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Oleg was born in 1944 in Dzhezkazgan Kazakh SSR, where his family was exiled by order of the government. He is the youngest son of the former captain of the Life Guards Semenov regiment of the Polish nobleman. In the family, Jankowski Oleg was the third child: he had two brothers - Rostislav and Nicholas. Ivan Yankovsky, head of the family, in the thirties was arrested twice as a friend of the disgraced Tukhachevsky and the former Polish nobleman. Because of this family all the family archives, all the documents that are bound senior Jankowski, his wife and children with a past life had been destroyed. Children brought up by my mother and grandmother, and his father was engaged in the construction. The boy was fond of reading and football. For some time he is dreamed of becoming a pilot or military.

In 1951, the family moved to Saratov, where Ivan Jankowski was assigned as a reserve officer. There are injuries sustained even during the First World War, finally shattered the health of the head of the family, and in 1953 his father died.

In 1957, Rostislav, who worked in the theater of Leninabad, received an offer to move to Minsk and soon took to Oleg, who turned 14 years old. It did not attract Actor’s activities. The teen soon returned home and joined the Saratov Drama School. In the role of Tuzenbach graduation performance in "Three Sisters" Oleg Yankovsky was able to show off a promising and interesting actor.

Performing arts.

After graduating in 1965 from the Saratov Theater School, Oleg enrolled in the Saratov drama troupe. In the Saratov drama theatre, Oleg got with the help of his wife, who was an actress Lyudmila Zorina. The popular actress has insisted that Jankowski took to the theater, where she at the time worked. At first, Oleg got only a cameo role, but in 1971, the actor played a significant role - the Prince Myshkin from the play based on the novel "the Idiot". Two years later, having received an invitation from Mark Zakharov, the actor moved to Leningrad, where he began working in the theater of the Lenin Komsomol.

Combining film career and work in the theater, it is quickly becoming Yankovsky in "Lenkom" leading actor. All the work in the "Lenkom" the actor was only one role, which caused disapproval of the public. In 1986, playing Shakespeare's Hamlet, Jankowski has changed the usual way and by making, his hero is not romantic, and mature enough cruel man. And though the play was staged perfectly, just a few months, the theater management was forced to remove it from the repertoire.

In the future, the actor still brilliant played about ten roles in "Lenkom". There Oleg Ivanovich worked until the last days of life.

The career of actor.

Jankowski never went on auditions and starred in the crowd scene. In 1967, when actor Saratov drama theatre toured and performed in the city of Lviv in the restaurant, at the theater he was noticed by Vladimir Basov, the Director then filmed a four-part film "Shield and sword". At that time, the crew was in the search for an actor who could embody one of the central images, however, among the contenders did not find a suitable person looks. Oleg Yankovsky, who had sculpted and manly facial features perfectly fit the role. "Shield and Sword" has become a cult film about the war, it looked more than sixty-eight million viewers, and Oleg Yankovsky instantly got all-union reputation. The next film, which starred actor, only secured the success. Together with Roland Bykov, at that time already a favorite of millions of viewers, Jankowski played in the film "Two Comrades Were Serving". Also in one of the supporting roles, he starred Rostislav Yankovsky.

In 1969, the actor played the main character in the movie "I, Francis Skorina". Then there was a major, and communicating roles in a variety of well-known films such as "Premium" on the play by Alexander Gelman, where he played with Yevgeny Leonov, "My Sweet and Tender Beast" in the film "Long, long deal," where Jankowski played investigator Vorontsov and the Decembrists in Ryleeva Vladimir Motyl film "The captivating Star of happiness" polar "72 degrees below zero" and special correspondent metropolitan newspaper "Wait for me, Anna."

In 1972, Oleg Yankovsky played in the film "Racers" Igor Maslennikov. The film was shot as advertising an export version of the car "Moskvich-412". In 1978 he published a tale "Ordinary Miracle", where Jankowski played the role of the Master. This film was shot by Mark Zakharov, before that almost no film industry. The project was risky, but in the end won the belt a runaway success.

In 1979, Mark Zakharov started filming the TV movie "The Very Same Munchhausen", which is based the play Grigory Gorin "The most truthful", originally written for the theater of the Soviet Army. The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the Baron Munchausen stories, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane. Munchhausen is portrayed as a multi-dimensional, colourful, non-conformist man living in a grey, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy his personality. This role is played by an actor was one of the best.

For his role in Roman Balayan's Flights in Dreams and Reality (1984) Yankovsky was awarded the USSR State Prize. He has been better known abroad for his parts in Tarkovsky's movies The Mirror (as the father) and Nostalghia (in the main role).

In the early 1990’s Oleg Yankovsky also played quite different roles in Georgi Daneliya’s tragic comedy «The Passport» (1990) and in Karen Shakhnazarov’s historical and psychological drama «The Assassin of the Tsar» (Tsareubiytsa) (1991). In 1991 he was the President of the Jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.

Starting in 1993, Yankovsky ran the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi. He continued to receive awards for his work with several Nika Awards from the Russian Film Academy for his directorial debut «Come Look At Me» (2001) and Valery Todorovsky's Lyubovnik (2002). He appeared as Count Pahlen in «Poor Poor Paul» (2004) and as Komarovsky in a TV adaptation of «Doctor Zhivago» (2006), directed by Oleg Menshikov.

The last film Yankovsky appeared in was «Tsar», which was released in 2009 and demonstrated at the Cannes Film Festival on the 17 of May 2009, just three days before his death. Yankovsky played the sophisticated role of Metropolitan Philip in his last film. In the center - a conflict between Ivan the Terrible and the abbot of the monastery of the Solovetsky Philip, a childhood friend of the king caused by Ivan the Terrible in Moscow and raised to the rank of Metropolitan. Philip agrees to become Metropolitan hoping to stop the oprichnina and convince the king to follow the Christian virtues.

Oleg Yankovsky is a great actor who has played many prominent roles. He was appreciated and respected colleagues, loved by the audience. Movies in which he played will forever leave a mark in the history of cinema.

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