Mark Eydelshteyn

Mark Aleksandrovich Eydelshteyn was born on 18 February 2002 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia^[1] and is of Jewish heritage.^[2] He has a younger brother, Matvey Eydelshteyn (Russian: Матвей Эйдельштейн). His mother, Olesya Valeryevna Eydelshteyn, works as a teacher of stage speech (dialect)^[1] at the Nizhny Novgorod Theatre School named after Yevgeny Yevstigneyev.^[2] The young Eydelshteyn often skipped actual school to join his mother at the theatre school.^[2] His father is Alexander Eydelshteyn, a journalist and football promoter who worked in Moscow and Chukotka, later a civil servant.^[3]

In 2018, Eydelshteyn passed the regional selection for the "Living Classics" competition for young readers and made it to the all-Russian final, held in Artek.^[2] There, Eydelshteyn met the dean of the acting department of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts Taras Belousov,^[2] who advised him to finish school as soon as possible and enter a theatre university — which he did, upon graduating from his mother's school in 2019,^[2] entering the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio. He graduated in 2023.^[1]

He gained fame after playing the leading role in the drama The Land of Sasha,^[4] which made its worldwide premiere in February 2022 at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.^[5] He has been dubbed by journalists as the "Russian Timothée Chalamet".^[6][7][8] He is best known for starring in the Palme d'Or and Academy Awards winning American film Anora (2024) by Sean Baker. In December 2024, Eydelshteyn was cast in the second season of the Amazon Prime Video American spy television series Mr. & Mrs. Smith.^[9]

In March 2025, Eydelshteyn signed with American agency William Morris Endeavor.^[10]