Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik (Russian: Леонид Исаакович Ярмольник; born 22 January 1954) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.
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Biography
Yarmolnik was born on 22 January 1954 in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, where his father, Isaac Yarmolnik, a Soviet Army officer, was stationed. His mother, Faina Ivanovna Yarmolnik (1935), worked as a laboratory assistant in a polyclinic. In 1960, Yarmolnik's family relocated to Lviv. Leonid studied at the local music school and was involved in plays at the Lviv Folk Theater. In 1972, he became a student at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and graduated from the acting class of Yury Katin-Yartsev, a famous Russian actor and acclaimed pedagogue of the Vakhtangov Theater Arts School, in 1976. From 1976 to 1984, he was an actor at the Taganka Theatre. Yarmolnik started his own studio, L-Club, specializing in film distribution, and anchored a TV program with the same name. Until 2012, he was a member of the jury on the popular KVN game show. He was honored with the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 for the role of Zhora in The Barracks. From 2 March to 8 June 2014, he was a member of the jury of the music show ‘Toch-v-Toch’.
Personal life
Leonid Yarmolnik is married to Oksana Afanasieva and they have one daughter together. Oksana Afanasieva is a former girlfriend of Soviet singer songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky.
Yarmolnik is Jewish.
Selected filmography
As an actor
1979 — The Very Same Munchhausen (Тот самый Мюнхгаузен) as Theophil von Münchhausen
1983 — Look for a Woman (Ищите женщину) as policeman Maximan
1984 — Copper Angel (Медный ангел) as Maurice Barro
1984 — TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить...) as Grechaev
1987 — A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов) as one-eyed cowboy Martin
1988 — Yolki-palki (Ёлки-палки!) as Grigory Kaigorodov
1989 — Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (Частный детектив, или Операция «Кооперация») as Airliner hijacker
1989 — Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective (Две стрелы. Детектив каменного века) as Long-nosed
1990 — Passport (Паспорт) as Borya's Israeli friend
1991 — Odyssey of Captain Blood (Одиссея капитана Блада) as Levasseur
1995 — Moscow Vacation as Grisha
1995 — Heads and Tails as Gosha
1998 — Crossroads as Oleg 'Alik' Sevastyanov
2004 — My Step Brother Frankenstein as Yulik
2005 — The Case of "Dead Souls" as Plyushkin (TV)
2006 — Moscow Mission (Обратный отсчёт) as Krot
As a film producer
Ku! Kin-dza-dza (2013)
Game Show
Fort Boyard Russian Game Show Russian Edition 2003
