Grigory Eduardowitsch Dobrygin

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Grigori Dobrygin (2010)

Grigori Eduardowitsch Dobrygin ( Russian Григо́рий Эдуардович Добры́гин ; born February 17, 1986 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ) is a Russian theater and film actor.

biography

Grigori Dobrygin was born in 1986 as the son of a ballerina in the Soviet Union. He grew up on the Kamchatka Peninsula until he was four , before his family moved to Moscow . At the insistence of his father, Dobrygin began ballet at an early age and, in addition to the school in Zelenograd, attended the State Academy for Choreography of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. At the age of twelve he played a role in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker . After eight years, Dobrygin gave up training at the Bolshoi Ballet School. He then enrolled in a Protestant seminary at the age of 17 and moved away from his parents. At the age of 19 Dobrygin switched to acting and, benefiting from his ballet training, was accepted at the renowned Moscow Theater School, where he studied with Konstantin Raikin . Dobrygin gave up acting training after a year, according to his own account due to his lack of discipline.

After dropping out of his acting training, Dobrygin enrolled in an acting course at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS) in Moscow. Oleg Kudriaschow became his mentor. Dobrygin appeared in several plays, including The Story of the Mammoth, based on a novel by Alexei Ivanov about post-Soviet school life. The actor first became known to a broad Russian audience through his feature film debut in Chornaya Molnija (2009; English title: Black Lightning ). In the action film, produced by Timur Bekmambetov , Dobrygin slipped into the lead role of the Moscow student Dima, who got possession of a flying car and soon became the protector of the city.

Dobrygin became known to an international audience through his participation in Alexei Popogrebski's psychological thriller How I Ended This Summer (2010). The film director discovered the drama student at the Moscow student theater festival Twoj Schans and then invited him to auditions and test recordings. Although Dobrygin was not one of the best actors according to the director, Popogrebski noticed a kinship between him and the character. Then Dobrygin was given the lead role of a young student who spends the summer together with an experienced but solitary meteorologist (played by the famous theater director and actor Sergei Witauto Puskepalis ) on a small research station in the Arctic Sea . In 2010, How I Ended This Summer received an invitation to the competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival , where German critics praised the chamber play-like film for its nature shots and the achievements of the two leading actors. Dobrygin and Puskepalis were then honored ex aequo with the Silver Bear for the best actor at the film festival. Both prevailed against such well-known actors as Casey Affleck ( The Killer Inside Me ), Ewan McGregor ( The Ghostwriter ) or Stellan Skarsgård ( A Man of the World ). In 2011 Dobrygin took on a supporting role in Achim von Borrie's war film 4 Days in May .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Interview at rg.ru, February 17, 2010 (Russian; accessed on February 22, 2010)
  2. ↑ cf. Review of the play at strastnoy.theatre.ru (Russian; accessed on February 22, 2010)
  3. ↑ cf. Interview with Alexei Popogrebski at proficinema.ru, February 21, 2010 (Russian; accessed on February 22, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Dobrygin, Grigory Eduardowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobrygin, Grigoriy; Добрыгин, Григорий Эдуардович (Russian spelling); Dobrygin, Grigorij (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , Soviet Union