Aleksey Petrenko

Known for Acting

Born

March 26, 1938

Died

February 22, 2017 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Also Known As

Aleksei PetrenkoAlexej Vasilievič Petrenko

Biography

Ukrainian native Alexei Vasilyevich Petrenko (b. March 26, 1938) has amassed a varied gallery of character and leading roles on Russian stage and screen including the titular “mad monk” in Elem Klimov’s 1981 “Rasputin”, Josef Stalin in BBC II’s docudrama “World War II: Behind Closed Doors”, and General Radlov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “The Barber of Siberia”.