Yevgeny Mironov (actor)

Yevgeny Mironov
Yevgeny Mironov in 2011.
Born	Yevgeny Vitalevich Mironov (1966-11-29) 29 November 1966 (age 50) Saratov, RSFSR, USSR
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1987–present
Awards	Nika Award - 1995, 2006, 2011 Golden Mask (2010, 2012) TEFI

Yevgeny Vitalevich Mironov (Russian: Евгений Витальевич Миронов; born 29 November 1966) is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation (1996), People's Artist of Russia (2004), State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate - 1995, 2010. Yevgeny Mironov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

Yevgeny Mironov was born in Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The family lived in a small military town then called Tatis. Yevgeny’s father was a professional chauffeur, his mother changed jobs – from saleswoman to a Christmas ornaments manufacturer. The Mironovs, avid amateur performers, were artistic and creative people in their everyday life.

Mironov as a child took acting classes, joined an amateur dance group and graduated from music school as an accordion player. He and his younger sister Oksana put on puppet shows for which they made their own puppets, wrote scripts and then performed in front of relatives. In school, Yevgeny put on and acted in plays and musicals, often of his own creation. Oksana Mironova, now a ballet dancer, studied at the Saratov School of Choreography and later at the St. Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy. After graduating, she was invited to join the State Academic Theater of Classical Ballet, where she danced for 10 years. At present, she is teaching in her own ballet studio associated with the Russian State Social University.

In 1982, Mironov left his school in Tatischevo-5 to enter the Saratov Slonov Theater School, one of the few such establishments that accepted 14-year-olds, which he graduated in 1986. Offered a job with the Saratov Children's Theater, he chose instead to continue to study acting at the prestigious Moscow Art Theater School-Studio under his famous Saratov compatriot, actor and director Oleg Tabakov.