Childhood
Ivan Yankovsky was born on October 30, 1990 in the capital. Who could become the grandson of the artist who played the main roles in the film masterpieces “That Same Munchausen” and “Flights in a Dream and in Reality” is a rhetorical question. Grandmother Lyudmila Zorina, grandfathers Oleg Yankovsky and Oleg Fandera, parents Philip Yankovsky and Oksana Fandera are successful actors. Both grandfathers are people's artists (Yankovsky - USSR, Fandera - Russia).
Ivan and his sister Elizaveta Yankovsky, five years younger than him, grew up in a creative atmosphere. There were guests in their house whose names and faces are known in the country and abroad. Conversations about theater and cinema, discussions of films and roles, family trips to high-profile season premieres did their job: Vanya and Lisa continued the acting dynasty.
As a child, Ivan Yankovsky did not intend to follow in the footsteps of his parents and family patriarchs. Like all boys, he was fond of sports, jumping from athletics to swimming, then to football and boxing.
But at the age of 10, Vanya first came to the set. He played an angel in the melodrama “Come See Me,” where the main roles went to grandfather Oleg Yankovsky, Irina Kupchenko and Ekaterina Vasilyeva. Yankovsky Jr. professionally coped with the role of a hooligan angel throwing banana skins at his feet. The boy added warmth and childlike spontaneity to the film.
After a successful debut, Ivan Yankovsky's acting genes woke up. From a capital school with a mathematical focus, the parents transferred their son to the Moscow International Film School, where students take their first steps in the profession. Vanya and his peers visited Africa, Turkey and Armenia, where the guys, together with their mentors, made a documentary film.
After graduating from film school, Ivan Yankovsky entered GITIS. The young man abandoned his initial desire to study at the directing department. On the advice of his mother, he chose the acting and directing department and ended up in the workshop of Sergei Zhenovach.
Talented children in a talented family
On the penultimate day of October 1990, in the capital of the Soviet Union that still existed at that time, the future actor Ivan Yankovsky was born. He was born into a family familiar with cinema firsthand. His grandfather, the famous and talented Oleg Yankovsky, became the first to glorify his name throughout the USSR. The boy’s grandmother, Lyudmila Zorina, is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Ivan's dad is the popular and talented director and actor Philip Yankovsky. The boy’s mother, Oksana Fandera, is no less famous than his father. This amazing actress has starred in many films and her fame is well deserved. In addition to their son, the couple also has a daughter, Lisa, who was born in 1993.
Ivan Yankovsky, whose biography received the origins for its subsequent development in such a talented family, decided not to look for difficult paths and follow in the footsteps of his relatives. This decision surprised no one.
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Theater
The creative biography of Ivan Yankovsky is developing in Zhenovach’s workshop. A GITIS student learns the basics of the profession and polishes his skills in student performances based on the works of Moliere, Andrei Platonov, and Anton Chekhov. In 2013, Yankovsky Jr. joined the troupe of Sergei Zhenovach’s theater studio. Ivan played Ivan Bezdomny in The Master and Margarita, Oleg Leonidovich in the production of Suicide, Maksudov in Notes of a Dead Man.
In 2020, Ivan Yankovsky made his debut on the stage of the M. N. Ermolova Theater in the famous play “Duck Hunt” by Alexander Vampilov. The new season of the theater, directed by Oleg Menshikov, is dedicated to the playwright’s 80th birthday. The play was staged by director Evgeniy Marcelli, who has three Golden Mask theater awards to his name. Ivan Yankovsky played the main character - Viktor Zilov. The role of the wife went to Kristina Asmus, and the role of Nina’s mistress went to Daria Melnikova.
After the premiere of the play, in mid-September 2020, theater critics burst out with positive reviews of the work of Yankovsky Jr., saying that a better performer of “Zilov of our time” could not be found. Analogies were drawn with Zilov played by Oleg Dahl, who played Vampilov’s hero in the film drama “Vacation in September.”
We remembered Konstantin Khabensky, who played Zilov on stage in 2002. Theatergoers drew parallels between the hero of Ivan and the “Zilov variation” performed by the famous grandfather in the drama “Flights in a Dream and in Reality.” Critics and theatergoers have come to the conclusion that Nikolai Zilov by Ivan Yankovsky is no less good, but he is different, because he is a contemporary.
Movie
Ivan Yankovsky acted in films for the second time at the age of 18 – he played one of the main characters in the science-fiction thriller “Indigo”. The film was extremely unsuccessful, but Vanya’s career was just beginning.
But the next work, “The Rag Union,” which happened 7 years after “Indigo,” immediately brought “Kinotavr” for best actor. True, Ivan shared it with other main actors - Vasily Butkevich, Alexander Pal, Pavel Chinaryov.
After this, not only film critics, but also directors paid attention to Yankovsky. In the same 2020, he starred in the film “Without Borders”, and in the next year - in the science-fiction film “Night Watchmen”.
The thriller “Queen of Spades” brought Ivan great fame. Thanks to him, in 2020 Yankovsky received the Golden Eagle as the performer of the best male role.
When I read the script for “The Queen of Spades” and came to audition, I sincerely said that this story was about me. I really saw myself in her and knew exactly what kind of person she was. And the director and I carried this understanding from the very day of the audition to the end of filming for two and a half months - we understood each other so well.
