Childhood and youth
The actor was born in the summer of 1966 in the Tula region. Zodiac sign is Cancer, nationality is Russian. Father Ivan Ivanovich, a military doctor, was 60 years old at that time, and mother Albina Ivanovna had just turned 18. Even the spouse's children from previous marriages were older than the stepmother. Perhaps that is why the union quickly fell apart.
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Actor Ivan Okhlobystin
The boy and his mother lived near Maloyaroslavets, then the family moved to Moscow. Albina got married, Vanya had a stepfather, Anatoly Stavitsky, and later a brother, Stanislav.
After school, Okhlobystin entered VGIK, studied with Renata Litvinova, Tigran Keosayan, Fyodor Bondarchuk. Director Igor Talankin sat in the admissions committee and asked the applicant to surprise him. Ivan replied sharply that he had come to say a new word in cinema, and not to entertain the examiners. The young man was kicked out, but was immediately returned: it was a surprise.
Biography of Okhlobystin
Ivan Okhlobystin was born on July 22, 1966 in the Tula region. He grew up in a simple family that had nothing to do with the film industry.
The actor's father, Ivan Ivanovich, was the head physician of the hospital, and his mother, Albina Ivanovna, worked as an economic engineer.
Childhood and youth
Ivan's parents had a big age difference. The head of the family was 41 years older than his wife! An interesting fact is that Okhlobystin Sr.’s children from previous marriages were older than his new chosen one.
Perhaps it was for this reason that Ivan’s mother and father soon divorced. After this, the girl remarried Anatoly Stavitsky. Later the couple had a boy, Stanislav.
By that time, the family had settled in Moscow, where Okhlobystin graduated from school. After that, he continued to study at VGIK at the directing department.
Having not completed his studies at the university, Ivan was drafted into the army. After demobilization, the guy returned home, continuing his studies at VGIK.
Movies
Ivan began his career with the film “I Promise to Be!” about teenage relationships. Viktor Proskurin, Vladimir Nosik, Natalya Krachkovskaya starred with him in the film. The first leading role happened in the military drama “Noga”, which was awarded the “Golden Ram”, “Kinotavr” awards and a number of international festivals.
Okhlobystin’s first script for the absurd comedy “Freak” also received recognition and was nominated for the “Green Apple, Golden Leaf” award. He was also awarded for his first full-length directorial feature - the psychological detective story “The Arbiter” with Rolan Bykov.
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Ivan Okhlobystin in his youth
Ivan Ivanovich is also the author of theatrical plays. At the Moscow Art Theater, Mikhail Efremov staged “The Villainess, or the Scream of a Dolphin.” The play “Maximilian the Stylite” turned out to be so successful that director Roman Kachanov transferred the plot from the stage to the screen.
He also directed the series “DMB”, based on Okhlobystin’s army stories, the comedy “Down House” and “Gena Beton”. There were roles for Ivan in all projects. Valery Priemykhov invited the actor to the melodrama “Who If Not Us”, Pavel Lungin - to the film “Tsar”, Garik Sukachev directed the films “House of the Sun” and “Midlife Crisis” based on his friend’s scripts.
The talent of the writer and director was embodied in the drama “The Scavenger” and the action film “Paragraph 78”, the war film “Holiday” and the black comedy “The Nightingale the Robber”. Okhlobystin delighted fans with his acting in the films “Kiss Through the Wall”, “Generation P”, “Zomboyashchik”, “Bird”, “Bartender”.
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Ivan Okhlobystin in the series “Interns”
Ivan did not refuse negative roles and brilliantly transformed into outright scoundrels. While still a priest, he did not consider this promiscuity or an insult to church status and urged people to share his personality and film characters.
The artist’s surge in popularity was ensured by the image of Doctor Bykov in the TV series “Interns.” The success of the sitcom was incredible, and the head of the department himself became a symbol of caustic and sarcastic humor. By the way, Okhlobystin supplemented the doctor’s biography with facts from his own personal life.
