Vyacheslav Shalevich (Russian: Вячесла́в Анато́льевич Шале́вич; born May 27, 1934, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Biography

Born in Moscow. Childhood lived with his mother Elena in the area Theater Vakhtangov.

His father - a former White officer Anatoly Shalevich, defected to the Red Army and rose to the rank of General of the NKVD, was directly involved in the purges. His mother, though she loved Anatoly Shalevich, left him in the eighth month of pregnancy because of jealousy from Minsk to Moscow to aunt. Son of a single mother. Vyacheslav believed his father died in the Finnish war. True, he had learned only 38 years old when on tour in Biysk he met the man who introduced Anatoly Shalevich.

In 1958 he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. After graduation was accepted into the troupe of the State Academic Theatre named after Vakhtangov.

Shalevich one of the few actors who played in two films with the same name, but are not remakes - Red Square.

Artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater named Ruben Simonov (1998). Academician of the Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts Nika Award. Associate Professor of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.