Gregory Hlady

Gregory Hlady (Russian Григорий Гладий, scientific transliteration Grigorii Gladij; born December 4, 1954 in Chorostkiw, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine; actually Hladij Hryhorij ) is a Ukrainian actor and theater director.

Life and work

Gregory Hlady was born in Chorostkiw, in the district of Ternopil, which was formerly in the Soviet Union and now part of the Ukraine. After school, he moved from Lviv to Kiev. There he received in 1976 in the Karpenko - Karyi Theater Institute acting lessons. He sings ( baritone and bass), dances, plays the guitar and can fencing. In the theater, he was seen from 1980 to 1981 in Kiev in the role of Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac. From 1984 to 1987, he was trained in Moscow at the Moscow Theatrical Institute, where he received lessons from director Anatoly Vasiliev Russian director. Hlady 1988 won Best Actor for The Renegade ( Otstupnik ) at Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya. As an actor and director, he was having trouble with the Russian authorities, which is why he left Kiev in 1989 and came to Tallinn in Estonia. In 1990, he played in the play Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello in Montreal. There and in Brussels he appeared as Joseph K. in Franz Kafka in 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 Quebec Critics Award for Best Theatre Direction. In Lausanne, Switzerland, he directed The Idiot by Dostoevsky Director, in Montreal in Eugène Ionesco's Exit The King (Le roi se dies ) and Electra by Sophocles. Hlady speaks different languages ​​and 's acting in English, French, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Italian and German. He directed drama classes in Canada, Austria, Belgium, Italy and Germany. In 2000, he played in Vassiliev's theater group to Salieri in Mozart and Salieri of Pushkin in the city of Rome.

In the spy film The Palmer Files: The Red Death ( 1995), a novel adaptation of Len Deighton with Michael Caine and Jason Connery, Hlady can be seen in two scenes as a Russian policeman. In the espionage thriller The Assignment - The Assignment (1997), directed by Christian Duguay with Aidan Quinn and Donald Sutherland he placed in a small role a KGB employee dar. There follow a small supporting role as an employee of an auction house in the film drama The Red Violin (1998 ) which was awarded for the original music of John Corigliano 's Oscar. In another supporting role Hlady played a Russian translator in the other side of the moon (2003) directed by and starring Robert Lepage. In the film drama Manners of Dying (2004) he prepared in a medium-sized supporting role as cooking a condemned man, played by Roy Dupuis, the last meals.

Gregory Hlady lives in Montreal, Canada since 1990. Sometimes he is also listed under the name Grigori or Grigory Gladij Gladyij.

Filmography (selection)

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