The 1st season of the psychological detective story “Freud’s Method” with Ivan in the title role also received public recognition. But the continuation of the film was expected to suffer a sensational decline in ratings. The media suggested that Channel One viewers prefer the traditionally calm Elena Malysheva rather than the boorish Roman Freidin.
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Ivan Okhlobystin in the TV series “Polar”
The drama “Temporary Difficulties”, in which Okhlobystin played the father of a disabled young man who does not perceive his son as sick, was subject to obstruction from critics and medical specialists. The main character turned out to be too cruel, and the public recognized the methods of education he used not only as wrong, but as traumatic and dangerous.
Ivan has a completely different character, the intelligent secretary of a wealthy merchant, in the drama “Wild League”. The film, included in the longlist for the Golden Globe Award, is dedicated to the history of the emergence of football in Russia. Vladimir Yaglych, Olesya Sudzilovskaya, Dmitry Nazarov are involved in the project. Not without the participation of professional representatives of the game of millions Roman Zobnin, Artem Dzyuba and Alexey Miranchuk.
Okhlobystin returned to the role of the marginalized in the detective series “Rostov”, in which he worked together with his godson Arthur Smolyaninov. He not only appeared on camera, but also performed the soundtrack to the film.
Political and religious views of Ivan Okhlobystin
At the beginning of 2012, Okhlobystin announced his intention to run for president. The election campaign consisted of a single show, Doctrine 77. For almost two hours, Okhlobystin voiced the plan for the election program from the stage of the Luzhniki stadium in front of an audience of several thousand people. Celebrities reacted to Okhlobystin’s statement in different ways, for example, Tina Kandelaki supported the actor: “Well, finally!”
Even experienced political strategists were amazed by the result of the action: Okhlobystin rose to the top of the pre-election public polls, the blogosphere dissected each new statement of the actor piece by piece, but all this turned out to be just skillful advertising.
One of the Beeline subscribers noticed that simultaneously with the announcement of Okhlobystin’s election show, the Doctrine-77 tariff of the same name appeared on the mobile operator’s website. Ivan Okhlobystin was listed in the credits as the main character, screenwriter and one of the producers. He played the role of the leader of a criminal gang, Sevastyan Solovyov, a kind of modern Robin Hood, tired of the tyranny of local authorities and the lawlessness of organized crime groups. Okhlobystin's action film received many positive reviews. Okhlobystin’s alliance with Evgeny Stychkin and Oksana Fandera resulted in a large-scale action movie by domestic standards with the intriguing slogan “Only I rob here.” During the pre-release period, as a marketing ploy, Okhlobystin became the host of the Internet show “+100500”, replacing Maxim Golopolosov for one episode.
In November 2020, viewers saw the action movie “Priest-san. Confessions of a Samurai." The script for the adventures of an Orthodox priest originally from Japan was written by Okhlobystin himself, who, as usual, played the role of the “villain” - businessman Nelyubin, who had his eye on the lands around the church in the village of Glubokoe.
Ivan came to faith while still a schoolboy. The actor more than once recalled how in the eighth grade he became the owner of a psalter, exchanging it with a classmate for a camera. I had to return the book without finishing it - my father insisted. A week later, the future actor was baptized into the Orthodox Church and in subsequent years strictly followed the philosophy of Christianity in his characteristically contradictory way: there was also time for alcohol, carousing and motorcycle racing.
Okhlobystin became a priest at the age of 34, and in 1999 he ran for the Duma from the environmental party “Kedr”, having previously asked the patriarch’s blessing. Almost immediately after the release of Down House, 34-year-old Okhlobystin was ordained a priest of the Tashkent diocese. Many considered this act to be PR and eccentricity, but for the actor this step was of great importance.
For the next 7 months, Ivan diligently conducted services in Tashkent, but still returned to Moscow.
Inspired by his new experience, he began filming a series of short films, “The Lives of the Saints”: their heroes were Prince Daniil, St. Basil the Blessed, Daniil of Moscow, and Dmitry Ushakov. Okhlobystin’s plans included releasing 477 episodes, but the project did not find sponsors and was frozen. "
After Okhlobystin’s arrival, under the name Father John, he conducted services in the Church of St. Nicholas in Zayaitsky and the Church of Sophia the Wisdom of God, but in 2005 he was forced to return to acting - a large family (wife and six children) required significant expenses, and the priesthood could not be secured loved ones with everything they need.
