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==Personal life and death==
==Personal life and death==
Sergei Puskepalis married Elena in 1991. Their son Gleb Puskepalis was born in 1992.
Sergei Puskepalis married Elena in 1991. Their son Gleb Puskepalis was born in 1992.
Sergei Puskepalis died on 20 September 2022 at the age of 56, in [[Yaroslavl Oblast]] in a car accident.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://russia.postsen.com/news/161402/Died-actor-and-director-Sergei-Puskepalis.html}}</ref> He was driving an armored minibus to [[Donetsk]], with the intention of giving it to the formations of the "[[Donetsk People's Republic]]".<ref name="euronews"/>
Sergei Puskepalis died on 20 September 2022 at the age of 56, in [[Yaroslavl Oblast]] in a car accident.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://russia.postsen.com/news/161402/Died-actor-and-director-Sergei-Puskepalis.html}}</ref> He was driving an armored minibus to [[Donetsk]], with the intention of giving it to the formations of the [[Donetsk People's Republic]].<ref name="euronews"/>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

Revision as of 17:28, 28 September 2022

Sergei Puskepalis
Сергей Пускепалис
Puskepalis outside a theater in Saratov
Born
Sergei Vytauto Puskepalis

(1966-04-15)15 April 1966
Kursk, RSFSR, USSR
Died20 September 2022(2022-09-20) (aged 56)
Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
CitizenshipRussian
Occupation(s)Theatre director
Film actor
Years active2003–2022
Awards
Nika Award - 2008
Silver Bear - 2010

Sergei Vytautovich Puskepalis (Russian: Сергей Витаутович Пускепалис; 15 April 1966 – 20 September 2022) was a Russian actor and theatre director. He is best known for his roles in the award-winning movies Simple Things (2006) and How I Ended This Summer (2010), both directed by Alexei Popogrebski. For his performances, he won a Nika Award for Best Actor in 2008, as well as a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010.[1]

Early life

Sergei Puskepalis was born in 1966 to a Lithuanian father and a Bulgarian mother from Transnistria, in Kursk, then Soviet Union.[2]

Sergei studied in Saratov, the Saratov Drama School, then went on active duty in the Soviet Navy, worked as an actor in the Saratov Youth Theatre, studied at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, he graduated in 2001.

After graduating from the Moscow GITIS, he staged the play "Twenty-Seven" Alexey Slapovsky and this performance was one of the festival Baltic House. Afterwards, he put on the play by Alexey Slapovsky "From red to green rat star" in Omsk "Fifth theater". Sergei Puskepalis repeatedly staged performances of Slapovsky's plays.

He worked as a director in the Samara theater "Monday". From May 2003 to 2007 Sergei Puskepalis - chief director of the Magnitogorsk Drama Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin. 2007 - production director of the Moscow theater studio under the direction of Oleg Tabakov. From June 2009 to February 2010 - chief director of the Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after Fyodor Volkov in city of Yaroslavl.

Puskepalis was invited to many famous Russian drama theaters to stage theater productions.

Career

In 2003 Puskepalis started to act in movies. His first role was a cameo in the film The Stroll. Sergei Puskepalis met the film director Alexei Popogrebski on the set of the film Roads to Koktebel, in which his son, actor Gleb Puskepalis, played. Later Popogrebski invited Sergei Puskepalis to star roles in the films Simple Things and How I Ended This Summer.

In 2015, the film Clinch which Sergei Puskepalis made as a film director had its premiere at the Yerevan International Film Festival. The picture is an adaptation of the play by Alexey Slapovsky which Sergei Puskepalis staged in Ufa.[3]

Puskepalis was an active supporter of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

Personal life and death

Sergei Puskepalis married Elena in 1991. Their son Gleb Puskepalis was born in 1992. Sergei Puskepalis died on 20 September 2022 at the age of 56, in Yaroslavl Oblast in a car accident.[5] He was driving an armored minibus to Donetsk, with the intention of giving it to the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic.[4]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2003 The Stroll
2006 Simple Things Sergei Maslov, anesthetist
2009 Spring is coming Pavel Nikolaevich
2010 Aptekar Mikhail Streltsov TV series
2010 How I Ended This Summer Sergei Gulybin, head of the polar station
2011 Siberia, Monamour lieutenant colonel
2011 Moy paren - Angel father Sasha, volcanologist
2011 Witness protection Andrei Meshechko Major TV series
2011 There Was Never a Better Brother Jalil
2012 Life and Fate Ivan Grekov, Captain TV series
2012 Divorce Mikhail, Colonel police department TV series
2013 Metro Andrei Garin, surgeon
2013 Owl Creek Ivan Mitin, the captain of the State Security TV series
2013 Eight commander of the OMON
2014 Black Sea Zaytsev
2014 Godfather Ilya Alekhine, obstetrician-gynecologist TV series
2015 Battle for Sevastopol commander
2015 Happiness is... Oleg
2016 The Icebreaker Valentin Sevchenko
2016 Sophia Casimir IV Jagiellon TV series
2017 Yolki 6 Viktor Orlov
2017 The Road to Calvary General Romanovsky TV series
2021 Mariya. Spasti Moskvu
2022 Krylya nad Berlinom Semyon Zhavoronkov

References

  1. ^ "Сергей Пускепалис". Russia-K.
  2. ^ Сергей Витауто Пускепалис
  3. ^ Клинч
  4. ^ a b "ргей Пускепалис погиб в "броневике", который купил для "нужд фронта" в Донбассе" (in Russian). Euronews. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  5. ^ https://russia.postsen.com/news/161402/Died-actor-and-director-Sergei-Puskepalis.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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