Gregory Hlady

Gregory Hlady ( Ukrainian Григорій Степанович Гладій Hryhorij Stepanowytsch Hladij ; born December 4, 1954 in Khorostkiw , Ternopil Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian actor and theater director .

Victor Morozov , Gregory Hlady and the Telnyuk sisters at a concert in Toronto

Life

Gregory Hlady spent his school days in Lviv and then moved to Kiev . There he received acting lessons from 1976 at the Karpenko-Karyi Theater Institute . He sings (baritone and bass), dances, plays the guitar and can fencing. From 1980 to 1981 he was seen on the theater stage in Kiev in the role of Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac . From 1984 to 1987 he was trained at the Moscow Theatrical Institute in Moscow , where he received directing lessons from the Russian director Anatoli Wassiljew . In 1988, Hlady won Best Actor for The Renegade ( Otstupnik ) at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya . As an actor and director, he ran into difficulties with the Soviet authorities, so he left Kiev in 1989 and came to Tallinn , Estonia. In 1990 he played in the play Six People Looking for an Author by Luigi Pirandello in Montreal . There and in Brussels he appeared as Joseph K. in Franz Kafka's America . From 1990 to 1991 he played the role of Macduff in Shakespeare's Macbeth . For Harold Pinter's The Homecoming , Hlady received the 1992 Québec Critics' Prize for best theater direction. In Lausanne, Switzerland, he directed The Idiot by Dostoevsky director, in Montreal in Eugène Ionesco's Exit The King ( Le roi se meurt ) and Elektra by Sophocles . Hlady speaks different languages ​​and acts in English, French, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Italian and German. He has led acting classes in Canada, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Germany. In 2000 he played Salieri in Mozart and Salieri von Pushkin in the city of Rome in Vassiliev's theater group .

In the spy film The Palmer Files: The Red Death (1995), a novel adaptation by Len Deighton with Michael Caine and Jason Connery , Hlady can be seen in two scenes as a Russian policeman. In the spy thriller The Assignment (1997) by director Christian Duguay with Aidan Quinn and Donald Sutherland , he played a small role as a KGB employee. This was followed by a small supporting role as an employee of an auction house in the film drama The Red Violin (1998), which won an Oscar for original music by John Corigliano . In another supporting role, Hlady played a Russian translator in The Other Side of the Moon (2003) by and with Robert Lepage. In the film drama Manners of Dying (2004) he prepared the last meals in a medium-sized supporting role as cook for the death row inmate, played by Roy Dupuis .

Gregory Hlady lives since 1990 in Canadian Montreal . Sometimes he is also listed under the names Grigori Gladij or Grigorij Gladyij .

Filmography (selection)

• 1987: The Renegade ( Otstupnik )
• 1990: Leningrad, November ( Leningrad. Noyabr )
• 1994: On the train of passion ( Mouvements du désir )
• 1994: Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle ( Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle )
• 1995: The Palmer Files: The Red Death or Peking Express ( Bullet to Beijing )
• 1995: Kung Fu - The Legend Continues ( Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ) (result: cruise missiles )
• 1996: The ideal man ( L'Homme idéal )
• 1997: The Assignment - The contract ( The Assignment )
• 1997: Hysteria
• 1998: Nikita ( La Femme Nikita ) (episode 2.06: Lonely decision or mandatory refusal )
• 1998: The Red Violin ( The Red Violin )
• 1998: Alchemy of Love ( Quelque chose d'organique )
• 2002: The stop ( The Sum of All Fears )
• 2003: The other side of the moon ( La face cachée de la lune )
• 2004: Jack Paradise
• 2004: Manners of Dying
• 2006: Délivrez-moi

Web links

• Gregory Hlady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Roles on the side of his agent Hélène Mailloux (English)