In 2007, after asking Patriarch Alexei for his blessing, the actor returned to the set. The actor emphasized many times that if a person treats his business honestly, it doesn’t matter what his profession is. It became difficult to combine church service and filming with the advent of popularity.
In 2010, Ioann Okhlobystin personally submitted a petition for excommunication. However, Ivan still perceived participation in films as nothing other than missionary work, the promotion of Orthodoxy to the masses through the prism of his own characters
In 2012, the actor headed the council of the Right Cause party, whose leader at that time was Mikhail Prokhorov, but left the organization due to disagreements with the Holy Synod, which banned the priest from being a member of a political party. ...but he was still banned from being a member of a political party.
During the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the actor repeatedly expressed approval of the policies of the DPR and LPR, for which the SBU added him to the “black list” of persons not allowed to enter the country. This resulted in a ban on showing 71 films with Okhlobystin’s participation in Ukraine.
In the same year, the actor was banned from crossing the border with Latvia and Estonia, but this time the reason for personal sanctions was his statements against people of gay orientation (earlier Okhlobystin stated that “gays should be burned in ovens”).
Ivan and his clearly negative opinion about homosexuals and same-sex marriage were repeatedly criticized in his homeland. The public was especially outraged by Okhlobystin’s letter to Vladimir Putin, in which the actor asked to return the article on sodomy to the Criminal Code.
Personal life
On the set of the film “The Arbiter,” Okhlobystin met Ksenia Kachalina. The relationship did not last long: the girl found out that her lover was having an affair with her friend and classmate Oksana Arbuzova.
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Ivan Okhlobystin with his wife Oksana Arbuzova
In 1995, Ivan and Oksana got married. The actor proposed in the first week of dating. The couple raised sons Savva and Vasily, daughters Evdokia, Varvara, Anfisa and Ioanna. Of the children, only Vasya was interested in cinema on a professional level - the young man is studying to become a screenwriter.
In 2019, the Okhlobystins agreed to participate in a kind of reality show like “The Ozzbourne Family.” The project consisted of six episodes, in each a conflict situation was created, and the audience watched how parents and children solved the problem.
In his free time, the head of the family likes to go fishing and hunting, play chess, and read a philosophical book. Okhlobystin's hobby is jewelry making. True, the artist makes jewelry in the cyberpunk style, so it is not suitable for everyone.
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Ivan retained the image of a rebel, an adherent of the biker subculture. Even after becoming a priest, he wore a leather jacket. And the man’s arms and torso are covered with tattoos, reflecting a certain milestone in life and done “for the sake of coolness,” but at the same time, the drawings themselves have no meaning.
The only significant image—a skull overgrown with flowers, a symbol of a dead biker—was created by Okhlobystin after he met his wife. In extreme sports circles, family people are considered lost to the community; such a person will not drive at speed and risk his life.
In his youth, Ivan studied karate, aikido and other types of wrestling and now looks young and fit (weight 78 kg with a height of 180 cm). Although there were periods in the celebrity’s life spent in captivity of the “green serpent,” alcohol now worries him little.
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Politics also fell into Okhlobystin’s circle of interests. He put forward his candidacy for the post of President of Russia, but a week later he abandoned the initiative, ran for the State Duma from the green party “Cedar” and considered this action a mistake.
In the spring of 2012, the actor created the party “Coalition of Heaven”. Then he headed the Supreme Council of the Right Cause party. In October, the Holy Synod banned priests from joining political associations. As a result, he left Right Cause, but remained its spiritual mentor.
Ivan Ivanovich is an adherent of monarchism, advocates the creation of an ideological patriotic program aimed at educating young people, and is a member of the public organization “Right to Arms.” Okhlobystin not only fights for the rights of civilian gun owners, he has a collection of guns near his home.
