Fyodor Bondarchuk

Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Born	Fedor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (1967-05-09) May 9, 1967 (age 49) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Film director, actor, producer, clipmaker, TV host, creator.
Years active	1986–present
Notable work	The 9th Company, Down House, The Inhabited Island

Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (Russian: Фёдор Серге́евич Бондарчу́к [fʲɵdər sʲɪrgʲeɪvʲɪtɕ bəndɐˈrtɕuk]; born May 9, 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host. He is a founder of a production company Art Pictures Studio, creator of acclaimed film The 9th Company, which became the most profitable Russian film at the box office of 2005, the film won 7 film awards and was 8-time nominated. Also Fedor Bondarchuk is producer of the 2006 film Heat, where he starred as himself with his mother Irina Skobtseva. Fedor directed a two-part science fiction film The Inhabited Island based on a novel by Strugatskies. Bondarchuk is a winner of TEFI award in 2003 (Tefi is the Russian equivalent of Emmy award) in nomination “The best host of the entertainment TV-show”. He is a winner of Golden Eagle Award in 2012 as the Best Actor.

On October 15, 2012 he was appointed as Chairman of Lenfilm's Board of directors.

Fedor was born in Moscow in a family of actress Irina Skobtseva and internationally acclaimed film actor and an Academy Award-winning director Sergei Bondarchuk. He was no stranger to the world of cinema since his early childhood. In 1985 when the school was over Fedor became a student of Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). In 1991 he graduated from the class of Yuri Ozerov as a film director. His actor debut was in 1986 in the film Boris Godunov (1986) where he was acting with his father.