13 Facts About Ivan Okhlobystin

Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin is a Russian actor, director, screenwriter, and former Orthodox priest.

Ivan Okhlobystin was defrocked by the Russian Orthodox Church and barred from performing priestly rites because of the roles he played in movies deemed "unworthy of the priestly dignity".

Ivan Okhlobystin is the creative director of the company Baon.

Okhlobystin was born on 22 July 1966 in the recreation center "Polenovo", where his father, Ivan Ivanovich Okhlobystin, was a military doctor, and a participant in World War II.

Ivan Okhlobystin was then 62 years old, and worked as the head physician at Polenovo.

Ivan Okhlobystin's mother remarried to Anatoly Stavitsky, and Ivan had a half-brother Stanislav Stavitsky.

Subsequently, Ivan Okhlobystin continued the friendship and cooperation which began at the institute with many of them.

Work in the cinema continued in 2000 with the cult film Demobbed, the script to which Ivan Okhlobystin wrote in co-authorship with the film's director Kachanov; the plot of the film was partly based on Ivan Okhlobystin's own memories of service in the army.

Ivan Okhlobystin became popular in the late 1990s but, following a religious conversion, withdrew to a monastery and became a Russian Orthodox priest.

Ivan Okhlobystin said he was banned entry to Ukraine but considered Donetsk to be part of Novorussia.

Ivan Okhlobystin is banned from entering Latvia and Estonia, and all films and TV series which feature him are banned in Ukraine.

In June 2024 Ivan Okhlobystin was sanctioned by the European Union.

Ivan Okhlobystin has been married since 1995 to actress Oksana Okhlobystina and has six children.