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The star has a categorical attitude towards sexual minorities; his homophobic views have been repeatedly emphasized in the media. In 2014, Ivan wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin in which he asked the Russian leader to return the article in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for sodomy, since in his understanding a man cannot marry a man. The message remained unanswered.
The news that in 2001 Okhlobystin was ordained a priest in Tashkent shocked those around the actor. As Ivan later admitted, for himself, who did not really know a single prayer other than the “Our Father,” this step was also unexpected. The family lived in Asia for another 7 months, but returned to Moscow because the hot climate was not suitable for Oksana.
After 9 years, Patriarch Kirill temporarily released the screen star from his duties of serving the Church. Ivan realized that the priest he turned out to be useless. True, he retained the right to bless, but he cannot perform the sacraments of weddings and baptisms.
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Ivan Okhlobystin is a socially active person. Ivan runs Instagram, where he regularly posts footage from filming, photos of friends and relatives.
Ivan Okhlobystin: biography, personal life, Instagram
Childhood and youth of Ivan Okhlobystin
Ivan was born on June 22, 1966 in the Tula region.
His parents had just a huge age difference, his father was 60 years old, and his mother was 18 years old. His father worked as a doctor, and his mother Albina Ivanovna was a student. When Ivan was very young, his father left the family, and his young but rather strict mother was in charge of his upbringing. Although Okhlobystin still remembers the incident when his father showed up at their house because of his poor performance in Russian at school. When Ivan once again received a bad grade, his father came with a Russian language textbook and soy sauce. Fourth-grader Vanya had to eat the textbook along with the sauce. He did not expect this from his father, but he no longer received bad grades.
After school, Ivan entered VGIK. Film director Igor Talankin sat on the admissions committee and asked the applicant to surprise him. Ivan was kicked out of the exam because he said that he had come to say a new word in cinema, and not to entertain the commission. However, the director brought back the impudent young man, as he really surprised him.
Ivan did not have time to finish his studies at VGIK because he was drafted into the army. After serving in the missile forces in Rostov-on-Don, he returned to the institute. In 1992, he graduated from the directing department of VGIK.
Films with Ivan Okhlobystin
Ivan Okhlobystin began his acting career in Nikita Tyagunov’s film “The Leg” and received an award for it in the “Best Role” category at the Molodist-1991 festival.
In 2000, the series “DMB” was released. In the film, Okhlobystin got a minor role, but the film itself is based on Okhlobystin’s army stories. The series received a lot of criticism, it was called too simple, and the work of the actors and cameramen was insufficient.
Okhlobystin also tried himself as a journalist. In the 90s, he worked for the magazine “Stolitsa”, made reports, but quickly left the publication, calling it a “brothel”. Since 2005, Okhlobystin’s cinematic career received a powerful boost - he completed his church service and plunged headlong into filming.
The artist became known to the general public after he began working in the series “Interns.” He got the main role - he played Doctor Bykov. Okhlobystin began working on the humorous series in 2010.
In 2007, Ivan starred in Stanislav Libin’s film “Conspiracy,” where he played the role of Grigory Rasputin. In 2010, based on his story “House of the Rising Sun,” rock musician Garik Sukachev made the film “House of the Sun.”
In 2011, with the participation of Okhlobystin, 6 films were released at once, including a remake of “Office Romance”, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Victor Pelevin “Generation P”. Last year he voiced the postman Pechkin in a new cartoon about Prostokvashino. Also last year, the dramatic film “Temporary Difficulties” with Okhlobystin in the title role was presented at the Kinotavr Film Festival. Film critics considered the film cynical and immoral.
Priest Ivan Okhlobystin
Since Ivan's parents were communists, he was baptized only in the 9th grade. In the 90s, he worked at the church - he looked after the altar and carried candles. In 2001, in Tashkent, he was ordained a priest, although he did not know a single prayer other than “Our Father.” Seven months later, he and his family returned to Moscow, as his wife found it difficult to bear the southern heat.
