Vladimir Mashkov

Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov (; born 27 November 1963) is a Russian actor and theater director of cinema. He is known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines and the 2011 film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Mashkov has also worked as a film director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film Papa.

According to his daughter Maria "Masha" Mashkova, who is close to her mother, and they both reside in the United States, her father Vladimir Mashkov is a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin and an ardent pro-Russia, pro-Putin, pro-Kremlin propagandist who firmly supports Russia during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Biography Early life and education Mashkov was born on 27 November 1963, in Tula, Russia, and raised in Novokuznetsk. His mother, Natalia (1927–1986), was a puppet theatre director, and his father, Lev Mashkov (1925–1987), was an actor. In 1990, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School, studied at the course of Oleg Tabakov.

Career In 1989–1990, he was an actor of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov.

Other activities In 2011, at a festival of children's amateur doll theaters, named "Doll in Children's Hands" in Novokuznetsk, Siberia, Mashkov announced the establishment of the "Golden Lion" prize, named after Natalya Nikiforova (his mother). Prizes are given to those nominated Best Actor and Best Actress. The first award went to theater actress Galina Romanova, named an Honored Artist of Russia.

Politics He is a member of the party United Russia, and was a delegate at the XXII Congress of the Party. He was a co-chairman of Putin's election headquarters during the 2024 presidential election.

In February 2022, he expressed support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in an Instagram post on his official page. On 18 March 2022, Mashkov spoke at Vladimir Putin's Moscow rally commemorating the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and supporting the Russian invasion.

In July 2022, the European Union imposed sanctions on Vladimir Mashkov in relation to the invasion. In 2024, a Ukrainian court sentenced Mashkov in absentia to ten years in prison for war propaganda and for encouraging the violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Authorities also confiscated his apartment in Odesa. Rockstar Games have not commented on Mashkov's claims.

Personal life Mashkov has been married four times and has one daughter, Maria, In 2022, his daughter disowned him due to his support for the invasion of Ukraine. Mashkov, in turn, called his daughter a traitor.

In 2016, Forbes ranked him as one of the wealthiest Russian celebrities.

Awards 1994 San Raphael Russian Cinema Festival: Blue Sail Award for Limita (1994) 1994 Sochi Open Russian Film Festival: Best Actor Award for Limita (1994) 1995 Geneva Film Festival: International Jury Prize for Limita (1994) 1995 Geneva Film Festival: Youth Jury Award for Limita (1994) 1997 Open CIS and Baltic Film Festival: Best Actor Award for The Thief (1997) 1997 Sozvezdie: Best Actor Award for The Thief (1997) 1998 Nika Awards: Best Actor Award for The Thief (1997) 2001 23rd Moscow International Film Festival: Silver St. George Best Actor Award for The Quickie (2001) 2004 26th Moscow International Film Festival: Audience Award for Papa (2004) (shared with Ilya Rubinstein) 2025 47th Moscow International Film Festival: Stanislavsky Award

Filmography Film

Zelyonyy ogon' kozy (The Goat's Green Fire) (1989) Ha-bi-assy (1990) Do It – One! (1990) Lyubov na ostrove smerti (Love at the Death Island) (1991) Alyaska, ser! (Alaska, Sir!) (1992) Me Ivan, You Abraham (1993) .... Aaron Limita (1994) .... Ivan Katya Ismailova (1994) .... Sergey Amerikanskaya doch (American Daughter) (1995) .... Alexei Koroli i kapusta (Cabbages and Kings) (1996) (voice) Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1997) (voice) .... Devil The Thief (1997) ... Tolyan (Sympathy Seeker) (1997) .... Stall holder (Composition for Victory Day) (1998) (Two Moons, Three Suns) (1998) .... Alexei Mama (Mommy) (1999) .... Nikolai Yuryev Russkiy bunt (The Captain's Daughter) (2000) .... Yemelyan Pugachyov Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) .... Sacha 15 Minutes (2001) .... Milos Karlova An American Rhapsody (2001) .... Frank The Quickie (2001) .... Oleg Behind Enemy Lines (2001) .... Sasha Tycoon (2002) .... Platon Daddy (2004) .... Abraham Schwartz The State Counsellor (2005) .... Kozyr Piranha (2006) .... Mazur Piter FM (2006) The Ghost (2008) ... The Ghost (Domovoy) Kandahar (2010) ... Sergei The Edge (2010) ... Ignat Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) ... Anatoly Sidorov Raspoutine (2011) .... Nicholas II Pepel (Ashes) (2013) .... Igor Anatolievich Pietrov, former captain of the Red Army The Duelist (2016) .... Graf Beklemishev Flight Crew (2016) Going Vertical (2017) Hero (2019) .... Oleg Rodin Who's There? (2022) .... Pavel The Challenge (2023) .... Constructor Konstantin Volin His Name Was Not Listed (2025) .... Sergeant Major Stepan Matveyevich

Television Casus Improvisus (1991) (1996) The Idiot (2003) .... Parfyon Rogozhin Alias (2005) .... Milo Kradic Liquidation (2007) .... David Markovich Gotsman Grigoriy R. (2014) .... Grigori Rasputin Rodina (2015) .... Naval Infantry colonel Alexey Bragin Raid (2017) .... Police officer Oleg Kaplan

Theatre

My Big Land Biloxi Blues The Inspector General Don Juan

Director

Film Sirota kazanskaya (Sympathy Seeker) (1997) Papa (Daddy and Father) (2004)

Theatre A Star Hour By Local Time Passions for Bumbarash The Death-Defying Act The Threepenny Opera

Writer Papa (Daddy and Father) (2004)

Producer Papa (Daddy and Father) (2004)