Leonid Zverintsev

Honored Artist of Russia

Leonid Zverintsev graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre school in 1962 in the class of Georgy Gerasimov and Alexander Karev, and immediately joined the company of the Stanislavsky Drama Theatre. His first work there was to replace other actors in productions of Seven Against Thebes and The First Day of Freedom. One of his best-known replacement roles was as Nikolka in Mikhail Yanshim's famous 1954 production of The Days of the Turbins.

Other notable roles have included those of Willy (Robin Hood), File (The Rainmaker), and Bakin (Talents and Admirers).

Zverintsev has often conducted readings of the poetry of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Blok and others.

Roles in the the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre
2019Джанк-паяц, «Пиноккио. Театр», реж. Борис Юхананов
2019Бакин, «Таланты и поклонники», реж. О. Великанова
2017Nikolai Stepanovich, A Boring Story, directed by Vasily Skvortsov.
2016Winter, Before Sunset. An Open Performance Based on Motifs from a Play by Gerhart Hauptmann, directed by Vladimir Kosmachevsky.
2015Anatoly from On Deck in The Blue Bird, directed by Boris Yukhananov
Roles in the Moscow Drama theatre named after K.S. Stanislavsky
2011Patriarch, Ivan Vasilyevich..., directed by Alexander Gorban
2001Colonel, Will and Testament in Italian, directed by Semyon Spivak
1999Singer, The Bourgeois Nobleman, directed by Semyon Spivak
1994Semyonov, Summer Folk, directed by Vitaly Lanskoi
1991Bakin, Talents and Admirers, directed by Vitaly Lanskoi
1988Inspector, A Housewarming in an Old House, directed by Alexander Tovstonogov
1987Pyotr Alexandrovich, The Heart of a Dog, directed by Alexander Tovstonogov
1987Husband, Sholom-Aleichem Street, 40, directed by Alexander Tovstonogov
1975Volodya, A Rainbow in Winter, directed by Igor Kozlov
1972File, The Rainmaker, directed by Leonid Varpakhovsky
1972Androkhin, Youth, Unlike Any Other, directed by Les Tanyuk
1971Anzor, The Bridge, directed by Yury Khmelnitsky
1970Kmitits, Born in Poland, directed by Vadim Klimovsky
1968Willie, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, directed by Yekaterina Yelanskaya
1967Dyurko, Holy Night, directed by Grigory Sokolov
1964Podvoisky, The Sixth of July, directed by Boris Lvov-Anokhin
1963Anatoly, On Deck, directed by Boris Lvov-Anokhin
1962Rifle 49216, directed by Alexander Aronov (replacement role)
1962Paul, The First Day of Freedom, directed by Mikhail Yanshin and Alexander Aronov
1962Bela, Seven Against Thebes, directed by Platon Leslie (replacement role)
1962Nikolai Turbin, The Days of the Turbins, directed by Mikhail Yanshin (replacement role)
Roles in the cinema
2010KGB Forensic Specialist, The Chemist, directed by Vsevolod Plotkin
2007Veterinarian, Deep Breathing, directed by Valery Pendrakovsky
2002Ilya Fedorovich, Two Fates, directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky
1992Sviridov, Silence, directed by Olgerd Vorontsov
1982Krylov, State Automobile Inspector, I Don't Want to be an Adult, directed by Yury Chulyukin
1980Mikhail Tyrov, Young Peter, directed by Sergei Gerasimov
1976Steward, The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce, directed by Anatoly Bobrovsky
1966Molchanov-the Silent, The Tunnel, directed by Franchisk Muntyants
1964Mikhail Lakin, Comrade Arseny, directed by Ivan Lukinsky