Grigoriy Dobrygin
Grigori Eduardovich Dobrygin (Russian Григорий Эдуардович Добрыгин; 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. Up to the age of four, he grew up on the Kamchatka Peninsula, before his family moved to Moscow. At the urging of his father Dobrygin started early with the ballet and visited next to the school in Zelenograd the State Academy of Choreography of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. At twelve, he held a role in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. After eight years Dobrygin was but the training at the school of the Bolshoi ballet. He wrote to then at the age of 17 years for a Protestant seminary, and moved away from his parents. With 19 years Dobrygin moved to acting and found, favored by his ballet training, recording at the renowned Moscow Theatre School, where he studied with Konstantin Raikin. The drama training was Dobrygin after just one year on, by his own admission due to his lack of discipline.
After canceling his acting training to Dobrygin wrote an for an acting course at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts ( GITIS ) in Moscow. His mentor was Oleg Kudriaschow. Dobrygin appeared in several plays, including The Story of the mammoth on a novel by Alexei Ivanov about the post-Soviet school life. However, a broad Russian audience was the actor only through his feature film debut in Chernaya Molniya (2009, English-language title: Black Lightning ) is known. In the action film, produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Dobrygin slipped into the starring role of the Moscow students Dima who comes into possession of a flying car and soon become the protector of the city.
An international audience was known for his roles in Dobrygin Alexei Popogrebskis psychological thriller How I Ended This Summer (2010). The film director had discovered the drama students at the Moscow student theater festival Twoj Schans and then invited him to audition and screen test. Although Dobrygin not counted, according to the director of the best actors Popogrebsky noticed a congeniality between him and the figure. Then Dobrygin received the lead role of a young student, of the summer together with an experienced but maverick meteorologists (played by well-known theater director and actor Sergei Puskepalis ) on a small research station in the Arctic Ocean spends. How I Ended This Summer 2010 received an invitation to compete in the 60th International Film Festival of Berlin, where German critics praised the chamber theater -like movie for his nature photography and the performances of the two leads. Dobrygin and Puskepalis were then ex aequo awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor of the film festival. They both sat down against known actors such as Casey Affleck ( The Killer Inside Me), Ewan McGregor ( The Ghost Writer ) or Stellan Skarsgård (En Ganske snill man ) by. 2011 took over Dobrygin a supporting role in Achim von Borries war film four days in May.
Filmography (selection)
- 2009: Tschjornaja Molniya ( Чёрная Молния )
- 2010: How I Ended This Summer ( Как я провёл этим летом )
- 2011: Bloodrop 3D ( short film )
- 2011: 4 Days in May
- 2012: Ivan Atomnyy
Awards
- 2010: Best Actor Award at the International Film Festival Berlin for How I Ended This Summer (together with Sergei Puskepalis )
- 2011: MegaFon- special prize " The future depends on you from " at the award ceremony of the Golden Eagle of the Russian Film Academy