Yuri Kolokolnikov

Biography:

Russian stage and movie actor Yuri Andreyevich Kolokolnikov was born on December 15, 1980. Kolokolnikov’s most well-known roles in the West are as Gennadi Bystrov in The Americans and as Styr in the television series Game of Thrones.

The birthplace of Yuri Kolokolnikov is Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Shortly after Yuri’s birth, his parents got divorced, and his mother relocated to Canada in 1985 together with Yuri and his brother, Theodore. Kolokolnikov holds dual citizenship in Canada and Russia.

Most people believe that Kolokolnikov was both rowdy and unpredictable as a child. His mother sent him back to live with his father in Russia because she was unable to handle raising her son.

He enrolled in a film school almost soon after arriving in Moscow and started working on children’s television productions. Soon after, Kolokolnikov’s father took him to try out for a small part in the movie Iron Curtain, which was directed by Savva Kulish.

At the age of 15, he turned in his paperwork to the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute after passing the external exams for his final two high school classes.