Oleg Zagorodnii
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Oleg Zagorodnii was born on 27 October 1987 in Kyiv, Soviet Ukraine. He studied at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University,[1] from where he graduated in 2010.[2] After that, he started to work at the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama.[3]
In 2012, Zagorodnii decided to move to Russia and there he began to work at the acclaimed Gogol Center in Moscow.[3]
In 2021, Zagorodnii starred in Firebird as Roman Matvejev, a fighter pilot of the Soviet Air Force who falls in love with private Sergey Serebrennikov (Tom Prior) during the active time of the Cold War in the 1970s.[4] The film received backlash in Russia for "shaming Moscow".[5]
In 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zagorodnii launched a military-style fashion brand called Brave+1 to use its profits and donations to make military uniforms for Ukrainian soldiers.[6]
