page_title: Sergey Bezrukov
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Sergey Bezrukov / Biography / Career
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Сергей Безруков читает стихи Есенина и Высоцкого в Национальном центре управления обороной РФ
context_page_description: Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov is a Russian screen and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio. He is a member of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia.
context_section_description: Sergei Bezrukov made his cinematic debut in Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle.
  From 1995 until 2000, he worked on the satirical program Puppets which aired on the NTV channel. Puppets were used on the show to represent famous people, mainly politicians. He voiced twelve characters on the show, among them such famous personalities as Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Bezrukov gained more exposure as an actor with the show.
  In 2002 Bezrukov gained his big break; he got the role of gang leader Sasha Belov in the popular crime TV show Brigada. After the series aired Sergei Bezrukov became a household name in Russia. In the same year Bezrukov played Ivan Brilling in the historical detective miniseries Azazel, based on The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin.
  Other roles followed, such as Irakliy in The Irony of Fate 2, Kappel in Admiral, Sumarokov in High Security Vacation, and Rzhevskiy  in The Ballad of Uhlans.
  In 2005 Bezrukov fulfilled his childhood dream, when he portrayed the poet Sergei Yesenin, after whom he was named, in the 2005 miniseries Yesenin. It was based on the novel Yesenin. Story of a Murder written by his father, Vitaly, who also portrayed Yesenin in a 1969 film, titled Anna Snegina.
  Another notable role was Yeshua Ha-Nozri in the 2005 series The Master and Margarita.
  He voiced the title character of Prince Vladimir animated film. He is also known for his theatre role of Chichikov in Dead Souls (which won the Moskovskij Komsomolets' award). In 2006, he portrayed Alexander Pushkin, revered as the Russian language's greatest poet, in Pushkin: The Last Duel.
  Sergei portrayed the popular Soviet singer Vladimir Vysotsky in the 2011 film Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive. CGI and heavy makeup was used to make the actor look like Vysotsky. Bezrukov was not credited for his role and it was only later revealed that he was the actor.
  In 2017, Sergei acted in the film After You're Gone, directed by his wife Anna Matison. The comedy-drama told the story of a ballet dancer who suffered a spinal injury and decides to stage an original ballet performance.
  According to the survey of ROMIR Monitoring, in Russia he was called the favorite actor of 2005.
  In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.
caption: Sergei Bezrukov reads poetry at the National Control Center of Defense, June 2015
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