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Yura Borisov
Юра Борисов
Borisov at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Yuri Alexandrovich Borisov (1992-12-08) 8 December 1992 (age 32) Reutov, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Nationality	Russian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2010–present
Spouse	Anna Borisova
Children	2

Yuri Alexandrovich "Yura" Borisov (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов, romanized: Yuriy Aleksandrovich Borisov, born 8 December 1992) is a Russian actor. He made his acting film debut in the crime drama Elena (2011). He portrayed Mikhail Kalashnikov in AK-47 (2020). He has also starred in films such as The Bull (2019), The Silver Skates (2020), Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021), and Compartment No. 6 (2021). For his performance in Anora (2024), he received nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, SAG Awards, BAFTAs and Academy Awards.

Early life

Borisov was born in Reutov, Moscow Oblast, near Moscow. In 2013 he graduated from the Shchepkin Higher Theater School, and won the Golden Leaf award in the Best Actor category for the role of Alexander Tarasovich Ametistov in the play Zoyka's Apartment.

Acting career

Borisov started working as a film actor in 2010, and played main roles in various television series. In 2013–14 he worked at the Moscow theater "Satyricon".

In 2019, he starred in the film The Bull, for which he was nominated for the 18th Golden Eagle Awards 2020 in the category Best Leading Actor, and also received an award "Event of the Year" from the magazine "Kinoreporter" in the category "Discovery of the Year". He also played minor roles in the films T-34, Union of Salvation, and Invasion.

In February 2020, the film AK-47 was released, in which Borisov played the main role – Mikhail Kalashnikov, and received positive reviews from film critics. For this role he was awarded the Golden Eagle Award – 2021 for Best Leading Actor. He was the winner of the Golden Eagle Award in 2021. GQ Russia chose him as Actor of the Year in 2020.

He appeared in 8 feature films released in 2021, including the Netflix original film Silver Skates. In 2021 Borisov played the lead role in Juho Kuosmanen's Finnish-Russian film Compartment No. 6, which won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2024, Borisov voiced Behemoth the Cat in The Master and Margarita, and played Igor in the Palme d'Or winning film Anora, directed by Sean Baker. For his performance in the film, he received nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actor, as well as ensemble nominations from both Critics' Choice and SAG. With his Oscar nomination, Borisov became the first Russian to be nominated in the acting categories in over four decades, following Mikhail Baryshnikov's nomination in the same category in 1977.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

See also

• List of actors with Academy Award nominations
• List of Russian Academy Award winners and nominees

Notes

1. shared with Kieran Culkin
2. shared with Kieran Culkin

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External links

• Yura Borisov at IMDb
• Yuri Borisov on kino-teatr.ru

• 1992 births
• Living people
• People from Reutov
• Male actors from Moscow
• Russian male film actors
• Russian male television actors
• Russian male stage actors
• 21st-century Russian male actors