In the capital, Ivan, or now Father John, continued his service. Until 2005 he worked in the Church of St. Nicholas (Transfiguration). But at the same time, he continued to act in films, which caused a flurry of criticism against him. In 2010, he proposed carrying out a procedure for release from ministry. He is now Father John and a priest in name only.
Personal life of Ivan Okhlobystin
On the set of the film “The Arbiter,” Ivan Okhlobystin met Ksenia Kachalina. Due to frequent departures, they rarely saw each other, and then Ksenia found out that Ivan was having an affair with her friend and classmate Oksana Arbuzova. Therefore, the couple broke up.
In 1995, Ivan and Oksana Arbuzova got married. The actor proposed immediately, in the first week of meeting him. Six children were born into the family of Okhlobystin and Arbuzova: two sons - Savva and Vasily, as well as daughters Evdokia, Varvara, Anfisa and Ioanna.
In his free time from cinema, Ivan Okhlobystin likes to go fishing and hunting, and play chess. The actor also creates cyberpunk jewelry himself.
Instagram of Ivan Okhlobystin
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Ivan Okhlobystin now
At the beginning of 2020, the title of the highest-grossing Russian comedy was given to the film “Slave,” which tells the story of a guy sent into the past by his father for educational purposes. This method of influencing the uncontrollable heir was advised to the hero Alexander Samoilenko by an eccentric psychologist in the person of Ivan Okhlobystin.
In the same year, the NTV channel planned to release the comedy detective “Flash,” in which the actor played the main role. Ivan's character is a talented photographer who saves a young investigator from a misunderstanding and helps him find the real criminal. Subsequently, the comrades in misfortune create a duet that can easily unravel criminal cases.
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Ivan Okhlobystin in 2020
In the drama “Floor” Okhlobystin met with representatives of the old film guard Liya Akhedzhakova, Mikhail Boyarsky, Svetlana Nemolyaeva. The leader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov, appeared in the unexpected image of a botanist.
Agreeing to the filming, the artist joked that he had already lost hope of becoming the Prince from Cinderella, so he was playing the villain again. Ivan transforms into a lover of rock and roll and pretty women, living in a cramped Leningrad communal apartment. Residents of the apartment receive an offer to move out, but people are in no hurry to leave the difficult but familiar conditions.
Ivan Okhlobystin's wife - Oksana Arbuzova
Okhlobystin’s wife, actress Oksana Arbuzova, is known for her leading role in the film “Accident – the Cop’s Daughter.” They met on the steps of the Cinema House during the film festival. The actor recalls that he then looked at a beautiful girl and “crashed” into the door. Since then, Oksana and Ivan have been together.
Ivan Okhlobystin has been married for 23 years
At the first meeting, Okhlobystin did not make the most pleasant impression on Oksana’s parents. He came to meet them at night, in dirty sneakers, and he had a chamomile in his teeth. Fortunately, the girl’s parents soon realized that Ivan was an intelligent, pleasant person, and did not interfere with their union.
Okhlobystin with his wife and son
In 1995, Oksana and Ivan got married. True, not everything went smoothly. Shortly before meeting the girl, police officers took away Okhlobystin’s documents. In addition, the bride and groom did not have the money to submit an application to the registry office. But these circumstances did not become an obstacle to true love - the actors nevertheless became husband and wife and are still happy.
The actor is happily married
Sometimes the public talks about Okhlobystin’s romances with his partners on the set, for example, about his relationships with Kristina Asmus and Svetlana Kamynina. The actor denies these rumors - he loves his wife.
Filmography
As an actor
- 2009 – “Tsar”
- 2007 – “Conspiracy”
- 2010 – “Interns”
- 2011 – “Generation P”
- 2011 – “Kiss through the wall”
- 2012 – “Freud’s Method”
- 2012 – “The Nightingale the Robber”
- 2015 – “Bartender”
- 2017 – “The Fugitive”
- 2017 – “Bird”
- 2018 – “Temporary Difficulties”
- 2019 – “Rostov”
- 2020 – “Slave”
As a screenwriter:
- 1991 – “Arbiter”
- 1997 – “The Publican”
- 2000 – “DMB”
- 2007 – “Paragraph 78”
- 2008 – “House of the Sun”
- 2010 - “Moscow, I love you!”
