Ivan Filippovich Yankovsky (; born October 30, 1990) is a Russian actor, best known for his roles in '' Rag Union'' and '' The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt''. His father is actor/filmmaker

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, and his grandfather was the actor

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Early life and education

Ivan Yankovsky was born in

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. Ivan's parents are actor and filmmaker

and actress Oksana Fandera. Younger sister Elizaveta is also an actress. From the 8th grade he studied at the Moscow International Film School, after which he entered GITIS. In 2013 he graduated from the acting and directing department (workshop of Sergey Zhenovach).

Personal life

Since 2014, he had been in a relationship with Vera Kincheva, the daughter of Konstantin Kinchev. In 2020, the couple broke up. Since 2020, Ivan Yankovsky has been in a relationship with actress Diana Pozharskaya. On June 26, 2021, in Moscow, their son was born, who was named after Ivan’s famous grandfather—the Russian actor

Career

Ivan Yankovsky made his cinematic debut at the age of 10 in the film '' Come Look at Me'' (2001). His first major success and public recognition came after his role as Andrei Kalyaev in the film ''Indigo'' (2008), which tells the story of people with superpowers. Yankovsky's character, in particular, possesses the ability to anticipate danger and foresee events. He starred in the film '' Rag Union'' (2015), directed by Mikhail Mestetskiy. According to Yankovsky, he closely related to the character he portrayed on screen: "This character is not frivolous - he is ideological, he gathers and leads everyone. But when he realizes that none of it makes sense and that it would be better to go to university, he decides: 'Let's cancel everything.' This self-doubt and soul-searching, which are inherent to him, are also familiar to me." In 2015, he won the "Best Actor" award (alongside Vasily Butkevitch, Aleksandr Pal, and Pavel Chinarev) for ''Rag Union'' at the XXVI Open Russian Film Festival "

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awards. Yankovsky continued to expand his filmography with a variety of genres. He starred in ''

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'' (2018), a dramatic thriller directed by Yuri Bykov, and played a leading role in ''

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'' (2019), a psychological drama based on the novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky. In 2019, he appeared in the historical drama ''

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'', portraying Decembrist leader

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. He later reprised this role in the 2022 series Union of Salvation: Time of Wrath, which explored the events leading up to the Decembrist revolt. Yankovsky played a significant role in '' Champion of the World'' (2021), portraying chess grandmaster

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in a film about his 1978 World Chess Championship match against Viktor Korchnoi. His performance earned him the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor. In 2023, he starred in the crime drama ''Fisher'', based on the real-life case of Soviet serial killer Sergey Golovkin. His portrayal of detective Yevgeny Bokov earned him critical recognition, and he won the Zvezda Teatrala award for Best Theatrical Actor in Cinema. In early 2024, the same role earned him another Golden Eagle Award. He also took on the lead role in ''Playlist of a Volunteer'', where he played a disillusioned man undergoing a personal transformation. Additionally, he starred as Rodion Raskolnikov in a television adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s

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, though the series received mixed reviews. In late 2023, Yankovsky played a major role in the series '' The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt'', which focused on criminal gangs in post-Soviet Russia. The show gained significant attention and was compared to

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, a cult Russian crime series.

Selected filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yankovsky Ivan 1990 births Living people Russian people of Polish descent Russian male child actors Russian male film actors Russian male television actors Russian male stage actors 21st-century Russian male actors Male actors from Moscow