Anton Lapenko

Biography

Anton Vyacheslavovich Lapenko (born on September 1, 1986 in Zelenograd, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian film and theater actor.

In 2019 Lapenko became famed as an author of humorous Instagram sketches, styled as retro VHS videos. Characters played by Lapenko include a self-doubting engineer, a journalist producing the TV show The Mystery of the Hole, and an eccentric steamroller driver Igor Katamaranov. By January 2020, Lapenko's channel had 1,500,000 subscribers.

In December 2019 Lapenko published the movie series Within Lapenko on YouTube. The series were created by him (he also played all of the characters) alongside comedian Aleksei Smirnov (the screenwriter and film director). The plot is based on the life and adventures of characters from Lapenko's Instagram videos. According to the authors' presentation of the series, it is styled like late Soviet movies and isn't set in a particular time, but rather features a universe which combines the 1980s and 1990s.

Egor Maksimov from Maxim Online referred to the series as a parody of all genres of Soviet TV. Lapenko is compared to Leonid Gaidai and to Monty Python, not in the least due to his absurdist humour.

Known For

Rider
Rider
Murder in a Pheasant's Nest
Murder in a Pheasant's Nest
Murder in the "Pheasant's Nest"
Murder in the "Pheasant's Nest"
Like a Man
Like a Man
Pinocchio
Pinocchio
The Missing Cyclist
The Missing Cyclist
Poplar Fluff
Poplar Fluff
The Car Thief
The Car Thief
Hot!
Hot!

Filmography

2025 Актёрище
as Nikita Kislyak
2024 Limonov: The Ballad
as Ghost
2024 Poplar Fluff
as
2023 By the Way
as Guest
2022 Like a Man
as
2022 Pinocchio
as
2021 Murder in the "Pheasant's Nest"
as
2021 Boomerang
as reporter
2021 To the Sea
as
2020 Rider
as
2020 Deeper!
as Khachatryan
2020 Hilbert's Eighth Problem
as
2020 Chicks
as Yuri, the policeman
2020 Roots
as
2019 Inside Lapenko
as various
2019 Hot!
as Sasha
2019 Однушка
as
2019 What Happened Next?
as Self - Guest
2018 The Grail of Magdalena Egorova
as Knight
2017 vDud
as Guest