Oleksiy Gorbunov


Oleksiy Serhiyovych Horbunov is Ukrainian and a Soviet film, television and stage actor. He has been named an Honored Artist of Ukraine and a People's Artist of Ukraine.

Life and career

Oleksiy Gorbunov was born on October 29, 1961, in Kiev. He spent his childhood in Rusanivka neighbourhood in Kiev.
In 1978, immediately after graduating from high school he could not go to Kiev Theatrical Institute because he was not a member of the Komsomol. In the years 1978 and 1979 he worked in the dressing room of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In the theater, thanks to Ada Rogovtseva, he met with her husband, actor and his mentor Konstantin Stepankov.
In 1984 he graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Gorbunov began acting his first film, Unlabeled Cargo on the day he received his diploma.
From 1984 to 1995 he worked for Oleksandr Dovzhenko. In the spring of 1985 to April 20, 1987, he served in the Soviet Army.
In the 1990s Gorbunov worked as a private taxi driver because of the crisis at the Dovzhenko Film Studio. Director Vladimir Popkov helped him get back into cinema by inviting him for the role of Jester Chicot in the movie Countess de Monsoreau.
Gorbunov worked in the Theater Studio of Film Actor, in the private Chamber Theatre M. Nestantiner and Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. He starred in Ukrainian TV series Night Service and Wonder People.
Gorbunov is a soloist of "Sadness Pilot" and worked as a DJ on the Kiev radio stations "Continent" and "Nostalgia". He is also an organizer and presenter of two discos in Kiev: "Dzhankoi" and "Jumanji".

Selected filmography