Yevgeny Sidikhin

Yevgeny Vladimirovich Sidikhin (Russian: Евге́ний Влади́мирович Сиди́хин) is a Russian film and theater actor and television presenter.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Sidikhin.

Yevgeny Sidikhin
Born	Yevgeny Vladimirovich Sidikhin Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1989–present
Spouse	Tatyana Borkovskaya
Children	3
Awards	State Prize of the Russian Federation
Website	sidikhin.narod.ru

Early life and education

Sidikhin was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). He studied martial arts and boxing from the 4th grade and was a five-time champion in the City of Leningrad.

After high school he was accepted into the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography (LGITMiK). However, in his freshman year, he was drafted into the army. He served in Turkmenistan and in the military intelligence in Afghanistan. After completing his service, he returned to LGITMiK and graduated in 1989.

Career

He worked at the Lensovet Theater and the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater and had a brief career of a talk show host at the Russian television channel NTV. He starred in his first film in 1991. Many of his roles take advantage of his martial arts skills and good looks; however, he always plays the emotional and human side of the character.

Awards

• 2000 – State Prize of Russia (for the film The Barracks)
• 2002 – Best Actor in a Foreign Film at the film festival Constellation for 27 Missing Kisses
• 2003 – Best Male Role in The Ark at the film festival Faces of Love in Moscow
• 2003 – Diploma for Performing Excellence at the film festival of Slavic and Eastern Orthodox Peoples Golden Knight (Zolotoy Vityaz) for the film Between Life and Death
• 2004 – Golden Eagle (Zolotoi Oryol) for the best male role in the TV series The Cab Driver

Personal life

Yevgeny Sidikhin is married to actress Tatyana Borkovskaya and they have three daughters. His hobby is sailing yachts.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Behind the Last Line	Victor Dremov
1991	The Countess	Nikita Shuvalov
1992	The Executioner	Yuri Kirsanov
1992	Moscow Parade	Gosha
1993	Children of Iron Gods	Ignat Morozov
1993	Operation Lucifer	Detective Zabelin
1993	The Last Saturday	Oleg
1994	Two Brothers, One Sister	Brother
1994	Russian Transit	Alexander
1995	Wolf Blood	Rodion Dobrykh
1995	Vaska Easoff	Vanka	Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar
1996	Gisele's Mania	Boris Kaplun
1997	Burnt by the Frost	Lasov
1998 (2005)	Mama Don't Cry	Zubek
1998	Threesome	Kostya
1999	The Barracks	Precinct police lieutenant
2000–2006	Bandit Petersburg 1-10	Kudasov
2000	27 Missing Kisses	Alexander
2000	House for the Rich	Alexei Serebriakov
2001	Achilles' Heel	Maxim
2001	Russian Beauty	Yuri
2001	Salomeya	Fyodor Yalikov
2001	The Cricket on the Hearth	John
2002	Antikiller	Barkass
2002	Backstage	Anatoly Ivanovich Kuskov
2002	The Ark	Skipper
2002	Falling Up	Mason
2002	Spetsnaz	Bezrukov (episode 7)
2003	White Gold	Lomov
2003	Private Lives of Official Persons	Anatoly
2003	Between Life and Death	Ian
2003	The Cab Driver	Ilya Orlov
2004	Women in the Game Without Rules	Pavel Vesnin
2004	Big Girls' Games	Vitalik
2004–2005	MUR is MUR	Alexander Ivanovich Smirnov, a detective
2005	Tale about Happiness	Victor Deryabin
2006	Family Dinner	Victorov
2007	Kisses of Fallen Angels	Roman
2007	After Life	Artem
2008	A Woman in Berlin, a.k.a. Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin, with Nina Hoss, directed by Max Färberböck[1]	Andrei Rybkin, a Soviet officer	Received The Best International Film Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, February 2009[2]
2008	Bes, a.k.a. Demon	Nikita
2008	The North Wind	Vasily Klintsov
2008	Ice Kiss	Shevchenko, a KGB officer
2008	Dead Souls	General Shalamov
2009	Attack on Leningrad	Korneyev
2009	The Inhabited Island	Father-in-Law
2013	Pyotr Leschenko. Everything That Was...	Colonel
2016	In the Forests of Siberia	Aleksei
2018	Never Look Away		[3]

References

1. Cockrell, Eddie (9 September 2008). "Review: 'A Woman in Berlin'". Variety.
2. Marshall, Carol (1 February 2009). "SBIFF '09: The Awards Are In". Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
3. Kiang, Jessica (4 September 2018). "Film Review: 'Never Look Away'". Variety.

External links

• Yevgeny Sidikhin at IMDb
• Yevgeny Sidikhin Official Site (in Russian)
• Yevgeny Sidikhin's Forum (in Russian)