1. Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky was a Soviet and Russian actor who excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals.
10 Facts About Oleg Yankovsky
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Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky was born on 23 February 1944 in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR.
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Oleg Yankovsky's family was of noble Russian, Belarusian and Polish ancestry.
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Oleg Yankovsky has been better known abroad for his parts in Tarkovsky's movies Mirror and Nostalghia.
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Oleg Yankovsky continued to receive awards for his work with several Nika Awards from the Russian Film Academy for his directorial debut Come Look at Me and Valery Todorovsky's Lyubovnik.
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Oleg Yankovsky appeared as Count Pahlen in Poor Poor Paul and as Komarovsky in a TV adaptation of Doctor Zhivago, directed by Oleg Menshikov.
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The last film Oleg Yankovsky appeared in was Tsar, which was released in 2009 and demonstrated at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2009, just three days before his death.
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Oleg Yankovsky played the sophisticated role of Metropolitan Philip in his last film.
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On 20 May 2009, Oleg Yankovsky died from pancreatic cancer in Moscow, aged 65.
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Oleg Yankovsky's burial was held on 22 May 2009 at Novodevichy Cemetery in the presence of his close relatives only.