Mikhail Ulyanov (actor)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (; 20 November 1927 – 26 March 2007) was a USSR, Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet Union, Soviet theatre and Film, cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1986 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982. Biography Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov spent his childhood and youth in the town of Tara, Omsk Oblast. Although he had failed his exams in Schepkinskoe School and for the Moscow Art Theatre School, he moved to Omsk in 1944 to become an actor. After two years of studies in the studio at Omsk Drama he went to Moscow and entered the Schukin Theatre School in 1946. Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dostoevsky's ''Idiot'' being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 he staged Vasily S ...
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