Alexander Oleshko


Alexander Vladimirovich Oleshko is a Russian theater and film actor, TV presenter, singer, parodist. Honored Artist of Russia. Member of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.

Biography

He was born in 1976 in the capital of the Moldavian SSR Chisinau; mother Lyudmila Vladimirovna.
His years of childhood and adolescence were in Moldova. In 1991, aged 15, he moved to Moscow, where he entered the State College of Circus and Variety Art and graduated from it, receiving a red diploma with honors. In 1999 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. Since that year he has been in the troupe of the Moscow Satire Theatre. From 2000 to 2010, in the group of the Sovremennik Theatre. As a guest actor he plays in the plays of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater.
Teacher of acting at the State College of Circus and Variety Art.
Since the fall of 2009 until early 2017 he worked as a leading entertainer of a number of entertainment programs on Channel One Russia. In the summer of 2017, he moved to the NTV, since on the Channel One there were no suitable projects for him.