Bohdan Stupka

Biography

Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka (27 August 1941 – 22 July 2012) was a popular Ukrainian actor. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in the film "Our Own". Stupka has played more than a hundred roles in films and over fifty in the theater. Stupka has been awarded the titles Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of the USSR, and Hero of Ukraine (Order of the State, 2011), as well as a number of film awards. Later in his career he became the Minister of Culture of Ukraine.

Known For

With Fire and Sword

as Bohdan Chmielnicki

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba

as Taras Bulba

East/West

as Colonel Boyko

Sappho

as Professor Orlov

Home

as Grigoriy Shamanov

A Driver for Vera

as General Serov

The Old Fairy Tale: When the Sun Was God

as Popiel

Our Own

as Old Man

The White Bird Marked with Black

as Orest Dzvonar

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

as Alexander Kerensky