Grigoriy Dobrygin has been called Russia's top acting export and the "Russian James Franco" for his versatility.
28 Facts About Grigoriy Dobrygin
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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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin's 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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin's 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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin's family lived in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd, where Dobrygin attended Sports school "Sputnik" and played football.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin left Moscow and enrolled at Zaoksky Adventist University in Tula.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin played competitive indoor football for the seminary and traveled to tournaments in the United Kingdom and Germany.
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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 said that although GITIS was strict, training with director Oleg Kudryashov was a turning point in his life.
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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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin won the Best Actor trophy at the 2010 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards for his performance.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin's first English-language movie was A Most Wanted Man, an adaption of a John le Carre novel.
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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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin co-starred with Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, in some of Hoffman's last scenes.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin co-starred with Jude Law in 2014's Black Sea, a submarine thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin told Interview magazine that he "semi-legally" toured both Ukrainian and Russian sites in the disputed territory.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin has a very western approach, more of a method about him, for want of a more nuanced word.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin wanted to inhabit the character, whereas the Russian way seems to be a lot more craft-based in its mentality.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin is starring in another John le Carre adaption, Our Kind of Traitor, alongside Ewan McGregor and Stellan Skarsgard, and in Grain from Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu.
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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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin was a producer for the film Beloved Sisters, the official German submission for the Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin made his directorial debut with the comedic short Treason, which was screened at the 2013 Kinotavr film festival.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin wrote and directed a short, Verpaskungen, which won two prizes at the 2014 Kinotavr.
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In 2016, Grigoriy Dobrygin directed a short, Mind the Gap, featuring his A Most Wanted Man co-star Willem Dafoe.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin has stated his intent to return to the dancing world through a film project.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin declined to appear in a love scene with Rachel McAdams in A Most Wanted Man that was not in the original script, but he stated that it was because it would have been extremely out of character for the role he was playing.
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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.
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Grigoriy Dobrygin was in a relationship with singer and Moscow Art Theatre School acting student Musia Totibadze, the daughter of Georgian painter Konstantin Totibadze.