1. One of the most acclaimed actors in Russia, Konstantin Khabensky has earned numerous awards, including two Nika Awards for The Admiral and The Geographer Drank His Globe Away.
38 Facts About Konstantin Khabensky
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Konstantin Khabensky has won three Golden Eagle Awards for Best Actor, three Kinotavr Awards and the Russian Guild of Film Critics Award.
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Konstantin Khabensky made his directorial debut in 2018 with the Holocaust drama Sobibor where he played the role of Alexander Pechersky.
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Konstantin Khabensky was born in Leningrad to Russian Jewish father Yuri Aronovich Konstantin Khabensky and Russian mother Tatiana Gennadievna Khabenskaya.
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In 1981, he together with his family moved to Nizhnevartovsk, where Konstantin Khabensky lived over the period of four years.
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Konstantin Khabensky tried many jobs including as a janitor, cleaner, street musician, and then was hired as a lighting technician at the theatre studio "Subbota" where he later performed for the first time.
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In 1990 Konstantin Khabensky entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, where his classmates were Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrei Zibrov and Mikhail Trukhin.
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In 1995, after graduating from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, Konstantin Khabensky worked at the Perekriostok Experimental Theater where he served for one year.
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Konstantin Khabensky moved to Moscow in 1996 to become a stage actor in Satyricon Theatre where he performed in background roles.
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Konstantin Khabensky worked there for only a few months and returned to the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre.
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Konstantin Khabensky received wide recognition among Russian television viewers after he was cast as investigator Igor Plakhov in the crime procedural comedy-drama series Deadly Force.
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Since 2003, Konstantin Khabensky has been a member of Moscow Art Theatre stage cast, and a lead actor in Alexander Vampilov's Duck Hunting, Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard and Hamlet.
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Konstantin Khabensky reunited with Meskhiev for the fifth time in Our Own, a World War II drama film where he played political commissar Livshitz.
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Konstantin Khabensky had a supporting role as Leon Trotsky in the miniseries Yesenin, which told the conspiracy version of the death of the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, played by Sergei Bezrukov.
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Also in 2005, Konstantin Khabensky appeared in the television series The Fall of the Empire and Female Novel.
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In 2007, Konstantin Khabensky played Kostya Lukashin opposite Elizaveta Boyarskaya in Timur Bekmambetov's romantic-comedy The Irony of Fate 2, sequel to 1976 Soviet classic The Irony of Fate.
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In 2008, Konstantin Khabensky reunited with Elizaveta Boyarskaya to film the 2008 biographical movie The Admiral by Andrei Kravchuk.
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Konstantin Khabensky portrayed Alexander Kolchak, vice-admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War.
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Konstantin Khabensky was recognized as best actor at the MTV Russia Movie Awards and Golden Eagle Awards.
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Konstantin Khabensky appeared in the 2009 mystical drama The Miracle by Aleksandr Proshkin.
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Konstantin Khabensky played alcoholic geography teacher Victor Sluzhkin in the 2013 adventure drama The Geographer Drank His Globe Away directed by Alexander Veledinsky.
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Konstantin Khabensky's acting received considerable praise in Russia and abroad.
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Konstantin Khabensky won the Best Actor prize at Kinotavr, Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards, Nika Awards and the Golden Eagle Awards.
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Konstantin Khabensky took singing classes to prepare for the shooting, and performed all the songs himself in the series.
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Konstantin Khabensky starred opposite Svetlana Khodchenkova in the 2014 movie The Adventurers about underwater diving treasure hunters.
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Konstantin Khabensky did scuba diving for many years, but during one scene his gas cylinder was not filled with air by crew members which caused the actor to almost drown.
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Also in 2014, Konstantin Khabensky appeared as officer of the Tsarist army in Yolki 1914.
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In 2015, Konstantin Khabensky was cast as police investigator Rodion Meglin who doubles as a vigilante in the crime drama series The Method directed by Yuri Bykov and produced by Sreda.
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Konstantin Khabensky appeared in the Austrian film Fly Away Home, based on the biographical novel of the same name by Christine Nostlinger.
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In 2017, Konstantin Khabensky played the role of fighter pilot Pavel Belyayev opposite Yevgeny Mironov in the historical drama film The Age of Pioneers about the first spacewalk, directed by Dmitriy Kiselev.
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Konstantin Khabensky took part in several American movies such as Wanted, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, World War Z and Black Sea.
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Konstantin Khabensky has admitted that the language barrier stopped him from taking on serious roles in Hollywood.
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Konstantin Khabensky was married to radio-journalist Anastasiya Khabenskaya from 12 January 2000, until her death at age 33 from a brain tumor on 3 December 2008.
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Konstantin Khabensky has one son by her, Ivan, who was born in Moscow on 25 September 2007.
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In 2013 Konstantin Khabensky married actress Olga Litvinova and on 3 June 2016, she gave birth to their daughter.
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Konstantin Khabensky avoids discussing his personal life and has said that he does not see the need to demonstrate it to the press.
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Since 2010, Konstantin Khabensky has been opening non-profit studios of creative development throughout Russia.
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Once a year Konstantin Khabensky conducts a festival with all participants of the studios under the name "Operenie".