him to move to Los Angeles: the guy did just that. There he graduated from acting school, received US citizenship and became a member of the Actors Guild. At first he was offered minor roles, but in 2000 success came to him.

Oleg Shtefanko recalls that Robert De Niro was looking for an actor who would play a Russian intelligence officer in the film "The False Temptation". He was invited to audition. The first meeting ended in nothing. After 4 years, Robert De Niro returned to the script - this time Oleg was approved for the role.

Oleg Shtefanko also works in America in the modeling business and does not forget about the theater. The actor managed to break through to the American stage, plays in the "Theater of New York City".

When the Russian economy stabilized in the 2000s, Stefanko was invited to the shooting. The audience saw him in the films "Homeland Awaits" and "Lord Officers". For his role in the last film, he received the Grand Prix of the International Eurasian Festival.

Oleg is offered the roles of courageous heroes - such is his texture. His talent is multifaceted, which he showed, acting in the drama "Double Surname" and the movie "Surprise Me". One of the last works of the actor - shooting in the series "Sea Devils".

Work in Russia takes an actor almost 7 months a year. The rest of the time he is filming in Hollywood. Among the significant works of recent years is the painting "Nothing Personal". Julia Roberts and Clive Owen were Oleg Shtefanko's filming partners.

In 2011, the actor got the main role in the Russian crime series "Forester". The series combined the features of an action movie and a melodrama and ran for three years. According to the plot, the former special forces soldier Leonid Zubov, whose role was played by Oleg Shtefanko, found himself in a village lost in a deep forest. Here the hero would have to find both a quiet life and a job as a forester, which the former special forces soldier clearly likes.

But by his own example, Zubov finds out that the profession of a forester is a dangerous business. The main character and his comrades have to fight poaching, illegal business, and crime. The main character will stop illegal hunting and extraction of moose horns, as befits a forester. In addition, he will deal with completely non-core problems: to catch a deserter, rescue hostages and render harmless a gang using slave labor in unauthorized felling of forests.

In 2015, the actor will play the main role in the melodrama "Two plus two". The hero Stefanko is a single father who falls in love with a woman who is also raising a child alone. Two disillusioned people and two single-parent families have a long way to go to mutual understanding and trust.

The actor met his wife Larisa by chance. He saw her on one of the Moscow streets and went to meet her. In an interview, Oleg Shtefanko admitted that love came to him later. Larisa is a philologist, and this pleases the actor. He believes that a wife should find time for home and children, read bedtime stories to them, kiss. If the husband and wife are actors, then there will be no normal marriage.

Oleg has two children. Daughter Christina already lives separately, she is a doctor. The son is fond of tennis, performs in competitions. The Stefanko family has a large apartment in America and an apartment in Moscow. I plan to buy my own house.

Oleg says that there are no special traditions in their family, because his profession is unpredictable. The actor is often away from home due to filming. But the New Year is sacred: the apartment must have a Christmas tree, a set table and friends.

Oleg Shtefanko loves to relax in the mountains and tries to find time to spend a week there with his family. Another hobby of the actor is a bath.

In 2016, Oleg Shtefanko appeared in the fifth season of a US production series called "The Americans", where he played the secondary role of Anatoly Viktorovich, head of the KGB department. It is a television drama series created by former CIA officer and now screenwriter Joe Weisberg. The series is filmed in a retro style. The plot focuses on Soviet KGB officers posing as American citizens in the 1980s, during the Cold War.

In Russia, the actor in the same year got the main role in the melodrama "When the past is ahead." Stefanko's hero is businessman Viktor Astakhov.

In 2017, the actor returned to the image of the former special forces soldier and now forester Leonid Zubov in the crime series Forester. Own land ", the continuation of the" Forester ". Fans call the new episodes the fourth season of "Forester", but unlike the two sequels, which came out under numbers, this season is announced under its own name.

In the new episodes, the protagonist has a new enemy - Sasha Rafinad (Alexander Tyutin), the authority over the Navlinsky district. The main profitable business, which interests authority, is the forest, which leads to a direct conflict with the combat forester.

1983 - "Scarecrow" 1985 - "Battle for Moscow" 1986 - "Point of Return" 1991 - "Death Cove" 2006 - "Battle for Space" 2009 - "Anything is Possible" 2010 - "My Sin" 2004 - "Lord Officers" 2006 - "Film Festival, or Eisenstein's Port" 2013 - "Delta. Rybnadzor "2011-2014 -" Forester "2015 -" Two plus two "2016 -" Americans "2016 -" When the past is ahead "2017 -" Forester. Own land "

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