16 Facts About Grigoriy Dobrygin

Grigoriy Dobrygin was born in Vilyuchinsk, Kamchatka Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union at the Rybachy Nuclear Submarine Base in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the Kamchatka Peninsula is the Russian Far East.

Grigoriy Dobrygin'sfather 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.

Grigoriy Dobrygin'sfamily 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.

Grigoriy Dobrygin'sfamily lived in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd, where Dobrygin attended Sports school "Sputnik" and played football.

Grigoriy Dobrygin has called his first year at GITIS "the worst in my life, " when he lived in fear of being expelled.

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Grigoriy Dobrygin earned worldwide recognition after director Alexei Popogrebsky spotted him at a theatre performance and ended up casting him in How I Ended This Summer .

Grigoriy Dobrygin won the Best Actor trophy at the 2010 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards for his performance.

Grigoriy Dobrygin's first English-language movie was A Most Wanted Man, an adaption of a John le Carre novel.

Grigoriy Dobrygin portrayed Issa Karpov, a half-Russian, half-Chechen Muslim who flees to Hamburg, where he is targeted as a terrorist by the CIA and German secret service.

Grigoriy Dobrygin co-starred with Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, in some of Hoffman's last scenes.

Grigoriy Dobrygin will portray Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich in an upcoming Russian biopic from director Alexei Uchitel about the life of ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, the mistress to three Grand Dukes.

Grigoriy Dobrygin was a producer for the film Beloved Sisters, the official German submission for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film.

In 2016, Grigoriy Dobrygin directed a short, Mind the Gap, featuring his A Most Wanted Man co-star Willem Dafoe.

Grigoriy Dobrygin has stated his intent to return to the dancing world through a film project.

Grigoriy Dobrygin said his parents are extremely devout and do not watch television or films, although he brought his father, a former submarine captain, to the Moscow premiere of Black Sea.

Grigoriy Dobrygin is in a relationship with singer and Moscow Art Theatre School acting student Musia Totibadze, the daughter of Georgian painter Konstantin Totibadze.