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Kirill Andreyevich Zaytsev (Russian: Кирилл Андреевич Зайцев; born August 16, 1987) is a Russian–Latvian actor, film director, producer. For his role in Going Vertical he received the Golden Eagle Award in 2019.[1]

Kirill Zaytsev
Kirill Zaytsev, Cop (2019 TV series).
Born	Kirill Andreyevich Zaytsev (1987-08-16)August 16, 1987 Volgograd, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, Latvian Academy of Culture
Occupation	Actor film director producer
Years active	2015–present
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)

Life and career

Kirill Zaytsev was born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). In his youth he studied music, dancing, basketball. In 2011 he graduated from the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, moved to Riga, where he was accepted into the troupe of the The Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre.[2]

In 2016, Kirill Zaytsev starred in one of the main roles in the highest-grossing Russian film Going Vertical, playing the legendary Soviet basketball player Sergei Belov, based on whose book the film was filmed.[3]

In 2018, he played the main role of American John Mackenzie, who comes to the Investigative Committee of Russia for the exchange of experience, - in the Channel One television series Cop by Radda Novikova.[4]

Since 2018 he has been collaborating with the Moscow Provincial Theatre. Plays Nicholas I in Sergei Bezrukov's production of Pushkin about the Russian poet and Erast Fandorin in the production of Fandorin's Adventures. In 2021, Kirill Zaitsev acted in the premiere of the solo play My Lermontov staged by director Elena Chernaya. The script of the performance was written based on the poems, prose and letters of Mikhail Lermontov.[5]

In 2020 Zaytsev directed his debut short film, war drama Sashka. A Soldier's Diary. The film won various awards at international film festivals, including the Prague Independent Film Festival (in 2021).[6] It was also the first short film to have a wide cinematic release in Russia (in 2022).[7]

In 2021, he took part in the ice-dancing TV show Ice Age on Channel One. His partner in the project was the Russian world champion figure skater Oksana Domnina. The couple reached the grand final and took third place.[8]

In 2022 Zaytsev had a supporting role in streaming fantasy series Aeterna.

Selected filmography

Film

List of film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	The Chronicles of Melanie	Sarma
2018	Going Vertical	Sergei Belov	[9]
2018	Gogol. Terrible Revenge	Kazimir Mazovetsky
2019	Union of Salvation	Mikhail Bestuzhev	[10]
2020	The Silver Skates	Prince Arkadiy Trubetskoy (English: Prince Arkady Trubetskoy)	[11]
2021	The Last Warrior: Root of Evil The Last Warrior 2	Finist the Falcon, the bogatyr is a warrior
2021	The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness The Last Warrior 3	Finist the Falcon
2023	Mira	Antonov

Television

List of television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017	Trotsky	Fyodor Raskolnikov (English: Fedor Raskolnikov)
2019	Cop	John McKenzie	(ru)
2022	Aeterna	Lionel Savignac

References

External links

• Kirill Zaytsev on kino-teatr.ru
• Kirill Zaytsev at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Kirill Zaytsev

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[ru] Зайцев, Кирилл Андреевич

Кирилл Андреевич Зайцев (род. 16 августа 1987, Волгоград) — российский актёр театра и кино, режиссёр и продюсер. Лауреат премии «Золотой орёл» за роль Сергея Белова в фильме «Движение вверх».

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