Aleksei Vyacheslavovich Panin (; born 10 September 1977) is a Russian actor and laureate of the

State Prize of the Russian Federation The State Prize of the Russian Federation, officially translated in Russia as Russian Federation National Award, is a state honorary prize established in 1992 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates ...

(2003).Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 5 июня 2003 г. № 614 «О присуждении Государственных премий Российской Федерации в области литературы и искусства 2002 года»
/ref> He attended

Russian Academy of Theatre Arts The Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) () is the largest and oldest independent theatrical arts school in Russia. Located in Moscow, the school was founded on 22 September 1878 as the Shostakovsky Music School. It became the School of Mu ...

Personal life

Panin left Russia in 2020 and moved to

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. He is currently a stern critic of the Russian government and the Ukraine invasion, so on May 22, 2023, the Russian Ministry of the Interior issued an arrest warrant against Panin for having celebrated the

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on social media. He has three children.

Selected filmography

* ''

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'' (2000) * '' The Romanovs: An Imperial Family'' (2000) * ''

In August of 1944 ''In August 1944'' (; better known as ''The Moment of Truth'') is a 2001 Russian-Belarusian action film directed by Mikhail Ptashuk. Plot A Soviet counter-intelligence (SMERSH) team are assigned to track down a group of German spies in Belarus f ...

'' (2001) * ''

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'' (2001) * '' The Star'' (2002) * ''

Dead Man's Bluff ''Dead Man's Bluff'' or ''Zhmurki'' () is a 2005 Russian black comedy/crime film. Director Aleksei Balabanov, who directed ''Brother'' and '' Brother 2'', uses cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors. The film depicts the anarchisti ...

'' (2005) * '' Rzhevsky versus Napoleon'' (2008) * ''

The Best Movie 2 ''The Best Movie 2'' () is a 2009 Russian comedy from Monumental Pictures (Sony Pictures Entertainment) and Comedy Club Production, continuation of 2008 '' The Best Movie'' film, spoofing such famous Russian films as '' Zhara'', '' The Irony of F ...

'' (2009) * ''

O Lucky Man! ''O Lucky Man!'' is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his first film performance in Anderso ...

'' (2009) * ''

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'' (2012)

Awards

(2002)

Controversies

In June 2013, police opened a criminal case against Panin for "intentional destruction of other people's property" due to the debauchery that he initiated in a bar in

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. The same year in August, Ukrainian police opened a criminal case against Panin for "Intentional infliction of minor bodily injury". The media reported that he had a car accident in

Crimea Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...

. Shortly after the accident, he made a series of insulting statements about

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

and the

Crimean Tatars Crimean Tatars (), or simply Crimeans (), are an Eastern European Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Crimea. Their ethnogenesis lasted thousands of years in Crimea and the northern regions along the coast of the Blac ...

and hit a local resident. Later, Panin apologized for his behaviour to the Crimean Tatars.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Panin, Aleksei 1977 births Living people Male actors from Moscow Russian male film actors Russian male television actors Bisexual male actors State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates Russian bisexual men Russian LGBTQ actors 21st-century Russian LGBTQ people Russian dissidents Russian exiles People listed in Russia as foreign agents