- 2012 – “Freud’s Method”
- 2012 – “The Nightingale the Robber”
- 2014 – “Priest-san
How many children does Ivan Okhlobystin have, sons and daughters?
Ivan and his wife Oksana had six children: two sons and four daughters. Okhlobystin adores them, is proud of their successes and often shares interesting facts about his daughters and sons in his interviews.
Daughter Anfisa
Okhlobystin’s eldest daughter, Anfisa, is 22 years old. She is studying marketing at Moscow State University. According to Ivan, Anfisa is a very purposeful girl “with an iron character.” In addition, since childhood she has been my mother’s assistant: she looked after her younger brothers and sisters and did housework.
Anfisa's preferences in music and cinema were inherited from her father. She loves the songs of Garik Sukachev, Queen and Muse. In addition, the girl enjoys watching films that have already become classics of world cinema. Her favorite films include The Matrix, Dracula and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Evdokia Okhlobystina
A year after Anfisa’s birth, the Okhlobystins had another daughter, Evdokia. As children, girls often competed with each other “for seniority.” Dusya is also a creative person - in her free time she plays the electric guitar. However, the girl has a very serious profession - ornithologist.
Two years ago, a girl brought a little duckling into her house. She saw a cat bite a chick on the neck on the street and could not pass by. The actor’s family took care of the “baby” - he was treated and fed millet.
Varvara Okhlobystina
Ivan Okhlobystin’s daughter Varvara is 19 years old. The girl practices vocals and posts videos of her singing on her Instagram and produces her own videos. Famous musicians Basta and Maxim Fadeev help Vara with this. In addition, Varvara sang a duet with the leader of the group “Serga” Sergei Galanin.
Recently, the girl was spotted in church together with the actor of the series “Interns” and the hero of the show “The Bachelor” Ilya Glinnikov. The press began to talk about the romance between Glinnikov and Varya Okhlobystina, to which the girl ironically responded - she is not fighting for the heart of “Uncle Ilya,” whom she has known since childhood.
Son of Ivan Okhlobystin - Vasily
The actor’s eldest son Vasily is 17 years old. The boy loves to read and writes stories. In addition, he is interested in sports - he goes to shooting and boxing classes. Oksana Arbuzova says that Vasya has been very supportive of her since childhood. When the boy sees that his mother is tired, he comes up to hug her. Vasily has a warm relationship with his sisters. And Okhlobystin’s eldest son serves as a sexton in the church.
Ivan shared a photo on his Instagram showing the boy in a special outfit. The photo aroused interest among the actor’s fans, but Okhlobystin decided not to answer their questions.
Ioanna Okhlobystina
Okhlobystin affectionately calls his youngest daughter Ioanna Nyusha. It is known that the girl is 16 years old, and she is a versatile person. Ioanna studies at a school with an Orthodox bias and is interested in exact sciences. The girl has her mother’s character - she is very calm and likes to spend her free time reading books.
And, of course, Nyusha has a lot of creative activities. She writes stories well with a “gothic twist.” In addition, together with her younger brother, the girl studied music, but this is not exactly what her soul lies in.
Savva Ivanovich Okhlobystin
Ivan Okhlobystin’s youngest son Savva is now 12 years old. According to his father, the boy is very similar to him - “the same prankster.” At the same time, Savva always helps dad with household chores. The Okhlobystins now have a three-story house, and each family member, including him, has their own household responsibilities.
In addition, the boy also writes stories, often attends church and even wanted to become a priest in the future. Ivan understands that his son may change his mind more than once on which path in life to take, but he is ready to support him. Savva also plays music - he plays the balalaika.
Ivan Okhlobystin’s family can safely be called exemplary. The actor considers mutual respect to be the secret of success. His daughters and sons are completely different, and he is attentive to the interests of each of them. In addition, Ivan and Oksana would be happy if children appeared in their family again.
