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Kirill Safonov

Kirill Safonov is a Russian-Israeli actor, director, singer, poet and composer, known for his work at the Gesher theater and the TV series Tatiana's Day.

born 1973Acting at the Gesher theaterThe series Tatiana's DayThe film Half-Russian Story

Born: 21 June 1973, Ermakovskoe
Occupation: composer, poet, film actor, director
Education: Russian Institute of Theatre Arts

Kirill Safonov was born in 1973 in Ermakovskoe

Kirill Safonov was born on 21 June 1973 in the village of Yermakovskoe in East Siberia. He grew up in the Krasnoyarsk region and went to school in Lviv, Ukraine. His parents divorced when he was 12, and he worked in construction brigades to help his mother.

In 1993 he entered the theater faculty of the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Arts. He later moved to GITIS in Moscow, in the workshop of Andrey Goncharov, and was expelled in 1997. He acted at the Mayakovsky Theatre and later at the Stanislavsky Theater.

In 1999 he was invited to the Gesher theater in Israel and moved there with his wife and daughter. He learned Hebrew and acted in several plays. He also appeared in Israeli films and TV, including Half-Russian Story in 2006.

His lead role in the Russian series Tatiana's Day, released in 2007, made him well known in Russia. In 2010 he married singer Sasha Savelyeva. He holds Russian and Israeli citizenship, lives in Moscow, and presented his first film, The Fourth, in 2016.