This year we will see Ivan in the film “Plant”, which was directed by one of the darkest and most interesting modern Russian directors, Yuri Bykov. And next year, another fantastic drama with Yankovsky in the title role, “Ikaria,” will be released.
Movies
After the role of an angel in “Come See Me,” 8 years passed before Ivan Yankovsky’s second appearance on the screen. The high school student was invited to film by his father’s friend, director Roman Prygunov. The representative of the famous dynasty was offered to play the teenager Andrei Kalyaev in the science-fiction thriller “Indigo”.
Russian film stars Mikhail Efremov and Gosha Kutsenko played in the project. Another young talent appeared in the frame - a descendant of the Efremov family, Nikolai. The film, released in 2008, was smashed to smithereens by film critics, but Ivan did not give up and managed to benefit from the mistakes.
In 2020, the young artist appeared in Mikhail Mestetsky’s youth comedy-drama “The Rag Union”, where he played in such a way that, together with colleagues Alexander Pal, Pavel Chinarev and Vasily Butkevich, he received a prize at Kinotavr. Two years later, HBO (an American cable and satellite network) bought the rights to broadcast the film. The actor starred in the romantic comedy Without Borders and the documentary Yankovsky.
2016 was a turning point in the career of Ivan Yankovsky. The actor appeared in several box-office projects. In the melodrama “The Source” directed by Nadezhda Vitalskaya, he played a Moscow rake; in the fantasy thriller “Night Watchmen” Yankovsky was entrusted with the role of a young man who realized that every day he encounters evil spirits. The thriller stars Leonid Yarmolnik and Lyubov Aksenova.
Another bright leading role went to Ivan Yankovsky in Pavel Lungin’s thriller “The Queen of Spades.” The artist played in tandem with Ksenia Rappoport. To film the project, Yankovsky had to tighten up his choreography and undress for the sex scene.
Half of Ivan Yankovsky’s film projects are films in the fantasy genre. In 2020, after Queen of Spades, the actor starred in the dystopian film Ikaria by Bulgarian director Yavor Girdev. Among the producers of the film is Evgeny Mironov. Yankovsky Jr. will appear in the frame with Pyotr Skvortsov, known for Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “The Apprentice.”
Film career
The first project in Ivan Yankovsky’s filmography is “Come See Me.” He received his second role only 8 years later while studying at a theater studio. Ivan was invited to the set when he was in his last year. The aspiring actor starred in the film “Indigo”. Appeared in the image of Andrei Kalyaev.
Then there was a role in the film project “Queen of Spades”. The talented guy was lucky, because Ksenia Rappoport worked with him on the creation of the film. To authentically play his character, Ivan attended a dance studio.
Subsequently, Ivan Yankovsky’s filmography was replenished with such projects as “Without Borders” and “Factory”. In the first film, he appeared before the audience together with actress Anna Chipovskaya. They played in a short story called “Yerevan”. In the film “Plant” Denis Shvedov became a partner on the set.
But the most successful project in the creative biography of Ivan Yankovsky was a painting called “Text”. He starred with Alexander Petrov and Kristina Asmus. The film was received ambiguously. Some praised, others criticized for being too frank. Ivan appeared before the audience in the guise of an FSKN employee.
The most recent works in the filmography of the talented guy are “Union of Salvation”, “Ribs”, “Spleen”. At the present stage, Ivan is working on the creation of such projects as “Ikaria” and “Fire”.
Personal life
In the facial features and gaze of Ivan Yankovsky one finds the features of his mother - Oksana Fandera, father and grandfather Yankovsky. The artist's height is 1.78 meters. Talent, external beauty, and belonging to a famous film dynasty made the younger Yankovsky an eligible bachelor.
For the first time, people started talking about Ivan’s personal life when he appeared at public events with Kamilla Baysarova, the daughter of a famous businessman and former common-law husband of Kristina Orbakaite. Soon after breaking up with Yankovsky, the girl got married. Then fans attributed Yankovsky’s relationship with his partner in the film “Without Borders” Anna Chipovskaya, but Ivan denied the rumors.
For three years, the actor dated Vera Panfilova (Kincheva), the daughter of the permanent frontman of the cult group “Alice” in the 1990s, Konstantin Kinchev. Evidence of a serious relationship was provided by insider information about Vera’s acquaintance with Ivan’s parents. When trouble happened to the girl’s father—Konstantin Kinchev was diagnosed with a heart attack—Ivan Yankovsky supported his beloved.
At the beginning of 2017, friends of Ivan and Vera, who predicted the imminent wedding of Yankovsky and Panfilova, were surprised to learn about the couple’s separation. Joint photos have disappeared from the actors’ pages on social networks.
In January, Ivan Yannkovsky came out with a new girlfriend - the daughter of a famous Moscow restaurateur, Alexandra Novikova. Sasha came with Ivan to the Golden Eagle film festival, where the actor was awarded a prize for his work in the film Queen of Spades.
Ivan Yankovsky now
Towards the end of 2020, information appeared in the media that director Yegor Konchalovsky was making a film based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Ivanov “The Dogs of the Head”. The director invited Ivan Yankovsky to play the main role in the mystical thriller. The estimated premiere time is 2020.
There are pleasant changes in Yankovsky’s personal life. The VIP party started talking about the fact that the artist was dating Vera Panfilova again. Photos from a joint vacation in Italy appeared on the couple’s Instagram pages.
