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Oleg Shtefanko - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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The handsome blond captain with blue eyes - the hero of Oleg Shtefanko literally fell in love with thousands of young TV viewers with the image of John Mangles of the adventure film In Search of Captain Grant (1985). But already before this role in the arsenal of the young artist there were more than ten films and eight years of experience at the Maly Theater (Moscow).
Oleg Stepanovich Shtefanko comes from Donetsk (Ukraine). As a child, he was engaged in dancing, swimming, martial arts. He graduated from a physics and mathematics school and on the first try, with a competition of about two hundred people per place, he became a freshman at the Higher Theater School. M.S.Schepkina.
While still a second-year college student, he made his debut on the stage of the Maly Theater. The most successful and large-scale role of that period is the image of the younger brother in the drama The Long Day goes into the night.
The beginning of his film career is the TV movie Troubled, or the Case of the Master Fears (1979). In subsequent years, films with the participation of Oleg Shtefanko appeared on the screen with an enviable frequency - two or three films a year.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, unstable financial situation forced Oleg Shtefanko to emigrate to the USA. In the early years overseas, Oleg Shtefanko earned a living in professions far from acting - he was a waiter, a taxi driver, a security guard. Subsequently he moved to Los Angeles, graduated from the LA Actors Circle Theater School. While working in the USA, he changed Stefanko's surname to Stefan to make pronunciation easier. It is under this name that Oleg Shtefanko can be found in the list of actors in fourteen Hollywood films, including the thriller - The False Temptation (2006) directed by Roberto de Niro (award - Silver Berlin Bear).
Since 2003 he has been working in Russian cinema again. For the main role of Sergei Fedotov in the drama Lord Officers (2004) he received the Grand Prix of the Seventh International Euro-Asian Teleforum. Oleg Shtefanko's filmography includes more than seventy films, in fifty-three films the actor played the main roles.
Wife - Larisa (since 1986), two children were born in marriage - Christina and Ivan (John).
Oleg Shtefanko has blue eyes, naturally light hair color, fair skin and middle lips. The shape of the face is rectangular, the forehead is high, the hair is curly, soft. Oleg Shtefanko does not change his hair color, giving preference to natural. The actor has a medium straight nose and an oval chin. The actor's height is 185 cm, no tattoos.
