Alexey Sheynin | |
Honorific Suffix: | PAR |
Birthname: | Alexey Igorevich Sheynin |
Birth Date: | 18 December 1947 |
Birth Place: | Leningrad, USSR |
Occupation: | actor |
Years Active: | 1968 — present |
Alexey Igorevich Sheynin (ru|Алексей Игоревич Шейнин; born December 18, 1947, Leningrad[1]) is a Soviet and Russian drama theater and film actor.
Born in Leningrad on December 18, 1947, Alexey Sheynin graduated in 1968 from the theater studio at the Leningrad Youth Theater (under the tutelage of Zinovy Korogodsky).[2] He worked at the Leningrad Comedy Theater and has been with the Yermolova Theatre since 1970. He also graduated from the Institute of Culture, specializing in directing.
Sheynin is a teacher at GITIS and also teaches at the Russian Theater Institute.
His first wife was actress Nelly Pshennaya, with whom he had a daughter named Yeugenia. Yeugenia died from cancer in 2015. His second wife, Annie, is a two-time French champion in show jumping.[3]