Biography of the artist Stefanko

Biography Biography Oleg Stefanko is a Russian actor with American citizenship and Ukrainian roots. Oleg Stefanko is signed by American spectators in roles in the films “False Temptation”, “Nothing Personal”, “Russians in the City of Angels”, “As Jim said” and the dramatic series “Americans”. Oleg Stefanko was born on September 7 in the mining town of Torez, Donetsk region.

The actor’s father worked all his life at the mine, he was gone in the year. Oleg’s childhood was the same as all Soviet children: lessons, games in the yard, visiting interest circles, and in the summer - rest in the pioneer camp. In these years, he was also fond of swimming and kickboxing. Stefanko graduated from school in the year and went to Moscow to enter the theater institute.

On the first attempt, he entered the Schukin school, and in his second year he already played in the performances in the Maly Theater. By the end of the theater school, Oleg Stefanko 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 the year. When Oleg was 26 years old, he was drafted into the army.

Oleg Stefanko served in the engineering forces, some were based in the Moscow Region. The actor says that the service did not give him anything good. By the time he had already had his own apartment in the capital, and the artist knew how to pick up collars. Stefanko says that the machine gun saw only on the exercises, and the early climb, the “hazing” aroused bitterness and revenge.

Stefanko came to New York without money, not knowing the language, and practically said goodbye to the acting biography. The actor had to work hard. Oleg Stefanko earned a living as a guard, a waiter, taxed, sold insurance policies, collected furniture. The actor even had to perform in the ring until Oleg Stefanko decided to return to the cinema. Oleg began films in films early, back in the school.

By the age of 26, he starred in 12 paintings, among them - “Scarecrow”, “Children of Captain Grant”, “Death Bay” and others. Having immigrated in the United States, the actor did not think about filming the first two years. His fate was changed by a meeting with Savely Kramarov in one of the restaurants of New York. Oleg Stefanko served the table when Kramarov advised him to move to Los Angeles: the guy did so.

There he graduated from an acting school, received US citizenship and became a member of the acting guild. At first he was offered secondary roles, but in the year success came to him. Oleg Stefanko recalls that Robert de Niro was looking for an actor who will play a Russian intelligence officer in the film “False Temptation”. He was invited to test.

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 Stefanko also works in America in the modeling business and does not forget about the theater. The actor managed to break through on the American stage, plays in Theater of New York City. When the Russian economy stabilized in X, Stefanko began to be invited to the shooting.

The audience saw him in the films “Homeland is waiting” and “Lord officers”. For his role in the last film, he received the Grand Prix of the International Euro-Asian Festival. Oleg is offered the roles of courageous heroes - he has such an texture. His talent is multifaceted that he showed, starring in the drama "Double Surname" and the film "surprised me." One of the recent works of the actor is shooting in the series "Sea Devils".

Work in Russia occupies an actor for almost 7 months a year. The rest of the time he is removed in Hollywood. Among the significant works of recent years is the painting “Nothing Personal”. In the year, the actor got a major role in the Russian criminal series "Forester". The series combined the features of an action movie and melodrama and walked for three years.

According to the plot, the former special forces Leonid Zubov, whose role was played by Oleg Stefanko, ended up in a village lost in a deaf forest. Here the hero would have to find both a calm life and the work of a forester, which is clearly to his liking to the former special forces. But on its own example, tooths finds out that the profession of a forester is a dangerous business.

The main character with comrades has to deal with poaching, illegal entrepreneurship, crime. The protagonist will stop illegal hunting and mining horns, as expected the forester. In addition, he will also deal with completely non -core problems: to catch a deserter, save the hostages and neutralize the gang that uses slave labor on the unauthorized deforestation of the forest.

In the year, the actor will play the main role in the melodrama "Two plus two." The hero of Stefanko is a single father who falls in love with a woman who also grows a child alone. Two people who have disappointed in relations and two incomplete families will have to go a long way to understanding and trust. The actor met personal life with his wife Larisa by chance. He saw her on one of the Moscow streets and went to meet.

In an interview, Oleg Stefanko admitted that love came to him later. Larisa is a philologist, and this pleases the actor. He believes that his wife should find time at home and children, read them fairy tales at night, kiss. If the husband and wife are actors, then there will be no normal marriage.Oleg has two children. The daughter of 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. The plans are to buy your own home. Oleg says that there are no special traditions in their family, because his profession is unpredictable. The actor is often not at home due to filming. But the New Year is sacred: in the apartment there is definitely a Christmas tree, a set table and friends.

Oleg Stefanko loves to relax in the mountains and tries to find time to spend a week with his family there. Another hobby of the actor is a bathhouse. The series was shot in retro-style. In the center of the plot are Soviet KGB officers who impersonate American citizens during the years, during the Cold War. In Russia, the actor in the same year received a major role in the melodrama "When the past is ahead." Hero Stefanko - entrepreneur Viktor Vasilievich Astakhov.

In the year, the actor returned to the image of the former special forces and now forester Leonid Zubov in the criminal series “Forester. Its own land ”, the plot continued“ Forester ”. Fans call the new series the fourth season of the “Forester”, but unlike two sequels that were released under the numbers, this season is put under their own name. In the new series, the protagonist had a new enemy - looking in the Navlinsky district, the authority of Sasha Rafida Alexander Tyutin.

The main revenue business that is interested in authority is the forest, which leads to a direct conflict with a combat forester.