Mark Aleksandrovich Eydelshteyn (, also spelled as Eidelstein; born 18 February 2002) is a Russian actor. After starring in the coming-of-age film '' The Land of Sasha'' (2022), he gained international recognition with his role in the American film ''

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'' (2024).

Early life and education

Mark Aleksandrovich Eydelshteyn was born on 18 February 2002 in

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

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and is of

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heritage. He has a younger brother, Matvey Eydelshteyn (

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: Матвей Эйдельштейн). His mother, Olesya Valeryevna Eydelshteyn, works as a teacher of stage speech (dialect) at the Nizhny Novgorod Theatre School named after

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev (; 9 October 1926 — 4 March 1992) was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in ...

. The young Eydelshteyn often skipped actual school to join his mother at theatre school. His father is Alexander Eidelstein, journalist and football promoter, worked in Moscow and Chukotka, later a civil servant. In 2018, Eydelshteyn passed the regional selection for the "Living Classics" competition for young readers and made it to the all-Russian final, held in

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. There, Eydelshteyn met the dean of the acting department of the

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Taras Belousov, who advised him to finish school as soon as possible and enter a theatre university — which he did, upon graduating from his mother's school in 2019, entering the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio. He graduated in 2023.

Career

He gained fame after playing the leading role in the drama '' The Land of Sasha'', which made its worldwide premiere in February 2022 at the

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. He has been dubbed by journalists as the "Russian

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". He is best known for starring in the

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and

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winning American film ''

'' (2024) by

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. In December 2024, Eydelshteyn was cast in the second season of the

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American

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television series ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith''. In March 2025, Eydelshteyn signed with American agency

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Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eydelshteyn, Mark 2002 births 21st-century Russian male actors Living people Moscow Art Theatre School alumni People from Nizhny Novgorod Jewish Russian actors Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors Russian male television actors