1. Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili was born on 26 September 1934 and is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.
17 Facts About Oleg Basilashvili
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Oleg Basilashvili was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1984.
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Oleg Basilashvili was born to a family of mixed Russian, Polish, and Georgian origin.
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Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili was born on 26 September 1934 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
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Oleg Basilashvili's father, named Valerian Basilashvili, was a director of the Moscow Polytechnical College.
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Oleg Basilashvili's mother, named Irina Ilyinskaya, was a teacher of linguistics.
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Oleg Basilashvili's father made up a humorous story that his grandfather had once arrested a dangerous criminal named Dzhugashvili, who was really Joseph Stalin.
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In 1956, Oleg Basilashvili graduated from the Acting School of the Moscow Art Theatre, where he had studied under Pavel Massalsky.
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Oleg Basilashvili's group had many actors who would achieve fame in the future: among his fellows were Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Mikhail Kozakov and Tatiana Doronina, his first wife.
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Since 1959 Oleg Basilashvili has been a permanent member of the troupe at the BDT in St Petersburg.
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Oleg Basilashvili shot to fame with his roles in films by director Eldar Ryazanov.
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Oleg Basilashvili plays a weak-willed man in his mid-life crisis, who is torn between two nice women, his wife and his mistress, and all three of them become entangled in the game of lies and personal demands, being at the same time strangled by the stagnant Soviet reality.
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Dreams, a wild comedy about Perestroika is especially remarkable: in it Oleg Basilashvili tried on several images, those of a noble count from the past, a pornographer and a rock star.
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In 2001, Oleg Basilashvili starred in Karen Shakhnazarov's comedy Poisons or the World History of Poisoning.
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Oleg Basilashvili was a strong proponent of returning the original name to the city of Saint Petersburg.
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Oleg Basilashvili quit politics after 2000, and focused on his acting career.
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Oleg Basilashvili condemned the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and signed a public letter condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in support of Ukraine.