Leonid Yarmolnik

Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik (; born 22 January 1954) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.

Biography Yarmolnik was born on 22 January 1954 in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, where his father, Isaac Yarmolnik, a Soviet Army officer, was stationed. His mother, Faina Ivanovna Yarmolnik (1935), worked as a laboratory assistant in a polyclinic. In 1960, Yarmolnik's family relocated to Lviv. Leonid studied at the local music school and was involved in plays at the Lviv Folk Theater. In 1972, he became a student at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated from the acting class of Yury Katin-Yartsev, a famous Russian actor and acclaimed pedagogue of the Vakhtangov Theater Arts School, in 1976. From 1976 to 1984, he was an actor at the Taganka Theatre. Yarmolnik started his own studio, L-Club, specializing in film distribution, and anchored a TV program with the same name. Until 2012, he was a member of the jury on the popular KVN game show. He was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 for the role of Zhora in The Barracks. From 2 March to 8 June 2014, he was a member of the jury of the music show ‘Toch-v-Toch’.

Personal life

Leonid Yarmolnik is married to Oksana Afanasieva and they have one daughter together. Oksana Afanasieva is a former girlfriend of Soviet singer songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky.

Yarmolnik is Jewish.

Selected filmography

As an actor 1979 — The Very Same Munchhausen (Тот самый Мюнхгаузен) as Theophil von Münchhausen 1983 — Look for a Woman (Ищите женщину) as policeman Maximan 1984 — Copper Angel (Медный ангел) as Maurice Barro 1984 — TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...) as Grechaev 1987 — A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов) as one-eyed cowboy Martin 1988 — Yolki-palki (Ёлки-палки!) as Grigory Kaigorodov 1989 — Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (Частный детектив, или Операция «Кооперация») as Airliner hijacker 1989 — Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective (Две стрелы. Детектив каменного века) as Long-nosed 1990 — Passport (Паспорт) as Borya's Israeli friend 1991 — Odyssey of Captain Blood (Одиссея капитана Блада) as Levasseur 1995 — Moscow Vacation as Grisha 1995 — Heads and Tails as Gosha 1998 — Crossroads as Oleg 'Alik' Sevastyanov 2004 — My Step Brother Frankenstein as Yulik 2005 — The Case of "Dead Souls" as Plyushkin (TV) 2006 — Moscow Mission (Обратный отсчёт) as Krot 2010 — Love in the Big City 2 (Любовь в большом городе 2) as father of Igor 2011 — Cars 2 as Miles Axlerod (Russian version) 2013 — Hard to Be a God (Трудно быть богом) as Don Rumata 2016 — (Ночные стражи) as major Gamayun, head of the secret police Department 2023 — The Master and Margarita as Dr. Stravinsky

As a film producer Ku! Kin-dza-dza (2013)

Game Show

Fort Boyard Russian Game Show Russian Edition 2003