- Born
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- Birth nameYuriy Konstantinovich Stepanov
- Yuri Stepanov was a popular Russian actor of film and theatre.
He was born Yuri Konstantinovich Stepanov on June 7, 1967, in the
village of Rysyevo, Irkutsk province, Russia. His father, Konstantin
Stepanov, was director of a Soviet collective farm in Siberia. His
mother was a schoolteacher. Young Yuri Stepanov grew up in rural
Siberia. There he enjoyed fishing and hunting with his father. As a
schoolboy, he caught the acting bug and joined amateur theatre in his
community. From 1984 - 1988 he studied at the Irkutsk Theatrical School
under Nadezda Arno and
Valentina Dulova. There he was spotted
by an agent and was invited to Moscow. From 1988 - 1992 he studied
acting at State Institute of Theatrical Arts (GITIS) under Petr
Fomenko, graduating in 1992.
Yuri Stepanov had a successful stage career with the company of Petr
Fomenko in Moscow. He made memorable appearances in classical plays,
most notably as flamboyant crook Chichikov in the "Dead Souls" by
Nikolay Gogol and as Benjamin in "The
Sound and the Fury" by
William Faulkner, for which he
was awarded the Prize of Moscow Theatrical Festival in 1993. Later he
went on to play in Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" and in the
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" among other plays.
In 1991, Yuri Stepanov made his film debut in
Alexander Pushkin's "Povesti Belkina."
Then he went on to work with the best filmmakers in Russia, such as
Danelia, Abdrashitov, German and Dostal. Stepanov made a solid
performance in _Vremya tantsora (1998)_ by director Vadim Abdrashitov
and later earned wide recognition as Glymov in the popular series
Shtrafbat (2004) by director
Nikolai Dostal.
Yuri Stepanov was married to Irina Stepanova, a costume designer. The
couple had two sons and were expecting their third child; at the time
of Stepanov's tragic death, his wife was 8 month pregnant. Yuri
Stepanov died after a traffic accident on March 3, 2010, in Moscow, and
was laid to rest next to his fellow actors, Vladislav Galkin, Aleksandr
Dedyushko and Igor Starygin, in Troekurovskoe cemetery in Moscow,
Russia. His tragic death caused a considerable mourning in Russia.
Director Nikolai Dostal said that he lost a good friend and Russia lost
a great actor.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov
- SpouseIrina Sorokina(? - March 3, 2010) (his death, 3 children)
- 1984 - 1988: studied acting at Irkutsk Theatrical School under N. Arno and Valentina Dulova.
- 1988 - 1992: studied at GITIS under Pyotr Fomenko.
- He and his wife, Russian costume designer Irina Sorokina, now a widow, have three sons. The older two are Konstantin and Dmitriy, who were both born in the 2000s. Irina was in her eighth month of pregnancy when Yuriy died in an automobile accident on March 3, 2010. Just under four weeks later, on March 30, 2010, she gave birth to their third son, Yuriy, who she named in honor of his late father.
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