Grigoriy Eduardovich Dobrygin (also trans. Grigory; Russian:
Ð"Ñ€Ð¸Ð³Ð¾Ì Ñ€Ð¸Ð¹ ÐÐ´ÑƒÐ°Ì Ñ€Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð"Ð¾Ð±Ñ€Ñ‹Ì Ð³Ð¸Ð½; born 17
February 1986) is a Russian film and theatre actor, director and
producer. A classically trained ballet dancer, Dobrygin had his
breakout role as the first Russian superhero in the 2009 film Black
Lightning. After starring in the critically acclaimed How I Ended This
Summer (2010), he made his Western debut in 2014 in A Most Wanted Man
and Black Sea. He has been called Russia's top acting export and the
"Russian James Franco" for his versatility.Dobrygin was born in
Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now
Kamchatka Krai, Russia) at the Rybachy Nuclear Submarine Base in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Kamchatka Peninsula is the Russian
Far East. His father was a Soviet Navy submarine captain and his
mother was a professional ballet dancer from Moscow, a combination
Dobrygin has called a "super-Soviet ideal" match.His family returned
to Moscow when he was 10 years old in order for him to study dance at
the world-renowned Moscow State Academy of Choreography in the Bolshoi
Theatre. His first onstage role for the Bolshoi was in The Nutcracker
at age 12. His family lived in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd, where
Dobrygin also attended Sports school "Sputnik" and played football.
Ð"Ñ€Ð¸Ð³Ð¾Ì Ñ€Ð¸Ð¹ ÐÐ´ÑƒÐ°Ì Ñ€Ð´Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð"Ð¾Ð±Ñ€Ñ‹Ì Ð³Ð¸Ð½; born 17
February 1986) is a Russian film and theatre actor, director and
producer. A classically trained ballet dancer, Dobrygin had his
breakout role as the first Russian superhero in the 2009 film Black
Lightning. After starring in the critically acclaimed How I Ended This
Summer (2010), he made his Western debut in 2014 in A Most Wanted Man
and Black Sea. He has been called Russia's top acting export and the
"Russian James Franco" for his versatility.Dobrygin was born in
Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now
Kamchatka Krai, Russia) at the Rybachy Nuclear Submarine Base in
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Kamchatka Peninsula is the Russian
Far East. His father was a Soviet Navy submarine captain and his
mother was a professional ballet dancer from Moscow, a combination
Dobrygin has called a "super-Soviet ideal" match.His family returned
to Moscow when he was 10 years old in order for him to study dance at
the world-renowned Moscow State Academy of Choreography in the Bolshoi
Theatre. His first onstage role for the Bolshoi was in The Nutcracker
at age 12. His family lived in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd, where
Dobrygin also attended Sports school "Sputnik" and played football.
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