Oleg Tabakov

Oleg Tabakov
Born	Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (1935-08-17) 17 August 1935 (age 81) Saratov, USSR
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–present
Title	People's Artist of the USSR (1988)
Spouse(s)	Lyudmila Krylova (1960–1994) Marina Zudina (1994–present)
Awards	Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (1st class) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (2nd class) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (3rd class) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (4th class) Legion of Honour (Officier) Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana ( 3rd Class) Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Badge of Honour Order of Friendship of Peoples State Prize of the Russian Federation USSR State Prize
Website	http://www.tabakov.ru/

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков) (born 17 August 1935) is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

Tabakov studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Upon graduating from the school, he became one of the founding fathers of the Sovremennik Theatre. He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years. In 1986, Tabakov persuaded his students to form the Tabakov Studio attached to the Moscow Art Theatre. Several notable Russian actors, including Yevgeny Mironov, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrey Smolyakov and Alexandre Marine, studied at the studio. Tabakov also worked in numerous foreign countries, spreading his theatre's ideals abroad.

Tabakov's movie career paralleled the theatrical. He was featured in Grigori Chukhrai's Clear Skies (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (1966–67), TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring (1973) and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), the Academy Award-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980), Nikita Mikhalkov's Oblomov (1981) and Dark Eyes (1986), and the mock ostern A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (1987), among others.

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