7 domestic actors who managed to conquer foreign cinema

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Despite the fact that not every talented actor succeeds in starting a successful career abroad, our compatriots again and again try their hand at foreign film studios. However, talented artists are always and everywhere treated with respect, and our especially successful compatriots are quite productive filming abroad. Probably one of the most striking examples of a successful career is Yul Brynner, but modern actors also have roles that they can rightfully be proud of.

Yul Brynner

He was born in Vladivostok and before emigrating to France had nothing to do with theater or cinema. He began his creative career in a cabaret in Paris. After moving to the United States, he began to take art lessons from the legendary Mikhail Chekhov and first tried himself as a theater actor. After the release of the musical "The King and I", Julius Brynner became famous. After that there were "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Magnificent Seven" and many other roles. The actor himself admitted that he does not like American cinema, he was always closer to the theater. But he was filming quite actively, including in Europe. Yul Brynner died at the age of 65 from lung cancer.

Olga Chekhova

The wife of Mikhail Chekhov, the nephew of the famous writer, after emigrating from Russia to Germany in 1920, was very quickly able to achieve success in her second homeland. She starred in numerous films and became the State Actress of the Third Reich. From 1921 to 1974, Olga Chekhova starred in 130 German films. In addition, she is the owner of her own cosmetics company and has written several books.

Fyodor Chaliapin Jr

The son of the legendary Fyodor Chaliapin went abroad when his father was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. He made his Hollywood debut in 1926, at the time he was 21 years old. Since then, he stubbornly walked towards his goal, actively starred, but became famous only at the 82nd year of his life. The role of a blind monk in the film "The Name of the Rose" based on the novel of the same name by Umberto Eco brought Fyodor Chaliapin worldwide recognition.

Dina Korzun

The foreign career of the actress began in 2004, when she starred in the film by Ira Sachs "Forty Shades of Sadness", followed by work in several more films and TV series. In addition, the actress was quite successful on the stage, she was involved in the production of the Royal Theater of London "Attempts on Her Life". Dina Korzun often accepts invitations to art-house projects, work in which has already brought her many international awards.

Ilya Baskin

In the Soviet Union, the actor starred in just a few films, including Big Change, where he played a disheveled red-haired student. But the number of foreign works by Ilya Baskin has already exceeded eight dozen. He starred in the films "Moscow on the Hudson", "Cool Walker" and "Walker, the Texas Ranger", "Airplane of the President", "Murder She Wrote", "Spider-Man 2" and many others.

Vladimir Mashkov

Today Vladimir Mashkov successfully directs the Oleg Tabakov Theater. In 2000, he starred in the American film Dancing in the Blue Iguana for the first time. Then his filmography added "15 Minutes of Glory", "American Rhapsody", "Let's Do It Fast", "Mission Impossible-4" and other films.

Ingeborga Dapkunaite

The actress, who was born in Vilnius in 1963, moved to the UK at the age of 30, settled in London and has successfully appeared in European and American films and TV series. She has worked in the films "Spider-Man: Homecoming" and "Spider-Man: Far From Home", "Occupied", "Hannibal: Ascent" and many others. It is worth noting that the actress does not refuse invitations from Russian directors.

Oleg Vidov could not complain about his transatlantic fate either. In the United States, he met many of his compatriots who helped him adapt to the new reality. At first, he worked at a construction site and did not even dream of continuing his acting career. But made the actor believe in himself by his wife, which Vidov called his guardian angel for all 32 years spent together, until the end of his days.